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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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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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