Since Congress passed the PATRIOT Act in the “nick of time”, this might be a good opportunity to review this sorry map of botched police raids. (via ED) Harry Reid’s role in jamming the PATRIOT act through the Senate is an interesting reversal from 2005, when he was bragging about a filibuster of an extension …
Criminal Justice
Sheriff Joe Arpaio: “You Want Police State? I Got Your Police State Right Here!”
Jesus Take the Wheel Sheriff Joe is one banana short of a bunch. You may recall him from such features as “Honey, I Racially Profiled The Kids” and “The Pendejo Who Shoved Christmas Down Your Throat and Made You Choke On It.” Well, this little nugget of WTF should have you1 running to get the …
“When the DoJ Does It, Then That Is Not Illegal”
I have been trying to wrap my head, or at least my vocabulary, around why I am deeply perturbed by Dahlia Lithwick’s exposure of “The Supreme Court’s collective yawn at the case of a U.S. citizen’s detention and mistreatment after Sept. 11“: … [T]here is very little ruffled fur or uppity dander at this morning’s …
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Updated Update: Judge Ciavarella Found Guilty
Since Kay is busy organizing in Ohio (Ohio residents, check that post!), she graciously gave me permission to post another update on the Pennsylvania judge caught using hapless local teenagers as a profit center: SCRANTON, Pa. – A former juvenile court judge was convicted Friday of racketeering in a case that accused him of sending …
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New Uniforms For the New Brunswick Police Department
The students had it coming, I’m sure: wo Rutgers University students have filed a $2 million lawsuit against a New Jersey police department after they were allegedly beaten by officers in their apartment. Kareem Najjar and Jake Kostman say they were asleep when officers from the New Brunswick Police Department stormed into their apartment in …
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Oh Good Grief
Via Radley Balko, the most obscene thing I’ve read in a while: On Aug. 18, Ms. Moore and her boyfriend went to Police Headquarters to file a complaint with Internal Affairs about the officer who had talked to her alone. Ms. Moore said the officer had fondled her and left his personal telephone number, which …
An Execution in Utah
When police storm your house, and you wake up dazed and grab a golf club, the sentence is death: That man was nowhere near a cop, was not given a chance to get on the ground, and they shot him to death. This must be the new professionalism Scalia was talking about. This was a …