Brett Hankison Is Not the Only Cop Who Acted Recklessly the Night Breonna Taylor Was Killed
The former detective's trial should not obscure the responsibility of the drug warriors who authorized, planned, and executed the deadly raid.
The former detective's trial should not obscure the responsibility of the drug warriors who authorized, planned, and executed the deadly raid.
Ed Mullins, known for combatively defending bad police behavior and the drug war, charged with wire fraud by the Department of Justice.
To "get wanted individuals off the streets," police are stopping drivers without any evidence that they have broken the law.
The Pensacola Police Department has launched an internal investigation into how a 1-year-old boy was injured in police custody following the pre-dawn raid.
Firearm seizures are ineffective, and gun possession arrests are frequently unjust.
Such laws, which allow redundant prosecutions based on defendants' bigoted beliefs, supposedly are authorized by the amendment that banned slavery.
"You'll have a bunch of people who plead to avoid trial or go broke trying to vindicate their rights."
"It's completely changed my belief in fairness," says Amy Sterner Nelson.
Police seized more than $100,000 in cash from a 25-year-old Chicago woman for not correctly describing what her suitcase looked like.
In an age of elite scorn, government mandates, a rotten economy—and powerful, decentralized communication tools—common people are pushing back.
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Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich said Moses would be a free woman—if she hadn't insisted on exercising her constitutional right to trial.
According to a former federal prosecutor, the seemingly redundant case sends "the message that the Justice Department won't tolerate this type of racist hatred."
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Larry Krasner also questions the effectiveness of "supply-side" measures aimed at reducing criminals' access to firearms.
In addition, 201 "sex buyers" were arrested.
Banning "no-knock" search warrants is not enough to prevent lethal confrontations between cops and people exercising the right to armed self-defense.
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Louisiana refused to release Sneed for months, despite a judge ruling several times that the state was breaking the law.
Ever wonder where people get the idea that police are thin-skinned bullies?
The Institute for Justice offers a generally pessimistic appraisal of the situation under state law, but some optimism about prospects in the Supreme Court.
Professors' and think tanks' amicus brief urges Court to grant certiorari
Facial recognition software can secretly surveil and is subject to error.
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San Bernardino County deputies stopped the same armored-car driver twice and took nearly $1.1 million in cash owned by legal marijuana dispensaries.
The sheriff's deputies are also not entitled to qualified immunity because the First Amendment right to offend police has been repeatedly upheld.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats can be trusted to give an honest account of what happened that day.
Civil libertarians have reason to be wary of Judge J. Michelle Childs.
"I almost don't have words for how low it made me feel," says Melissa Henderson.
The 22-year-old man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer during the execution of a no-knock warrant on which he was not named.
A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.
The governor needs to leave his fancy Sacramento-area compound more often to see what's going on throughout the state.
Defense lawyer Amy Phillips is suing over what she calls the department's "watchlist policy."
Someone should tell Pete Buttigieg that local governments use speed cameras more for revenue than for safety.
The actor's overdose death was a tragedy, but overzealous prosecution of the dealers who sold him the drugs will only make the problem worse.
Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing.
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