Florida Bills Would Hide the Names of Police Officers Who Kill People
The bills would classify police and correctional officers who kill people on the job as crime victims.
The bills would classify police and correctional officers who kill people on the job as crime victims.
Kids were jailed for minor offenses, as detailed in The Kids of Rutherford County podcast.
Since leaving Houston, Art Acevedo has bounced from job to job, continuing a spotty career marred by scandal.
Florida Republicans and police unions insist that toothless civilian oversight boards are still more scrutiny than police deserve.
While not perfect, the move is a step in the right direction for civil liberties.
People who were disenfranchised based on felony convictions face a new obstacle to recovering their voting rights.
The Things Fell Apart host explains how a 1988 quack medical concept inspired George Floyd's death in 2020 and how Plandemic rewrote Star Wars.
Harvey Murphy was wrongfully arrested for robbing a Sunglasses Hut after facial recognition tech identified him as the robber. The 61-year-old says he was brutally sexually assaulted in jail.
It's a frightening reminder of how far the government will go to get their way—and to warn tech companies against platforming speech it doesn't like.
His understanding of effective leadership and policing should repel anyone who cares about civil liberties and the rule of law.
Qualified immunity is a badly flawed doctrine the Supreme Court should abolish. But Trump's demands are much more extreme.
After multiple investigations shed doubt on his conviction, the Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Oklahoma death-row inmate Richard Glossip will get a new trial.
Your Face Belongs to Us documents how facial recognition might threaten our freedom.
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Johnny Jackson had just had surgery for his prostate cancer when three officers arrested him with "brutal force" over his expired vehicle registration.
The former president argues that accountability is the enemy of effectiveness, both for cops and for politicians.
"I have encountered many things," one witness told the grand jury, "but nothing that put fear into me like that."
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the country, but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down.
From bite marks to shaken babies, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences is debunking bad science.
"Responding officers should have immediately recognized the incident as an active shooter situation," the report found.
Police forced 44-year-old Teddy Pittman facedown on the road at gunpoint after mistaking him for a fugitive. When they let him go, they slapped him with a traffic ticket.
In killing Kenneth Eugene Smith by nitrogen hypoxia, the state would be using him as a "test subject," Smith's lawyers argue.
"The First Amendment prevents DeSantis from identifying a reform prosecutor and then suspending him to garner political benefit," U.S. Circuit Judge Jill Pryor wrote.
As one appeals court judge pointed out, Trump's defense could literally let a president get away with murder.
Despite the well-known problems with the kits, they're used in half of the roughly 1.5 million drug arrests in this country every year.
More than 20 people died while in custody of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department last year.
Beware the “Equality Model” of sex work law reform in 2024.
Economic policy commentator Noah Smith compiles evidence that the today's Hispanics are following a similar path to that of Irish-Americans in earlier eras of American history.
"You've got to be able to demonstrate some level of legitimacy" the head of the National Sheriffs' Association says of carrying large amounts of cash.
Police have set bounties on 13 activists, some living in the U.S.
Juries convicted two paramedics and one police officer of criminally negligent homicide but acquitted two other cops.
Two women reported attacks and threats from abusive ex-partners to the police. A lawsuit claimed they were ignored.
Rockstar Games told a U.K. court that it spent $5 million to recover from the hack. Is that worth the rest of a teenager's life?
Big government has been ruinous for millions of people. Charities aren't perfect, but they are much more efficient and effective.
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And there's still time left in 2023, the way things are going lately in New York.