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A modest proposal #

End "Qualified Immunity"

• Police act like laws don't apply to them because of 'qualified immunity.' They're right.

• Unlawful Shield: Abolish Qualified Immunity

• End Qualified Immunity

• Qualified Immunity: Explained

• The Supreme Court Has a Chance To End Qualified Immunity and Prevent Cases Like George Floyd's

• Cops Accused of Stealing Over $225,000 Can't Be Sued, Thanks to Qualified Immunity

• Judge, Shielding Cop Via 'Qualified Immunity,' Asks Whether It Belongs In 'Dustbin'

• Updates:

  • New York Becomes First City In U.S. To End Qualified Immunity For Police Officers

  • New Mexico Governor Signs Historic Legislation to End Qualified Immunity

  • Cops Arrested Her for Exercising Her First Amendment Rights. They Got Qualified Immunity—but the Appeals Court Wasn't Having It.

End "Civil Forfeiture"

• The grabbing hand of the law

• Take the Money and Run

• Our Civil Asset Forfeiture Nightmare

• Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Washington, D.C.'s Civil Forfeiture Racket

• Justice Dept. Revives Criticized Policy Allowing Assets to Be Seized

• Police Say Seizing Property Without Trial Helps Keep Crime Down. A New Study Shows They’re Wrong.

End "No-knock Warrants"

• Lindy: "No Knock Raid" - a song about the drug war's deadliest tactic.

• Door-Busting Drug Raids Leave a Trail of Blood

• Rand Paul says no-knock warrants 'should be forbidden' in wake of Breonna Taylor shooting

• Woman shot and killed by Kentucky police in botched raid, family says

• Meet 59-year-old David Hooks, the latest drug raid fatality

• Murder or Self-Defense if Officer Is Killed in Raid?

• Deadly Force

• Police Kill Woman, 92, in Shootout at Her Home

• Ex-Atlanta officers get prison time for cover-up in deadly raid

• Robbery Ring Disguised as Drug Raids Nets Convictions for Former LA Cops

• Unlawful Entry

• Parents of Toddler Burned by Drug Warriors Demand Compensation

• After Atlanta raid tragedy, new scrutiny of police tactics

• Update:

  • Virginia's governor signs legislation banning no-knock warrants: "Oregon and Florida have also banned no-knock warrants."

End the "War on Drugs"

• Four Decades and Counting: The Continued Failure of the War on Drugs

• America’s Drug War Is Ruining the World

• 'Global War On Drugs Has Failed,' Former World Leaders Say

• Inside Europe: How Portugal won the war on drugs

• White House Czar Calls for End to 'War on Drugs'

• Failing Drug War: When Cops Become Criminals

• Numbers Tell of Failure in Drug War

• Ending the War on Drugs

• Why the war on drugs must end

Demilitarize the Police

• When police officers are told they’re in a war, they act like it

• Law Enforcement’s "Warrior" Problem

• In Wake of Clashes, Calls to Demilitarize Police

• Rand Paul: We Must Demilitarize the Police

• ‘Do Not Resist’: A chilling look at the normalization of warrior cops

• Battlefield America: The War On The American People

• Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

• Kentucky State Police training slideshow quotes Hitler, advocates 'ruthless' violence

• New Study: Militarizing the Police Doesn’t Reduce Crime

• (One way in which the police should emulate the military: Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks)

Require Body Cameras

• Police complaints drop 93 percent after deploying body cameras

• Use of body-worn cameras sees complaints against police ‘virtually vanish’, study finds

• Police body cameras 'cut complaints against officers'

• San Diego police body camera report: Fewer complaints, less use of force

• Update:

  • N.J. cops must wear body cameras under new laws Gov. Murphy just signed

Setup Civilian Review Boards

• Is Civilian Oversight the Answer to Distrust of Police?

• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States

• The Long Battle for Civilian Oversight of the Police

Collect Data

• How to Actually Fix America’s Police

• Police use of deadly force in the United States

• We Crunched the Numbers: Police — Not Protesters — Are Overwhelmingly Responsible for Attacking Journalists

• Community Oversight — Campaign Zero

Fire Liars

• Hundreds of police officers have been labeled liars. Some still help send people to prison.

• Why the Prevalence of Lying by Police is a Problem for the Innocent

• In Secretly Recorded Phone Calls, Officers Say Innocent People Were Framed

• Controlling the Cops; Accomplices To Perjury

• The Hard Truth About Cops Who Lie

• Testilying: Cops Are Liars Who Get Away with Perjury

• OC sheriff’s deputies who lied on reports testify that they didn’t know it was illegal

Stop Discriminating Against High IQ Applicants

• Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops

• US Court Ruling: You Can Be “Too Smart” to Be a Cop

• Too Smart To Be A Cop?

• Why Would You Deny Someone a Job Because of a High IQ?

/misc | Jun 11, 2020

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