Law Enforcement
Brickbat: Two-Tiered Justice
A federal judge sentenced Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Douglas Kirk to four months in prison after he was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of excessive force despite being previously convicted of a…
Aspen Police Department says that having two kids on one bike is a crime
"When you see this, do you think it's just fun? Or do you think that it's illegal? It is definitely the latter. Whether it's fun or not." This is the beginning of a Facebook post by Colorado's…
The OneTaste verdict makes federal prosecutors sound like activists
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is now embracing ideas about coercion and consent that rose to prominence on college campuses during the Barack Obama administration. That's the implication of the OneTaste case, in which…
Close encounter of the LA kind
On June 3 federal law enforcement officers conducted a search on Lake Street in Minneapolis that was promptly whipped into the obligatory hysteria by those who specialize in it. The original Star Tribune story on the raid…
DOJ brings Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. after insisting it couldn’t
Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned to the U.S. to appear in court on Friday, more than two months after being deported to a prison in El Salvador, the country of his birth. No matter how the trial shakes out, it's just the…
Trump wants to revive the militarization of police
In recent years, American public opinion about police has swung wildly from strong support for law enforcement, to serious calls for reform in the wake of high-profile cases of police brutality and killings by officers, back…
Senate bill to ban ‘doxxing’ police would chill free speech
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R–Tenn.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would make it a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison to publish the name of a federal law enforcement officer with the intent to obstruct an…
Police blew up Texas woman’s home and sent her the bill. A judge says she’s owed $60,000.
Years after a SWAT team in Texas destroyed an innocent woman's home while trying to apprehend a fugitive, the local government will have to pay her $60,000 in damages plus interest, a federal judge ruled Thursday. That…
Texas cop who killed unarmed man not entitled to qualified immunity
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas denied qualified immunity—a legal doctrine that protects local and state government officials from civil liability unless their actions violate a clearly established…
Trump deletes Biden’s federal police misconduct database
In one of his first acts after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to delete a nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal law enforcement. Along with rescinding former…
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