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It’s drilled into police that traffic stop ambushes are routine. They aren’t. They happen, but they’re vanishingly rare. And the federal courts’ view that stops are inherently dangerous is based

Just stumbled on this humdinger of a qualified immunity case from 2019. A Georgia man was exonerated by DNA after serving 7 years on a rape conviction. Because the Georgia

This is wrong and willfully misleading. It was absolutely a no-knock warrant (and an illegal one at that).The cops just claimed they changed their mind at the scene. And yes,

Textbook cause and effect confusion.https://twitter.com/bretweinstein/status/1302783545165799424 I mean, I guess we should blame protesters for this sort of thing happening the last 35 years, right?https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/108

On charging the cops who shot Breonna Taylor: My sense is that a murder charge will be tough.The no-knock warrant was illegal, and she should never have been searched in

Prominent conservatives are now arguing that the recent looting and property damage - which historically isn't all that unusual - is some sort of existential threat, and that totalitarianism is

So an update on that public defender thread: I’ve consulted with the author and a few PDs who either know her or know of the situation. She also shared the

Before Breonna Taylor, there's a depressingly long list of black women who were killed in their own homes or homes they were visiting during unjust or unnecessary police raids. Here's

This is infuriating. Grijalva chairs the committee investigating the clearing of Lafayette Square. He wanted his hearing to be via video. The Trump administration said it wouldn’t cooperate unless Grijalva

I don’t understand what we’re supposed to take away from this. Dollar Generals should hire armed guards? Call cops on loiterers? Also, how does 200 violent incidents over 3 years

Congress needs to codify the provocation rule into federal law. Here’s what this means: Let’s say a cop breaks down your door without a warrant, or with a bad warrant.

I'm late to the Breonna Taylor story, but it looks worse by the day. Louisville cops conducted a forced entry drug raid. Registered gun owner Kenneth Walker woke up, fired