Kansas Cop Tased a 12yo Autistic Boy Who Was Handcuffed, Shackled, and Hogtied
By Matt Agorist Topeka, KS — The facts are not disputed. Jackson County deputy Matthew Honas pulled out his taser and shocked a 12-year-old boy…
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San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors Grants Police More Surveillance Powers
By Matthew Guariglia In a 4-7 vote, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a 15-month pilot program granting the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) more…
Cops Locked a Woman in a Patrol Car Parked on Train Tracks, Left Her There Until a Train Plowed Into Her
By Matt Agorist Weld County, CO — A 20-year-old woman is fighting for her life in the hospital and a Platteville police officer has been…
Arizona Law Tramples People’s Constitutional Right to Record Police
EFF, two Arizona chapters of the National Lawyers Guild, Poder in Action, and Mass Liberation AZ filed a brief in federal court opposing the government’s…
Surveillance State Revealed: A Guided Tour of How Cops Can Browse Your Location Data
By Will Greenberg In Part 1 of our series on Fog Data Science, we saw how when you give some apps permission to view your…
Top-4 Ways the Feds Nationalize and Militarize Local Police
By Michael Boldin While federal agencies have increasingly become a de facto standing army, a number of federal programs have been doing the same with…
Cops Shut Down 8-Year-Old Girl’s Lemonade Stand to Protect Society from Unlicensed Lemonade
By Matt Agorist Alliance, OH — Asa Baker is an 8-year-old girl from Ohio with an overwhelming entrepreneurial spirit. Over the hot summer, rather than…
More on Creepy Ring Cameras Data Collection on Owners, Neighbors, and Giving It to Police; “can record audio from 20 feet away”
By B.N. Frank As of June 2022, Amazon Ring cameras were being used by 2700+ American police departments, sometimes without a warrant or owners’ consent….
Good Samaritans Fined, Threatened with Arrest for Pulling Government Litter Out of a River
By Matt Agorist Fort Stewart, GA — In a world where rational and logical thought prevail, one would think that fishermen pulling a trove of…
Four Dead in South Africa Cost-of-living Protests
By Thomas Lambert Four protesters have reportedly been found dead, with two being shot by police responding to cost-of-living protests in South Africa. Yesterday, South…
NYPD Must Share Thousands of Documents and Emails Related to Facial Recognition Surveillance During 2020 Protests
By B.N. Frank Citizen opposition to the use of facial recognition (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and other costly, often inaccurate, unsafe, and…
Dutch Police Viciously Beat Unarmed Protesters
By The Counter Signal Video has emerged of Dutch police viciously beating a group of protesters defending a farmer mural in Almelo. The incident began…
Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects, Threatening Privacy and Public Health
By Crystal Grant States must craft policies to rein in unbridled police access to newborn blood samples. Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has…
Police Department Adds 13 Teslas to Its Fleet Despite Recalls and Risks (Fires, etc.) Associated with Tesla Vehicles
By B.N. Frank Tesla vehicles have been and continue to be associated with numerous significant safety (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,…