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The state as blunt force - impressions of the Columbia campus clearance
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Norwegian court finds police acted unreasonably in fining activists who blocked government buildings
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US police are using GPS tracking darts to avoid dangerous pursuits
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Lego requests California police department stop using their toy heads to cover suspect mugshots on social media
40 votes -
Oregon decriminalized drugs. Voters now regret it.
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The FBI’s new tactic: Catching American suspects with push alerts
32 votes -
New York governor sends national guard to subway in crime crackdown
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How Australian undercover police ‘fed’ an autistic 13-year-old’s fixation with Islamic State
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United States Justice Department report finds ‘cascading failures’ and ‘no urgency’ during Uvalde, Texas, shooting
54 votes -
You don't need a license to walk
41 votes -
I’ve been stopped and searched by the police since I was sixteen
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Swedish A-traktors, vehicles modified to not go above 19mph, became a teenage rite of passage – amid a rise in accidents there are calls for a ban
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Jezebel and the question of women’s anger
33 votes -
The botched hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer
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Mass arrests target LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria while abuses against them are ignored, activists say
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US court tells cops that a driver not laughing at an officer’s terrible joke is not reasonable suspicion
43 votes -
Video reveals crucial details of LAPD ignoring robbery to catch Togetic in Pokémon Go
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Google user data has become a favorite police shortcut
54 votes -
US police blame some deaths on ‘excited delirium.’ Emergency physicians consider formally disavowing the diagnosis
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More than 1,000 London Metropolitan Police officers suspended or on restricted duties amid force clean-up
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Professionals in Sweden are pushing back hard against a rightwing plan to make them snitch on undocumented migrants
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French government defends arrest of teen in classroom over transgender bullying claims
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New Mexico Governor bans public carry of guns in Albuquerque
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Investigation launched into tape of Seattle police guild leaders downplaying death of woman struck by officer
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Some small towns in America are disbanding police forces, citing hiring woes
23 votes -
Copenhagen's mayor has urged foreigners not to buy weed in the city's Christiania neighborhood where a thirty-year-old man was shot and killed
11 votes -
Amateur sleuths patrol the town of Oulu, Finland to try to recover stolen bicycles and take on bike thieves
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Residents of the Danish neighbourhood of Christiania have asked authorities for help shutting down its Pusher Street after a slew of recent gang-related murders
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Sweden seeks to stem deadly rise in youth crime – illegal guns are relatively accessible, with younger and younger children being drawn into serious crime
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US federal aid is supercharging local Washington state police surveillance tech
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A new ACLU lawsuit alleges that Washington DC is discriminating against people with mental health disabilities by continuing to send armed officers to mental health calls
https://theappeal.org/dc-police-mental-health-crisis-response-aclu-lawsuit/ The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday alleging that the...
https://theappeal.org/dc-police-mental-health-crisis-response-aclu-lawsuit/
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday alleging that the district’s practice of sending police officers—instead of mental health specialists—to mental health emergencies violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
“Someone who calls 911 for a physical health emergency gets trained medical providers who can treat and stabilize them,” said Susan Mizner, director of the ACLU’s Disability Rights Program, in a press release. “But someone who calls 911 for a mental health emergency gets a police officer with handcuffs and a gun.”
According to the lawsuit, these differing responses constitute a breach of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits government entities from denying people with disabilities equal access to government services and programs. The ACLU is suing on behalf of Bread for the City, a local nonprofit that provides healthcare and social services to lower-income and unhoused communities.
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Cops are already treating self-driving cars as 'surveillance cameras on wheels'
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Online police patrol the internet in Denmark, with the aim of making it a safer place for both children and adults
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Traffic cop sues city over ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ cards for NYPD friends and family
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What happened when a Brooklyn neighborhood policed itself for five days
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Crooks’ mistaken bet on encrypted phones
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The privatization of policing
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Inside the hip-hop record store run by undercover cops
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San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
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Insurers force change on US police departments long resistant to it
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Facebook helped arrest a 17-year-old for having an abortion
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Amazon shared Ring security camera and video doorbell footage with police without a warrant
31 votes -
Recordings within eight feet of police illegal in Arizona under bill signed into law by Ducey
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The code the FBI used to wiretap the world
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1955 warrant in Emmett Till case found, family seeks arrest
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Uvalde and police "duty"
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A look inside the first HBCU police academy
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San Francisco district attorney claims California crime labs are using DNA from sexual assault survivors to investigate unrelated crimes
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invokes Emergencies Act to address trucker protests
22 votes