Tag Archives: law enforcement

Asset Forfeiture Funding Has Little Impact on Solving Crimes

By Paul | Published August 30, 2019

C.J. Ciaramella, reporting at Reason.com: Law enforcement groups have long argued that civil asset forfeiture, a practice that allows police to seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, is a vital tool for stopping drug trafficking, but a new study found that the nation’s largest forfeiture program had little effect on crime fighting. […]

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Prosecutors

By Paul | Published August 8, 2018

Unfortunately, John Oliver is—once again—right on point:

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Apple confirms iOS 12 will close iPhone security hole used by police and criminals

By Paul | Published June 14, 2018

James Martin writing at CNET: Apple will make a method — often used by police — for getting data off iPhones much less powerful with a software update announced Wednesday. The change, called USB Restricted Mode, will close down access to data through a iPhone’s Lightning port if the phone hasn’t been unlocked in the […]

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News photographer shot by cop

By Paul | Published September 6, 2017

PetaPixel: An Ohio newspaper photojournalist was shot by a police officer last night after the cop mistook the camera and tripod the photographer was holding for a rifle. Wait—that tripod isn’t loaded, is it?   I wouldn’t exactly call this a part of the never-ending war on photography, but I do think that this shows […]

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Should Police Be Allowed to Keep Property Without a Criminal Conviction?

By Paul | Published February 10, 2017

Civil asset forfeiture, a practice that allows law enforcement to permanently seize property without pressing criminal charges, funnels hundreds of millions of dollars into state and federal coffers every year.

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Police Union Head Wonders Why Everybody Suddenly Wants Them to Stop Stealing People’s Stuff

By Paul | Published January 5, 2017

If you want to get a sense of how poorly police unions grasp why the citizenry have grown more and more upset with them, check out this absolutely awful commentary by Chuck Canterbury, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, over at The Daily Caller. Canterbury’s here to defend civil asset forfeiture, the process by […]

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45 years later, FBI closes books on ‘D.B. Cooper’

By Paul | Published July 12, 2016

The last time anyone saw D.B. Cooper, he parachuted out of a Mexico City-bound airplane with $200,000 in ransom strapped to his body, vanishing over the Pacific Northwest and initiating one of America’s greatest manhunts. Forty-five years later, the FBI is closing the books on this unsolved case.

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