Corey Atchison Freed After Serving 28 Years for a Murder He Didn't Commit
His case reminds us that the misuse of government power is still the biggest threat to liberty.
His case reminds us that the misuse of government power is still the biggest threat to liberty.
"No reasonable officer would engage in such recklessness," complains dissenting judge.
Wednesday marks five years since an officer’s deadly chokehold was captured on video.
Phillip Brailsford was acquitted of murder for a shooting captured on video that subsequently drew national outrage. Now he's getting paid for it.
Reason uncovered body camera footage of the officer lying about a roadside field test for drugs.
Jon Goldsmith was charged with third-degree harassment after calling Deputy Cory Dorsey a "stupid sum bitch" online.
A new report from the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights finds a "shockingly high" number of politically motivated extrajudicial killings.
Two police officers fired 18 bullets into a car even after the driver put his hands in the air.
Media outlets are seeing foot-dragging, destroyed records, and demands for big money for compliance.
The NYPD is 100 percent bias-free, NYPD investigators claim.
Nationally, 66 percent of police departments report seeing declining numbers of applications.
When "almost anyone can be arrested for something," no one is safe.
"There is no situation in which this behavior is ever close to acceptable," said Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego.
A small city in California has been plagued by police shootings, costly civil rights lawsuits, and incidents of excessive force.
It took 39 hours for every child to be reunited with their parents.
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The jail, which saw several deaths, was overseen by former Sheriff David Clarke at the time.
The Trump appointee warns that "little would be left of our First Amendment liberties" if cops could punish people who irk them by finding a legal reason to bust them.
The treatment of Bryan Carmody and Julian Assange reveals widespread confusion about who counts as a journalist and whether it matters.
Child services called because Holly Curry let her kids wait in the car while she bought a muffin.
The operation used its intimate knowledge of NYPD operations to thrive.
Jon Goldsmith called a local deputy a "stupid sum bitch" on Facebook, so the deputy's superior charged Goldsmith with writing a threatening statement.
Matthew Bowen hit a man who crossed the border. Then he sent a text calling him a "human pit maneuver."
Emanuel was a habitual violator of Illinois' public records laws and shielded the police from public scrutiny whenever he could.
For five years, the NYPD, its apologists, and even Mayor Bill de Blasio have absolved cops of their role in Eric Garner's death.
Contradictory responses to a request for autopsy reports illustrate how law enforcement agencies take advantage of a broad exception to the state's public records law.
The physical evidence at the scene seems inconsistent with the story told by the officers who conducted the no-knock drug raid.
Five years later, Daniel Pantaleo faces administrative justice.
Trooper Brian Encinia could see that Bland, whom he stopped for failing to signal a lane change, was holding a cellphone, not a weapon.
Dennis Tuttle and his wife, Rhogena Nicholas, who was shot twice, were pronounced dead shortly after police invaded their home based on a "controlled buy" that never happened.
Thanks to a police union, Officer Darren Cachola has managed to stay on the force job despite a firing, brutality and abuse allegations, and a video of him punching his girlfriend.
The Metropolitan Police Department was in the middle of a legal battle with the family when the warrantless search was conducted.
The local police union promises to defy him.
USA Today launches an important new tool for tracking officers who have been fired for misconduct.
Adam Lowther, a Navy veteran and nuclear deterrence expert, lost his job and spent $300,000 fighting the allegations.
Ashley Foster was jailed and inspected by child protective services for a mistake beyond her control.
The cops were there to break up a fight, not start one.
A new report finds that such arrests are most common in Waco, while resulting injuries are most common in Houston.
The Chattanooga Police Department is at the center of another excessive force lawsuit.
New York cops and the president arbitrarily turn legal products into contraband.