New York City Brings Back Dystopian Robot Police Dogs
'Digidog is out of the pound," New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared, not ominously.
'Digidog is out of the pound," New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared, not ominously.
Robert Delgado's family is now seeking damages.
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"KCPD has continuously and repeatedly advised Plaintiff and his fellow officers that if they did not fulfill a 'ticket quota' then they would be kicked out of the unit," the complaint states.
Lakeith Smith's case epitomizes the issues with the "felony murder" doctrine.
A 9-year-old backed out of a deal to sell her pet goat for slaughter. Local officials and sheriff's deputies used the power of the state to force her to go through with it.
"Defendant Huber intentionally fired his service weapon at Decedent and killed him with gunfire while Decedent posed no threat of death or serious bodily harm to Defendant Huber," the lawsuit states.
Police detectives accused Jerry Johnson of being a drug trafficker and seized cash he says he intended to use to buy a semitruck at auction. He was never charged with a crime.
One officer was fired and another was placed on restricted duty this week, but there are still a lot of unanswered questions.
Seven sheriff's deputies say the rapper subjected them to "embarrassment, ridicule, emotional distress, humiliation, and loss of reputation" after a drug bust on his house came up empty.
James King is once again asking the high court to rule that two officers should not receive immunity for choking him unconscious and temporarily disfiguring his face.
A new Netflix documentary shows how the seeds of political polarization that roil our culture today were planted at Waco.
An important and compelling new book on qualified immunity and other obstacles to holding law enforcement officers accountable for rights violations.
"What I saw today was heartbreaking," said the victim's mother. "It was disturbing, it was traumatic. My son was tortured."
"Then my baby started crying so I reached for my son, and as I'm reaching, a man held me and told me, 'Don't touch him. He's getting taken away from you,'" said the children's mother.
The former head of the NYPD and the LAPD talks about how bad leadership creates police brutality and why he's still against pot legalization.
Conservatives have been slow to recognize the threat that drug prohibition poses to gun rights and other civil liberties.
"I hurt every day," said the victim's mother. "I cry all day, every day."
Police dogs seriously injured 186 people within the last two years—more than batons or tasers did, according to the ACLU.
Criticism of public officials doesn't have to be polite, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court confirmed.
He did "what any dad would—he went to hug his crying kid," says former town councilman Keith Kaplan.
Yes, even children should have access to an attorney.
The two-year investigation, launched after the police killing of Breonna Taylor, concluded that Louisville police routinely used invalid search warrants and failed to knock and announce their presence.
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Amit Katwala’s Tremors in the Blood explores how unreliable technologies have been used in our criminal justice system.
Convincing law enforcement officers that those who do wrong will suffer consequences is by far the most powerful tool for changing police behavior in the long run.
Michael Friend was arrested in 2018 for holding a sign that read "Cops Ahead" near a police checkpoint. That arrest violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights, a federal appeals court has ruled.
"The Officers' actions were unreasonable, deliberately indifferent, reckless, willful, wanton, and shocking to the conscience," a new legal complaint states.
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
Police have not yet determined whether the suspect was armed at the time of the shooting.
Richard Ward's family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Pueblo County and five sheriff's office officials over a shooting incident that left him dead.
Tony Mitchell's death was a "direct and proximate result" of jail officers' "deliberate indifference or malice, and of their ongoing denial of Tony's constitutional rights under a scheme that continued to operate after his death," his family's suit states.
Let's start by doing away with the idea that officers are engaged in a war for our streets rather than involved in a civilian operation that requires community support and trust.
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Montgomery doesn’t want people to see a police dog maul a man to death out of fear of the response.
Tiffany Lindsay says officers never contacted her to let her know they shot her dog. Instead, a neighbor found it in their trash can.
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that he wants to hold police "accountable." But he neglected to mention the elephant in the room.
According to the suit, the officer "acted with malice or in reckless disregard of Jane Doe's federally protected rights."
Now a judge has cleared him of wrongdoing and struck down the rule used to justify the arrest.