Policing

The Snowden disclosures show not only the specifics of domestic surveillance, but also that the struggle we are facing is not privacy versus security, but democracy versus tyranny.

Candice Bernd discusses the epidemic of police brutality in Albuquerque and how the USDA now has sub-machine guns at its disposal.

No organization keeps data about the number of victims of police-perpetrated sexual violence.

If the court is consistent in its analysis, it will determine that the collection by the government of all of our electronic records implicates the same privacy concerns as …

In which the remarkable lack of criminal prosecutions coming from the Justice Department in the aftermath of the financial crisis is explained, also the heightened danger to finance insider …

While the NSA argues that the biggest risk of terrorism is the possibility of a hack attack on our banking system by unspecified assailants, the mortal danger facing the …

The City of New York has reportedly agreed to pay $40 million to five men wrongfully convicted of raping a female jogger in Central Park 25 years ago.

There needs to be a national conversation about an emerging police state, and who is watching the watchers.

The ACLU has uncovered instructions from the US Marshals Service that appear to tell police to actively deceive judges and defendants about the use of the controversial surveillance tool …

Secret collaboration between profit-making corporations and public agencies, such as the FBI and the NSA, which are empowered to target citizens for investigation and potential punishment, have brought down …