Cops Shoot Deaf Man Despite Pleas That ‘He Can’t Hear You’
Article from The Blaze by Sarah Taylor. Oklahoma City police officers shot and killed Magdiel Sanchez, a 35-year-old deaf man, Tuesday night after he approached them with a metal pipe. What happened?…
New Criminal Justice Reform Bill Introduced In The Senate
Article from the Washington Free Beacon by Charles Fain Lehman. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) announced Tuesday the reintroduction of a bill focused on federal sentencing…
Wikileaks Releases Russian Surveillance Docs
Article from Breitbart by Lucas Nolan. WikiLeaks recently released documents that reportedly detail a mass surveillance system used by the Russian state to spy on Russian Internet users. The whistleblowing…
The New iPhone Could Help Expand Mass Surveillance
Article from Rare by Bonnie Kristian. My phone is a Google Pixel which I have a habit of dropping. A lot. In an attempt to keep it functional at least…
Civil Asset Forfeiture Gone Horribly Wrong
Article from MLive by Gus Burns. An 18-year veteran of the Hazel Park Police Department is accused of stealing at least $85,000 from the department’s forfeiture accounts. He resigned while…
The Police State Is Still Strong
Article from Reason by Jacob Sullum Tomorrow New Hampshire will become the 22nd state to eliminate the possibility of jail for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Under a law passed this year, adults caught…
We Must End Warrantless Spying
Article from Reason by Zach Weissmueller. As former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed to the world in 2013, the U.S. government routinely spies on its own citizens. “I, sitting at…
Amash Scores Huge Victory Against Civil Asset Forfeiture
Photo by: By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (Justin Amash Uploaded by AlbertHerring) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Article from The Hill by Cristina Marcos….
The TSA Is Going Way Too Far
Article from The Weekly Standard by John McCormack. Earlier this year, the LA Times reported: “TSA quietly launches new ‘enhanced’ pat-down procedure.” The Times noted that TSA would not describe precisely how the new…
The Police State Strikes Again
Article from Reason by Scott Shackford. The campus police at Berkeley may not be able to stop people from trashing the town while protesting conservative college speakers, but they sure…
