#policemisconduct — Public Fediverse posts

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

Appeals Court Sees Nothing Wrong With Terrorizing A 14-Year-Old To Obtain A Confession

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/14/appeals-court-sees-nothing-wrong-with-terrorizing-a-14-year-old-to-obtain-a-confession/

Cop Shops Keep On Dropping Flock Like It’s Hot

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/04/cop-shops-keep-on-dropping-flock-like-its-hot/

404 Media: Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People. “The contours of each story are much the same, with the police officer in question using their access to the system to repeatedly track a specific person over the course of weeks or months. The cases highlight the fact that Flock can be used to track the whereabouts of individual people, that police do not get a warrant in […]

Mississippi Today: Families of men killed or hurt by law enforcement urge Mississippi officials to stop blocking public records. “The families of four men who died or allegedly were beaten in encounters with Mississippi law enforcement gathered outside the state attorney general’s office Thursday to urge officials to stop denying them access to video capturing the incidents, years after they […]

Hoodline San Francisco: Berkeley’s Big-Ticket Police Misconduct Database Goes Quiet on Recent Cases. “The state-funded Police Records Access Project, a UC Berkeley-led effort promoted as a one-stop public archive of internal police misconduct files, is drawing heat after a review found its online portal has few entries from the most recent years. Critics warn that if cases from the last two […]

Global News BC: Alberta’s police watchdog takes on historic B.C. file despite local case backlog https://globalnews.ca/news/9590805/asirt-case-backlog-bc-investigation/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #AlbertaSeriousIncidentResponseTeambacklog #AlbertaSeriousIncidentResponseTeam #IndependentInvestigationsOffice #edmontonpoliceservice #ASIRTinvestigations #Policemisconduct #Investigations #PoliceShooting #TemitopeOriola #Albertacrime #ASIRTbacklog #AlbertaRCMP #Crime #ASIRT #RCMP #IIO