NYPD Says It Has No Backup of Its Asset Forfeiture Database and No Way to Retrieve It
The database cost $25 million.
The database cost $25 million.
An overdose death leads to an absurd prosecution.
After trying for years to imprison the Kettle Falls Five as drug dealers, prosecutors concede they are patients protected by federal law.
Activists fear secret surveillance. Push for firmly enforced rules instead of bans.
Hear from the real victims of this cruel FBI charade.
What Rosenstein wants would threaten data security. That's hardly responsible.
"They did it for money, and they destroyed a good and honest man."
An increase in ambush deaths feeds a "war on cops" narrative, but the numbers remain small.
After the media revealed the threatening, fraudulent notices, a lawsuit has targeted the practice.
This week's show covers the Iran nuclear deal, threats to the First Amendment, the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and Trump's latest moves on health care.
Sometimes jokes are the only way to bring terrible open secrets to light.
The Krispy Kreme Caper illustrates the limits of drug field tests and the cops who perform them.
Microsoft resisted order for emails on servers in Ireland.
He's been "relieved of duty," but the city won't say whether he's being paid or not.
The witch hunt against Zach Anderson continues
This week has a lot of people wondering "who's the Harvey Weinstein?" of their industry. For sex workers, the answer is all too often a local cop.
Judge says Bay Area cops accused of sex crimes might not have known that Oakland teenager "Celeste Guap" was underage.
Due to lack of information from death certificates, only half are properly recorded.
"We don't have enough space for them," said sheriff.
When elected officials regularly run unopposed, there's no democratic accountability.
The threat comes three years after officials agreed to improve the disastrous lack of healthcare.
The web host can redact user info unless the Justice Department provides evidence of criminal activity.
The case has already produced some fun SCOTUS banter. It could have major consequences for due process and police accountability.
Current owners of newly prohibited devices could go to prison for keeping them.
Body camera footage has consequences.
Civil liberties groups say suspending drivers' licenses for unpaid court fines traps poor people in debt spiral. A federal judge appears to agree.
Is rape culture out of control, or have we entered a new era of "sexual McCarthyism?"
There's a simple way to break the cycle, but it's not easy.
Sexual harassment is a real problem, but this activist documentary about rape on campus missed the mark.
Millions of dollars in grants will go to eight different jurisdictions to keep people away from jail.
BuzzFeed reports federal agencies violating the rules to engage in warrantless domestic snooping of financial information.
How common are bona fide "bias incidents"? We don't know.
A new bill would remove all criminal penalties in the District for buying or selling sex.
The backdoor, warrantless searches won't end, but will see new limits.
Under the guise of getting addicts treatment, courts are ordering people to do dangerous and unremunerated labor in "diversion" factory farms.
A bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced one of the biggest sentencing reform bills in years. Can it pass this time?
Incentives for neighbors to turn on each other. Incentives for police to find reasons to seize people's stuff and keep it.
Seize the drugs. Sell the drugs. Arrest the buyers. Repeat.
Don't believe the hype about the U.N.'s resolution on the death penalty.
In a country with so many crimes, many laws don't require proof citizens knew they were doing wrong.
Cops in New York's 42nd District say they're afraid to do their jobs because they could get in trouble. But they've led the city in complaints for years.