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Seventh Circuit: No Immunity For Chicago Cop Who Lied To A Judge Before Accidentally Raiding The Right Apartment 28 February 2022 There’s a good reason we have strict standards for warrant requests — ones that requires plenty of probable cause and factual statements. Because if we didn’t have...

Colorado Legislators Advance Bill To Ban Police from Lying to Minors During Interrogations Reason reported last year on how minors are particularly susceptible to being coerced into false confessions. 25 February 2022 Democratic lawmakers in Colorado are advancing a bill that would ban police...

Fatal police shootings in 2021 set record since The Post began tracking, despite public outcry 9 February 2022 Police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the highest total since The Washington Post began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015 — underscoring the...

Court: No pension for ex-Chicago officer convicted in attack 9 February 2022 A state court of appeals has ruled that a former Chicago police officer convicted of battery for attacking a bartender in 2007 during a drunken rage captured on video cannot collect his pension. The Chicago...

Chicago Cops Love Them Some Facebook Sharing, According To Internal Facial Recognition Presentation 1 February 2022 Somewhere between the calls to end encryption and calls to do literally anything about crime rate spikes at this time of year, at this time of day, in [insert part of the...

Illinois State Trooper Killed Wife, a Pre-K Teacher and Mother of 2, in Murder-Suicide Just Before She Planned to Leave Him for Good: Family 26 Jan 2022 An Illinois state trooper shot and killed his wife before killing himself earlier this week in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities say...

$2.9M settlement! They need to quit hiring cops from the bottom of the IQ barrel: "The person police were searching for lived next door and was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet. " Botched Chicago police raid victim: "I lost a lot of my life that night" 21 January 2022 The Chicago...

Do Minnesota cases show it’s getting easier to convict cops? 18 January 2022 First, it was Mohamed Noor — convicted for shooting an unarmed woman who approached his police SUV. Then it was Derek Chauvin, found guilty of murder for using his knee to pin George Floyd to a Minneapolis street as...

Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison Feb. 3 Former Chicago police officer spent more than three years in prison for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. 14 January 2022 Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke will leave prison next month after serving more than three...

Kyjuan Tate's mugshots Off-duty Chicago police officer arrested after three people were shot during argument at Blue Island bowling alley The Chicago probationary police officer got into an “altercation” at the bowling alley in the 3000 block of West 127th Street and opened fire, according to...

New Illinois Law Says Cops Need A Warrant To Grab Data From (Some) Third Parties 12 January 2022 The state of Illinois continues to provide more protection than the US Constitution. Its privacy laws exceed what has been determined to be "reasonable" violations of privacy by decades of court...

Top-down mismanagement! After the crooked cops bust them, the crooked jailers take over. "... the AP revealed that more than 100 Bureau of Prisons workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden charged with sexually abusing an inmate."...

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...

Boston Police Department Used Forfeiture Funds To Hide Purchase Of Surveillance Tech From City Reps 3 January 2022 Asset forfeiture is just cops going shopping for things they want. The analogy -- one prompted by statements made by Sean McMurty, the head of a county forfeiture unit in New...

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...

Unsecured Data Leak Shows Predicitive Policing Is Just Tech-Washed, Old School Biased Policing 27 December 2021 Don't kid yourselves, techbros. Predictive policing is regular policing, only with confirmation bias built in. The only question for citizens is whether or not they want to pay tech...

New Law Requires Police to Train Yearly on How to Stop Fellow Cops from Breaking the Law 26 December 2021 Arkansas has recently passed a handful of laws which are highly beneficial to the people and will go into effect in 2022. Some of the laws ban vaccine mandates, grant constitutional...

David Ellis (left), Debra Ellis (center), Justin Gilbert (right) Three employees of Des Moines bail bond company charged in yearlong investigation of prostitution and fraud 17 December 2021 Three people were out on bond following an investigation that alleged insurance fraud, credit card...

WATCH: Cops Smack Man’s Phone Out of His Hand, Flip Him Off, Then Beat the Hell Out of Him — For Filming 22 December 2021 Filming the police is entirely legal, in every state. However, all too often, we will see police officers overstep their authority and arrest, attack, and assault innocent...

Solano deputies, Vacaville councilmember promote anti-government militia 4 February 2021 Daniel “Cully” Pratt of the Solano County Sheriff’s Office has a side business making decorative wood carvings. Some feature characters from movies starring his brother Chris Pratt, like “Jurassic World”...