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State Agents Raid Preschools, Question Toddlers Without Parental Consent for Not Wearing Masks 8 March 2022 For two years now, people across the world have been forced by their governments to muzzle their faces with cloth masks. Despite long-established evidence that cloth masks do not stop...

Cities Are Turning To Automation To Enforce Vehicle Noise Ordinances 2 March 2022 Automated enforcement may ease the burden on law enforcement agencies and direct more officers towards serious crime, but nearly every device given that job has tended to perform poorly. Red light and speed...

ICE settles with immigrant rights leader who sued over first amendment violations Ravi Ragbir said he was targeted for deportation because of protected speech criticizing ICE and the immigration enforcement regime. 24 February 2022 A NEW YORK CITY activist who alleged in court that he was...

Trapped in the Floods with Floodwaters Rising, Prisoners Wait for Help in Floating Feces 12 February 2022 [ The flooding in Dixie County, Florida, began in July, brought on by Tropical Storm Elsa. Then the rains kept falling. By August, the ground was saturated, and the semirural county was...

NYPD Was Supposed To Replace Hundreds Of Cops Working Administrative Jobs With Civilians. It Never Did. 4 February 2022 There's apparently nothing the New York Police Department won't lie about. When it comes to being overseen, the NYPD seems to feel it has no obligation to provide data...

Americans Want Police Reform, Not Abolition. So Did This Slain NYPD Officer. Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing. 3 February 2022 "My perspective on police and the way they police really bothered me," wrote Jason Rivera...

New York Restricts Free Legal Advice. Now It Faces a First Amendment Lawsuit A pastor and a nonprofit challenge occupational licensing rules. 31 January 2022 A pastor and a nonprofit are suing the state of New York, demanding the state recognize their First Amendment right to give free advice...

Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military If policing is to change, the spotlight must turn toward police academies, where new recruits are first inculcated into the folkways of their profession. 10 June 2020 When I entered the Washington, D.C., police academy in 2016 as a...

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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...

Off-duty NYPD sergeant arrested for drunk driving in the Bronx: cops 18 January 2022 An off-duty NYPD sergeant was busted for drunk driving after he struck a parked private patrol car in the Bronx early Tuesday, cops said. Frederick Lewis, 40, was in his personal car when he accidentally...

Off-duty NYPD officer yelled ‘terrorist,’ repeatedly punched driver during road rage incident: Memo 17 January 2022 An off-duty police officer allegedly went on a racist tirade and repeatedly punched a drunken ride-hail driver during a road rage incident in Brooklyn on Sunday, police sources...

Ex-NYPD sergeant busted in Tekashi69 investigation gets probation for transporting heroin 13 January 2022 A former NYPD sergeant busted ferrying drugs for the Nine Trey Bloods gang during the investigation of rapper Tekashi69 was sentenced to no jail time Thursday by a Manhattan judge who...

NYPD Officers Are Again Whining About Being Asked To Document Their Biased Policework 11 January 2022 The New York Police Department is complaining about having to do work again. The New York Post reports officers are unhappy that they're required to do a little bit more paperwork for every...

This is going to be disastrous four years for New York City: Swaggering Eric Adams Has Strong Sweaty Cop Energy 9 January 2022 There are political candidates who are all boasts and bluster on the campaign trail, who tone things down once they take office. Not Eric Adams. In the week since...

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...

A Union Scandal Landed Hundreds of NYPD Officers on a Secret Watchlist. That Hasn’t Stopped Some From Jeopardizing Cases. 22 October 2021 After prosecutors flagged hundreds of cops caught fixing tickets for friends and family a decade ago, the officers’ work was supposed to get an extra level...

Behind the Violence at Rikers, Decades of Mismanagement and Dysfunction For years, New York City officials have presided over shortcuts and blunders that have led to chaos in one of America’s most expensive jail complexes. 31 December 2021 The leaders of the New York City Department of...

Only 3 NYPD Officers Have Been Disciplined for Misconduct During the George Floyd Protests The NYPD declined to punish nine other officers, despite recommendations from the city's Civilian Complaint Review Board. 30 December 2021 More than a year after the George Floyd protests, the New York...

Video of 'Fight Night' at Rikers Jail Leads Judge to Find Cruel and Unusual Punishment A New York state judge found video of guards ceding control of Rikers to gang leaders more than enough evidence to order the release of a pretrial inmate. 28 December 2021 A New York state judge ordered a...