Land of the 'Freeze, put your hands up!'
- King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July!
- Free to Search and Seize--"The Fourth Amendment is weaker than it was 50 years ago, and this should worry everyone. 'Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government,' Justice Robert H. Jackson, the former chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, wrote in 1949. 'Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart.'" NYT
- The Long Con: Anatomy of a Two-Year Undercover Sting and What It Has to Do with Law Enforcement’s Habit of Wasting Large Amounts of Money on Investigating People for Their Social Habits and Political Beliefs
- The American Police State is the 'New Normal'
- Louisiana Supreme Court Allows Vehicle Searches on a Hunch
- People in threatened societies are more conformist
- DOJ: We can force you to decrypt that laptop--Not so fast, says encryption defense attorney Phil Dubois.
Excessive Force
- Man Paralyzed After Police Taser, 10-Foot Fall
- Cops smash window of men who won’t comply at sobriety checkpoint
- Police Confront Broward Judge at Gunpoint
- Dallas Officer Fired, Faces Charge of Official Oppression--His own supervisor was the one who turned him in.
- Another Isolated Incident
Caught on Tape
- Police accountability activists and their supporters celebrate court victory
- Why Citizens MUST Retain the Right to Video Police
- Newark Cop: "I Can Do Whatever the Hell I Want"
- Suspects, witness dispute police version of July 1 arrest in Nashua
- Corrupt Cop abuses his authority
- Expecting Privacy In Public--"Should we ever expect to have a right to privacy when we're in public? I don't think so; cops are public employees."
- "I love the OPD"--Jonathan Swift-worthy.
Retaliatory
- Copwatcher Founder Convicted For Resisting Arrest In Missing Camera Case--"John Kurtz, the Orlando Copwatch founder who was facing six years in prison for battery on a law enforcement officer, was acquitted of that felony charge last week. But he was convicted of resisting arrest without violence – even though the officer testified he was not resisting – proving once again that Florida has an unethical and unconstitutional habit of dishing out resisting arrest convictions without underlying charges to justify the arrest in the first place."
- Rochester police use selective enforcement of parking laws to harass attendees at a meeting in support of Emily Good
- Criminal charges against Emily Good (citizen arrested for videotaping police traffic stop) have been dropped.
