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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...

ShotSpotter Asks Court To Hold It In Contempt Rather Than Turn Over Information To Defense Lawyer 1 August 2022 ShotSpotter — the gunshot analytic company with the rather sketchy reputation — is, once again, endearing itself to the public by doing things that seem… well… sketchy. On Friday...

Chicago, Illinois, police officer Dillan "Quick Draw" Halley In the Aftermath of a Police Killing, the Justifications Begin Immediately After Chicago police killed Harith Augustus, the question was not: What happened? It was: How do we justify what happened? 13 August 2022 On the last day...

The FBI Kept Tabs on Mort Sahl's Jokes About It, and Hoover Thought Sahl Was a 'Sick Man' The late standup comedian's FBI file says he "ridiculed the FBI, law enforcement, and high public officials, beyond the bounds of good humor." 30 June 2022 Government records show that FBI Director J...

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...

Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. 17 February 2022 As Amazon's dominance of global e-commerce has grown, so has its vast...

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...

Investigation: Accidental shootings like one in Iowa show police training gaps 11 December 2019 When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, firing his weapon as a dog approached. The...

No need to pass the trash when you can just keep it around & regurgitate it! They kept this bad cop on the payroll for EIGHT years until they could finagle a pardon and put him back on the beat to abuse the local citizenry. Pardoned for criminal convictions, police officer resumes patrol...