A passenger on a bus at Fort Lauderdale’s Greyhound station recently recorded disturbing footage of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers walking up the bus’ aisle, asking for proof of citizenship. Although nothing new, it’s sad to see American law enforcement...
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When Our Faces Are Our 'Papers'
by Matthew Feeney | Jan 25, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
A passenger on a bus at Fort Lauderdale’s Greyhound station recently recorded disturbing footage of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers walking up the bus’ aisle, asking for proof of citizenship. Although nothing new, it’s sad to see American law enforcement...
New Bill in Alabama Would End Civil Forfeiture Once and For All
by Nick Sibilla | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Late Tuesday, two Alabama lawmakers filed legislation that would completely eliminate the state’s civil forfeiture laws, which let the government take and keep property without ever filing criminal charges, and replace it with criminal forfeiture. Currently, 14 states...
Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards
by John Whitehead | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
“The roundups are getting worse. The checkpoints are getting worse. The harassment is getting worse. The things we were worried would happen are happening.”—Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets...
Destroying, Suppressing Evidence is FBI Standard Procedure
by Jim Bovard | Jan 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice
Congressional investigators were rocked this weekend when the FBI notified them that five months of text messages from a top FBI investigator into the Trump campaign’s Russian connections had mysteriously vanished. The FBI-issued cell phone of Peter Strzok, whose...
Senate Votes to Trash Fourth Amendment
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 17, 2018 | Blog, Justice
The U.S. Senate is no more inclined to stop warrantless surveillance of Americans than the House of Representatives was. Today the Senate voted to stop any attempt to limit the government's power to violate, under FISA Section 702, Americans' right to privacy as...
America’s Victimless Crimes
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Peter Quinones
I arrived at work one morning in 2010 to the news that one of my employees would be standing trial the next day. He was an all-around good guy that I joked with often, so I pulled him aside to talk. He had been caught with a “medium amount” of marijuana resulting in...
Recommendations for Police Reform
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Peter Quinones
When society is presented with the task of rehabilitating one of its failed public services the responses are normally varied and emotional. Everyone has an opinion that is based upon their worldview, and it’s usually a hill they're willing to die upon. No subject...
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