Police Lobby Groups Lie to Protect Qualified Immunity
Various police lobbies have aggressively opposed efforts to eliminate the qualified immunity defense. Along the way, they have told outright lies. Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine that shields cops from civil (not criminal) liability for actions taken in the...
Trump’s Plan to Expand the National Police-State
A draft report from the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice reveals the Trump administration’s plan to further expand the national police state, with an emphasis on supporting and expanding qualified immunity and facial...
Report: Local Law Enforcement Receiving Billions in Weapons From Pentagon
“They will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” – George Washington, Farewell Address (1796)...