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"The Worst Day of My Life" ICE Jail Nurse Sexually Assaulted Migrant Women, Complaint Letter Says 13 July 2020 The first full day that Maria, an asylum-seeker from Venezuela, was in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, she was sent for a...

Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment 19 July 2022 American taxpayers pay to be spied upon. That's one takeaway from new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has been examining how federal agents spent millions to purchase massive...

Multiple Cops Ignore Citizens Flagging Them Down to Report a Rape Taking Place on the Sidewalk in Front of Them Multiple police officers were alerted to an ongoing rape which unfolded in public in front of them, and none of them acted. 16 August 2022 If ever you thought police in the United...

The FBI Wants To Be Your Facebook Friend 14 April 2022 Undoubtedly, the FBI has always surveilled the open web, looking for persons or phrases of interest. It’s just going to get a whole lot better at doing it. And it’s going to spend millions of your tax dollars to make it easier to place...

Judge Says Mayor, Town Can’t Escape 1st Amendment Retaliation Suit Involving 62 Tickets Over Lawn Furniture 1 April 2022 The problem with electing abusive assholes is you may not know they’re abusive assholes until after you’ve elected them. Then you have a problem on your hands, at least...

A Federal Judge Says a Victim of Retaliatory Prosecution Can Sue a Cop Who Treated Criticism As a Crime An Arkansas police officer used trumped-up charges to punish a man who criticized him for violating the Constitution. 31 March 2022 Four years ago, Grant Long, a resident of Forrest City...

FBI Will Publish Long-Delayed Police Use-of-Force Data Lack of participation from police departments has stymied the FBI's national use-of-force database for the past three years, but FBI Director Christopher Wray said a required threshold has finally been met. 22 March 2022 FBI Director...

The FBI Is Hiding an Unpublished Police Use-of-Force Database From FOIA Requesters Three years since it launched, an FBI data collection program on police use-of-force incidents has yet to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...

FOIA Lawsuit Featuring A DC Police Whistleblower Says PD Conspired To Screw Requesters It Didn't Like 17 February 2022 It's no secret government agencies love to screw with FOIA requesters. This is especially true when the responding agency doesn't care for the requester's attitude or thinks...

D.C. Cops Conspired to Keep Records From Reporters, Activists, and Critics, Says Lawsuit Defense lawyer Amy Phillips is suing over what she calls the department's "watchlist policy." 3 February 2022 Did D.C. cops conspire to keep damning information from people and groups critical of them...

More kids and overwhelmingly black: New records show concerning trends in D.C. gang database The D.C. Council wants answers about the Metropolitan Police Department’s growing, secretive gang database 9 January 2022 The Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department’s gang database almost...

Quincy, Illinois, wannabe cold-case solver Det. Adam Gibson Appeals Court Denies Immunity To Bored Cop Who Decided To Turn A Natural Death Into A Murder 5 January 2022 What happens when you add a bored cop to a cold case? Bad things. Very bad things. That's the moral of the story conveyed...

DHS, ICE Begin Body Camera Pilot Program With Surprisingly Good Policies In Place 30 December 2021 Following protests over killings by law enforcement officers, the Department of Justice decided it might be a good idea to equip more police officers with body cameras. In May 2015, it announced...

An Iowa DNR officer shot and killed 19-year-old Shane Jensen His mother says ‘it just destroyed’ her. 21 November 2021 Inside a display case in Krystal Wagner's living room is a pair of boots, an unfinished pack of Marlboro cigarettes opened four years ago and bloody coins. The items were...

Not cops but close kin with their own self-endowed impunity: The investigation ... netted hundreds of suspects who work for and are affiliated with the DOD. Let that sink in. Hundreds of government employees are using taxpayer funded official DOD networks and computers to view and share child...

Shocking FOIA Request Details Rampant Child Sex Crimes By CIA Agents and No One is Going to Jail 12 December 2021 Imagine an agency so secretive and so corrupt that they can literally get away with criminal sexual abuse of children. Then imagine you are forced to pay for this agency and...

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...

Public Records Plumb The Depths Of Illinois Law Enforcement's Accountability Black Hole 28 October 2021 The Chicago Police Department isn't willing to police itself. That much is apparent from the actions of its officers, which includes the department setting up an inner city "black site"...