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"Innocence isn't enough": Arizona urges the supreme court to send Barry Jones back to death row The case has far-reaching implications: Should new evidence be ignored by the federal courts even when it exposes a wrongful conviction? 30 December 2021 THE MORNING OF the oral argument in Shinn...

State Bill Creates Process to Finally End Qualified Immunity, And It’s from Republicans 29 December 2021 Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate for the 2022 legislative session would create a process to sue police officers in state court for using excessive force or taking other actions...

LAPD shootings of unstable people wielding sharp objects a deadly problem 13 June 2021 On a North Hollywood street last year, Los Angeles Police Officer Daniel Harty watched through his rifle scope as 50-year-old Rommel Mendoza walked “erratically” toward him and a line of other officers...

Report: High-ranking D.C. cops, including current chief, helped criminal officers keep their jobs 18 December 2021 A group of high ranking Washington, D.C., police officers, including the current chief, shielded 21 officers from termination for criminal misconduct, according to an...

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...

Solano deputies, Vacaville councilmember promote anti-government militia 4 February 2021 Daniel “Cully” Pratt of the Solano County Sheriff’s Office has a side business making decorative wood carvings. Some feature characters from movies starring his brother Chris Pratt, like “Jurassic World”...

$2,000,000 and a bucket of tears gets a bad cop off the hook in Ladue, Missouri. After Meeting With Victim, Former Missouri Officer Is Cleared of Assault The charge was dropped after the former police officer and the woman she shot outside a supermarket in Ladue, Mo., agreed to meet with a...

School Officials Welcome Homeland Security Surveillance After Student Fights Administrators in a Maryland school district say they wanted help monitoring school safety — but sweeping surveillance could land kids in gang databases and families in deportation proceedings 9 November 2021 In late...

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...

After Years of Complaints, the D.C. Jail Has Been Deemed Too Wretched for Some Inmates 3 November 2021 The U.S. Marshals Service announced Tuesday that it was transferring roughly 400 inmates out of the D.C. Jail due to unacceptable living conditions that reportedly included water and food...

The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops Busted taillights, missing plates, tinted windows: Across the U.S., ticket revenue funds towns — and the police responsible for finding violations. 31 October 2021 Harold Brown’s contribution to the local treasury began as so many others...

Capitol Police Officer Charged With Covering Up January 6 Crimes 15 October 2021 A 25-year veteran of the US Capitol Police faces obstruction of justice charges over allegations that he tried to cover up crimes related to the January 6 insurrection. Federal prosecutors say that the officer...

Hacked Data Exposes Law Enforcement Officers Who Joined Far-Right Oath Keepers Group 5 October 2021 Some more unsettling news about law enforcement's close relationship to (or at least professional tolerance of) far-right groups linked to the January 6th raid of the Capitol building has come...