Mobile Startup Creates Censorship-Proof App to Help Activists And Crime Fighters
Update: Since the publication of this article, Facebook removed and blocked Cell 411 from allowing users to post live video...
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License Plate Readers Are Turning Police Into Mobile Debt Collectors And Data Miners
Vigilant Solutions, one of the country’s largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology, is offering a hell of a deal to...
The Case For Disarming America’s Police Force
“Black people have been killed by the police at a tragically disproportionate rate, beyond the bounds of anything that would...
Police Shootings Hit Decade High
Protesters demand police accountability during a march on Chicago Police headquarters on Sept. 16, 1999. (In March 1999, The Chicago...
After Years of Covering For Cops, Chicago Mayor Promises Reform
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, known for keeping vise-like control over Chicago and his own political image, finds himself in the weakest...
South Park’s Newest Episode to Take on Police Brutality and ‘Trigger-Happy’ Cops
South Park is continuing to up the ante on their take of PC culture this season, for their upcoming episode...
How Tampa Cops Are Incentivized to Arrest, Abuse and Ticket People
You may not know it, but your odds of getting in trouble skyrocket in Tampa. No valid license? You’re twice...
Video of Austin Jaywalking Arrest Fuels Accusations of Police Brutality
AUSTIN — A case of jaywalking turns nasty as Austin PD tackles a San Antonio man, punching and kicking him...
Denver Police Union Sues City Over Body Camera Policy
Denver’s largest police union is filing a lawsuit against the city for its new body camera policy, saying that it...
Jamie Foxx Defends Quentin Tarantino From Police Attacks
The Guarding writes: Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx has encouraged his friend Quentin Tarantino to “keep telling the truth” about...
Public School Students Are The New Inmates in The American Police State
Green Bay Police Officer Matt Secor stands guard outside Washington Middle School, Nov. 19, 2009. “Every day in communities across...
Drunk Cop’s Accident Defense: ‘Strippers Drugged Me!’
It’s the “Strippers drugged me!” defense. The Linden, NJ, cop who drove head-on into a tractor trailer on the West...
Deaf Woman Wins $750,000 After NYPD Abuse
A deaf woman who said she was wrongly arrested by cops who ignored her disability settled her case for $750,000...
The Myth of Police Reluctance
FBI Director James Comey seems to believe that a recent uptick in violent street crime plaguing several major U.S. cities...
Body-Slamming Deputy to be Fired
South Carolina authorities will announce Wednesday that Richland County Senior Deputy Ben Fields, the school resource officer who was caught...
Minnesota Cops Claim Drinking Coffee While Driving is Illegal
A St. Paul woman is dumbfounded after getting pulled over for doing something everyone who drives a car has done —...
Blacks, Hispanics Account For Nearly Two-Thirds Of Cop’s Cash Seizures
As the legality of civil asset forfeiture continues to be debated and authorities wrestle with the possible civil rights violations,...
Cops Are Asking Ancestry.com And 23andMe For Customers’ DNA
When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical diagnostic...
Baltimore Police Pays Woman $95,000 For “Rough Ride”
In a case with eerie parallels to Freddie Gray’s alleged mistreatment by Baltimore police, a Hampden woman who said she...
Use-Of-Force Report Finds NYPD Completely Uninterested In Policing Itself
The NYPD’s Inspector General has just released a report on the department’s use of force and there’s nothing in it...
