This Mobile App Helps You Fight The U.S. Police State
A small startup that has been around for less than a year has created a free mobile app aimed at...
Police State
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...
Homeland Security Asking Hotel Staff to Report Customers for Too Many Condoms
Screen capture from the film The Lives of Others, based on the lives of citizens monitored by the Stasi in...
Partnership Between Facebook And Cops Could Make Planning Protests Impossible
A partnership between police departments and social media sites discussed at a convention in Philadelphia this week could allow law...
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...
25 Ways That Cops Doing Their Jobs Are Turning us Into a Police State
A woman faces a line of Baltimore police officers in riot gear during protests following the funeral of Freddie Gray...
Fewer Bad Cops? Yes. Good Cops? No
– By Jordan Freshour “Hi, buddy! I’m your friendly neighborhood police officer! Would you like a glass of water?” Recently, I...
Cops Shop For Military-Style Weapons at Urban Shield Expo
The Guardian reports: Thirteen-year old Maria Calvillo bursts into tears as she tells the story of the day in November...
The Baltimore Riot You Didn’t Know About
It was a beautiful mid-April day in Baltimore, Maryland. With Cherry Blossoms blooming and a slight breeze blowing, tensions were...
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...
City of Chicago to Start Offering Payouts For Police Beatings and Torture
The City of Chicago recently announced two proposals to try to contain mass outrage against decades of police torture and...
