Miami Police Used Clearview AI Facial Recognition in Arrest of Homeless Man
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the country, but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down.
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the country, but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down.
From bite marks to shaken babies, the Center for Integrity in Forensic Sciences is debunking bad science.
"Responding officers should have immediately recognized the incident as an active shooter situation," the report found.
Police forced 44-year-old Teddy Pittman facedown on the road at gunpoint after mistaking him for a fugitive. When they let him go, they slapped him with a traffic ticket.
Despite the well-known problems with the kits, they're used in half of the roughly 1.5 million drug arrests in this country every year.
"You've got to be able to demonstrate some level of legitimacy" the head of the National Sheriffs' Association says of carrying large amounts of cash.
Police have set bounties on 13 activists, some living in the U.S.
Two women reported attacks and threats from abusive ex-partners to the police. A lawsuit claimed they were ignored.
And there's still time left in 2023, the way things are going lately in New York.
Police officers already are routinely indemnified, and suing them for abuse is much harder than Trump claims.
Law enforcement officials appear to have tarred ad hoc bands of protesters as members of an organized criminal movement.
His mom is rejecting the prosecutors' absurdly strict probation rules.
An error-prone investigation in search of a fugitive led police to Amy Hadley's house.
S.B. 4 will let officers arrest people well beyond the border. It also “provides civil immunity and indemnification” for state officials who get sued for enforcing it.
FIRE and the ACLU of Vermont are now representing the man in a free speech lawsuit.
In 2020, Harris Elias was arrested for driving drunk even though tests showed he was completely sober. After filing a lawsuit, he's getting a hefty settlement payout.
Three major pharmacy chains admitted to encouraging staff to hand prescription records over to law enforcement without a warrant, and without a legal review.
Andrew Mitchell, who was acquitted on state murder charges in April, plead guilty this month to abducting and detaining two sex worker victims.
An NBC investigation revealed how Jackson, Mississippi, police keep burying people in pauper's graves after failing to inform their families about their deaths.
Law enforcement amicus brief against Colorado magazine ban.
The trial of the first of 61 defendants starts today, but the judge has seemingly forbidden any of the defendants or their attorneys from discussing the case.
A report from New Jersey's comptroller criticizes Street Cop Training for encouraging illegal traffic stops.
The Alabama State Bureau of Investigation is now looking into the incident as well.
Only 536 people live in this Ohio town that issues 1,800 speeding tickets per month.
A new lawsuit alleges that Deputy Benjamin Jacquot, a school resource officer, slammed an 8-year-old's face into a conference room floor, causing bruises and lacerations.
"Marsy's Law guarantees to no victim—police officer or otherwise—the categorical right to withhold his or her name from disclosure," the Florida Supreme Court ruled.
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The regulation is part of a suite of new restrictions on hotels sought by the local hotel workers union.
From March 2021 to July 2023, 74 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured in vehicle chases occurring in counties affected by Operation Lone Star.
Officers barged into their house without a warrant, shot their dog, and mocked them, a federal civil rights lawsuit says.
NYPD radio frequencies have been open to the public since 1932. A new encrypted system will end that.
Wayne County was seizing cars and using its less-fortunate residents as piggy banks.