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Biden Secret Service agent arrested over drunken assault in South Korea: Reports 20 May 2022 A Secret Service agent working for President Joe Biden was reportedly arrested for allegedly assaulting a citizen of South Korea in the nation’s capital city of Seoul just hours before Biden was...

ICE force-installed suicide prevention app on employees’ phones Staffers say move reflects abysmal morale at immigration enforcement agency 31 March 2022 ICE automatically installed a suicide prevention app on employees’ government-issued smartphones this week, staffers told The Washington...

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...

A Federal Jury Delivers a Rebuke of FBI Entrapment The agency’s tactics doomed the prosecution of defendants who allegedly planned to kidnap Michigan's governor. 13 April 2022 "Through confidential sources, undercover agents, and clandestine recordings," the Justice Department announced in...

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...

Faith Under Fire: A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation 6 March 2022 The sun was beginning to set as Kaji Dousa neared the border. It was two days into 2019, and the line she was about to cross separating San Diego and Tijuana was the site of a...

Trespassing at a public news conference in a public building? The lawyers will have a field day with this one! Community activist arrested ahead of DeSantis news conference “This is a public building, and we don’t intend on moving,” the activist, Ben Frazier, told DeSantis’ aides. 4...

Fraternal Order Of Police Opposes Biden FCC Nom Because She....Supports Encryption 13 December 2021 We'd already noted how telecom and media giants eager to keep their spoils from the Trump era have been waging a not so subtle smear campaign on Biden FCC Commissioner nomination Gigi Sohn...

Startup Brinc Pitched Tasing Migrants From Drones, Video Reveals Well-funded Brinc positions its use of robots as nonviolent, but an early promo video undercuts this message. 13 December 2021 Brinc, a rising star among the many companies jockeying to sell drones to police, has a compelling...

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...

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...