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U.S. Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Police in New York Suburb The inquiry will focus on whether the Mount Vernon department engaged in a “pattern or practice of unlawful policing,” officials said. 3 December 2021 Federal prosecutors have opened a civil rights investigation into whether...

When The FBI Shows Up At Your Door About Your Reporting, That's Intimidation 29 November 2021 Having the government show up at your door to ask some questions about your reporting can be extremely unnerving. Zack Whittaker, the top notch cybersecurity reporter for TechCrunch got to experience...

Secret Documents Show Which Message Apps Are the Most FBI-Proof WhatsApp and iMessage are not as private as you might think. 7 December 2021 Most message apps tout their privacy features in some way. It is common to hear marketing language about "end-to-end encryption" and "private messaging"...

Documents Shows Just How Much The FBI Can Obtain From Encrypted Communication Services 2 December 2021 There is no "going dark." Consecutive FBI heads may insist there is, but a document created by their own agency contradicts their dire claims that end-to-end encryption lets the criminals...

Former federal officer sentenced for threatening 3 Blackfeet tribal employees 23 November 2021 A former off-duty federal law enforcement officer who admitted to misdemeanor assault for pointing an assault rifle at three Blackfeet tribal employees who were testing water on his property was...

FBI Called in After Video Shows Cops Shoot, Kill Baby While Killing His Father Who Held Him Hostage 26 November 2021 A tragedy unfolded in May when an hours-long police chase that began in Louisiana came to an end in Mississippi. After police cornered Eric Derrell Smith, 30, in the median of...

40-year-old Syracuse rape conviction at the heart of author Alice Sebold’s memoir is thrown out 22 November 2021 A 40-year-old rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author and Syracuse University alumnus Alice Sebold was overturned by a judge Monday. The extraordinary...

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...

Good Cop Predicts His Video Exposing Crimes in Dept Will Get Him Attacked—He Was Just Fired 21 November 2021 Those who are paying attention to the ever-expanding police state in the land of the free know that the system is set up in such a way that it protects bad cops while punishing the...

Four reports of law-enforcement misfit out of New Haven, Connecticut, in four days! Connecticut: New Haven police officer Christopher Troche charged with patronizing prostitute Connecticut: Former New Haven cop Gary Gamarra’s ability to be an officer in CT revoked over alleged sex coercion...

NYPD Continues To Screw Over Its Oversight By Denying Access To Bodycam Footage 22 November 2021 The NYPD's war on its oversight continues. The secretive law enforcement agency has spent years fighting accountability and transparency, making up its own rules and engaging in openly hostile...

If Rittenhouse Can Be Acquitted, Marvin Guy Needs to Stop Rotting in Jail Without Trial for Defending Himself from Cops 20 November 2021 In the land of the free, every citizen is guaranteed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Sadly, however, this guarantee is often...

Border Patrol agent shot at naked, rock-throwing migrant, feds say 18 November 2021 A U.S. Border Patrol agent opened fire on a naked man who was allegedly throwing rocks at him Wednesday morning on Otay Mountain, authorities said. The 29-year-old man was not struck by the agent's gunfire...

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...

Numerous references to police & prosecutorial misconduct: Despite a botched execution and concerns over innocence, Oklahoma prepares to execute Julius Jones Persistent problems with lethal injection have not swayed the state’s determination to put Jones and five other men to death 14 November...

Videos Are Making It Hard To Trust the Cops2 10 November 2021 There's a lot to dislike about the increasingly pervasive surveillance state, but a little of its danger is offset when the forces of officialdom are themselves captured by the all-seeing eye. All too often, official versions of...

Race takes center stage as jury questioning begins in hate-crime trial of former South Jersey police chief 10 November 2021 Should the use of racist slurs by a police officer be a crime? The question was among the thorny topics posed Tuesday to potential jurors in the federal hate-crime...

Fifth Circuit Says Man Can't Sue Federal Agencies For Allegedly Targeting Him After He Refused To Be An FBI Informant 8 November 2021 The secrecy surrounding all things national security-related continues to thwart lawsuits alleging rights violations. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has...

‘Trooper of the Year’ Gets 17.5 Years for Producing Child Porn, Distributing It to His Own Network 8 November 2021 In 2018, Louisiana State Police Trooper of 18 years, Jason Boyet received one of the department’s highest honors—Trooper of the Year. Fast forward two years, and this hero cop...

License Plate Reader Company Continues Expansion Into Private Neighborhoods With The Help Of Some Useful Cops 26 October 2021 The use of automatic license plate readers by law enforcement has steadily increased over the past decade. The theory is a never ending documentation of vehicle...