Bipartisan Congress Put Jeff Sessions in His Place, Shut Down His Expansion of Civil Asset Forfeiture
By Rachel Blevins While it is a rare occasion when the group claiming to represent the will of the American people actually votes accordingly, the…
Police
With iPhone’s New FaceID, Cops Can Unlock Your Phone by Pointing at Your Face—While You’re Cuffed
By Matt Agorist On Tuesday, the world watched as Apple unveiled their tenth-anniversary special edition iPhone, the iPhone X. While iPhone boasts a newer more…
GoFundMe Raises $60K For Hot Dog Vendor After Cops Stole His Earnings
By Dawn Luger (Now $70K – Ed.) Thousands of people have donated tens of thousands of dollars to the hot dog vendor who had his…
35 False Matches and 1 Erroneous Arrest As Police Secretly Test Facial Recognition Technology
By Nicholas West All things biometric are sweeping across the world at warp speed now, from security on planes and trains to check-ins at conferences…
Taser International Exposed Investigating Its Own Non-lethal Weapons Deaths
By Joe Wright The proliferation of non-lethal weapons is predicated largely upon the advertising of weapons makers like Taser International (now Axon) that have repeatedly…
California Supreme Court Rules Against Police Collection of License Plate Data
By Derrick Broze Privacy and civil liberties advocates won a small victory this week as the California Supreme Court ruled that license plate data secretly…
Concerned About Trump’s Militarization of Police? This Database Shows What Your Local Cops Have
By Jay Syrmopoulos This week the Trump administration announced that they were lifting an Obama administration ban on certain military-grade weapons being sold to state…
Trump To Repeal Ban On Selling Military Equipment to Local Police
By Aaron Kesel Trump is preparing to lift a 2015 military weapons ban by his predecessor former President Barack Obama. The order effectively banned armored…
Congress Quietly Passed a Bill Allowing Warrantless Searches of Homes—Only 1% Opposed It
By Rachel Blevins A bill that will allow homes to be searched without a warrant was passed with overwhelming support by the United States Congress,…
Rogue Police Force Operated Illegally At Norfolk Naval Shipyard For 12 Years
By Aaron Kesel For at least 12 years an off-the-books private police force operated at Norfolk, Virginia, Naval Shipyard according to findings by the Naval Sea…
Kinder Morgan Paid $115,000 to Mass. State Police to Stop Protests Against Pipeline
By Derrick Broze New documents reveal the Massachusetts State Police were paid over $100,000 by Kinder Morgan Inc to prevent local activists and representatives of indigenous…
New Law Lets Police Confiscate Guns “Without Due Process” If Someone Reports You
By Rachel Blevins A new law in Oregon could lead to residents having all of their guns confiscated based on a single complaint, raising concerns…
LAPD Still Trying to Launch Police Drones Despite Public Outcry
By Nicholas West The general concern over police spying has been addressed vigorously by the Los Angeles public for many years. As I covered in…
New York Police to Implement “Textalyzer” to Monitor Cellphone Use While Driving
By John Vibes Police in the “Empire State” of New York have reportedly proposed the implementation of a new device that would be able to…