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Ehhh???? Springfield, Missouri, officer Zach "Car Frisker" Pugh Appeals Court: ‘Frisking’ A Vehicle Is Completely Normal And Not Any Sort Of Rights Violation 9 August 2022 Welcome to America, where not only are people subject to frisks by cops when things seem reasonably suspicious, but...

*burp* Given a hug and taken home by the police chief of a neighboring town? Obviously there's one law for us little people and an entirely different law for cops! 'Hammered Drunk' Police Chief Shown Failing Sobriety Test Not Yet Charged 14 July 2022 The police chief of a St. Louis...

Inside D.C. police's sprawling network of surveillance From protesters to everyday residents, recently revealed documents provide a first-of-its-kind look into the invasive eye of Washington police. 18 June 2022 It was the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protesters gathered in...

Tyree Bell, age 15, detained for three weeks for a crime he did not commit 1 June 2022 The police department of Kansas City, Missouri, has agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Tyree Bell, who was detained for three weeks for a crime he did not commit in 2016, when he was 15...

11 Insanely Corrupt Speed-Trap Towns Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether. 8 May, 2022 CASTLEBERRY, ALABAMA: The Birmingham News recently investigated the tiny town of Brookside, Alabama, a place "with no...

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...

Unarmed Man Executed by Police Because He ‘Pointed Finger Like a Gun’ — Taxpayers to Be Held Liable 13 March 2022 On the night of March 12, 2020, Donnie Sanders, 47, was merely driving down the road, minding his own business when an officer with the Kansas City police department began...

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...

Rush to Judgment Is Texas Sending Melissa Lucio to Die for a Crime That Never Happened? 5 March 2022 Dr. Thomas Young is adamant: Melissa Lucio should not be put to death. “This would be a horrible, horrible tragedy if she ends up getting executed over this,” he said. “It’s just not right.”...

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...

Suspect wanted for assault released from St. Louis jail after positive COVID-19 test 20 January 2022 In an exclusive interview with FOX 2 News, a woman scalded by hot soup in an alleged Jan. 4 domestic assault, called for drastic change in the City of St. Louis’ jail policies. The suspect...

A Notorious Prison Tech Giant Is Poised to Cash In on Pell Grants for Incarcerated People Millions of dollars in college financial aid will soon be available to prisoners. Aventiv has taken note. 8 February 2022 Jerome “JJ” Taylor needed just one more humanities credit to earn his bachelor’s...

Off duty police officer evades paying for damages from car crash 10 February 2016 Nearly a year later you can still see the damage after a van hit a home in South St. Louis. St. Louis Police arrested one of their own, then three magic words seemed to get him out of it. Homeowner Linda Simon...

New Bill Will Fully Exempt Law Enforcement from Paying Income Tax 5 January 2022 One of the main reasons people comply with tax requirements in the United States is due to fear of an audit and the subsequent jail sentence that could come along with it. If you choose to avoid paying the state...

It is an expected outcome to the ever worsening epidemic of police violence. In Political Science 101 fifty years ago, we would have called this a question of legitimacy. With their increasingly violent attacks on the citizens that they are supposed to serve, that part of our government is...

Kansas and California Cops Used Civil Forfeiture to Stage Armored Car Heists, Stealing Money Earned by Licensed Marijuana Businesses The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. 18 January 2022 Because the continued federal...

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...

Stonewalling coverup in progress? It's really a shame when the victim's family can't get any substantive info our of their local police department. A real sign that a coverup is in the works: The family learned of the release of the officers’ names during the news conference, which sparked...

Lake County Sheriff indicted for resisting law enforcement, reckless driving; blames ‘political witch hunt’ 7 January 2022 Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez was indicted Thursday and accused of resisting law enforcement and reckless driving, charges the sheriff denies and said are the result...

State Bill Creates Process to Finally End Qualified Immunity, And It’s from Republicans 29 December 2021 Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate for the 2022 legislative session would create a process to sue police officers in state court for using excessive force or taking other actions...