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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...

Has anyone who contest the charges ever been tried & convicted? Doesn't sound like it! Criminalizing free speech? Group challenges Miami Beach law used to cuff people filming cops 30 January 2022 After last year’s unruly spring break on South Beach, the Miami Beach city commission passed...

Legislators Looking To Ban Geofence/Reverse Warrants In The State Of New York 31 January 2022 A report published by Google's transparency team last August made it clear reverse warrants weren't a law enforcement fad, but rather a trend. Google is the recipient of pretty much every so-called...

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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Investigation Shows Faulty Drug Tests Resulted In Hundreds Of New York Prisoners Being Wrongly Punished 26 January 2022 The justice system may say lofty things about debts to society or rehabilitation, but when it all comes down to it, a person in jail is just something to be processed...

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...

Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison Feb. 3 Former Chicago police officer spent more than three years in prison for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. 14 January 2022 Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke will leave prison next month after serving more than three...

Police officers treat Black and white men differently. You can hear it in their tone of voice 16 July 2021 Scientists who analyzed the body-camera footage from more than 100 police officers have found a subtle but clear pattern: During traffic stops, officers spoke to Black men in a less...

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...

WATCH: Raging Cop Strangles Female Officer After She Stopped Him from Attacking Handcuffed Man 14 January 2022 Since the murder of George Floyd rocked the nation in 2020, across the country police departments and municipalities have passed legislation requiring cops to intervene if they see...

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...

Top-down mismanagement! After the crooked cops bust them, the crooked jailers take over. "... the AP revealed that more than 100 Bureau of Prisons workers have been arrested, convicted or sentenced for crimes since the start of 2019, including a warden charged with sexually abusing an inmate."...

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...