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Sen. Ron Wyden Catches ICE Illegally Collecting Americans’ Financial Data 15 March 2 022 ICE wants data and doesn’t care how it gets it. Its recently-elevated pursuit of all things not considered naturally American has increased its demands for information on… well, everybody. It works with...

Video Shows California Cops Arresting Mom and Grandma for Filming Them Mariah Herefored says police in Hemet, California, smacked cell phone cameras out of her and her mother's hands and violently arrested them 8 March 2022 Police officers in Hemet, California, arrested a mother and...

State Agents Raid Preschools, Question Toddlers Without Parental Consent for Not Wearing Masks 8 March 2022 For two years now, people across the world have been forced by their governments to muzzle their faces with cloth masks. Despite long-established evidence that cloth masks do not stop...

San Diego County Jails Will Use Body Cameras Following Damning State Audit The California State Auditor's Office found that the jails responded poorly to inmate deaths. 4 March 2022 As part of a new pilot program, San Diego County Sheriff's deputies at a county jail will wear body cameras...

Los Angeles County D.A. modifies policy on juvenile cases in wake of controversy 16 February 2022 Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón has modified his blanket ban on trying juveniles as adults due to a pending state Supreme Court case and continuing backlash over a decision to allow...

54 current, former CHP officers charged with overtime fraud at East L.A. station 17 February 2022 California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta on Thursday announced theft and fraud charges against 54 former and current California Highway Patrol officers in connection with an alleged multiyear overtime...

LAPD bomb technician's warnings were ignored before ill-fated fireworks detonation, report finds 25 February 2022 Before members of the LAPD bomb squad destroyed part of a South L.A. neighborhood by exploding a stash of illegal fireworks last summer, they repeatedly ignored warnings from one...

An Off-Duty Cop Murdered His Ex-Wife. The California Highway Patrol Ignored the Red Flags. When cops don't police their own, the results can be deadly. 25 February 2022 When law-enforcement officials believe that someone has committed a crime, they often go to great lengths—and can be quite...

WATCH: While Shooting Wounded Man on the Ground, Trigger Happy Cops Shoot One of Their Own 25 February 2022 Body camera footage was released this week showing a graphic shooting that left a suspected trailer thief in critical care and a National City Police detective with a bullet hole in his...

Rialto police investigating forceful arrest of 16-year-old caught on video 15 February 2022 Rialto police are investigating an apparent forceful arrest made against a 16-year-old girl last week. According to law enforcement, the suspect was riding an unlicensed mini bike at a high rate of...

This Prison in California Forced Incarcerated People to Drink Arsenic for Years 13 February 2022 On April 5, 2012, three years into his stay at (KVSP) in Delano, California, Silus Valson sought medical attention for severe headache, stomach pain, diarrhea, vomiting and dark urine. The next...

Jaywalking while homeless & black must be a serious problem in San Clemente, California. 😮 DA clears deputy who killed Black man after suspected jaywalking Orange County prosecutors ruled that Deputy Eduardo Duran was justified in his shooting of a homeless Black man. 12 February 2022 An...

Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. 17 February 2022 As Amazon's dominance of global e-commerce has grown, so has its vast...

The FBI Seized Almost $1 Million From This Family—and Never Charged Them With a Crime "It's completely changed my belief in fairness," says Amy Sterner Nelson. 18 February 2022 Carl Nelson and Amy Sterner Nelson's pre-pandemic lives look a lot different than the ones they live now. There are...

Appears the trash was passed to another agency ... Riverside County, California, deputy George Scott Bodycam video shows Riverside County deputy shooting suspect after he collapsed 11 February 2022 Body camera video of a fatal 2017 shooting by a sheriff's deputy that is being litigated...

Fallibility of facial recognition systems: ID.me Doesn't Have Enough Humans To Backstop Its AI, Allowed A Guy In A Bad Wig To Illegally Obtain $900,000 In Benefits2 0 15 February 2022 ID.me -- the facial recognition company that has managed to snag several lucrative contracts -- has gotten...

San Francisco police used rape victims’ DNA to try to ‘incriminate’ them, D.A. says 14 February 2022 San Francisco’s district attorney said police used a database with DNA collected from victims of rape and sexual assault to connect some of them to crimes. Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin said...

A Notorious Prison Tech Giant Is Poised to Cash In on Pell Grants for Incarcerated People Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note. 8 February 2022 Jerome “JJ” Taylor needed just one more humanities credit to earn his bachelor’s...

Emails Show The LAPD Cut Ties With The Citizen App After Its Started A Vigilante Manhunt Targeting An Innocent Person 9 February 2022 It didn't take long for Citizen -- the app that once wanted to be a cop -- to wear out its law enforcement welcome. The crime reporting app has made several...

Family asks: What happened inside Sacramento jail to leave woman in a catatonic state? 8 February 2022 On July 6, a three-car accident at the 65th Street Expressway and Lemon Hill Road in Sacramento left three people injured, and started a nightmare for the family of Mishila Vickers...