LawCommentary
What started off as a measure to hurt drug kingpins and their criminal empires by confiscation of their property has morphed into an often abused… Read More
LawCommentary
Sometimes a picture (or a video) is worth a thousand words, but does it tell the whole story? A video taken by a 14-year-old boy… Read More
LawCommentary
“[Civil Asset Forfeiture] should be abolished.” That’s the considered opinion of the two men — John Yoder and Brad Cates — who, in the 1980s,… Read More
LawNews
A Georgia woman has been released after she was arrested for possession – of SpaghettiOs. According to the Gainesville Times, police arrested Ashley Huff, 23,… Read More
LawCommentary
In an effort to increase transparency and reduce complaints, the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., will issue body-mounted cameras to a test group of… Read More
LawCommentary
How many adults does it take to tackle a girl standing only 4’10” tall and weighing just 100 pounds? Well, at Sam Houston High School… Read More
LawCommentary
On the corner of Patricia Avenue and San Salvador Drive in a Dunedin, Fla., neighborhood, 12-year-old T.J. Guerrero operates a lemonade stand to raise money… Read More
LawNews
A new poll found that the majority of Americans believe the Department of Justice is motivated primarily by politics. According to a Rasmussen poll released… Read More
LawNews
In March, Chris Sourovelis’ son was caught selling $40 of heroin to an undercover police officer. Officers from the Philadelphia Police Department responded by raiding… Read More
LawCommentary
Do we really need to make this illegal? A city in Florida passed an ordinance “prohibiting pants more than two inches below the waistline,” according… Read More
LawCommentary
Dinosaurs may be extinct, but absurdity in public schools isn’t. Alex Stone is a 16 year-old student in Summerville High School in South Carolina. On… Read More
LawNews
A South Carolina woman, Debra Harell, was arrested last month for letting her daughter play unsupervised in the park. According to a new poll released… Read More
LawCommentary
That’s what one student at a Tennessee high school is claiming happened to her. Kendra Turner, a senior at Dyer County High School, was given… Read More
LawNews
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Sarasota police officers will begin wearing body-mounted cameras later this year in an effort to increase police transparency. That’s a topic of… Read More
SecurityNews
Much of the weaponry and apparel on display during police action to quell riots and looting in Ferguson, Mo., doesn’t look like surplus equipment supplied… Read More
LawCommentary
“One problem, with all of this military equipment, is not so much that the local authorities have this equipment. It’s perhaps that they have too… Read More
LawCommentary
Cursing while shopping for frozen pizzas could send you to jail in North Augusta, S.C. Danielle Wolf, a young mother, was arrested and charged with… Read More
SocietyNews
On Saturday, Aug. 9, in a suburb of St. Louis, a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown. The death of the unarmed teenager sparked riots… Read More
LawNews
Amid heightened attention about the militarization of police, law enforcement agencies across Mississippi are continuing to stock up on military-grade armored vehicles from federal surplus. Two… Read More
LawNews
For years, the federal government has been providing surplus military equipment to local law enforcement through the 1033 Program. Since its inception in 1997, the program… Read More
LawCommentary
As a character noted in Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” a prosecutor could convince a grand jury to indict anything, even a ham… Read More
LawNews
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who yesterday said he was “thunderstruck” to learn how militarized police in Ferguson had become, signed off as recently as January… Read More
LawNews
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said on ABC’s “This Week” that he was “thunderstruck” by the “overmilitarization” of law enforcement in Ferguson. After taking heat for… Read More
LawNews
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said local police were “clearly attempting to besmirch” Michael Brown by releasing images of the 18-year-old strong-arming a man during a robbery shortly… Read More
LawNews
Much of the nation’s attention has been turned on the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., this week as protesters continue to lash out at… Read More
LawNews
Police in Ferguson, Mo., this morning released stills from a video that they said shows 18-year-old Michael Brown strong-arming a smaller, older man during a robbery inside… Read More
LawNews
President Obama appealed for calm in Ferguson, Mo., as tensions mounted between some black residents and police in the St. Louis suburb on the fifth… Read More
LawNews
Police in Ferguson, Mo., fired tear gas at Al Jazeera America TV crews last night as they recorded footage of the violent protests over the shooting… Read More
LawAnalysis
Over the weekend in Ferguson, Mo., an unarmed 18-year-old black man named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer. The incident is under investigation by the… Read More
LawNews
Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., says his proposed Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act will address mounting concern about what some call the encouragement of corruption in… Read More
