Senator Patrick Leahy says that this Orwellian initiative by the Department of Justice, raises some serious privacy concerns. He also wondered what other technology law enforcement is using that could have these serous privacy implications.

Joseph Sledge became a free man on Friday after a three-judge panel declared him innocent of a 1976 murder for which he had been wrongfully convicted.

A man is staring down death row after killing a police officer during a no-knock SWAT raid.

The Justice Department has begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges be filed against Darren Wilson after he shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August.

Within the forced anonymity of cold, hard concrete walls and non-stop, overhead fluorescent lights, rap musician, Brandon, "Tiny Doo," Duncan remains in jail. It's been almost six months. Duncan has no criminal record and was not involved in any crime.

On Monday, during the federal holiday set aside to celebrate the life and work Martin Luther King Jr., a new generation of Americans tired of persistent racial inequality, discrimination, and police violence directed at specific segments of society will participate in actions designed to reclaim the legacy of the famous civil rights leader.

“You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don’t know where the f*** it’s gonna take you.”

According to a new study, with enough personal background information about someone’s past, an interviewer can quite easily manipulate that person into confessing to a crime that he or she did not commit – or which never even happened.

After a year dominated with news of police shootings of unarmed citizens (including children), SWAT team raids gone awry, photo ops of militarized police shouldering assault rifles while perched on top of armored vehicles, and reports on how the police are using asset forfeiture laws to pad their pockets with luxury cars, cash and other expensive toys, the question arises: how do you prepare a child for life in the American police state?

Hundreds of police officers, their families, and supporters have participated in a pro-police rally in Washington, DC, at a time when tensions between police and the public are heating up nationwide.