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Appeals Court Says It’s Perfectly Fine For Cops To Unreasonably Extend Traffic Stops 3 June 2022 The Supreme Court made it pretty clear in its Rodriguez decision that pretextual traffic stops were fine, but once the pretext evaporated, it was time to cut civilians loose. We hold that a...

Off-duty Las Vegas police officer allegedly robbed casino at gunpoint 28 February 2022 An off-duty police officer in Las Vegas is accused of robbing a casino at gunpoint early Sunday, police said. Caleb Rogers, 33, a member of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department since 2015, is...

Black man sues police after he was jailed for 6 days when officers mistook him for an older white male with the same name 22 January 2022 A 23-year-old Black man was arrested and jailed for 6 days in Las Vegas jails in 2020. Police misidentified him as a 49-year old white man with the same...

While Serving Warrant on the WRONG Person, Police Execute Teen as He Slept on the Couch 25 January 2022 If you were to read the local news sites in Las Vegas earlier this month, you would think that police — while saving the public from a dangerous murderer — were ambushed and two of them...

WATCH: Cops Shoot Naked Unarmed Man in the Back, Sic K-9 on Him — Taxpayers Held Liable 30 December 2021 As TFTP reported at the time, graphic body camera video showed a Las Vegas Police Officer shoot a naked man in the back outside of a church. Police say they were left with no other options...

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...

‘You Won’t Be Going to Jail’: Cop Gets Blue Privilege After He Knocks Out His Mailman Over Political Argument 16 December 2021 Blue privilege, as frequent readers of the Free Thought Project know, is the set of unwritten laws and privileges which apply to police officers that are not extended...

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...

I-Team: Metro police officer arrested on charges of DUI, leaving scene of crash 26 October 2021 A Las Vegas Metropolitan police officer is facing several charges in connection with an incident Monday, the I-Team has learned. Officer Richard Chavez, who is assigned to the department’s...

Las Vegas police officer facing DUI charge for driving drunk in police vehicle 19 November 2021 A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer is accused of driving a police vehicle while drunk in September, according to an impaired driving report. LVMPD dispatch got radio traffic that was...

Rapper Fetty Wap, NJ corrections officer among 6 arrested in cross-country drug ring: officials 29 October 2021 The rapper Fetty Wap was charged on Friday with participating in a conspiracy to smuggle large amounts of heroin, fentanyl and other drugs into the New York City region. The...

In a New Survey, Victims of Philadelphia's Forfeiture Racket Highlight the Hazards of Giving Cops a License To Steal 20 October 2021 After "they came in," Robert recalled, "they made me go down to the basement," "put a gun to the back of my head," and "said 'open the safe.'" When Robert did...

Robert Ferraro, charged with DUI New Haven Police officer killed in crash in Las Vegas, 2nd officer charged with DUI 17 September 2021 New Haven police are mourning the death of a veteran officer who was killed in an early morning crash in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday. The officer...