Police
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NJ Police Union President Writes His Mayor Five Tickets While on His Side Job
Police union backing police chief the mayor is trying to demote.
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Brickbat: Taking a Bullet
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Justice Dept. Offers Cops Advice on Not Being Jerks Toward Transgender Citizens
Useful training or basic manners?
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NYPD Rejects Transparency, Embraces Secrecy of Officer Discipline Records
After decades of making "Personnel Orders" public, NYPD quietly decides they don't have to.
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Baltimore Police Deploy Surveillance Tech Designed for the Iraq War
Cameras attached to the bottom of a small plane can capture an area of roughly 30 square miles at any given time, transmitting real-time images to the ground.
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Missouri Cop Coerced Drug Treatment Patients Into Becoming Informants, Lawsuit Says
A federal lawsuit accuses a former regional drug task force commander of pressuring patients in drug treatment to become undercover sources.
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Dallas Police Will No Longer Wait 72 Hours After Shootings to Interview Officers
A reform-minded police department makes a sensible policy change to increase accountability and transparency.
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Newark Police Chase 10-Year-Old Boy with Shotguns Drawn, Then Tell His Mother to File a Report
Chasing an armed robbery suspect with dreadlocks, police honed in on a grade-schooler with short, cropped hair.
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A Single Police Officer’s Killing Is a Terrible Reason to Bring Back the Death Penalty
The governor of New Mexico uses emotional response to call for new executions.
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San Antonio Police Union Rejects Reforms Unless They Get Paid More
San Antonio PD has one of the least accountable contracts in the country and were already set for a 14 percent raise.
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Ex Top Cop: We Need a New Model of Policing
L.E.A.P.'s Neill Franklin reacts to Philando Castillo and Anton Sterling shootings, the deaths of Dallas police officers, and #BlackLivesMatter.
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Boston Cops Resist Body Camera Pilot Program; Have to Be Ordered to Participate
Police unions fight any and all efforts at transparency, accountability.
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Brickbat: Active Shooter
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California Asset Forfeiture Reform Heading to Approval
Police will have to get convictions in many cases before taking people’s stuff.
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NYPD Shooting of Unarmed Akai Gurley Will Cost NYC Over $4.5 Million in Settlements
Gurley was killed in a Brooklyn housing project's stairwell by former NYPD Officer Peter Liang.
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Stephen Breyer, Advocate of Pro-Police Judicial Deference, Turns 78 Today
The liberal jurist was born on this day in 1938.
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National Guard Activated But Not Deployed As Milwaukee Protests Continued on Sunday Night
Gov. Scott Walker said the National Guard would be available to aid local law enforcement “on request.”
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Unreasonable Searches Are Unconstitutional—and Common
Justice Dept. report on Baltimore Police shows little respect for the Fourth Amendment.
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New Jersey Bill Would Punish Eating, Drinking While Driving
Laws against texting while driving have been shown to be ineffective. So why is this a good idea?
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Brickbat: I Know You