California City Pays $300,000 to Marine Veteran Tackled for Filming a Cop From His Porch
The city of Vallejo, California, has paid millions in recent years to settle excessive force lawsuits against its heavy-handed police force.
The city of Vallejo, California, has paid millions in recent years to settle excessive force lawsuits against its heavy-handed police force.
Bradley Bass is facing 12 years in prison, despite the fact that he was doing his job as a school administrator.
The San Francisco Police Department assured the public it had "no plans to arm robots with guns." But assurances aren't guarantees.
The New York Civil Liberties Union is fighting about a dozen different lawsuits against stonewalling police departments.
A precedent set in the January 6 prosecutions could be dangerous to the public.
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“You're cracking, you just drank too much,” said one officer as Randy Cox cried that his neck was broken.
The cop who killed Shaver was fired. But he will receive a disability pension for the rest of his life because he claims he has post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Alex Villanueva was ousted after a single combative, troubled term. Voters also approved giving county leaders the power to remove future sheriffs.
City officials in Nederland, Texas, are kicking around the idea of limiting new massage parlors to industrial areas of town.
After Eric Parsa's death at the hands of Louisiana police, officers received approval for search warrants of the teenager's "incidents of violence or documented behavioral reports" at school.
The two sheriff's deputies have been disciplined, and the sheriff called the arrest "unacceptable."
In 2020, police severely injured Karen Garner when they arrested her for petty theft. While two officers faced time behind bars for the incident, a newly released report makes even more misconduct public.
Priscilla Villarreal found herself in a jail cell for publishing two routine stories. A federal court still can't decide what to do about that.
A federal judge denied qualified immunity for officers accused of making up charges to get money from fines.
News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.
Norma Thornton of Bullhead City, Arizona, is suing for the right to help people in need.
The unsubstantiated threat that strangers with cannabis candy allegedly pose to trick-or-treaters is an urban legend that never dies.
Once again, policies billed as helping people coerced into prostitution wind up harming those that cops say they're trying to help.
Out of 37 officers who were terminated and later reinstated, 17 had committed acts deemed a "threat to safety."
Fearmongering about mass school shootings leads to some dumb, privacy-threatening ideas.
A highway engineer got qualified immunity for detaining drivers—despite not being a cop.
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Too much government authority lends itself to swatting-style abuse.
He's fully licensed, but not in the right state.
The lawsuit contends that after passengers are screened at federally mandated security checkpoints, Clayton County police search them again before they can board their flight.
Sierra Pettengill's documentary focuses on the fake towns, built by the Army in the 1960s, to train law enforcement.
An officer used an anonymous account to lash out at police protesters (and a Reason post). He was uncovered and fired.
The Kansas credentialing body reprimanded the officer for using excessive force against a child, but stopped short of pulling his license.
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