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From the Philadelphia Daily News : ON A SWELTERING July afternoon in 2007, Officer Jeffrey Cujdik and his narcotics squad members raided an ...

Radley Balko, guest-blogging at Dispatches from the Culture Wars , describes three police officers, asking whether each has engaged in egreg...

The cases continue to mount--when police officers come to search property and they are confronted by dogs, they often shoot and kill them, e...

Four people associated with the anti-Arpaio group Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability, were arrested on Wednesday for standing a...

Mario Chavez was driving drunk when he hit another car, killing its driver, 20-year-old University of Maryland student Brian Gray. Gray'...

Looks like the air marshals have a problem similar to the TSA and the Border Patrol : Shawn Nguyen bragged that he could sneak anyth...

P.Z. Myers reports on the behavior of police in Minneapolis , which looks similar to Denver.

Police told ABC News producer Asa Eslocker to move off a public sidewalk, pushed him into the street, and then arrested him after telling hi...

P.Z. Myers has a post at Pharyngula about how the Democratic National Convention itself is prioritizing religious speakers who disagree with...

Via The Agitator , here's video from a Critical Mass event in New York City which compares what actually happened on the scene from mult...

In yet another absurd drug raid, a Prince George's County special operations team busted down the doors of the home of Cheye Calvo, mayo...

Scott Conover was arrested by a Johnson County, TN sheriff's deputy for taking his picture during a traffic stop--not his own, someone e...

If you're the wife of a criminal defense attorney, you can get arrested for DUI even if you've not had a single drink . (This one w...

The June 7, 2008 issue of The Economist reports that Hugo Chavez issued a decree late last month which : authorises police raids without w...

26 Americans, mostly CIA operatives, are currently on trial in absentia in Italy for the kidnapping and "extraordinary rendition" ...

Former Chicago police officer and FBI informant Keith Herrera told "60 Minutes" that pressure to get results in the war on drugs l...

Declassified documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show that while investigating a possible conspirator in the 2005 Londo...

Clint Bolick, formerly the primary litigator for the Institute for Justice, is taking on some good causes as a litigator for the Goldwater I...

RateMyCop.com is a new website that allows you to rate individual police officers on the basis of your interactions with them, on the attrib...

The latest issue of Rolling Stone has an excellent article by Guy Lawson, "The Fear Factory," about how joint terrorism task for...