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Mon, Feb 1st 2021 8:06pm — Tim Cushing We still havent seen an end to the fallout resulting from a botched (and bogus) drug raid in Houston that ended with two residents killed by police officers. It also ended with five officers wounded -- one of them paralyzed. The raid was predicated on false statements made by Officer Gerald Goines, who secured permission from a judge to perform a no-knock raid, claiming the residents were armed and selling heroin. While guns were recovered, no heroin was...

Tue, Feb 2nd 2021 3:33am — Tim Cushing A Texas immigration lawyer is suing the DHS and CBP over one of its infamous border device searches. His attempt to keep the federal government from accessing privileged attorney-client communications was rebuffed by CBP officers who decided theyd just keep his phone until they were able to access the contents. This is especially problematic considering the lawyer, Adam Malik, is representing clients currently engaged in lawsuits and other legal actions ...

Mon, Feb 1st 2021 10:44am — Tim Cushing There have been some very vocal calls for encryption backdoors by the heads of certain law enforcement agencies. And those making the most noise imply every other law enforcement agency that isnt clamoring for worse security supports the clamoring loudmouths demanding mandated backdoors. Maybe these other agencies do agree with "going dark" proselytizers like Chris Wray and Cy Vance. Maybe these agencies that never speak out are the silent majority. The...

Fri, Jan 29th 2021 3:34am — Tim Cushing As more evidence comes to light showing a disturbing amount of law enforcement participation in the January 6th attack on the Capitol, police departments around the nation are finally being forced to face something theyve ignored for far too long. The law enforcement officers who participated in the insurrection attacked officers attempting to defend the building, or, at the very least, did nothing to discourage the lawless actions occurring all around ...

Thu, Jan 28th 2021 3:22am — Tim Cushing How does someone end up on the federal governments "no-fly" list? Youd think the shorter, less-convoluted question would be how one avoids ending up on this list. Unfortunately, the answer to either question is a convoluted mess -- one complicated unnecessarily by the number of federal agencies that think they should have a say in who lives and who flies. Papers Please has attempted to explain the no-fly list and its parameters. And it has kind of fai...

Tue, Jan 26th 2021 8:05pm — Tim Cushing The NYPD is still spending taxpayers money to prevent taxpayers from accessing police misconduct records. The latest fight over these records was prompted by the New York legislature, which repealed the law that allowed the NYPD to deny the public access to this information last summer. Since then, the NYPD and other first responder agencies have been attempting to litigate their way back to opacity. New York law enforcement agencies -- represented by t...

Wed, Jan 27th 2021 3:42am — Tim Cushing Heres the latest stupid way pro-Trump rioters are getting arrested for their participation in the Little Insurrection That Couldnt. Surprisingly, the inauguration went off without a hitch, but no one could have seen that coming a couple of weeks ago, when Trump fans raided the Senate building in an attempt to prevent election results from being certified. Opsec was the last thing on many invaders minds. Providing great content for Parler followers or wh...

Mon, Jan 25th 2021 8:10pm — Tim Cushing Police reform efforts are being mounted all over the nation, but very few appear to be capable of creating any lasting, positive changes. Reforming law enforcement is difficult to do. Legislators, for the most part, still "back the blue," if for no other reason than cops are also government employees. Powerful police unions are firmly entrenched, providing the biggest obstacle to reform -- fully capable of gutting reform bills by leaning on legislators...

Tue, Jan 26th 2021 10:49am — Tim Cushing Back in 2019, a California court tossed a lawsuit brought by a self-described feminist who had her Twitter account banned following some posts targeting transgender people. Meghan Murphy tweeted enlightening things like "men arent women tho" and "how are transwomen not men?" She also "deadnamed" transsexuals, identifying them using their former gender/names, something Twitters rules explicitly prohibit. The court didnt care much for Murphys proposed cl...

Mon, Jan 25th 2021 6:29am — Tim Cushing Late last year, the Tampa Bay Times broke the news the local sheriffs office had set up a "pre-crime" program targeting schoolkids in Pasco County. The same program used by the Pasco County Sheriffs Office to harass residents into "moving or suing" (yes, those are the Sheriffs words) had been retooled to target minors, utilizing highly questionable access to students records. Some deputies made dozens of visits a year to residents that the Office had de...