Category Archives: MSA

Outright lies may be difficult to detect in advance, but more rigorous judicial review of police affidavits could have made a crucial difference in cases of Breonna Taylor and Houston couple killed in a 2020 raid.
— Read on chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2022/8/10/23300061/when-cops-invent-facts-to-get-search-warrants-consequences-can-be-deadly

Official home of America’s most comprehensive database of police violence.
Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.
— Read on mappingpoliceviolence.us/

It’s the second lawsuit that has followed the October 2021 incident that led to a guard at the Indiana jail being criminally charged.
— Read on news.yahoo.com/night-terror-female-inmates-raped-140023100.html

The Las Vegas NAACP is defending Judge Erika Ballou after the police union called for her resignation accusing her of disparaging cops.
— Read on newsone.com/4376251/las-vegas-judge-erika-ballou/

The civil liberties group released documents showing new details about how agencies had purchased information on people’s movements throughout North America.
— Read on www.politico.com/news/2022/07/18/dhs-location-data-aclu-00046208

This is perhaps the most gruesome scandal in Secret Service history.
— Read on truthout.org/articles/the-coup-allegations-against-the-secret-service-are-astonishing/

The scathing new report by lawmakers in Texas says “systemic failures” created a chaotic scene that lasted more than an hour before the gunman at Robb Elementary School was finally confronted.
— Read on www.npr.org/2022/07/17/1111928866/uvalde-school-shooting-report

A letter given to the January 6 committee says the erasure took place shortly after oversight officials requested the agency’s electronic communications.
— Read on theintercept.com/2022/07/14/jan-6-texts-deleted-secret-service/

Our decision to publish the video from Uvalde comes after long and thoughtful discussions about the video and it’s content.
— Read on eu.statesman.com/story/opinion/columns/2022/07/12/uvalde-shooting-video-austin-american-statesman-editor-investigation-publish/65371937007/

Sarah Jeong argues it wasn’t protesters the feds should have been going after. It was Chad Wolf himself.
— Read on www.wweek.com/news/courts/2022/07/10/report-homeland-security-secretary-who-sent-federal-agents-to-quell-portland-lawlessness-held-his-office-unlawfully/

There are 13 private security guards for every one police officer in downtown Minneapolis, but these groups are far less regulated than police departments
— Read on www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/07/1055508/secret-police-private-security-group-minnesota-misinformation-protestors/

A California city’s flawed handling of fatal police shootings allowed six officers to use deadly force again before their first cases were decided. Experts say the department’s system “isn’t even basement standard practice” and needs oversight.
— Read on www.propublica.org/article/vallejo-police-killing-investigations

The report by the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center says authorities missed other opportunities to stop the gunman before he killed 19 students and two teachers in Robb Elementary.
— Read on www.texastribune.org/2022/07/06/uvalde-school-shooting-robb-elementary-report/