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Report Shows ICE’s Massive Surveillance Apparatus Is All Up In Americans’ Everything 20 May 2022 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has long made its own case for abolishment. Before ICE earned its current reputation as a fake-school running, report-altering, rogue agency interested in...

Cop Who Arrested High Schooler on 'Terrorizing' Charges for Class Joke Gets Qualified Immunity A judge's blistering dissent is a reminder that this issue does not have to be a partisan one. 21 April 2022 A police officer who questionably arrested a high school student on "terrorizing" charges...

DOJ Hits Springfield, Massachusetts Police Department With Wide-Ranging Consent Decree 18 April 2022 Praise be to the various gods! (Shout out to Tiamat!) The DOJ is back in the busting up local PD business, something it largely abandoned while Donald “A Police State Is The Best State” Trump...

Nothing Has Changed Since George Floyd Died, US Cops Still Kill Someone Every 8 Hours 3 April 2022 It has been nearly two years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. At the time, Floyd’s death would set off massive protests across the country as politicians and political pundits played...

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...

Governor knew the circumstances around a deadly arrest, but kept quiet, records show 28 January 2022 Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat in a deep-red state, was immersed in a difficult reelection campaign when he received a text message from the head of the state police: Troopers had...

Michael Lee Hardin, Salt Lake City, Utah, police department's 2012 Bozo of the Year One-Time Utah Police ‘Officer of the Year’ Pleads Guilty in Jan. 6 Capitol Siege 21 January 2022 A Utah cop who was once named Salt Lake City’s “Officer of the Year” has pleaded guilty to storming 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...

With federal oversight in short supply, state AGs step in to probe troubled police 23 November 2021 Police in Aurora, Colo., shot 20-year-old Jamaal Bonner in the back three times with a submachine gun during a sting operation, killing him. Four years later, the department formally apologized...

Federal Appeals Court Denies Qualified Immunity for Police Officer Who Shot Service Dogs 15 November 2021 The lawsuit against a Minneapolis police officer who shot two service dogs in their owners’ backyard can continue, after a federal appeals court said Monday that the officer cannot claim...

FOX 13 Investigates: Moab police officer who said vulgarity over radio was fired by state 7 October 2021 About 10 months before he departed Moab police with a vulgar term the whole county could hear, the Utah Department of Corrections terminated Everett Gist, Jr. for what a supervisor called...

Civilian Cops Don't Need Military Weapons 8 October 2021 I recently was driving behind a pickup truck that sported a bumper sticker with a U.S. Marine Corps logo and these words: "When it absolutely positively has to be destroyed overnight." That line got me thinking about policing—and the...

Hacked Data Exposes Law Enforcement Officers Who Joined Far-Right Oath Keepers Group 5 October 2021 Some more unsettling news about law enforcement's close relationship to (or at least professional tolerance of) far-right groups linked to the January 6th raid of the Capitol building has come...