The Militarization of America’s Police: A Brief History
By Brian Miller “Get the weapons of war off our streets!” This may sound familiar, as it’s often heard from those attempting to pass more…
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Truckers Face Years in Prison for Transporting LEGAL Hemp Because of Cops “Just Doing Their Jobs”
By Matt Agorist Because government is the antithesis to freedom, industrial hemp has been banned nationwide since 1937 ostensibly due to the plant’s similarities to…
Cash-Strapped Cities Are Turning Citizens Into Ticket Vigilantes
By MassPrivateI Washington, D.C. plans to join a growing list of cash-strapped cities that turn citizens into ticket vigilantes. According to a Fox5 News article,…
San Francisco Takes a Historic Step Forward in the Fight for Privacy — First to Ban Gov’t Facial Recognition Tech
By Nathan Sheard The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted today by 8-to-1 to make San Francisco the first major city in the United States…
Police Use LexisNexis Facial Recognition To Identify Your Family And Friends
By MassPrivateI What is it going to take for Americans to realize that law enforcement has become an extension of Big Brother? All across the…
In the Land of the Free, Cops Raid a Journalist’s Home, Kidnap Him After He Refused to Name Source
By Matt Agorist In the land of the free, journalists are now being raided by SWAT teams in an effort to find out their sources;…
Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State
By John W. Whitehead “The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been…
Facial Recognition Tech Tested By UK Police Was Wrong 96% Of The Time According To Big Brother Watch
By Aaron Kesel Facial recognition is highly flawed. Activist Post has consistently reported numerous studies finding that the technology’s accuracy isn’t all it’s marketed to…
Offended By What Someone Said? Now You Can Report Them To Law Enforcement
By MassPrivateI Soon free speech will be a thing of the past in paranoid America. DIGIT Lab’s “Hate Incident Reporting” app promises to turn complete strangers into…
Man Arrested, Facing a Year in Prison for Telling Police They are “Pissing on the Constitution”
By Matt Agorist WASHINGTON, D.C. — (TRI) Warning that the government must not be given the power to criminalize speech it deems distasteful or annoying,…
They’re Tracking Your Face And Beating Your Weak
By Jeremiah Harding If you want grandmas and children thrown around by cops, the further advancement of the AI biometric surveillance state, the latest US…
Google Tracks Your Location and Shares It With Police, Even When Your Phone is Off
By Derrick Broze Even if you disable GPS, deactivate phone location tracking, and turn off your phone, it’s still possible for Google and the NSA…
Local Police Receive DHS Grant for Drones to Use in Crime Search and Crowd Control
By Nicholas West Police departments around the U.S. continue doing their best to acquire drones for a range of uses. This move is buoyed by…
Taxpayers Hit for $270k After Cops Beat, Kidnap 4’11” Grandma for Refusing Warrantless Search
By Matt Agorist Allentown, PA — Thanks to police officers who chose to violate rights instead of uphold them, taxpayers in Allentown, Pennsylvania will shell…