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A Michigan Task Force Proposes Making It Harder To Imprison Kids for Petty Crimes While the task force is a move in the right direction, truancy shouldn't be up for criminal prosecution in the first place. 28 July 2022 In June 2020, a 15-year-old Michigan girl was incarcerated for violating...

Vallejo, California, police officer Ryan 'Quick Draw' McMahon Vallejo PD Takes So Long To Investigate Officers, They Often Kill Again Before Their First Investigations Are Closed 13 July 2022 The Vallejo PD kills people. That’s an undeniable fact. It does so with alarming frequency...

FBI provides Chicago police with fake online identities for "Social Media Exploration" team Internal documents also reveal that police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. 20 May 2022 Brian Campbell couldn’t sleep. It was May 31, 2020, and demonstrations...

Chicago's More Aggressive Speed Cameras Issued 2.8 Million Tickets Last Year The city's army of 160 speed cameras issued a ticket every 11 seconds during 2021 and generated $89 million in revenue. 6 April 2022 After rejiggering its speed cameras to fine any car caught traveling as little as 6...

Police Caught Stealing Money from Innocent People To Secretly Buy Tech to Spy on Citizens’ Cellphones 8 January 2022 For decades now, federal government and their cohorts in law enforcement have been carrying out theft of the citizenry on a massive scale. We’re not talking about taxes, but an...

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...

"... 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...

WATCH: Cops Smack Man’s Phone Out of His Hand, Flip Him Off, Then Beat the Hell Out of Him — For Filming 22 December 2021 Filming the police is entirely legal, in every state. However, all too often, we will see police officers overstep their authority and arrest, attack, and assault innocent...

Judge Says NYPD Illegally Withheld Footage in Police Shootings 23 November 2021 A New York state judge ruled last week that the New York City Police Department illegally withheld body-worn footage in two police shootings, including the killing of Kawaski Trawick. The judge said at an October...

NYPD Continues To Screw Over Its Oversight By Denying Access To Bodycam Footage 22 November 2021 The NYPD's war on its oversight continues. The secretive law enforcement agency has spent years fighting accountability and transparency, making up its own rules and engaging in openly hostile...

WATCH: 3 Teens Attack Innocent Shantel Arnold Before a Deputy Shows Up and Beats Her Even More 18 October 2021 Shantel Arnold is still recovering from the horrifying experience she went through last month that will likely leave permanent scars on her body as well as her mind. A brief video...

In a California Desert, Sheriff’s Deputies Settle Schoolyard Disputes. Black Teens Bear the Brunt. 29 September 2021 Barron Gardner, a high school history teacher in Southern California’s Antelope Valley, stared down Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies during an online meeting in...