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Supreme Court Tells Cops To Stop Playing Doctor The unanimous decision is a good first step for getting law enforcement out of prescription decisions. 15 July 2022 No one witnessing a burglary in progress would call 911 and ask for a doctor. Likewise, it makes no sense for a doctor to consult...

Despite 144 Million Americans Living in Legal States, DEA Making More Cannabis Arrest Than Ever 2 July 2022 Since 2012, 19 states and Washington, DC, have legalized marijuana for adults over the age of 21. In total, 38 states and DC have legalized medical marijuana — meaning that a majority...

DOJ Updates Force Policy, Creates Affirmative Duty To Intervene When Officers Violate Rights 2 June 2022 A little more than a week ago, the Department of Justice updated its policy regarding CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) prosecutions. For years, the DOJ had been complicit in the...

To Promote Public Safety, Michigan Authorizes Cops To Rob Travelers at Airports The change represents a substantial reversal of civil forfeiture reforms aimed at protecting innocent property owners. 2 June 2022 Graham Filler, a state legislator in Michigan, describes two recently enacted...

Police Chief Arrested, Jailed for Running a Meth Distribution Ring 16 May 2022 If we were to declare a winner in the War on Drugs today, there would be no question that drugs won. Despite tens of billions of dollars wasted, hundreds of thousands of innocent lives ruined or ended, and the...

ICE force-installed suicide prevention app on employees’ phones Staffers say move reflects abysmal morale at immigration enforcement agency 31 March 2022 ICE automatically installed a suicide prevention app on employees’ government-issued smartphones this week, staffers told The Washington...

Faulty Police Field Tests Said This Trucker Was Carrying 700 Gallons of Meth. It Was Diesel. Juan Guzman spent nearly six weeks in jail based on unreliable field tests that have resulted in hundreds of other wrongful arrests. 8 April 2022 Police and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents in...

Cops Seized $8,000 From Her and Never Charged Her With a Crime After Rochester police took her cash, Cristal Starling found out just how hard it is to challenge civil asset forfeiture in court. 7 April 2022 Police in Rochester, New York, seized $8,040 from Cristal Starling during a raid on...

Cop Arrested for Selling Large Amounts of Cocaine From His Police Cruiser, While On Duty, In Uniform 2 March 2022 Thanks to the state’s immoral and often deadly war on drugs, countless American citizens have had their lives ruined or ended over their personal choice to put a substance in...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, August 12, 2021 Former DEA Special Agent Sentenced to Over 13 Years in Prison for Corruption-Related Charges [Press Release] A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent was sentenced today to 160...

Kansas and California Cops Used Civil Forfeiture to Stage Armored Car Heists, Stealing Money Earned by Licensed Marijuana Businesses The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. 18 January 2022 Because the continued federal...

He Was a Board Member of the Oath Keepers. Now He’s Holding State-Approved Trainings for Law Enforcement in Texas. Richard Mack wants your sheriff to defy the government. 29 October 2021 On a glorious Saturday morning in October, about 75 people are gathered inside an airy warehouse on the...

Florida's Civil Asset Forfeiture Reforms Haven't Stopped the Shakedowns Despite civil asset forfeiture reforms in Florida, police are still finding ways to take people's stuff. 12 December 2021 On a May day in 2015, a task force of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents and Miami-Dade...

Watch Nevada Highway Patrol Officers Seize a Veteran's Life Savings Through Asset Forfeiture The officers admit there's nothing illegal about carrying large amounts of cash, then take almost $90,000 from him anyway. 1 December 2021 "I just want to tell you Officer Brown, you're taking money...

Bystanders disarm drunk DEA agent after he pulls gun inside Montana bar: police 24 November 2021 The Bozeman Police Department arrested a Drug Enforcement Administration agent from Colorado after drunkenly threatening a Montana man with his government issued firearm. Ryan Donahue, 32, was...

After the DEA Stole $70,000 From This Filmmaker, He Got His Money Back, Plus a $15,000 Settlement Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight. 5 November 2021 Before a federal drug agent stole nearly...

Inside federal prisons, employees are committing the crimes 14 November 2021 More than 100 federal prison workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden indicted for sexual abuse, an associate warden charged with murder, guards taking...

Plano officer among those convicted for counterfeit pill operation out of Highland Park 7 November 2021 The Drug Enforcement Administration is releasing photos for the first time related to a Highland Park drug ring whose members have all been convicted. They’re responsible for pushing fake...

Colombian corruption case latest overseas stain for DEA 8 October 2021 For years, Capt. Juan Pablo Mosquera rose through the ranks of Colombia’s national police, earning accolades from his bosses on his way to becoming the trusted supervisor of a unit that worked hand-in-glove with U.S...

Cops Who Bragged About Being ‘Bad Boys’ Jailed for Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy 19 September 2021 As John Dalberg-Acton famously stated, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men…” When society grants authority to people — who are...