Post-9/11 US Conflicts Killed Over 4.5M People:
https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/17/post-9-11-us-conflicts-killed-over-4-5-million-people/
DISGUSTED: U.S. proposed conducting joint military planning with Israel on Iran:
https://www.axios.com/2023/05/17/israel-us-military-planning-iran
COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,′ Justice Gorsuch says:
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-justice-covid-emergency-restrictions-85401feb29bea6db2f2ea4ac61cdeff2
National Registry of Exonerations 2022 Report: of the 233 exonerations in 2022, 59% were cases in which no crime occurred
"Official misconduct occurred in at least 195 of the 233 exonerations in 2022. Sixty-three murder cases—78% of murder exonerations in 2022—were marred by official misconduct. Of the 233 exonerations in 2022, 59% were cases in which no crime occurred. These 137 exonerations include wrongful convictions for drug possession, murder, and child sex abuse. In five of the last 10 years, no-crime cases accounted for more than half of the exonerations"
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/NRE%20Annual%20Report%202022.pdf
Junk Science Warning: Shawn Pardazi Texas Cops Love Discredited Science Class
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/shawn-pardazi-evading-honesty/
NYC to Track Residents’ Food Purchases and Place ‘Caps on Meat’ Served by Public Institutions:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/nyc-track-food-purchases-meat-cap-carbon-emissions/
Florida Teacher Investigated For Showing Kids Disney Movie "Strange World"
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/us/florida-teacher-disney-movie-gay/index.html
San Francisco tells woman to remove free library or pay $1,400 after one anonymous complaint:
Rudy Giuliani said he and Trump were selling pardons for $2M apiece:
Abu Zubaydah was ceaselessly beaten, rectal-fed, hung by his hands, slammed into walls and waterboarded 83 times:
https://www.commondreams.org/further/did-they-drill-the-brother-s-head-who-will-be-the-third-one-will-it-be-me
Biden To White America: 'You're All Racist Terrorists!'
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2023/may/15/bizarre-biden-to-white-america-youre-all-racist-terrorists/
Mississippi Sends National Guard to Texas:
https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-governor-mexico-border-national-guard-aff6a8741893ff40a1697eaaadf6e55f
Border Patrol’s Central Processing Center in El Paso is Six Times Over Maximum Capacity:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12083779/Texas-sends-convoy-migrants-Kamala-Harris-DC-home-shelters-state-overflow.html
A 17-year-old died in Florida migrant detention center:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unaccompanied-migrant-child-died-angel-eduardo-maradiaga-espinoza-us-custody-florida/
Judge refuses to toss family’s lawsuit over their 17-year-old sons' sexual abuse at Texas immigration detention center:
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-refuses-to-toss-separated-familys-tort-claim-against-feds/
8-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol custody in Texas:
https://apnews.com/article/border-patrol-child-custody-death-harlingen-2e2b27eeb3da669ee17241b8b3ee9ee2
DOJ and DHS Racial Profiling Guidelines Must Close Loopholes Permitting Bias:
DHS Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees:
Hertz apologizes for demanding Puerto Rican customer prove he is a U.S. citizen and threatened to turn him over to ICE:
'During the encounter with the customer at New Orleans’s Louis Armstrong international airport, the Hertz employee also called over a law enforcement officer who allegedly threatened to turn the man over to immigration authorities."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/15/hertz-apologizes-puerto-rican-customer-new-orleans
Border Industry Peddles Robot Dogs and AI Surveillance Amid End of Title 42:
https://truthout.org/articles/border-industry-peddles-robot-dogs-and-ai-surveillance-amid-end-of-title-42/
House Agriculture Committee’s advances the Beagle Brigade Act:
"The bill will authorize the National Narcotic Detector Dog Training Center, located in Newnan, Georgia. The Center extensively trains detector dogs and their U.S. Customs and Border Protection handlers to sniff out prohibited agricultural items that could carry foreign plant or animal pests and diseases into our country."
https://bishop.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/bishop-ferguson-kildee-smith-applaud-house-ag-committee-approval-of-the
https://nndda.org/
US border plan requires “continuous and systematic” transfers of biometric data:
https://www.statewatch.org/media/3861/eu-council-usa-border-security-partnerships-paper-8307-23.pdf
Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology System (HART) Increment 1
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-obim004-hartincrement1-february2020_0.pdf
HART: DHS is Building a Massive Database of Personal Information
https://www.nilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/HART-factsheet-2021-11-10.pdf
TSA uses facial recognition to ID passengers at 16 airports:
The technology is currently in 16 airports. In addition to Baltimore, it’s being used at Reagan National near Washington, D.C., airports in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Jose, and Gulfport-Biloxi and Jackson in Mississippi. However, it’s not at every TSA checkpoint so not every traveler going through those airports would necessarily experience it.
https://apnews.com/article/facial-recognition-airport-screening-tsa-d8b6397c02afe16602c8d34409d1451f
TSA lets Georgia residents use digital driver’s licenses or state IDs at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport:
https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/releases/2023/05/18/tsa-enables-georgia-residents-use-mobile-drivers-license-or-state-id
TSA Facial Recognition Raises Questions About Bias and Data Security:
California Assembly Passes Extends Temporary Ban on Police Facial Recognition Body Cams:
Police surveillance and facial recognition: Why data privacy is imperative for communities of color:
https://www.brookings.edu/research/police-surveillance-and-facial-recognition-why-data-privacy-is-an-imperative-for-communities-of-color/
Police Facial Recognition Can’t Tell Black People Apart: Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/police-facial-recognition-technology-cant-tell-black-people-apart
Facial recognition used to monitor, evict public housing residents:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/05/16/surveillance-cameras-public-housing/
Critics of biometric surveillance sue Starbucks, as NYC lawmakers press City Hall for answers:
Illinois court says Charlotte Tilbury Beauty who used facial recognition to ID customers cannot justify their $5M lawsuit:
https://webservices.courthousenews.com/sites/Data/AppellateOpinionUploads/2023-12-5--11-13-08-c4a3a149-6c4f-4ca3-9c5c-e0312bfff2bb.pdf
Michigan's Pine Knob music festival to use TendedBar facial recognition to ID customers:
https://www.wxyz.com/news/heres-what-concertgoers-can-expect-at-pine-knob-this-summer
https://tendedbar.com/
NC Energy Mart convenience stores to use Amazon One palm scanners to ID customers:
https://www.cstoredive.com/news/energy-mart-amazon-one-contactless-payments/650000/
Trua Launches TruaID, A Verified Digital ID:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trua-launches-truaid-a-verified-digital-id-that-helps-consumers-keep-personal-information-secure-301820163.html
Thwarting Facial Recognition with James Corbett:
https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/solutionswatch-face:9?src=embed
NIST Revises Guidelines for Protecting Sensitive Biometric Information:
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/05/nist-revises-sp-800-171-guidelines-protecting-sensitive-information
FTC to Enforce Against False Claims of Facial Recognition Accuracy:
The Computer & Communications Industry Association Testifies Against Harmful Nevada Facial Recognition Privacy Bill:
https://ccianet.org/library/ccia-comments-on-nevada-sb-370/
U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr:
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/
Bank of America Voluntarily Gave FBI Access To Jan. 6 Bank Records:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article275541721.html
Bank of America customers furious after data shared with federal investigators (2021)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bank-of-america-customers-upset-data-federal-investigators
Former FBI employees accuse bureau of ‘weaponization’ against conservatives:
OIG: FBI Had ‘Insufficient Justification’ for January 6 Surveillance Searches
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/fisa-query-audit-051023.pdf/view
FBI Audit Reveals 8,000 Unjustified Searches Of Americans' Communications:
https://reclaimthenet.org/insufficient-justification-january-6th-surveillance-searches
FBI Leadership Sabotaged Clinton Foundation Investigation:
Court Rejects FBI’s Attempt To Glomar Its Way Out Of A Trump-Related FOIA Lawsuit:
FOIA Documents Reveal DOJ Use Of Surveillance Technologies (Stingrays, Facial Recognition and DNA Capability Expansion):
https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/explore-this-department-of-justice-treasure-hunt-on-use-of-surveillance-technologies
https://www.protectprivacynow.org/uploads/7/3/3/8/73384497/condensed_summary_of_jmds_finalized_responses_and_productions.pdf
Delaware Bill Would Restrict Geofence Location Tracking and Reverse Keyword Searches:
https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2023/05/delaware-bill-would-restrict-geofence-location-tracking-and-reverse-keyword-searches/
NSO Group Spyware Out of the Shadows: The Need for A New International Regulatory Approach
PEGA Committee Votes on NSO Group Spyware Recommendations:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/pega-committee-votes-spyware-recommendations
The FISA Section 702 Debate Intensifies:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/fisa-section-702-debate-intensifies
Latch to Acquire Ring Founder's Latest Company, Honest Day’s Work:
Court rules 4 year-long brute force phone cracking violated the the Fourth Amendment because the search warrant expired:
"The process is lengthy. A six-digit passcode can be any one of up to 1,000,000 combinations and iPhones contain software that pause guessing attempts after a certain number of incorrect entries. The government represents it is not uncommon for entire racks of phones to be undergoing brute force attacks for years."
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDY65bOH0FelAdfMEEM-glb__54CGYVl/view
https://www.grayshift.com/graykey/
AI tools being used by police who 'do not understand how these technologies work'
(I wouldn't call this a study as much as a police officer opinion poll on AI's like ShotSpotter.)
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/6/3887
U.S. Park Police use tech to share intelligence with police nationwide in real-time:
"Officers now communicate with each other and with other law enforcement agencies in real-time. It enables them to quickly respond to incidents, coordinate resources and share critical information, which can be instrumental in preventing and solving crimes."
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-insights/2023/05/u-s-park-police-sergeant-says-interoperability-makes-us-all-stronger/
AG Investigating Boston Police To Determine If “Gang Unit” Engages In “Unconstitutional Policing”
Las Vegas Law Enforcement Agencies Received $8.4M in Excess Military Equipment:
States With the Most Militarized Police Departments:
https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/05/19/states-with-the-most-militarized-police-departments/
Arrested “Cop City” Journalist Sues Atlanta Police, Alleges Intimidation:
https://truthout.org/articles/detained-cop-city-journalist-sues-atlanta-police-alleges-intimidation/
St. Johns County Sheriff's Office asked residents to register their home security cameras with them and this was the response:
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/connect-st-johns-security-cameras-reaction-to-sjso-facebook-post/77-07d4213d-22b0-4359-bc6d-9d586f345a4d
https://www.facebook.com/StJohnsSheriffOffice/posts/620594816759870/
Anonymous semiconductor company in Texas purchases Knightscope robot:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230517005375/en/
U.S. Coast Guard's Strategic Plan To Create National Drone Program:
"Meeting these challenges will require the Coast Guard to be agile, adaptive, and anticipatory by ensuring the innovative delivery and integration of UxS into operations. We will continue to explore new capabilities including unmanned surface, underwater, ground, air, and space vehicles. Page 22: Surveillance, Detection, Classification, Identification Coast Guard & Partner Data Guidance. A network of unmanned air and surface platforms combined with terrestrial and space-based sensors provide strategic surveillance and wide-area detection over known narcotics and migrant trafficking lanes. These networks allow persistent surveillance, covert detection and identification, and tracking of dark targets with low risk of detection compared to manned assets. Further, they enable near-continuous monitoring of trafficking routes and greatly support partnering with other DHS components to collaborate on trafficking network development and end-game interdiction."
https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DCO%20Documents/2023%20Unmanned%20Systems%20Strategic%20Plan.pdf
Centralia Police use $20K of the American Rescue Plan Act to create drone program:
https://www.chronline.com/stories/city-purchases-drone-system-for-centralia-police-department,319059
El Paso Police Implements Networked Drone ID System:
https://www.ktsm.com/news/city-of-el-paso-to-implement-drone-tracking-system/
The Law Enforcement Drone Associations' Regional Training Event in DC May 23 & 24th:
https://www.ledauas.com/event-details/leda-washington-d-c-regional-training-event
The Law Enforcement Drone Associations' Regional Training Event in Nashville June 20-23rd:
https://www.ledauas.com/event-details/leda-nashville-2023
The Allen County Homeland Security and Emergency Management to purchase DJI30T thermal drones:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/allen-county-gets-drone-emergencies-233100347.html
Trakka Systems Announces Total Mission Solution Package for Pomona Police Department:
Trakka Systems Announces Delivery of Two TrakkaCam TC-375 Long-Range Surveillance Cameras:
"The TrakkaCam TC-375’s EO/IR sensors are augmented with sophisticated image processing to see through environmental conditions like fog, haze, low light, and total darkness."
https://www.trakkasystems.com/trakka-systems-announces-delivery-of-two-trakkacam-tc-375-long-range-surveillance-cameras-for-2excel-aviation/
Zipline expands operations in WA, UT and NY adds new customers in the food, retail and transportation sectors:
Police Violence
Oregon's top administrative judge pleaded guilty to 10 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse:
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/former-top-administrative-judge-gets-prison-time-in-child-pornography-case
Watchdog details ethics breaches of resigning MA prosecutor Rachael Rollins:
https://www.courthousenews.com/watchdog-details-ethics-breaches-of-resigning-federal-prosecutor/
Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling "limits the ability of prosecutors to pursue corruption cases"
Organizations, Law Professors ask Supreme Court to Hear Case of Grandmother Arrested for Criticizing Local Govt Officials:
DOJ Proposal Would Ban FBI Agents From Using Community Crime Statistics In Law Enforcement:
https://dailycaller.com/2023/05/09/doj-proposal-ban-fbi-crime-statistics-law-enforcement/
States with the highest rate of people killed by police:
"In 2022, the number of people shot and killed by police—1,096—reached a record high, as confidence in police reached a 30-year low. Fewer than half of all Americans reported having confidence in the police, according to a Gallup poll, the lowest level since 2020 in the wake of the death of George Floyd. Put another way, the majority of Americans have little or no confidence in law enforcement."
https://www.communityvoiceks.com/2023/05/14/states-with-the-highest-rate-of-people-killed-by-police/
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/police-killings-by-state
Black hospital worker almost shot by police in mass-shooting drill:
"Patients, staff and authorities at the Hawthorn Center psychiatric hospital weren’t told about the active shooting drill, with many placing terrified 911 calls and heavily armed police officers responding to the scene."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michigan-northville-township-mass-shooting-drill-b2342046.html
MA Supreme Court lets police keep informant information a secret:
Shamia Whitfield's attorney requested a Boston Municipal Court judge order the Boston Police Department (BPD) to provide background on the informant's past payments by BPD and information about the court cases in which his information led to arrests, in an attempt, the attorney said, to see just how trustworthy his information was, since the warrant based on his statements lacked any proof of his "reliability, credibility, and veracity."
https://www.universalhub.com/2023/dorchester-gun-case-court-rules-police-can-keep
Agreement with watchdog agency allows Virginia State Police to investigate itself:
“Late last year, with the Virginia State Police under scrutiny after authorities said a former trooper kidnapped a 15-year-old California girl and killed three members of her family. But due at least in part to a previously existing mutual agreement between state police and the watchdog, state police appear to have simply investigated the matter themselves, according to a policy document obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request.”
Tennessee governor signs bill eliminating police community oversight boards:
13-year-old high school student gets $400K after being beaten by Riverside County sheriff's:
Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies ordered to disclose their gang tattoos, reveal others who have them:
As Trial Over Illegal Kansas Trooper Traffic Stops Begins, Highway Patrol Admits It Doesn’t Track Rights Violations By Troopers:
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/17/as-trial-over-illegal-traffic-stops-begins-highway-patrol-admits-it-doesnt-track-rights-violations-by-troopers/
Lawyers dissect Kansas Highway Patrol training materials, 4th Amendment:
https://www.ksnt.com/news/kansas/lawyers-dissect-kansas-highway-patrol-training-materials-4th-amendment/
Deputy who offered to baptize an arrested woman during traffic stop to avoid going to jail will not be charged:
Appeals court essentially allows cops to baptize motorists for traffic infractions!
https://www.courthousenews.com/deputy-cleared-in-traffic-stop-baptism/
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/6th-circuit-police-baptism-opinion.pdf
Is qualified immunity based on scrivener's error?
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/is-qualified-immunity-doctrine-based-on-a-scriveners-error-law-review-article-makes-the-case/
Faith leader, during Police Appreciation Week, says law enforcement are heroes in a 'vocation' given by God:
38 Republicans introduced the Back the Blue Act last week:
“The Back the Blue Act makes sure we honor their daily sacrifices by holding criminals accountable who target law enforcement officers and deter others from going down that path. We should never take law enforcement for granted, and our laws that they help enforce should protect them as much as anyone, Senator James Lankford said.”
https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/lankford-pushes-to-protect-law-enforcement-from-criminals-who-target-them
Bipartisan Invest to Protect Act will increase funding for police departments:
https://gottheimer.house.gov/posts/release-bipartisan-invest-to-protect-act-introduced-in-the-house-to-support-local-police-departments
Former Cop Derek Chauvin Appeals Conviction In George Floyd’s Murder To Minnesota Supreme Court:
Business as usual: Shutdown or not, the police state will continue to flourish
Cops say they're being poisoned by fentanyl. Experts say the risk is 'extremely low'
"This has never happened," said Dr. Ryan Marino, a toxicologist and emergency room physician who studies addiction at Case Western Reserve University. "There has never been an overdose through skin contact or accidentally inhaling fentanyl." "There's never been a toxicologically confirmed case," said Brandon Del Pozo, a former police chief who studies addiction and drug policy at Brown University." The idea of it hanging in the air and getting breathed in is highly highly implausible - it's nearly impossible."
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1175726650/cops-say-theyre-being-poisoned-by-fentanyl-experts-say-the-risk-is-extremely-low
BS Warning: Hospitals create police forces to allegedly stem growing violence against staff
"The biggest thing for us to convey to officers is that they are in the setting where we provide a safe environment, where we care for anyone," Atrium Health Navicent president Delvecchio Finley said. A ProPublica investigation found that Cleveland Clinic's private police force disproportionately charges and cites Black people.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/15/1175889585/hospitals-create-police-forces-to-stem-growing-violence-against-staff
‘They came for blood’: Protesters and witnesses win settlement 7 years after violent clash with Baton Rouge police
https://19thnews.org/2023/05/baton-rouge-police-violence-protesters-witnesses-settlement/?amp
New Orleans kids as young as 13 could have criminal records released in 3 majority-Black parishes:
https://www.nola.com/news/politics/legislature/louisiana-house-votes-to-make-youth-crime-records-public/article_984f43b8-f04b-11ed-962a-db12781c9a91.html
Indianapolis Cop who Stomped On handcuffed Black mans head pleads guilty:
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2023/05/15/impd-officer-who-kicked-handcuffed-man-pleads-guilty-in-federal-court/70218755007/
‘Reckless’ deputy racing fellow deputy to nonemergency killed a Black mom and 2 daughters on Mother’s Day:
Texas police seized a Black man's life savings. Now the state is putting his cash on trial:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/legal-theft-texas-police-seized-mans-life-savings-now-state-putting-cash-trial
Innocent pregnant woman sues Sylvania Township police for $30M after being thrown to the ground during traffic stop:
https://www.13abc.com/2023/05/15/lawsuit-against-sylvania-twp-pd-seeks-30-million-over-excessive-force-claims/
Video shows MA cop shooting man in stolen car; family wants him charged:
"Responding officers had their body-warn cameras off before the shooting occurred. Yasir Fardan’s attorney previously called the absent footage suspicious during a December dangerousness hearing in which a judge deemed Fardan not dangerous."
https://www.masslive.com/springfield/2023/05/video-shows-springfield-officer-shooting-man-in-stolen-car-family-wants-him-charged.html
St. Louis Cop Handcuffed Man So His Brother Could Beat Him:
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/st-louis-police-officer-handcuffed-man-so-his-brother-could-beat-him-40066357
Salt Lake City Suspended Use of Police K9s in 2020 and Nothing Bad Happened:
https://reason.com/2023/05/16/retire-the-paw-patrol/
D.C. police lieutenant charged charged with tipping off Proud Boy leader about arrest:
Billionaire Crow Bankrolled GOP Lawmakers Blocking SCOTUS Ethics Reform:
The Tyranny of Prosecutors (Plea Bargaining):
https://www.cato.org/blog/tyranny-prosecutors
Congress Tries Again To Reform Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuses:
https://reason.com/2023/05/15/congress-tries-again-to-reform-civil-asset-forfeiture-abuses/
DISGUSTED- Chicago police block the release of the inspector general investigation into Courtney Copeland's killing:
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/13/somebody-podcast-update-courtney-copeland-inspector-general/
Walgreens security guard who killed unarmed Black shoplifter will not be charged:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/banko-brown-charges-video-walgreens-shooting-18099516.php
Sheriff To Begin 18-Month Prison Sentence for Civil Rights Violations:
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/clayton-county-sheriff-victor-hill-sentencing-federal-civil-rights-charges
The NYPD Kidnapped a Woman's Dog Because She Filmed Them Stopping & Frisking Black Men:
"Harvey’s owner is joined by 2,746 other humans who have been arrested for filming the NYPD in the last two years alone."
https://hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-took-this-dog-into-custody-because-his-owner-filmed-the-police
Video of NYPD cop pushing father with toddler raises questions about police use-of-force:
https://gothamist.com/news/video-of-nypd-officer-pushing-father-with-toddler-raises-questions-about-police-use-of-force-when-a-child-is-in-harms-way
Brooklyn Couple Suing NYPD for Harrowing ‘No-Knock’ Raid That Resulted in No Charges:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/5/18/23727484/couple-sues-nypd-noknock-raid
NYPD detectives indicted for stealing nearly $3K in booze from VIPs at Electric Zoo music festival:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/ex-nypd-detectives-indicted-for-stealing-3k-in-booze-at-music-fest/
NYPD Has Yet to Review ‘Racist, Misogynistic’ Deputy Inspector’s Cases, Two Years After He Was Fired:
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/5/17/23726343/nypd-eeo-james-kobel-deputy-inspector
Ex-NYPD Cop Candidate Turned Fox News Personality Faced Complaints About Racism, Violence:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-cop-school-board-candidate-angel-maysonet-faced-complaints-about-racism-violence
NYC man’s 232 complaints about police parking abuse around Harlem precinct brought no change:
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-harlem-nypd-precinct-sidewalk-parking-abuse-20230508-kbd6xqbb4zhxtnql7llmycvzym-story.html
NYPD planning to lower punishments for cops on certain charges:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/nypd-planning-to-lower-punishments-for-cops-on-certain-charges/
Federal monitor puts NYPD on notice, giving it 2 weeks it to turn over documents to CCRB:
https://nypost.com/2023/05/18/fed-monitor-puts-nypd-on-notice-telling-it-to-release-docs-to-ccrb/
Police misconduct lawsuits have cost Long Island taxpayers $165M since 2000:
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/investigations/police-misconduct-lawsuit-settlements-nassau-suffolk-nr97gfk1
How New York’s ‘Child Welfare’ System Preys on Families:
https://theappeal.org/acs-new-york-city-administration-for-childrens-services/
NC releases vague tally of police officer ‘Scarlet’ letters issued due to distrust:
"The 2022 reports provide few details. They don’t include officer names, employers or reasons for the distrust. They do note whether officers were disciplined by a state standards and training commission."
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article275331451.html
Thousands of MA police officer disciplinary records could be released next month:
Baton Rouge Cop Arrested for Forcing High School Student Into Bathroom and Raping Her:
Former CT police commissioner found with 150 guns and a stolen illegal silencer in secret room behind bookcase avoids jail:
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/richard-phillips-police-commissioner-guns-18100070.php
BART cop resigns over video of him using slurs during video-game:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/bart-police-officer-resigns-video-18100919.php
Man searches for compensation after cops destroy mobile home:
https://www.14news.com/2023/05/16/man-searches-compensation-after-cops-destroy-property
CT redaction fees for body cam video advances out of committee:
"Individuals who request records created by body cameras worn by police may have to pay for the cost of redaction if a bill recently approved by the Committee on Appropriations becomes law this session."
https://insideinvestigator.org/redaction-fees-for-body-cam-video-advances-out-of-committee/
St. Louis prosecutor seeks to free Black man imprisoned 33 years for murder, citing evidence of innocence:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/st-louis-prosecutor-seeks-free-man-imprisoned-33-99334347
Kansas prosecutors should have known baby wasn’t murdered, died from a heart defect:
https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/melinda-henneberger/article275428756.html
DISGUSTED- Montana's pay for wrongful convictions will end if governor's veto stands:
Dallas police struggle to access physical evidence amid ransomware, impacting trials:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2023/05/19/dallas-police-unable-to-access-physical-evidence-amid-ransomware-attack-impacting-trials/
Private lawyers pocket $63M in Florida's opioid case:
Court: Ohio Opioid Settlement Panel’s Records Must Be Public
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2023/05/15/720830.htm
Walgreens agrees to pay San Francisco nearly $230M to settle opioid lawsuit:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-17/walgreens-san-francisco-settlement
Alabama D.A. Requests $100K in Opioid Settlement Funds for Grand Jury Software: