New bill would give Marco Rubio 'thought police' power to revoke US passports(theintercept.com)

7 points by anigbrowl 1 year ago | 0 comments

Dataminr tracked Gaza-related protests(theintercept.com)

206 points by jbegley 1 year ago | 174 comments

The feds want to make it illegal to even possess an anarchist zine(theintercept.com)

26 points by pabs3 11 months ago | 5 comments

Ice Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database Tracks Their License Plates(theintercept.com)

11 points by JumpCrisscross 9 months ago | 1 comments

Meta's Israel Policy Chief tried to suppress pro-Palestinian posts(theintercept.com)

28 points by no_exit 2 years ago | 5 comments

One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime(oaklandside.org)

49 points by speckx 2 months ago | 46 comments

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use(nytimes.com)

319 points by mikhael 2 years ago | 774 comments

New York Times article on Oregon state and Portland officials proposing to ban public drug use and roll back parts of the state's drug decriminalization law.

FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled(404media.co)

522 points by robin_reala 8 months ago | 436 comments

404 Media article reporting the FBI was unable to access a Washington Post reporter's iPhone because Apple's Lockdown Mode was enabled.

Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police(reason.com)

322 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 163 comments

Reason article about an Iowa man suing after being arrested twice for criticizing police at a public meeting.

California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023(eff.org)

520 points by hn_acker 1 year ago | 261 comments

EFF Deeplinks article reporting that California law enforcement agencies misused state databases more than 7,000 times in 2023.

Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do(thewhyaxis.substack.com)

332 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 135 comments

Substack post by Christopher Ingraham arguing that US police civil asset forfeiture seizures exceed the value of property stolen by burglars.