Coming soon to your local sheriff: 18-ton, armor-protected military fighting vehicles with gun turrets and bulletproof glass that were once the U.S. answer to roadside bombs during the Iraq war.
Too many cops today have been conditioned to see the people they serve not as citizens with rights, but as an enemy. My argument is that this battlefield mindset is the product of a generation of politicians telling police that they're at war
Over the weekend, Facebook took down a message by the Special Operations Speaks PAC (SOS) which highlighted the fact that Obama denied backup to the forces being overrun in Benghazi.
An American of Bengali descent says the NYPD paid him to spy on mosques and “bait” Muslims into talking about jihad and terrorism. He agreed facing several misdemeanor arrests for marijuana would result in serious legal consequences..
The 27-year-old coffee barista died after being struck by an NYPD squad car that began chasing him as he swiped paver stones. Now his mom’s being chased anew, hounded by a collection agency hired by the city with a cruel final demand,
Narcotics detectives used a battering ram to knock down a door on the wrong house, frightening a 76-year-old resident. ..... a police officer pointed a gun at her, asked if she had a gun and then if she had drugs. She answered no to both.
A New York police detective shot and killed an unarmed man, whose hands, a witness said, were on the steering wheel of his Honda, after he had been pulled over early Thursday for cutting off two police vehicles on the Grand Central Parkway in Queens,
The fact that a police officer was caught on video sucker punching a woman for no apparent reason wasn’t very surprising. We’ve seen that scene one too many times. But that it only took 3 days for officials to announce they would fire the cop
“Don’t shoot me! Don’t kill me!” screamed a terrified Frances Scott as heavily armed men broke down the door of her home near Malibu, California shortly after midnight. Donald Scott, the 61-year-old homeowner, was startled awake by his wife’s screams
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s decision
The New York Police Department showed an anti-Muslim film “on a continuous loop” for between three months and one year of training at its COBRA (Chemical, Ordinance, Biological, and Radiological) Unit, which provides terrorism awareness training.
A dash cam video shows a cop pepper spraying and choking a man he confronted for jaywalking. Mayor Gerard is “gravely disappointed,” but not by anything in the video. His consternation is over the fact that it was released to the public.
An order from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has revealed the FBI lied to the court about the existence of records requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), taking the position that FOIA allows it to withh
For half an hour, I sat handcuffed with Chapel Hill Herald Reporter Katelyn Ferral, while the Chapel Hill Police aimed their weapons—fingers on the trigger—from the rooftop to the ground. 30 officers—some in fatigues, others in riot helmets. What wer
The digital rights advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) announced Thursday it had discovered violations stemming from the FBI's use of expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.
Documents obtained by the group as the result of pend
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