The case is the latest example of people who say their savings were seized in airports, despite it being perfectly legal to fly domestically with large amounts of cash.
Threatening somebody with prison for refusing a shot is no way to end a pandemic.
Devastating examples of how coercive interrogations can lead to false confessions have led Illinois and Oregon to become the first states to limit when police can lie to suspects.
Ricky Kidd wants accountability.
The most powerful officers are held to the lowest standard of accountability.
Arthur Johnson spent his entire adult life in jail for a murder he says he was coerced to confess to by police.
The men must keep masturbation diaries, wear ankle monitors, and even use penile circumference gauges.
Recycling a government press release is not good journalism.
The sheriff's predictive policing program has caused more problems than it's solved.
In the right circumstances, home detention is cheaper and more effective than prison.
The latest in a long string of allegations that Chicago police terrorized families during botched raids
Kevin Strickland, Christopher Dunn, and Lamar Johnson are still paying for crimes that government officials say they did not commit.
The bill would prohibit charitable organizations from paying bail for anyone who had committed "an offense involving violence" at any time in the past 10 years.
Regulating privacy protections would put the public at greater risk than criminals.
The commission says the legislature should raise the standard of proof and remove the financial incentive that encourages cops and prosecutors to pursue profit instead of public safety.
Yet under qualified immunity, it's incredibly difficult for the public to sue police.
Three of the officers were denied qualified immunity, but accountability is a long way off.
Defense lawyers say they were accused of smuggling drugs to clients based on tests so unreliable they're akin to "witchcraft, phrenology or simply picking a number out of a hat."
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.
Federal espionage laws are used once again to punish a whistleblower.
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube will expand their use of a central database that compiles extremist content for coordinated de-platforming.
"If the police don't want to be filmed or observed, they should get out of the public service field."
Around half a million Americans are stuck at any given time in pretrial detention, often because they can’t afford freedom.
“New York enacted its firearm licensing requirements to criminalize gun ownership by racial and ethnic minorities.”
Every time cops denounce reform efforts it is evidence of a win.
The law enforcement agency has a disturbing record of drumming up the very conspiracies they're investigating.
Canadian County Sheriff's deputies said Thai Nang's cash was drug money. He says he was buying land, and a local news outlet was easily able to find records backing his story up.
Patrons of Abington's Bush River Books & Video were arrested for the crime of "perverted sexual practice."
A new study raises the question of whether law school tenure standards are sufficiently strict.
The CARES Act allowed home release of nonviolent inmates during the pandemic. But after it's over, many will have to go back unless their sentences are commuted.
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.
Such punitive measures do not make society any safer.
Police unions so often protect their own—at the expense of the public.
Some agencies don't even know ways their employees are using facial recognition.
Judge Thapar writes separately to note such requirements remain vulnerable under existing precedent.
