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A Michigan Task Force Proposes Making It Harder To Imprison Kids for Petty Crimes While the task force is a move in the right direction, truancy shouldn't be up for criminal prosecution in the first place. 28 July 2022 In June 2020, a 15-year-old Michigan girl was incarcerated for violating...

Michigan Supreme Court Says Photographing, Fingerprinting People Without Probable Cause Is Unconstitutional 1 August 2022 The only surprise in this decision isn’t that the court ruled the way it did. It’s that the Grand Rapids, Michigan police department apparently believed it wasn’t a...

ICE Set Up a Fake College, Robbing and Deporting Foreign Students. Civil Rights Groups Want Answers. Hundreds of lives were upended by the University of Farmington, a fake university that took $6 million in tuition and fees from foreign students. 12 August 2022 The University of Farmington...

Sixth Circuit Says All Animals Are Equal, But Cop Animals Are More Equal Than Others 11 July 2022 Cops kill pets. This is an inarguable fact. None other than the US Department of Justice has declared the (unofficial) War on Dogs to be a law enforcement epidemic. If a cop encounters a family...

R.I.P. Randy Weaver Randy Weaver Dies In the infamous Ruby Ridge standoff, federal agents killed his wife and son. 13 May 2022 Randy Weaver died Wednesday, just three months shy of what would have been the 30th anniversary of the 1992 standoff that thrust him into the national spotlight. He...

No Charges for FBI Agents Who ‘Covered’ for Child Rapist with 500 Victims, Allowing Him to Continue to Prey on Kids 30 May 2022 A massive case involving over a hundred women and girls shined a light on the horrid sexual abuse and cover-up that took place within the USA Gymnastics program. For...

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...

Deputy Arrested for Torturing Service Dog, Wrapping Him in Duct Tape Before Shooting Him 29 April 2022 In the study of psychology, there is a term for those who hurt animals for personal pleasure. It is called intentional animal torture and cruelty and even has its own initialism, IATC...

Yes, It’s Difficult To Change Cop Culture, But Let’s Not Pretend It’s Too Expensive Or Impossible To Achieve Quickly 1 April 2022 The US Department of Justice has entered into many consent decrees with many, many abusive law enforcement agencies. These decrees have the force of law, supported...

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...

WATCH: Cop Tackles Unarmed Man, Gets on His Back, Executes Him With a Bullet to the Back of the Head 14 April 2022 On April 4, an unnamed officer with the Grand Rapids police department initiated a traffic stop on 26-year-old Congolese refugee Patrick Lyoya. Moments later, Lyoya would be dead...

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...

Police Officer Kills Dog for Walking Toward Him With Tail Wagging Bradley Brock says his dog Moose was walking toward a police officer wagging its tail when the officer gunned his pet down. 17 March 2022 For Bradley Brock, his 3-year-old dog, a mastiff named Moose, was his family and his...

After Avoiding Jail for Child Sex Abuse Conviction, Cop Arrested AGAIN for Producing Child Porn 27 Marach 2022 In August of 2020, former New Mexico State Police officer, Ricky Romero, was granted a plea deal after admitting to soliciting and receiving sexually explicit images from an underage...

He Spent an Extra Two Years in Prison Because He Could Not Find a Place Where He Was Legally Allowed To Live New York's residence restrictions for sex offenders raise the question of how irrational a policy must be to fail "rational basis" review 7 March 2022 Since 2005, New York has...

Appeals Court Rules Ohio Cops Didn't Have Cause To Arrest Man Wearing 'Fuck the Police' Shirt The sheriff's deputies are also not entitled to qualified immunity because the First Amendment right to offend police has been repeatedly upheld. 9 February 2022 Sheriff's deputies in Ohio didn't...

"THIS is how bad cops get rehired by other agencies!" Anybody got a name for this bozo? Great video -- the deputy was a cocky power-tripper on 2 January 2021, unemployed 20 days later! :D Michigan deputy terminated after arresting Black man collecting signatures 22 January 2021 A...

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...

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...