This Massachusetts Lawmaker Wants to Throw Folks in Prison for Having Secret Car Compartments
This is your war on drugs...on drugs.
This is your war on drugs...on drugs.
"Hate crimes" suspected to be motivated by racial bias have dropped, but those perceived to be motivated by gender bias nearly doubled.
"If you keep asking for a warrant, we are gonna kill those dogs and call child protective services to pick up your kid."
Would anybody have been held accountable for Laquan McDonald's death if we hadn't seen the shooting?
Germany violently enforces the law by busting into dozens of households to prevent a "climate of fear".
For generations, poor, black residents of Canton, Mississippi have lived under siege from a heavy-handed sheriff's department.
Four plaintiffs say they were pepper sprayed, handcuffed so tight they lost feeling in their fingers, and subjected to "unjustified manual rectal probing."
Asset forfeiture "has led to egregious and well-chronicled abuses."
This win for government transparency appears to have an expiration date.
Tepid asset forfeiture reforms don't include conviction before they can take your valuables.
Seven seconds after Castile told a police officer he had a legal gun, he was shot seven times.
The frantic mother called 911 for help and the police gave her a ticket for suspicion of child abuse by neglect.
In case you needed a good laugh today.
Governor signs bill requiring police to report seizures and making it harder for cops to bypass state rules.
Even the police can't control human-trafficking hysteria anymore, and it could backfire for them.
A batch of frightening new bills take aim at all sorts of civil liberties under the guise of stopping sexual exploitation.
The Detroit Crime Lab, shut down in 2008 for negligence, switched test bullets with autopsy bullets in order to convict Desmond Ricks.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Carpenter v. U.S. next term.
Senators drafting massive combination bill with "Kate's Law" and "Back the Blue" mandatory minimum sentences that are expensive, unneeded.
Naturally, they're portraying it as a success.
The bill was requested by the Department of Justice after federal prosecutors bungled a child exploitation case.
SCOTUS rejects "provocation doctrine," says illegal police search must be viewed separately from subsequent police use of force.
"You either come with me to the control room to change your shirt or we will arrest you."
New laws are under debate, but the practice is more common than you think.
Former Oakland cop Brian Bunton is one of dozens of area police officers who've been implicated in the sexual exploitation of "Celeste Guap."
(And they still didn't catch the culprit.)
That's 332 times as many sex workers arrested in the stings as people indicted on federal charges involving a minor.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo accused of "using law enforcement to do political machinations."
Maria Navarete says police told her "shut up, you have no rights" as they handcuffed and pinned down her and her children.
Stephen Mader didn't shoot a suicidal, gun-wielding man. For that, he says he was fired and called a coward.
Black residents in Mississippi's richest county are "under siege" from unconstitutional checkpoints and warrantless searches, an ACLU lawsuit says.
Most candidates know how to say the right words, but playing up to fears is still popular.
How many Fourth Amendment protections do we forfeit when we use a cell phone?
No cities in the state have been targeted by the Justice Department for noncompliance, but never mind.
The Supreme Court is asked to give the third-party doctrine a second look.
Tamara Loertscher gave birth to a healthy baby boy in 2015. Then she challenged the Wisconsin law that nearly kept them apart.
Man died after seven days without water in Milwaukee County's jail.
"It's like we lack enough empathy to understand the choices of others, and therefore deprive them of agency."