New App From The ACLU Automatically Preserves Cell Phone Footage, Protects it From Cops
The ACLU in California today released a free smart-phone app that allows people to send cellphone videos of police encounters...
Year: 2015
IRS Used Asset Forfeiture to Steal Business Owner’s Life Savings For no Reason
Lyndon McLellan, a rural North Carolina convenience store owner, woke up one day to discover the IRS had seized every...
FBI Forensics Convicted Innocent Man For 28 Years Claiming Dog Hair Was His
For a while now, thanks in part to the reporting of the Washington Post’s Spencer Hsu, it’s been known that...
Tulsa Co. Sheriff’s Office Makes Changes to Reserve Deputy Program
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office has made changes to its reserve deputy program, which has come under scrutiny since a...
VIDEO: San Francisco BART Cops Slam Drunk Woman Face-First in Concrete Floor For No Reason
Bay Area Rapid Transit police face a lawsuit claiming they used excessive force on a drunken woman last year. The...
Police Union Freaks Out After Baltimore Cops Charged
Gene Ryan, right, President of Fraternal Order of Police Baltimore City Lodge #3, answers questions during a news conference at...
Louisiana Teen Killed by Cops Who Did Not Identify Themselves
Matt Peyronnin talks about the killing of his son and is showing all the bullet holes in his house. Tabatha...
‘If you snitch, your career is done,’ Baltimore Cop Told When He Reported Abuse
Det. Joseph Crystal witnessed a handcuffed drug suspect beaten and his ankle broken by a fellow Baltimore police officer. When...
Grand Jury Recommends Cop be Indicted in 2013 Shooting of Atlanta Young Man
An officer-involved shooting case in DeKalb County from 2013 will now to go a criminal grand jury. In January 2013,...
Eugene Police Criticized by Therapist of Suicidal Veteran They Killed
Eugene police are taking steps to working with people who previously served in the armed forces as the Interagency Deadly...
Criminal Charges Will be Filed Against The Two Cops Who Arrested Freddie Gray
CORRECTION: It appears that all police officers involved are being charged. 11:15 EST UPDATE: City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby says...
Why The FBI’s Encryption Backdoor Plans Will Never Become Reality
The FBI wants backdoors in all your crypto, and UK Prime Minister David Cameron made backdoors an election promise, but...
Texas GOP Lawmaker: Baltimore Violence And Riots Are a Result of Gay Marriage, Not Police Brutality
Republican U.S. House Representative Bill Flores of Texas argued this week that violence in Baltimore could be linked to the...
Relatives of Eric Garner Demand Special Prosecutor to Investigate Police Deaths
The relatives of eight people killed by police called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to order a special prosecutor...
Mother Not Allowed to Visit 15 Year Old Son Shot by Cops
The mother of a 15-year-old boy who police say was pointing a gun at an officer before the officer shot...
Massachusetts Drafts Regulations For Services Like Uber And Lyft
Drivers for Web-based, ride-hailing services in Massachusetts would be subject to criminal background checks by the state and their company...
In Baltimore, Police Thuggery is the Real Violence Problem
An unarmed black person is six times more likely to be killed by police than is a white person who...
Anti-Gay North Dakota Rep Caught Sending Penis Pics to Men
If prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, the world’s second oldest profession must be male politician with an anti-gay voting...
The Supreme Court is Not Sure if Jail Guards Should or Should Not Torture Innocent Inmates
In the eyes of the law, Michael Kingsley was an innocent man. Although he had been arrested in April of...
New Police Tech: Automatic Detection of Passengers in Carpool Lanes
Journalists and transparency activists across the country have done a phenomenal job of shining light on how local law enforcement...
