#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, […]

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/

University of New Hampshire: Bystander videos are ‘fundamentally changing how the news is made’. “Just weeks before [Alex] Pretti’s death, Renee Good was shot and killed by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge, a large-scale ICE deployment in Minnesota. In the Good case, too, bystander videos analyzed by professional journalists contradicted the government’s account of the incident.”

Bill Introduced That Would Codify The Right To Record Federal Law Enforcement Officers

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/12/bill-introduced-that-would-codify-the-right-to-record-federal-law-enforcement-officers/

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

Enlightening/sobering article by the Innocence Project about the racist U.S. legal system:

https://innocenceproject.org/facts-racial-discrimination-justice-system-wrongful-conviction-black-history-month/

#innocenceproject #racialbias #racialdiscrimination #racialinjustice #jimcrow #deathrow #wrongfulconvictions #policemisconduct