Donald Trump is putting on a show in Portland; the president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered ~misc politics Article 528 words 13 votes
Homeland Security making plans to deploy some 150 agents in Chicago this week, with scope of duty unknown ~news usa.il.chicago Article 1081 words 25 votes
Chinese police are making threatening video calls to dissidents abroad, telling them not to criticise Xi Jinping ~misc politics Article 748 words, published Jul 7 2020 30 votes
Why is a tech executive installing security cameras around San Francisco? ~tech security Article 2853 words 10 votes
Hundreds arrested after European law enforcement agencies monitored over 100 million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by criminals ~tech privacy Article 2927 words 20 votes
US officials are ramping up criticism of the GDPR, which they say protects cybercriminals ~tech privacy Article 17 votes
The rape kit’s secret history - This is the story of the woman who forced the police to start treating sexual assault like a crime ~humanities.history Article 8171 words 8 votes
Confessions of a former bastard cop - An essay by a former police officer on why police are like this ~life Article 5462 words 29 votes
Protests and policing will worsen the coronavirus pandemic - The US has moved from attempting to beat the virus to managing the harm of losing ~health Article 2389 words 11 votes
Criminal investigations of police officers have delays that are formally built in through union contracts and police protection laws ~misc Article 1218 words 6 votes
A handful of sheriffs in Washington State have said they won’t enforce the governor’s shutdown orders. But who are the state’s rural residents actually listening to? ~health Article 6159 words 6 votes
Legal survey finds that US police are granted immunity at a high rate in use of force cases ~news usa Article 4263 words 12 votes
Community privacy concerns have forced the Australian Government to insist a coronavirus tracing app will neither track people's locations nor be available for law enforcement agencies to access ~health Article 563 words 8 votes
Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman signals new purge with ‘treason’ arrests ~news saudi arabia politics crime Article 744 words 5 votes
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. ~tech privacy google Article 1146 words 18 votes
Honk more, wait more: Mumbai traffic police introduce the punishing signal to curb noise pollution ~transport Article 368 words 13 votes
Clearview AI claims its facial recognition software identified a terrorism suspect in New York City last year, but the NYPD says they played no role in the case ~tech Article 4078 words 10 votes
Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology ~enviro Article 1374 words, published Jan 10 2020 12 votes
Special Services Group is marketing spying capabilities to local police departments, including cameras that are hidden inside a tombstone, a baby car seat, and a vacuum cleaner ~tech Article 1366 words, published Jan 9 2020 7 votes
Seattle police officer contributed to man’s death with ruse that ‘shocked the conscience,’ investigation finds ~news usa.wa.seattle crime Article 1330 words 9 votes
Alcohol breath tests, a linchpin of the criminal justice system, are often unreliable ~misc Article 5208 words 10 votes
Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city ~life Article 3468 words, published Oct 23 2019 8 votes
In defence of America’s prison-industrial complex ~life Article 898 words, published Oct 17 2019 10 votes
Swedish police can use spyware to hunt criminal gangs – police to use the latest technology to access everyday encrypted apps used by criminals ~tech Link 8 votes
Denmark to conduct checks at border with Sweden to counter cross-border crime ~news denmark crime sweden Link 4 votes
With alternatives stretched and neighbors angry, Seattle police return to arresting sex workers ~life work Link 9 votes
Low-paid American workers produce tear gas in potentially dangerous conditions. It's then shipped to Hong Kong where it's used against pro-democracy protesters. ~life work Article 3090 words 17 votes
Denmark mulls tighter border checks with Sweden after Copenhagen bombing – Swedish man arrested over the bombing of a government agency ~news denmark.copenhagen crime sweden Article 246 words, published Jul 8 2019 5 votes
Police are turning to commercial genealogy databases to track down murderer – hoping to solve the double murders of a boy and fifty-six year old woman ~news sweden.linkoping crime Link 10 votes
California man charged with murder even though he didn’t fire a shot ~news usa.ca crime law Article 1333 words, published Aug 5 2019 10 votes
Victims are often criminals, and that is a paradox American policing can’t solve ~life Article 1939 words 8 votes
A young Black football player was arrested after claiming ‘cocaine’ on his car was bird poop. It was bird poop. ~sports.american_football Article 842 words 9 votes
Ferguson, five years later: The killing of Michael Brown sparked protests against police brutality, but the city faces new, insidious problems ~life Article 5785 words 6 votes
Meet Thomas Cullen, the Trump-appointed US Attorney who's putting white supremacists in jail using an anti-riot statute passed in the 1960s to rein in leftist Vietnam War protesters ~news usa.va law Article 3209 words 10 votes
'If we don’t kill these people they will kill you': Policing Africa's largest slum ~life Article 1440 words 6 votes
Former FBI agent says agency is “hamstrung” by Trump in investigating white supremacist movements ~news usa politics Article 615 words 14 votes
It's been a year since Denmark's contentious so-called Burka Ban came into force – since then 22 women have been fined ~life Article 298 words 9 votes