There are just 16 Flock Safety cameras in Thornton. But those electronic eyes, mounted to poles at intersections throughout this city of nearly 150,000, brought out dozens of…
Read more Pushback against Flock cameras comes to Denver suburb — the latest Colorado city to enter debateIn a windowless room at Denver police headquarters on a recent Thursday afternoon, Officer Chris Velarde activated a police drone to investigate a potential car break-in. Officer Chris…
Read more Here’s how Denver police fly drones to 911 calls, triggering fears about privacy and surveillanceAn Alabama construction worker is challenging the Trump administration’s warrantless construction site raids after he says he was arrested and detained by federal immigration agents—twice—despite being a U.S.…
Read more ICE arrested a U.S. citizen—twice—during Alabama construction site raids. Now he’s suing.NA Today, the Supreme Court issued a “shadow docket” ruling staying a district court decision that had enjoined ICE from engaging in racial and ethnic profiling in immigration…
Read more Supreme Court Issues Dubious “Shadow Docket” Ruling Staying Injunction Against Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday backed President Donald Trump’s push to allow immigration enforcement officials to continue what critics describe as “roving patrols” in Southern California that lower courts…
Read more Supreme Court allows Trump to continue ‘roving’ ICE patrols in CaliforniaWhen Alecia Phonesavanh heard her 19-month-old son, Bou Bou, screaming, she thought he was simply frightened by the armed men who had burst into the house in the…
Read more ‘Botched’ Drug Raids Show How Prohibition Invites Senseless ViolenceDuring closing arguments in Gerald Goines’ murder trial on Tuesday, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Keaton Forcht urged jurors to hold the former Houston narcotics officer responsible for…
Read more Jurors weigh murder charges against former Houston drug cop who lied to justify a deadly home invasionIn this week’s The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman contextualize Iran’s retaliatory strike against Israel before bemoaning the recent vote in Congress…
Read more Congress does not come back with a warrantOn a Friday in March 2020, a dozen or so sheriff’s deputies wearing bulletproof vests descended upon Waylon Bailey’s garage at his home in Forest Hill, Louisiana, with…
Read more He was arrested for making a joke on Facebook. A jury just awarded him $205,000 in damages.On a Saturday night in August 2019, Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old massage therapist, was accosted by police officers while walking home from an Aurora, Colorado, convenience store where…
Read more Who killed Elijah McClain? Mixed verdicts reflect a cascade of ultimately fatal mistakes.Last spring, a disabled Wyoming 8-year-old was assaulted by a school resource officer, who pinned the boy facedown on the floor of a school conference room seemingly unprovoked.…
Read more Wyoming cop assaulted a disabled 8-year-old, then deleted the body camera footage, lawsuit claimsLast August, six former Mississippi police officers, including five former employees of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO), admitted to punching, kicking, tasing, torturing, and humiliating two black…
Read more Mississippi sheriff insists he was oblivious to his drug warriors’ long pattern of brutalityA bipartisan collection of privacy-minded lawmakers today announced the introduction of a bill that would reform and restrain the authorities of federal agencies from snooping on American citizens…
Read more Lawmakers propose better privacy protections for Americans before reauthorizing federal snooping powersThanks to a little-known loophole, lower federal courts have regularly written the government a blank check to search homes and seize firearms from lawful gun owners without a…
Read more Supreme Court Needs To Close Loophole That Lets New York Cops Seize Guns Without Warrants
