Law Enforcement

Homeland Security Is Monitoring Activists Building Anti-Flock Tech

From “reason.com” SparrowMap uses volunteer cameras to track the police in the same way police track the public. The government considers it a potential threat. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fusion centers have started monitoring anti-surveillance activists, according to records obtained by Reason. An intelligence report compiled in Massachusetts and redistributed by a Wisconsin fusion

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The New Traffic Stop: How AI Mistakes Can Send You to Jail

From “Car Coach Reports” You received a traffic ticket for a violation you did not commit. Here is how your vehicle data can put you at risk. This is the newest traffic ticket! You can receive a traffic citation for a traffic violation when you were nowhere near the scene. This is the reality for

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The Trump Administration Shut Down a Police Misconduct Database. Now It’s Facing a FOIA Lawsuit

From “reason.com” The White House said the database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement officers was “full of woke, anti-police concepts.” Last year the Trump administration shut down a national database of misconduct by federal law enforcement officers. Now it’s facing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for refusing to release records about that

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The Constitution Can’t Protect You If You Don’t Protect It

This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead at The Rutherford Institution It has been republished with permission from the author. Please contact the author directly for republishing information. “What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the

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Appeals Court Grants Immunity to Texas Cops Who Held Handcuffed Woman Face Down in a Fire Ant Hill

From “reason.com” The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Taylor Rogers didn’t show that it was clearly established that it was excessive force to be held down on a pile of fire ants while handcuffed. A federal appeals court ruled that a Texas woman can’t sue two Santa Fe police officers who pinned her

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It’s Not Just Flock. Police Can’t Be Trusted With Our Data.

From “The Free Thought Project” An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers. A growing movement has been campaigning against surveillance cameras from companies like Flock Safety, which allow local police to gather mass surveillance data, often citing the possibility of misuse of that data. But for years police have

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