- NYPD Unveils Crime- And Terror-Fighting 'Domain Awareness System'
- No place in Berkeley for police armored car
- It's legal: cops seize cell phone, impersonate owner
- Something is Happening in Anaheim: Why the Media Blackout?
- Australia: Right to remain silent at risk under O'Farrell's legal crackdown--"The foundations of criminal justice - the right to remain silent and the presumption of innocence - are under threat in NSW from proposed new laws, legal experts have warned."
- Judge awards $1 million in brutality lawsuit against troopers--"New York state must pay a Syracuse area man more than $1 million because a state trooper assaulted him without justification during a traffic stop 11 years ago...."
- In Police-Stop Data, Pockets Where Force Is Used More Often NYT
- Police used 'unsuitable force' on mentally ill man Sean Rigg who died in custody, jury finds
- LAPD commander removed in probe of rough arrest--There's an investigation "into a videotaped beating in which officers tackled a handcuffed registered nurse to the ground...."
- St. Paul: Arrested man says cop kicked him as he choked on Mace
- How Did 21-Year-Old Chavis Carter Get Shot In The Head While Handcuffed In A Police Car?
- Toronto police sued for $1.4M over G20 'hairy legs' profiling
- Mirkarimi engaged in misconduct--"The San Francisco Ethics Commission set the stage for suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's potential removal from office when it voted 4-1 Thursday to find he engaged in official misconduct stemming from a Dec. 31 argument where he bruised his wife's arm."
- Drunken driving case involving U.P. police official dismissed--"[T]he judge decided that a test of Smith's blood-alcohol level couldn't be used as evidence...."
- Brothers Upset After Off-Duty Officer Pepper-Sprays Their Pit Bull--"Pretty much he said that if he feels threatened, he can do whatever he wants to protect himself."
- Empire State Building shooting victim says NYPD fired 'randomly' into street--A former NYPD officer spins the story, claims that they exhibited a "model of restraint."
- Times Photographer Is Arrested on Assignment--"Mr. Stolarik said he asked for the officers' badge numbers, and the officers then took his cameras and dragged him to the ground; he said that he was kicked in the back and that he received scrapes and bruises to his arms, legs and face." NYT
- Kidnapping victim found tied up in NYPD detective's garage, sources say
- Harlem teen says she was cuffed, held in MetroCard flap--"Cops detained her for 90 minutes after wrongly believing she had misused a student transit pass."
- Judge Thomas Raffaele's Alleged NYPD Attacker Won't Face Criminal Charges
- Photographing Police: What Happens When the Police Think Your Phone Holds Evidence of a Crime?
- DC police chief announces shockingly reasonable cell camera policy--Unfortunately this policy didn't seem to last too long.
- Blast from the Past: False Rape Allegation Thwarted By Police Camera--The recordings work both ways by protecting the innocent policemen.
- The Secret History of Guns--"In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there's no resolution in sight."
- Welcome to Hell: Philadelphia Has a Serious Case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder--"As a result of our gun crisis, tens of thousands of Philadelphians mights be suffering the same psychological trauma as people in Afghanistan and Rwanda. In a world like that, do two young boys stand a chance?"
- Gun Control? Dream On.
- Publican adamant; No protection money--"Jane Birgitte Pedersen, who owns the Café Viking in Copenhagen said 'No!' last week to demands from a local gang to pay protection money for running a business on 'their patch'."
- Defendant in Texas rape case vanishes during trial
- Court Says Impersonating a Cop to Beat Traffic Tickets Is Not Protected Speech
- $60k damages awarded against blogger who reported truth
- All lies? Scientists threatened with legal action over lie detector article
- False confessions: Silence is golden--"People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done.
- 'Legally innocent' inmates ordered freed in N.C.--Some of these were in legal limbo, and to make things worse, "lawyers had urged courts to keep them in prison even though they conceded that they had not committed a federal crime."
- Texas Man Freed After DNA Clears Him Of 1988 Rape--"A man who spent more than two decades behind bars was freed Friday after DNA evidence cleared him in the rape of a 14-year-old Fort Worth girl."
- Allentown man imprisoned after being mistaken for illegal immigrant gets $25,000 court settlement
