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L.A.'s New Sheriff Rehires Deputy Fired for Alleged Stalking, Abuse
Out with the old cronies. In with the new ones?
Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
Out with the old cronies. In with the new ones?
Compelled use of facial and finger recognition features runs afoul of the Fifth Amendment.
The former Attorney General has made it much for difficult for the DOJ to crack down on police departments accused of civil rights violations.
A new year brings new transparency, and new lawsuits to try to limit it.
Body cam footage shows the officer getting chewed out by his supervisor shortly afterward.
"Must've taken some real investigative prowess to pull this off."
A second cop in South Dakota is keeping his name concealed from the public after a fatal shooting.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office reluctantly turned over footage of shelter employees dragging, slapping, and pushing migrant children.
The officer who cooked up the story adds that he collects "a lot of great (and incredibly raw) intelligence" by reading comment threads.
The Parkland shooting has led to policy changes, controversial court rulings, and even a free speech lawsuit.
Two brothers were arrested at a Giants-49ers game after cursing out and flipping off the Giants players. Now they're suing.
In the absence of evidence, an innocent man was treated like a criminal.
Spoiler alert: It didn't work.
Sen. Tom Cotton pushes a poison pill amendment to a vital criminal justice reform bill.
A Reason investigation of a notorious Texas public records loophole found 81 cases where police hid records of shootings and deaths in custody.
It's up to state lawmakers to defy the will of the unions to change the rules.
According to the officer who took them down, the phone was "evidence."
The ruling extends to secret recordings of police officers.
Jason Brennan argues that there is no moral distinction between civilians and agents of the state, even in the right to resist injustice.
Benjamin Davis III wasn't issued a ticket or citation. But he says police had his car towed anyway.
The deputy said he took issue with the word "fuck" in the song despite using it himself moments earlier.
A Tucson Weekly investigation finds that federal funds to "fight sex trafficking" are actually perpetuating it.
According to a witness, Jazmine Headley got in trouble for sitting on the floor of a government office because there were no seats available.
Does the right to self-defense apply against agents of the state?
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Alex Villanueva openly wants to get rid of constitutional policing advisors and to conceal names of bad deputies from prosecutors.
Meanwhile, the officers involved can't get their stories straight.
Even if he was resisting arrest, this much force seems unnecessary.
The most bigoted tree in Minnesota?
"It's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of these shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart."
The state doesn't track use-of-force incidents, so NJ.com did its own research.
The mayor claims it's a "public safety" issue.
Jessica Ortega repeatedly told deputies that her boyfriend threatened to kill her. She died following their negligence.
Emantic Bradford Jr. may have had a gun. But he didn't deserve to die.
They say it's about due process. Is it really about all that sweet overtime money?
It's harder now for law enforcement officials to conceal what happened in deadly encounters with citizens.
Plus: lawmakers move to allow headscarves on the Hill and private landlords protect from lead better than city Health Department.
Bad policing is costly in more ways than one.
Police, however, still shift away responsibility for killing unarmed, innocent Wichita man.
What did it take? A promise not to make mandatory minimum reductions retroactive.
Sessions was a staunch critic of consent decrees that forced police departments to reform unconstitutional practices.
It's not a cut-and-dried case. But the officer's life doesn't appear to be have been in any danger.