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Amazon Admits Giving Ring Camera Footage to Police Without a Warrant or Consent In response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, Amazon stated that it has provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone. 13 July 2022 Ring, Amazon's perennially controversial and police-friendly...

Federal Court Allows Protesters’ First Amendment Suit Against Violent Boston Cops To Continue 18 July 2022 A lawsuit filed by four protesters against three Boston police officers can move forward, following a federal judge’s determination that the cops’ counterarguments were too ridiculous to...

Which Is More Scandalous: The Training for Armed Teachers or the Training for Police Officers? On average, the minimum requirement for cops is about 650 hours, compared to about 1,300 hours for barbers. 1 August 2022 A recent New York Times story about armed teachers casts doubt on the...

Cop Formerly Charged Over Murder of Freddie Gray Now in Charge of Investigating The Same Department 12 August 2022 In 2015, the world would be exposed to the horrifying practice of “nickel rides” following the death of Freddie Gray. Out of the six officers charged in Gray’s death, Lieutenant...

To Promote Public Safety, Michigan Authorizes Cops To Rob Travelers at Airports The change represents a substantial reversal of civil forfeiture reforms aimed at protecting innocent property owners. 2 June 2022 Graham Filler, a state legislator in Michigan, describes two recently enacted...

A 17-Year-Old Processes Police Sexual Violence in One of the Summer’s Most Anticipated Novels Leila Mottley’s “Nightcrawling” explores the grief and joy of a young Black survivor. 6 June 2022 In May 2016, a secret within the Oakland Police Department exploded into the public eye: Multiple...

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...

Former Western Michigan University police officer & wannabe pedophile Abraham Martin Hohnke School Cop Arrested for Trying to Pay a Child to Have Sex With Him in the Back of His Truck 19 April 2022 For 10 years, the students at Western Michigan University thought officer Abraham Martin...

Haverhill, Massachusetts, Police Officer Carlos 'burp' Arriaga [mug shot is from 2019 arrest for "assault and battery on a family/household member and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon"] Haverhill Police Officer Facing Drunken Driving Charge After Crash 18 April 2022 A Haverhill...

Faulty Police Field Tests Said This Trucker Was Carrying 700 Gallons of Meth. It Was Diesel. Juan Guzman spent nearly six weeks in jail based on unreliable field tests that have resulted in hundreds of other wrongful arrests. 8 April 2022 Police and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents in...

*burp* Glastonbury, Connecticut, police lt. Kevin 'burp' Troy Glastonbury Lieutenant Accused Of Driving Drunk, Lying To Enfield Cops Evidence suggests Lt. Kevin Troy drove home drunk from a bar, crashed his car, then lied to police about the incident, a report says. 1 April 2022 A...

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence 5 March 2022 Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His...

WATCH: Top Cop Busted By Vigilante Group for Attempting to Have Sex With a Little Boy 15 March 2022 Across the country brave individuals provide a much needed service to society by launching undercover stings to ensnare child predators. These vigilante groups pose as children online and allow...

Police Repeatedly Question Mom of 6 Who Let Kids Pick Up Litter Outside "There are no known stories of any abductions here," says Anna Hershberger. 16 March 2022 Massachusetts mom of six Anna Hershberger has had the police called on her three times this past year. What has this recidivist...

Massachusetts Court Says No Expectation Of Privacy In Social Media Posts Unwittingly Shared With An Undercover Cop 22 February 2022 Can cops pretend to be real people on social media to catfish people into criminal charges? Social media services say no. Facebook in particular has stressed --...

The FBI Seized Almost $1 Million From This Family—and Never Charged Them With a Crime "It's completely changed my belief in fairness," says Amy Sterner Nelson. 18 February 2022 Carl Nelson and Amy Sterner Nelson's pre-pandemic lives look a lot different than the ones they live now. There are...

First Circuit Tears Into Boston PD's Bullshit Gang Database While Overturning A Deportation Decision 9 February 2022 A federal court has delivered a rebuke of police gang databases in, of all things, a review of a deportation hearing. As we've been made painfully aware, gang databases are...

Massachusetts Court Says Breathaylzers Are A-OK Less Than Three Months After Declaring Them Hot Garbage 31 January 2022 Breathalyzers are like drug dogs and field tests: they are considered infallible right up until they're challenged in court. Once challenged, the evidence seems to indicate...

Police Caught Stealing Money from Innocent People To Secretly Buy Tech to Spy on Citizens’ Cellphones 8 January 2022 For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale. We’re not talking about taxes, but an...

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...