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The DHS isn’t backing down on tracking your license plate
A year ago, the Department of Homeland Security began a new initiative to track license plates nationwide. Luckily it was abandoned due to overwhelming opposition over privacy concerns. Organizations...
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The murder of Walter Scott: Here’s what you need to know
Yesterday yet another story broke of a white police officer gunning down an unarmed black man. This time, however, the cop has already been charged with murder after footage showing the killing of...
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Why this Texas woman says a sheriff’s deputy was out of line
A Texas woman is claiming she was punched several times by a sheriff’s deputy in an encounter last month, and says she has the video to prove it. Deanna Robinson was nine months pregnant in early...
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Walter Scott’s brother just said something really important about police...
Yesterday I shared a reading list of pieces that explained the circumstances of the death of Walter Scott, a black South Carolina man who was shot eight times in the back by a white police officer...
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Video shows California deputies beating man fleeing on horse
HESPERIA, Calif. — A news video shows California sheriff’s deputies tracking down a man fleeing on horseback and then punching and kicking him dozens of times when he’s on the ground. The San...
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Worse than Ferguson: Policing for profit, overcriminalization is rampant in...
When the Department of Justice released its report on police practices in Ferguson, Mo., I wrote that it revealed a pattern of government abuse, corruption, and injustice. The Ferguson Police...
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Listen to the cop who killed Walter Scott laugh after he’s committed murder
A new recording of the moments following the death of Walter Scott has been released. On it, you can hear Officer Michael Slager laughing with a senior officer and saying that he was pumped with...
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A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for the drug war and expansion of the...
Yesterday at Salon, Jeff Stein wrote a damning critique of Hillary Clinton’s not-so-progressive history of support the drug war—and the overcriminalization that comes with it: [B]efore liberals...
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Police dashcam video showing an officer driving into a suspect is drawing a...
A new police dashcam video has surfaced showing a police car brazenly running over a suspect holding a rifle. “Stand off! Stand off! The gun is loaded,” a voice is heard over the dispatch. The suspect...
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Another police killing: Baltimore man dies after encounter with police leaves...
A 27-year-old Baltimore man named Freddie Gray died after his spine was severed by police attempting to arrest him for possession of a switchblade knife on April 12. Gray, who is black and was...
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Video footage shows U.S. marshal bashing woman’s camera as she records police
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A woman recording law enforcement officials outside a home in South Gate appeared stunned when an armed U.S. marshal approached her, snatched the phone she was using from her...
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NYC city council to consider decriminalizing low-level offenses
This past fall the New York Police Department decided to protest a perceived lack of support from the city’s mayor by engaging in a “work stoppage,” during which they made arrests and gave tickets...
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Why are people sharing Freddie Gray’s criminal record?
Freddie Gray’s family deserves to know why he died in police custody. The Baltimore protesters, thousands of whom rallied peacefully in the days before violence broke out Monday (and who the media had...
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Maryland police have received 169 equipment shipments from the Pentagon since...
One of the most important things to come out of the Ferguson protests this past August was the widespread attention to the Pentagon’s 1033 program. As we’ve documented here at Rare, the 1033 program...
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There’s no defending the violence in Baltimore
It’s important to deal with the racial disparities in American law enforcement and to heal the tensions between police and communities of color. Baltimore is just the latest reminder. But let’s not...
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Freddie Gray’s lawyer explains why police body cameras are so important
William Murphy, one of the lawyers representing Freddie Gray’s family, explained Tuesday night at a church in Baltimore exactly why body cameras are a really important reform for American policing: You...
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After riots and protests, Freddie Gray’s family may finally get justice
BALTIMORE — In a Friday morning press conference, Maryland Attorney General Marilyn J. Mosby said that Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody has been ruled a homicide, and that there is probable...
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Texas bill would require a warrant before police can search your body...
In what might reasonably seem like a late arrival to the scene of basic common sense and human decency, this week the Texas State House unanimously approved a bill to require that a police “officer...
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Man who recorded Freddie Gray’s arrest says police detained him, tried to...
Remember that video of Freddie Gray being arrested that sparked so much controversy? It was recorded by an eyewitness named Kevin Moore. Afterwards police released a photo of Moore supposedly in the...
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Is the jury still out on police body cameras?
From Eric Garner to Freddie Gray, the recent spate of controversial deaths at the hands of police has led civil libertarians to call for officers to wear body cameras. In response, the Department of...
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