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The Ord government -- including the local police chief -- didn't like receiving this constant stream of letters. So, the town sued Brock, seeking a restraining order forbidding him from writing to government officials. The town, unsurprisingly, lost this lawsuit. Small Nebraska Town Pays...

Investigation: Accidental shootings like one in Iowa show police training gaps 11 December 2019 When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, firing his weapon as a dog approached. The...

U.S. Post Office Taking Pictures of All Our Mail for Database 3 July 2013 More for that warm feeling of total security, as reported in the New York Times, about: the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper...

License Plate Reader Company Continues Expansion Into Private Neighborhoods With The Help Of Some Useful Cops 26 October 2021 The use of automatic license plate readers by law enforcement has steadily increased over the past decade. The theory is a never ending documentation of vehicle...

Cop Who Avoided Jail for Kidnapping, Beating Ex-Wife, Arrested 2 Months Later for Breaking Woman’s Arm 24 October 2021 As TFTP has consistently reported, police officers in the United States have an exceedingly higher rate of domestic violence than any other occupation. The average rate of...

Colombian corruption case latest overseas stain for DEA 8 October 2021 For years, Capt. Juan Pablo Mosquera rose through the ranks of Colombia’s national police, earning accolades from his bosses on his way to becoming the trusted supervisor of a unit that worked hand-in-glove with U.S...

“Even if You Win, You Stay Locked Up”: How ICE Uses Appeals to Keep Immigrants in Detention 1 October 2021 Sara Mendez-Morales had lost almost all hope. It was a cold stretch in early February, and she had spent nearly six months in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Greyhound settles lawsuit over immigration sweeps on buses 27 September 2021 Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to board its buses in Washington state to conduct warrantless...

White House says images of Border Patrol with apparent whip are 'obviously horrific' 20 September 2021 White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday called pictures that appeared to show a U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback with a whip to deter migrants "horrific," but declined to say...