Law Enforcement

Cops Used AI Surveillance To Detain an Innocent Texas Driver. His Lawsuit Just Got the Program Struck Down.

From “reason.com” AI-powered license plate readers flagged an abnormal driving pattern. Then officers made up reasons to pull him over and interrogated him, and they faked a K-9 alert to justify a nonconsensual search.A federal jury on Monday found Bexar County, Texas, liable for systematically violating thousands of Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights for years through

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First Them, Then Us: America’s Shift from Police State to Prison State

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. “If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich America, you got fooled. Again. For starters, the war on illegal immigration was never just

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We Had First Flock, Yes, But What About Second Flock?

From “The Libertarian Institute” The 1998 action thriller Enemy of the State (RIP Gene Hackman) imagined a world in which government surveillance could follow an ordinary citizen almost anywhere, drawing on cameras, communications data, and increasingly sophisticated technology to monitor his movements. What once played as an exaggerated warning about the surveillance state now looks

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The 5th Circuit Rejects Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Searched a Driver After a Bogus Traffic Stop

From “reason.com” “It is clearly established that an officer cannot pull someone over without reasonable suspicion and thereafter concoct a fabricated traffic violation,” the appeals court says.Around 5 p.m. on a Wednesday in June 2022, Mario Rosales was driving his red Mustang on Jackson Street in Alexandria, Louisiana, waiting to turn left onto Dorchester Drive, when

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Police in Texas Totaled an Innocent Woman’s Car. Why Did Houston Deny Her Claim for Compensation?

From “reason.com” Law enforcement shot bystander Abigail Trujillo’s vehicle dozens of times. Her struggle to get help is part of a larger pattern.In July, police in Houston fired dozens of shots into a local woman’s car, totaling the vehicle. The city said it owed her $0. That might make sense had Abigail Trujillo, a student

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