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The Killing of a Portland Antifascist Activist Went Unsolved, Then Journalists Sued the City Three years after Sean Kealiher was killed, police arrested a suspect, just as The Intercept’s public records lawsuit neared a ruling. 16 August 2022 For months after her son’s killing, Laura Kealiher...

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...

50 Years After Nixon's Commission Said Cops Should Stop Busting Pot Users, the Federal Ban Remains Unchanged But 37 states allow medical or recreational use, and arrests are falling. 22 March 2022 Fifty years ago today, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse issued a report that...

LAPD Police Commission Enrages Police Union By Enacting Minor Changes To Pretextual Stops 14 March 2022 Pretextual stops are law enforcement at its most shameless. The laws and the courts have blessed this activity, which involves cops claiming stops are justified for one reason while using...

Survey Says Portland Cops Should Be Locked Out Of Recordings Until After They’ve Written Reports, Answered Investigators 11 March 2022 The Department of Justice has been keeping an eye on the Portland (OR) Police Bureau (PPB) for nearly a decade now, finding that officers routinely engage in...

Colorado Legislators Advance Bill To Ban Police from Lying to Minors During Interrogations Reason reported last year on how minors are particularly susceptible to being coerced into false confessions. 25 February 2022 Democratic lawmakers in Colorado are advancing a bill that would ban police...

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...

Banning the Type of Police Raids That Killed Amir Locke Is Just a Start Police violence expert Samuel Sinyangwe says it’s time to rethink more common types of raids, too. 12 February 2022 Amir Locke, a 22-year-old aspiring musician, was sleeping on a couch in his cousin’s Minneapolis home on...

You Can't Solve Homelessness by Making It a Crime In an August ruling, Washington's Supreme Court found that a homeless plaintiff's truck qualified as his homestead. 17 January 2022 A man's car is his castle. So declared the Washington Supreme Court, more or less, when it ruled last August...

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...

He Was a Board Member of the Oath Keepers. Now He’s Holding State-Approved Trainings for Law Enforcement in Texas. Richard Mack wants your sheriff to defy the government. 29 October 2021 On a glorious Saturday morning in October, about 75 people are gathered inside an airy warehouse on the...

"... Boston police spent $627,000 on this equipment by dipping into money seized in connection with alleged crimes." In other words, steal from the citizens, then spend the money on "spy tech" so you can find more stuff to steal. Boston police bought spy tech with a pot of money hidden from...

For Vallejo officers who use force, a pattern of promotions and awards 28 July 2020 In May 2019, as the Vallejo Police Department was embroiled in controversy for excessive force allegations, including shooting a sleeping person 55 times, the department held an awards and promotion ceremony...

Cops who are "disrespected" are disrespected for good reasons. Why any police administrator in his right mind would try to recruit other departments' brutes and bully boys is beyond me. 3 stars or 4? Confused? Make up your mind! Sheriffs Making Much Ado 9 November 2021 This week...

The Bad Apples Control The Bunch: USA Today Report Details Law Enforcements Punishment Of Good Cops 30 November 2021 Plenty of people try to minimize police misconduct by claiming what we witness day after day after day is just the work of a few "bad apples." That's only half of the adage...

ACLU, NAACP allege Vancouver police, Clark County sheriff’s deputies use excessive force, urge federal DOJ investigation 10 November 2021 Community groups called Wednesday for the U.S. Department of Justice to open a civil rights investigation into the Vancouver Police Department and Clark...

Biden's Pick to Lead CBP Supports Two of Trump's Most Controversial Border Initiatives 19 October 2021 AFTER MONTHS OF delay, a Senate committee held a confirmation hearing Tuesday for President Joe Biden’s pick to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the nation’s largest law enforcement...

Bend police officer charged with assault of intoxicated man; 3 Summit HS students accused in beating 22 October 2021 Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel filed charges of fourth-degree assault and harassment Friday against Bend Police Officer Kevin Uballez, accused of slamming an...

New Research Says Police in Schools Don't Reduce Shootings but They Do Increase Expulsions and Arrests 20 October 2021 New research finds that police deployed in schools, commonly called school resource officers (SROs), do not reduce school shootings, but do increase suspensions, expulsions...

55 Percent of Police Killings Are Misclassified as Other Causes of Death 1 October 2021 More than half of police killings aren't labeled as such, according to new research published in The Lancet. The study looks at roughly 40 years of fatal police violence in the U.S. The main finding...