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Body Cam Released Showing Cop Shoot Unarmed 13yo Child With His Hands Up, Leaving Him Paralyzed The bullet hit him in the spine and has left him "permanently and catastrophically" injured, according to the lawsuit. 22 July 2022 As TFTP reported in May, Chicago police shot another unarmed...

City Of Chicago, Chicago PD Officers Sued Over Their Use Of Questionable ShotSpotter Technology 28 July 2020 ShotSpotter has made a name for itself (and not a good one!) by telling cops its sensors and mics can convert soundwaves into actionable intel. It has become beloved by some cops...

ShotSpotter Asks Court To Hold It In Contempt Rather Than Turn Over Information To Defense Lawyer 1 August 2022 ShotSpotter — the gunshot analytic company with the rather sketchy reputation — is, once again, endearing itself to the public by doing things that seem… well… sketchy. On Friday...

Chicago, Illinois, police officer Dillan "Quick Draw" Halley In the Aftermath of a Police Killing, the Justifications Begin Immediately After Chicago police killed Harith Augustus, the question was not: What happened? It was: How do we justify what happened? 13 August 2022 On the last day...

FBI’s Crime Data Collection Still Being Stymied By Major Police Departments Not Reporting Crime Stats 12 July 2022 The FBI has switched to a new crime reporting system to collect crime data from all over the nation. Despite being given a long runway (the 2021 switch was announced in 2015)...

Cop Charged After Attacking Innocent Woman, Knocking Her Out of Her Shoes — For Walking Her Dog 18 June 2022 In 2021, a video went viral of a Chicago police officer attacking an innocent woman with many claiming that it was an act of racial profiling. The Civilian Office of Police...

10yo Girl Calls 911 to Report Her Police Officer Dad for Sexually Abusing Her, Fellow Cops Covered It Up 12 May 2022 Frequent readers of the Free Thought Project are all too familiar with the concept of the “thin blue line.” Though law enforcement claims this line represents the force between...

FBI provides Chicago police with fake online identities for "Social Media Exploration" team Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. 20 May 2022 Brian Campbell couldn’t sleep. It was May 31, 2020, and demonstrations...

Yes, It’s Difficult To Change Cop Culture, But Let’s Not Pretend It’s Too Expensive Or Impossible To Achieve Quickly 1 April 2022 The US Department of Justice has entered into many consent decrees with many, many abusive law enforcement agencies. These decrees have the force of law, supported...

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence 5 March 2022 Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His...

Seventh Circuit: No Immunity For Chicago Cop Who Lied To A Judge Before Accidentally Raiding The Right Apartment 28 February 2022 There’s a good reason we have strict standards for warrant requests — ones that requires plenty of probable cause and factual statements. Because if we didn’t have...

Court: No pension for ex-Chicago officer convicted in attack 9 February 2022 A state court of appeals has ruled that a former Chicago police officer convicted of battery for attacking a bartender in 2007 during a drunken rage captured on video cannot collect his pension. The Chicago...

Chicago Cops Love Them Some Facebook Sharing, According To Internal Facial Recognition Presentation 1 February 2022 Somewhere between the calls to end encryption and calls to do literally anything about crime rate spikes at this time of year, at this time of day, in [insert part of the...

Illinois State Trooper Killed Wife, a Pre-K Teacher and Mother of 2, in Murder-Suicide Just Before She Planned to Leave Him for Good: Family 26 Jan 2022 An Illinois state trooper shot and killed his wife before killing himself earlier this week in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities say...

$2.9M settlement! They need to quit hiring cops from the bottom of the IQ barrel: "The person police were searching for lived next door and was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet. " Botched Chicago police raid victim: "I lost a lot of my life that night" 21 January 2022 The Chicago...

Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison Feb. 3 Former Chicago police officer spent more than three years in prison for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. 14 January 2022 Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke will leave prison next month after serving more than three...

Kyjuan Tate's mugshots Off-duty Chicago police officer arrested after three people were shot during argument at Blue Island bowling alley The Chicago probationary police officer got into an “altercation” at the bowling alley in the 3000 block of West 127th Street and opened fire, according to...

Police Caught Stealing Money from Innocent People To Secretly Buy Tech to Spy on Citizens’ Cellphones 8 January 2022 For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale. We’re not talking about taxes, but an...

WATCH: Cops Smack Man’s Phone Out of His Hand, Flip Him Off, Then Beat the Hell Out of Him — For Filming 22 December 2021 Filming the police is entirely legal, in every state. However, all too often, we will see police officers overstep their authority and arrest, attack, and assault innocent...

$1.2M settlement to family of 14-year-old shot in the back by Chicago Police in 2014 10 December 2021 Chicago taxpayers will spend $1.2 million to compensate the family of a 14-year old boy who was shot in the back and killed by a police officer during a holiday weekend that included five...