'The Best Chief in America,' Newly Hired To Run Miami's Police Department, Presided Over Deadly Corruption in Houston
Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation.
Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation.
Databases of involuntarily supplied identities make for a plug-and-play surveillance state.
A federal judge protests the Supreme Court’s “rights-without-remedies” Bivens doctrine.
The Supreme Court delivers another blow to a victim of egregious police abuse.
"I've lost everything," says Vicki Baker.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denied qualified immunity to the officers involved in Patterson v. United States.
The Ending Qualified Immunity Act of 2021 would no longer let state actors violate your rights without consequence.
Angelo Quinto's family has filed a wrongful death claim.
Strategic politicking, police union influence, or both?
Civil forfeiture reform failed last year. But now more legislators are on board.
The justice weighs in during oral arguments in Lange v. California.
The agency also missed an FBI bulletin citing "specific calls for violence."
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Vague laws are typically vague for a reason.
The ruling denies relief under a state constitutional provision requiring compensation for "taking" or "damaging" of private property by the government. Many other states have similar provisions.
It's a vivid example of why people are demanding alternatives to police responses.
The appeals court concluded that the officers' use of force was reasonable in the circumstances.
A new study provides further evidence that property seizures are driven by financial motives rather than public safety concerns.
A misdemeanor marijuana charge leads to an attempt to take $17,000.
The unfolding legal saga of City of Hayward v. Stoddard-Nunez
Either these police really love playing Sublime at the office, or they came up with a creative way to discourage video streaming of police conduct.
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"Bad actors will be identified, and the Tampa Police Department will handle it."
Fourth Amendment advocates prevail in Wingate v. Fulford.
The state used civil asset forfeiture to seize Tyson Timbs' car in 2013. His nightmare hasn't ended.
A new case tests the limits of the “community caretaking exception” to the Fourth Amendment.
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It’s a comfortable throwback to 1990s crime films. Too comfortable.
Public-sector unions often protect the government at the expense of the people.
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The United Kingdom has instituted one of the most rigorous lockdowns in the world.
Meanwhile, he’s still trying to downplay corruption within his own force.
Objections to police reform are often more rooted in partisan knee-jerk reactions than in sensible policymaking.
Unfortunately, qualified immunity remains intact.
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