Corruption in this small American town goes to the top. It’s time to start crushing it. Gavin Seim Wenatchee, WA — Little old Douglas County Washington is about to spend huge taxpayer dollars in an attempt to punish a man for demanding a police officer tell him why he was being …

“Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.” – Martin Luther King Jr. In times of tragedy, the first question the media asks is, “Who is to blame?” It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to investigate, …

In many parts of America, there are more people living in prisons than on college campuses There were 2.3 million prisoners in the U.S. as of the 2010 Census. It’s often been remarked that our national incarceration rate of 707 adults per every 100,000 residents is the highest in the …

“It definitely is a revenue driver for the city, this mass regime of handing out tickets. It does strike the ear a little bit funny when you hear police union leaders talking about how we are only to going to arrest people when we ‘have to.’ It seems like that …

You’ve probably seen them before: internal border checkpoint refusals, now a popular YouTube genre. Some are funny. Others are hostile. But for Greg Rosenberg, a naturalized U.S. citizen who speaks accented English, an encounter with South Texas border patrol resulted in weeks of jail time without a single charge being …

The cousin of a 23-year-old man, gunned down by Wichita police on Saturday, has blamed the officers for John Paul Quintero’s death, saying they “got out of the vehicle ready to kill,” while the victim was allegedly weaponless. RT.com “Everybody’s upset, angry, hurt,” Alina Quintero, a family spokeswoman and cousin …

  A man in San Francisco was shot dead by police after he confronted officers in a police parking lot and reached out for what later turned out to be a fake gun. The 32-year-old white man walked into the parking lot of the Mission District police station on Sunday …

“They killed my sister, I watched it.” Mentally ill Cleveland woman’s death by police ruled homicide The death of Cleveland woman Tanisha Anderson – who was in the midst of being detained after police physically restrained her during a mental health call by her family – has been ruled a …

The bill is intended “to deter crime, making it unlawful to wear a mask, hood or covering during the commission of a crime or to intentionally conceal a person’s identity in a public place.”   Oklahoma lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban wearing a mask, hood or other …

“The New York Police might have just solved the national community-policing controversy.” If angered NYPD can so dramatically reduce arrests and citations, many are suggesting it could offer an ironic path to better policing nationwide https://twitter.com/ozchrisrock/status/550617120640598017 by Jon Queally | CommonDreams.org Earlier this week, responding to initial news reports that the New …