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.
A new law will require a criminal conviction before property can be seized.
The case is yet another instance of law enforcement using hate crime enhancements to punish people for criticizing them.
That's illegal, says a new lawsuit.
Controversy highlights punishing responses to mundane mistakes during post-release monitoring of felons.
The fight over qualified immunity divides "conservative" judges on the 5th Circuit.
"Redress for a federal officer's unconstitutional acts is either extremely limited or wholly nonexistent."
The Court has "failed to justify our enacted policy," he wrote.
The deputy's body camera wasn’t turned on when he fatally shot 17-year-old Hunter Brittain.
Nevertheless, it will at least temporarily stop the federal death penalty.
They're mostly progressives, but their ideas about limiting government power and respecting individual rights sound almost conservative.
Salaythis Melvin's family says they want justice.
We don't have a gridlock problem. We have a spending problem.
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.
It's likely that soon, almost all Americans will be legally able to carry guns.
The bill would limit petty seizures and require more reporting and oversight of no-knock raids.
The officers might receive qualified immunity, however.
Family and friends protest and look for answers.
