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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...

An Accused War Criminal Trained Florida Cops in 'New Concepts of Shooting' A sign of the forever wars coming home, Eddie Gallagher trained officers from the Tallahassee Police Department. 12 August 2022 Should a military veteran who has been reliably accused of war crimes, and who admitted...

More Than a Half-dozen Officers Stood and Watched for 8 Minutes as a Teen Hung Himself 13 August 2022 Eight minutes — this is the amount of time multiple officers and a captain stood by and watched as 18-year-old Nicholas Feliciano wrapped a homemade noose around his neck and proceeded to...

LGBTQ Pride Organizers Weigh Multiple Threats, From Police Brutality to Vigilante Violence Between angry cops, hateful politicians, and plotting right-wing extremists, they have their hands full. 24 June 2022 Seattle’s Pride Parade, among the largest in the country, will return this weekend...

Cops Who Sued Journalist For Reporting On Their Poor Handling Of A Rape Case Lose Their Defamation Lawsuit 18 March 2022 As Omar (RIP, Michael K. Williams) pointed out, using only his whistling and his sawed-off shotgun, “If you come at the king, you’d best not miss.” The “king” of First...

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...

Survivors of a Deadly Attack on a Portland Protest Were Victimized Twice: First by the Gunman, Then by the Police Victims of a right-wing gunman’s shooting spree in Portland said it was unprovoked. Why did the police make the attack sound like a shootout? 23 February 2022 PROSECUTORS IN...

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...

Pennsylvania's Fuel Tax Is Supposed To Fund Bridge Repair. Billions Went to Cops Instead. Pennsylvania has one of the nation's highest gas taxes, but those user fees haven't helped fix the state's poor roads and bridges. 1 February 2022 Pittsburgh's Fern Hollow Bridge, which collapsed on...

In 2019, The FBI Took NSO Malware For A Spin Before Deciding It Might Cause Too Many Problems In Court 31 January 2021 The latest disturbing revelation about Israeli malware merchant NSO Group is a bit delayed. NSO has claimed its malware can't be used to target American phone numbers which...

Two Connecticut officers put on leave over handling of Black women’s deaths Officers did not investigate the deaths of Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls in a timely manner or notify relatives 31 January 2022 A Connecticut mayor has ordered two police officers placed on administrative...

A deputy got away with racism for years, a lawsuit says. Wyoming’s first Black sheriff fired him. 25 January 2022 In June 2017, Cpl. Jamin Johnson, who is Black, was in the common area of the Albany County Sheriff’s Office in Laramie, Wyo., when one of his superiors, Sgt. Christian Handley...

The Ord government -- including the local police chief -- didn't like receiving this constant stream of letters. So, the town sued Brock, seeking a restraining order forbidding him from writing to government officials. The town, unsurprisingly, lost this lawsuit. Small Nebraska Town Pays...

Portland Releases Police Training Material That Encouraged Beating Protesters A presentation included a meme pushing violence against left-leaning demonstrators. 16 January 2022 [fairuse Portland, Oregon’s mayor announced just before the weekend that the city’s police department is...

New York Police Killed Her Son, Then Refused to Answer Her Questions. The Law They're Hiding Behind Could Soon Be Repealed An obscure provision designed to protect personnel records makes it nearly impossible to hold the state's cops accountable 8 February 2019 In 2017, Constance Malcolm sat...

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...

Watchdog; Federal anti-terror unit investigated journalists 11 December 2021 A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press...

40-year-old Syracuse rape conviction at the heart of author Alice Sebold’s memoir is thrown out 22 November 2021 A 40-year-old rape conviction at the center of a memoir by award-winning author and Syracuse University alumnus Alice Sebold was overturned by a judge Monday. The extraordinary...

Is the Fear Factor Overblown in Police Shootings? 22 November 2021 At issue in the review of every police shooting, whether it’s at night or in daylight, whether it’s an officer’s first shooting or third, or whether the person has a gun, a knife or no weapon at all, is one factor. Fear. For...

Videos Are Making It Hard To Trust the Cops2 10 November 2021 There's a lot to dislike about the increasingly pervasive surveillance state, but a little of its danger is offset when the forces of officialdom are themselves captured by the all-seeing eye. All too often, official versions of...