Cops Seized $8,000 From Her and Never Charged Her With a Crime
After Rochester police took her cash, Cristal Starling found out just how hard it is to challenge civil asset forfeiture in court.
After Rochester police took her cash, Cristal Starling found out just how hard it is to challenge civil asset forfeiture in court.
The previous standard barring such lawsuits made “little sense," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the majority.
"This is gonna be so fun," one officer says.
An Arkansas police officer used trumped-up charges to punish a man who criticized him for violating the Constitution.
The police officers who allegedly framed William Virgil were denied qualified immunity. But they're still trying to delay a trial.
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The officer used a "pain compliance maneuver" to force information from the boy's sister, who was recording the encounter.
Bradley Brock says his dog Moose was walking toward a police officer wagging its tail when the officer gunned his pet down.
Mariah Herefored says police in Hemet, California, smacked cell phone cameras out of her and her mother's hands and violently arrested them.
Cops in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, were searching for a theft suspect on the property who was not there when they arrested William Walls and caused his death.
Patrick Card's story is a case study in how the state uses civil forfeiture to try to coerce plea bargains.
Brett Hankison's acquittal shows how difficult it is to hold cops accountable for abusing their power.
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"You can't treat everyone like a criminal to find the criminals," an outraged driver says. In Jackson, apparently you can.
Reason reported last year on how minors are particularly susceptible to being coerced into false confessions.
The defendants unsuccessfully argued that their training was inadequate and that they understandably deferred to a senior officer.
When cops don't police their own, the results can be deadly.
The former detective's trial should not obscure the responsibility of the drug warriors who authorized, planned, and executed the deadly raid.
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.
"You'll have a bunch of people who plead to avoid trial or go broke trying to vindicate their rights."
Banning "no-knock" search warrants is not enough to prevent lethal confrontations between cops and people exercising the right to armed self-defense.
Ever wonder where people get the idea that police are thin-skinned bullies?
The sheriff's deputies are also not entitled to qualified immunity because the First Amendment right to offend police has been repeatedly upheld.
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.
Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing.
Butts County, Georgia, Sheriff Gary Long cited no evidence to support his pre-Halloween stunt.
"Active bystandership" training encourages officers to stop their colleagues from violating people's rights.
It is almost impossible to hold a rogue federal officer accountable. The Supreme Court may make it even harder.
Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao are charged with federal crimes for failing to stop Derek Chavin from killing Floyd.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's support for qualified immunity is in opposition to the principles he says he stands for.
Brookside officers have been accused of fabricating violations and are being sued.
Iowa officers detect less than one gram of marijuana, 100 yards away, in a closed container in a moving car.
Kelli Goode's civil suit is a case study in how difficult it can be to get state actors to take responsibility when they allegedly infringe on someone's rights.
Cops in Los Angeles killed a young girl in a department store dressing room by accident while firing at a suspect armed with nothing more than a bike lock.
It was the city that put the footage in the public record in the first place.
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