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An Accused War Criminal Trained Florida Cops in 'New Concepts of Shooting' A sign of the forever wars coming home, Eddie Gallagher trained officers from the Tallahassee Police Department. 12 August 2022 Should a military veteran who has been reliably accused of war crimes, and who admitted...

Cop Formerly Charged Over Murder of Freddie Gray Now in Charge of Investigating The Same Department 12 August 2022 In 2015, the world would be exposed to the horrifying practice of “nickel rides” following the death of Freddie Gray. Out of the six officers charged in Gray’s death, Lieutenant...

Inside D.C. police's sprawling network of surveillance From protesters to everyday residents, recently revealed documents provide a first-of-its-kind look into the invasive eye of Washington police. 18 June 2022 It was the early days of the Black Lives Matter movement. Protesters gathered in...

Rockville, Maryland, police officer & child porn aficionado Daniel Morozewicz Decorated Officer Admits to Running Horrifying Child Porn Ring in Which Infants Were Sexually Abused 5 June 2022 When residents of Rockville, Maryland saw Daniel Morozewicz, 38, patrol their neighborhoods, they...

71-Year-Old Pickleball Enthusiast Armed With Sharpie Arrested for Felony Criminal Mischief Arslan Guney spent 10 hours in jail for making a few marks on a gym floor. He could still get three years in prison. 28 March 2022 Arslan Guney worked as an engineer for Vlasic Pickles. In retirement...

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...

The FBI Wants To Be Your Facebook Friend 14 April 2022 Undoubtedly, the FBI has always surveilled the open web, looking for persons or phrases of interest. It’s just going to get a whole lot better at doing it. And it’s going to spend millions of your tax dollars to make it easier to place...

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...

Biden Secret Service agent arrested over drunken assault in South Korea: Reports 20 May 2022 A Secret Service agent working for President Joe Biden was reportedly arrested for allegedly assaulting a citizen of South Korea in the nation’s capital city of Seoul just hours before Biden was...

Law Prof Suggests Geofence Warrants Are A Net Gain For The Public, Even If They Invert The Probable Cause Standard 5 April 2022 On March 9th, we covered a Virginia court’s decision to reject a geofence/”reverse” warrant as unconstitutional. This was brought to our attention by...

Police Play Disney Songs To Keep Citizen Recordings Off YouTube A Santa Ana police officer is the latest official to use YouTube's copyright infringement algorithm as a means to evade accountability. 13 April 2022 If you have a noisy neighbor who plays loud music when you're trying to sleep...

FBI Will Publish Long-Delayed Police Use-of-Force Data Lack of participation from police departments has stymied the FBI's national use-of-force database for the past three years, but FBI Director Christopher Wray said a required threshold has finally been met. 22 March 2022 FBI Director...

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...

The FBI Is Hiding an Unpublished Police Use-of-Force Database From FOIA Requesters Three years since it launched, an FBI data collection program on police use-of-force incidents has yet to gain enough participation to release any statistics. 4 March 2022 For the past several years, the FBI...

A teen wrongly charged in a shooting says police offered him fast food to get a confession 23 February 2022 Advocates for juvenile justice are calling for changes to the way police and schools handle arrests after the lawyer and family of an Illinois teenager said he was coerced into giving a...

Fatal police shootings in 2021 set record since The Post began tracking, despite public outcry 9 February 2022 Police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the highest total since The Washington Post began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015 — underscoring the...

Fallibility of facial recognition systems: ID.me Doesn't Have Enough Humans To Backstop Its AI, Allowed A Guy In A Bad Wig To Illegally Obtain $900,000 In Benefits2 0 15 February 2022 ID.me -- the facial recognition company that has managed to snag several lucrative contracts -- has gotten...

Capitol Police Spies ‘Dressed Like Construction Workers’ To Surveil GOP Congressman’s Office 9 February 2022 Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) has lodged a bombshell accusation against the Capitol Police, who he says broke into his office without his knowledge and photographed sensitive documents. Two...

New Virginia Attorney General Fires Entire Conviction Integrity Unit Miyares' office says the conviction integrity unit is being expanded. Time will tell if it will have the independence and resources to succeed. 21 January 2022 Virginia's newly elected Republican attorney general, Jason...

ICE Is So Toxic That The DHS's Investigative Wing Is Asking To Be Completely Separated From It 4 January 2022 The Department of Homeland Security is trying to distance itself from its most toxic asset, the Washington Post reports: Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations say they...