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Supreme Court Asked To Deny Qualified Immunity To County Engineer Who Decided Entrapment Was The Best Use Of Taxpayer Money 26 July 2022 We all know this country is capable of evils normally associated with authoritarian regimes — things like torture, illegal spying, the occasional...

Fifth Circuit Tells Cops ‘Hispanic On A Bike’ Isn’t Enough Suspicion To Justify Stops Of Hispanics On Bikes 25 July 2022 The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals tends to be the cop-friendliest jurisdiction. Unexpected outbursts by recently appointed Judge Don Willett aside, the Fifth Circuit tends...

Appeals Court Says It’s Perfectly Fine For Cops To Unreasonably Extend Traffic Stops 3 June 2022 The Supreme Court made it pretty clear in its Rodriguez decision that pretextual traffic stops were fine, but once the pretext evaporated, it was time to cut civilians loose. We hold that a...

Eleventh Circuit Strips Immunity From Deputy Who Saved A War Vet From Self-Harm By Breaking His Neck 13 April 2022 One of the many symptoms of the many, deep-rooted, law enforcement sicknesses is how often officers decide to “help” people by harming them. That’s why some cities have chosen to...

Report Shows ICE’s Massive Surveillance Apparatus Is All Up In Americans’ Everything 20 May 2022 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has long made its own case for abolishment. Before ICE earned its current reputation as a fake-school running, report-altering, rogue agency interested in...

Taylor County, Wisconsin, sheriff Bruce Daniels (left) & Taylor County, Wisconsin, deputy/sgt. Steven Bowers (right) Federal Court Awards Immunity To Sheriff Who Searched An Officer’s Private Dropbox Account Without A Warrant 22 April 2022 Law enforcement officers are more used to...

Federal Court Says Good Faith Prevails In Deployment Of Extremely Questionable ‘Reverse’ Warrant 21 March 2022 “Who are we to judge?,” say federal court judges. That’s the questionable conclusion reached by an otherwise solid reading [PDF] of the constitutional implications of one of law...

Re-Funding The Police: Taxpayers On The Hook For Billions of Dollars Of Law Enforcement Lawsuit Settlements 17 March 2022 Apparently, it’s not enough that we pay their salaries and buy their uniforms, vehicles, and weapons. We’re also expected to foot the bill when law enforcement officers...

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...

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...

First Amendment Group Tells Appeals Court University Officials Shouldn’t Have Access To Qualified Immunity 10 March 2022 Qualified immunity has been heavily criticized for what it allows law enforcement officers to get away with. The Supreme Court-created doctrine excuses officers from civil...

A Federal Lawsuit Challenges Blatantly Unconstitutional Anti-Crime Checkpoints in Jackson, Mississippi "You can't treat everyone like a criminal to find the criminals," an outraged driver says. In Jackson, apparently you can. 25 February 2022 Archie Skiffer Jr., who lives in Mendenhall...

Miami-Dade Police say cop who shot teen is a "victim," invoke Marsy's Law and won't name him 27 January 2022 Vito Corleone-Venisee, 15, was shot by a Miami-Dade police officer two weeks ago after a foot chase in Brownsville. His attorney said Vito was never a threat to police or the public...

Biden’s DOJ continues to defend bad cops and wrongful convictions 26 January 2022 During the George Floyd protests, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden forcefully condemned the violent eviction of protesters from D.C.'s Lafayette Square just before President Donald Trump’s photo op at St...

Pennsylvania Says Legal Medical Marijuana Means Cops Can't Just Sniff Their Way Into Warrantless Searches 19 January 2022 The legalization of marijuana is changing the probable cause equation all over the nation. What used to be an easy bust and/or a great way to engage in warrantless...

New Illinois Law Says Cops Need A Warrant To Grab Data From (Some) Third Parties 12 January 2022 The state of Illinois continues to provide more protection than the US Constitution. Its privacy laws exceed what has been determined to be "reasonable" violations of privacy by decades of court...

You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Has a Naughty List, and You’re On It 25 December 2021 Tracking you based on your health status Tracking you based on your face Tracking you based on your behavior Tracking you based on your spending and consumer activities Tracking you based on...

Court Tells Cops Who Got A Man Wrongly Imprisoned For 25 Years That Of Course Framing People For Crimes Is A Rights Violation 13 December 2021 There's a constitutional right not to be framed by cops for a crime you didn't commit. This shouldn't even need to be argued in court once, much less...

Vallejo police secretly tested ‘dystopian’ facial recognition tool 13 April 2021 Members of the Vallejo Police Department secretly used facial recognition technology developed by Clearview AI, a company embroiled in public controversy for allegedly violating personal privacy laws in several...

SWAT Team Blows Up Innocent Woman’s Home, Tell Her that She Has to Pay the $50,000 Bill 5 December 2021 In July of last year, Vicki Baker, 75, was excited to move on to the next chapter of her life in Montana by selling her home she owned for 12 years in McKinney, Texas. That sale would never...