- Eric Holder Says DOJ Will Let Washington, Colorado Marijuana Laws Go Into Effect—Could this be the end of prohibition on pot?
- Police Groups Furiously Protest Eric Holder's Marijuana Policy Announcement—"A broad coalition of law enforcement officers who have spent the past three decades waging an increasingly militarized drug war that has failed to reduce drug use doesn't want to give up the fight."
- Study: Marijuana most widely used illegal drug but most deaths caused by painkiller addictions—Cannabis is schedule 1; Oxycontin, schedule 2.
- Widow who pushed for medical marijuana law not allowed to use it
- Mormon mom wants medical marijuana for her sick son—"'No other options are left' for the 11-year-old, she says."
- Mexico's Vicente Fox pushes marijuana debate to forefront—"Conservative former President Vicente Fox has become an unlikely leading advocate of marijuana legalization. He says his change of heart stems from Mexico's mounting drug violence."
- 'Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie'—"Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen. Now her courageous bestseller, extracted below, is to be published in the UK."
- Mexico Drug War Fast Facts
- NYC Council overturns Bloomberg's veto on 'stop-and-frisk'—Signalling the end of its current form, but the 'nanny mayor' ain't backing down.
- Queens stop-and-frisk subject first to sue NYC for false arrest post-ruling
- Stop-and-frisk casualty: N.Y. judges toss gun conviction, citing no cause to search
- Actor Forest Whitaker gets stopped and frisked leaving Morningside Heights deli
- Detroit To Begin Stop and Frisk
- DEA supplied with access to vast database of AT&T phone records—"Project Hemisphere, which was detailed in slides supplied to the New York Times, included access to phone logs dating back 26 years [NYT]."
- SWAT Cop Says American Neighborhoods Are 'Battlefields,' Claims Cops Face Same Dangers As Soldiers In Afghanistan
- Militarizing America's police forces—Concord NH is "seeking $258,000 from the Department of Homeland Security so they can gird themselves by purchasing a Lenco BearCat G3 armored vehicle."
- Under a New Law, the Police Can Act as Gun Dealers—"A new Texas law will allow the state's law enforcement agencies to bolster their budgets by selling confiscated guns to licensed weapons dealers." Expect more civil forfeitures. NYT
- Property owners livid after feds seize their private land—"It's a valuable, not to mention scenic spot atop a high hill. And he's losing it because of a BP surveillance tower there. [...] It's all part of an effort to tighten up security along the U.S.-Mexico border."
- Lawmakers OK NYPD Watchdog, Overriding Vetoes—Bloomberg claims that this "will put the safety of the city in jeopardy."
- Judge plans to appoint monitor for controversial Arizona sheriff—"A federal judge plans to appoint a monitor to watch over the operations of hardline Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose office had been found by the judge to have racially profiled Latino drivers during the lawman's crackdown on illegal immigration."
- 'Libtard'-hating police chief's suspension extended indefinitely
- Whatcom sheriff's office pays $62,500 for handcuffing deaf man, silencing him
- Homeless Couple Shot By Sheriff Deputies Awarded $4.1 Million
- Officer is indicated on charges of lying about photographer's arrest—"The officer, Michael Ackermann, claimed that Robert Stolarik's camera flash interfered with a girl's arrest last year, but evidence later emerged that no flash had been used." NYT
- Mississippi Sheriff Indicted on 31 Charges
- The Cops Should Always Be on Camera—"As a pilot program in Rialto, California, reveals, when cops film all their interactions with civilians and suspects, complaints against officers go down." Tell that to Bloomberg and his thugs.
- After airliner crash, SF chief bans helmet cams—"A San Francisco Fire Department ban on video cameras now explicitly includes helmet-mounted devices that film emergency scenes." Such as running over and killing an air crash passenger.
- Leland officer suspended for arresting video-recording teen
- Orleans Parish Prison, the most dangerous jail in America
- Federal Judge Approves Force-Feeding California Inmates On Hunger Strike
- What Happened to My Son Should Never Happen Again—13-year-old placed in
protective custodysolitary confinement after getting gang-raped. - A Psychologist's Deceptions About Prison Abuse in California
- Prison design faces judgment—"Critic's Notebook: Amid the proliferation of prisons, debate over their future has exposed the facilities, and details of their architecture, to new scrutiny."
- U.S. intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, document shows—"The U.S. government suspects that individuals with connections to al-Qaeda and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to obtain jobs in the intelligence community, and it reinvestigates thousands of employees a year to reduce the threat that one of its own may be trying to compromise closely held secrets, according to a classified budget document."
- Report Says DNA Test Verified Bin Laden's Identity—"The AP reported in July that the nation's top special operations commander, Adm. William McRaven, had ordered military files about the raid purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they more easily could be shielded from ever being made public."
- Media Outlets Spitting Mad At Obama For Spoiling Their Plans To Cash In On War
- Clash With Syria Could be a Windfall for Tomahawk Missile Maker Raytheon
- Grounded TV Marti plane a monument to the limits of American austerity—"The U.S. pays $6,600 a month for a plane — which used to broadcast TV Marti to Cuba — that doesn’t fly."
- Businessman Gary Bolton jailed over fake bomb detectors
- The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA
- Plaintiffs win round in Oregon no-fly suit
- Anti-war protesters to cop: We don't need a permit we have the constitution
- Federal Official Declares That Anyone Who Speaks Out Against Lie Detector Tests Should Be Criminally Investigated
- Let's Repeal the Fourth Amendment!—"Because we can't have nice things."
- Brazil, Mexico summon U.S. ambassadors over espionage reports
- Why the Latest Snowden Leaks about Pakistan Are Scary
- EFF: An Illustration of How the NSA Misleads the Public Without Technically Lying
- Breaking cryptography: The NSA's crypto "breakthrough"
- Q&A: Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency—"If we don't recognize that this is a truly unique moment in America's constitutional history, our generation's going to regret it forever."
