Since lacking licenses can lead to lacking the ability to work (and pay fines), offenses like parking tickets or failing to come to a complete halt at stop signs can upend lives unjustly.
The law's "vagueness permits those in power to weaponize its enforcement against any group who wishes to express any message that the government disapproves of," Judge Mark Eaton Walker warns.
A precedent allowing federal officers to be held civilly liable for constitutional rights violations has come under fire.
Judge said she has concerns that the government crossed the line several times.
The defendants are not on trial for child sex trafficking, yet prosecutor Reggie Jones wouldn't stop talking about it.
Five men face "trafficking a person for sexual servitude" charges after meeting an undercover cop at a hotel.
Ricky Kidd wants accountability.
The sheriff's predictive policing program has caused more problems than it's solved.
Regulating privacy protections would put the public at greater risk than criminals.
Reason has joined a new legal effort seeking to force the government to unseal warrants justifying the FBI's seizure of more than 600 safe deposit boxes.
Every time cops denounce reform efforts it is evidence of a win.
Want to fight your ticket? Welcome to mayor’s court, where your accuser is also your judge.
Ripped for use of excessive force, the Springfield, Massachusetts, Narcotics Bureau is becoming a Firearms Investigation Unit.
Some agencies don't even know ways their employees are using facial recognition.
The deputy's body camera wasn’t turned on when he fatally shot 17-year-old Hunter Brittain.
Civil liberties advocates call for a moratorium on federal facial recognition.
The only thing FOSTA has done is chill speech and make catching sex traffickers more difficult.
Family and friends protest and look for answers.
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With panic in the air, federal law enforcement seized the moment.
Realtors, contractors, and insurance agents who engage in bad behavior can be stripped of their licenses. Police officers, on the other hand, rarely get fired.
Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.
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Arkansas cops love this insane practice they call "precision immobilization technique"—slamming into moving vehicles, sometimes over simple traffic stops.
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People have only official assurances that the technology isn’t being used to invade their privacy.
The penalty for employing 18- to 20-year-olds to work nude, topless, or "in a sexually oriented commercial activity" is now 2 to 20 years in prison.
Umbrellas, black clothing, and chanting "all cops are bastards" signal criminal street gang membership, prosecutors said.
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Portland police are calling it "human trafficking," but it was just an old-fashioned vice bust.
Even government officials can occasionally admit the need for limits to their thievery.
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The Nordic Model comes to Manhattan.
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Over the objections of Gov. Larry Hogan, the state’s Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights is tossed out.
The surveillance state is available as a plug-and-play solution for any cop interested in a free trial period.
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The pandemic pushed Americans to consider police reform while other countries moved to unleash their cops.
The suspect, 25-year-old Noah Green, is reportedly connected to the Nation of Islam.
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Not all sexual misdeeds are sex trafficking.
“I think if Chauvin’s acquitted, we’re fucked,” says one local cop.
Predictive policing lets authorities add a science-y gloss to hammering people who rub them the wrong way.
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