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Survey Says Portland Cops Should Be Locked Out Of Recordings Until After They’ve Written Reports, Answered Investigators 11 March 2022 The Department of Justice has been keeping an eye on the Portland (OR) Police Bureau (PPB) for nearly a decade now, finding that officers routinely engage in...

The FBI Is Hiding an Unpublished Police Use-of-Force Database From FOIA Requesters Three years since it launched, an FBI data collection program on police use-of-force incidents has yet to gain enough participation to release any statistics. 4 March 2022 For the past several years, the FBI...

Episode 5: The Evidence In the wake of a scandal within the Houston police crime lab, Charles Raby’s lawyers discover that forensic evidence was hidden from the defense at trial. 1 March 2022 Foreign DNA is found under Edna Franklin’s fingernails. And in the wake of a scandal within the...

Convicted former Hialeah, Florida, officer Jesus “Jesse” Manuel Menocal, Jr. Florida Ex-Cop Avoids Sex Offender Registry Despite Pleading Guilty to Coercing Women to Perform Sex Acts While He Was ‘On-Duty’ and Wearing a Uniform 5 March 2022 A former Hialeah, Florida police sergeant pleaded...

Letter From High-Ranking FBI Lawyer Tells Prosecutors How To Avoid Court Scrutiny Of Firearms Analysis Junk Science 18 February 2022 Law enforcement — including the FBI — like to claim they’re heavily invested in science. The use of forensic “science” has been with us for years, but nowhere...

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...

Phoenix City Council Says PD Can Have Surveillance Drones Without Any Policy In Place Because Some Officers Recently Got Shot 25 February 2022 The Phoenix Police Department wants drones and it wants them now. And, according to this report by the Phoenix New Times, it’s going to get them...

ICE settles with immigrant rights leader who sued over first amendment violations Ravi Ragbir said he was targeted for deportation because of protected speech criticizing ICE and the immigration enforcement regime. 24 February 2022 A NEW YORK CITY activist who alleged in court that he was...

Secret Surveillance Warrants Remain Secret In November, the Supreme Court declined to consider an ACLU petition arguing that the public has a First Amendment right to see the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's classified decisions. 24 February 2022 For nearly a decade, the American...

Highly Decorated D.A.R.E. Cop Admits to Running Enormous Child Porn Ring That Abused Toddlers 21 February 2022 The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program should better be called an egregious exercise in how not to convince kids to keep away from substances the state deems illegal...

Cop Jailed for Kidnapping Innocent Woman for a Parking Ticket, Shattering Her Teeth as She’s Cuffed 20 February 2022 In 2019, the taxpayers of Hickory, North Carolina found out that they will be shelling out $400,000 after one of their police officers lost his cool and smashed a tiny...

Some Senators Are Freaking Out Because The White House Is Pitching Some Extremely Minor Police Reforms 15 February 2022 Some senators are getting all angried up about proposed police reforms President Biden possibly might deliver as an executive order. Reporting earlier this month indicated...

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...

Trapped in the Floods with Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces 12 February 2022 [ The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was...

ATF Admits To Secret Database Of “Nearly One Billion Gun Records” 1 February 2022 A Registry of guns and gun owners is a tool that the federal government, the DOJ, and the ATF have had on their wish list for decades now. Anti-gun politicians and lobbyists have sold a registry as a tool for...

San Francisco settles suit over police beating for $700,000 The settlement follows a federal judge’s order requiring the release of body camera footage and comes as the officer accused of beating Dacari Spiers fights assault charges in criminal court. 28 January 2022 The city of San Francisco...

Biden’s DOJ continues to defend bad cops and wrongful convictions 26 January 2022 During the George Floyd protests, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden forcefully condemned the violent eviction of protesters from D.C.'s Lafayette Square just before President Donald Trump’s photo op at St...

Because No One's Making Them Do It, Maine Law Enforcement Agencies Aren't Accurately Tracking Complaints Against Officers 27 January 2022 For three decades, the DOJ and FBI have barely tried (and always failed) to collect information about use of force by the nation's 18,000 law enforcement...

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...

You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead. 17 January 2022 A man's car is his castle. So declared the Washington Supreme Court, more or less, when it ruled last August...