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Police Chief Arrested, Jailed for Running a Meth Distribution Ring 16 May 2022 If we were to declare a winner in the War on Drugs today, there would be no question that drugs won. Despite tens of billions of dollars wasted, hundreds of thousands of innocent lives ruined or ended, and the...

11 Insanely Corrupt Speed-Trap Towns Caught stealing from motorists, these towns disbanded their police forces or even disbanded their governments altogether. 8 May, 2022 CASTLEBERRY, ALABAMA: The Birmingham News recently investigated the tiny town of Brookside, Alabama, a place "with no...

Fifth Circuit Says No Immunity For Officer Who Framed A Man By Claiming The Man Framed Himself 14 April 2022 This reads like a film script and plays like a farce. It is one of the most insane decisions you’ll ever read. And it’s not because the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court did something...

Possible Problems With Lethal Injection Drugs Stop Tennessee Execution Meanwhile in South Carolina, the state Supreme Court delays a planned execution by firing squad. 22 April 2022 A scheduled execution in Tennessee Thursday night was put on temporary hold by the governor, but it's not...

Court Tells Cops That Legally Owned Guns Are Evidence Of Nothing, Order Return Of Seized Money 20 April 2022 The opportunistic actions of drug warriors has often been encouraged by courts, which have been willing to grant considerable leeway to law enforcement, even when their articulated...

Won't fly, this is no different than the Los Angeles ordinance mandating warrantless access to hotel/motel registration records, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional: The Supreme Court has struck down a Los Angeles ordinance that permits the police to check guest registries at...

Greg Abbott Screwed Over Truck Drivers in a Misguided Attempt to Increase Border Security The new inspection initiative duplicated screenings that were already being carried out, irking trade officials and truckers—even those who have supported Abbott up until this point. 15 April 2022 Last...

For 20 Years, This Prosecutor Had a Secret Job Working For the Judges Who'd Decide His Cases One of Ralph Petty's victims is trying to hold him accountable, but she will have to overcome prosecutorial immunity. 12 April 2022 Ralph Petty worked as an assistant district attorney in Midland...

Faulty Police Field Tests Said This Trucker Was Carrying 700 Gallons of Meth. It Was Diesel. Juan Guzman spent nearly six weeks in jail based on unreliable field tests that have resulted in hundreds of other wrongful arrests. 8 April 2022 Police and Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) agents in...

The 5th Circuit Approves a Cop's Violent Response to a Dispute Over a 7-Year-Old's Littering The officer used a "pain compliance maneuver" to force information from the boy's sister, who was recording the encounter. 25 March 2022 A 2016 dispute between neighbors that began when a 7-year-old...

The 5th Circuit Approves a Cop's Violent Response to a Dispute Over a 7-Year-Old's Littering The officer used a "pain compliance maneuver" to force information from the boy's sister, who was recording the encounter. 25 March 2022 A 2016 dispute between neighbors that began when a 7-year-old...

Nothing Has Changed Since George Floyd Died, US Cops Still Kill Someone Every 8 Hours 3 April 2022 It has been nearly two years since Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. At the time, Floyd’s death would set off massive protests across the country as politicians and political pundits played...

WATCH: Cop Mows Unarmed Man Down with Cruiser While Walking Through a Parking Lot 4 April 2022 On the night he was run over by a police cruiser, Anthony Gray had harmed no one and was merely leaving a hotel parking lot after a verbal dispute with a worker. At worst, Gray could have gotten a...

Texas Man Got Caught Trying to Abuse Minor Over Snapchat Days Before He Was Scheduled to Start Work as Jail Guard: Deputies 7 March 2022 A young Texas man had been planning to show up to jail Monday as a new guard. Instead, his would-be colleagues locked him up as an alleged sexual predator...

Innocent Woman ‘Fit Description’ of MALE Suspect, Police Say Nearly Killing Her was ‘A Learning Experience’ 24 March 2022 For fitting the description in the land of the free, police officers will claim the authority to violently pursue, harass, and initiate violence against you. Your...

How AI-powered tech landed man in jail with scant evidence 5 March 2022 Michael Williams’ wife pleaded with him to remember their fishing trips with the grandchildren, how he used to braid her hair, anything to jar him back to his world outside the concrete walls of Cook County Jail. His...

Kids Are Back in Schools. Cops Shouldn't Be. Police are being asked to handle kids broken by failures of public schooling. 16 March 2022 It's no secret that bad policy all too often breeds more bad policy. After two years of pandemic-related disruptions to public schooling and the lives of...

WATCH: To Get Man to Stop Driving a Tractor, Cops Shoot Him in the Head—Taxpayers Shell Out $3.75 Million 19 March 2022 Before he was shot in the back of the head by police, James McFarlin had harmed no one and had merely gotten into a verbal argument with his wife. But Sheriff Malin Parker...

4 Cops Quietly Rehired After Surrounding Unarmed Dad on His Knees, Executing Him with 21 Shots 17 March 2022 Suicide by cop — in the land of the free — is an unfortunate, and oft-used option for those in mental distress. All too often, police officers respond to incidents in which mentally...

Sen. Ron Wyden Catches ICE Illegally Collecting Americans’ Financial Data 15 March 2 022 ICE wants data and doesn’t care how it gets it. Its recently-elevated pursuit of all things not considered naturally American has increased its demands for information on… well, everybody. It works with...