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1 Dec 2020, 10:22 am by rainey Reitman
Cities and police forces are being sold equipment that can identify and track citizens as they go about their business in real time. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Although Biden has said prosecuting a former president would be a “very unusual thing and probably not very good for democracy,” he also vowed in an NPR interview in August that he would not “interfere with the Justice Department’s judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law. [read post]
26 Oct 2020, 5:00 am by Kevin
According to the ABA Journal (which links to the DOJ press release and the plea agreement), the scheme involved stealing traffic crash reports from the Detroit Police Department for use by others to identify and solicit the victims as potential clients. [read post]
9 Oct 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The department says these activities are not political and rejects the allegation the signed letters are a violation of the Hatch Act. [read post]
10 Sep 2020, 9:05 pm by Joshua Burd
Detroit Police Chief James Craig claimed that the order has not impacted police actions as the department’s policy not to use force against peaceful protesters already complies with the ruling. [read post]
The post US federal judge bars Detroit police from using excessive force against peaceful protestors appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
14 Aug 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
The court sounded sharply skeptical about arguments by Flynn’s attorney and the Justice Department that U.S. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 1:05 pm by Tia Sewell
The White House has deployed hundreds of federal agents to cities including Chicago, Kansas City and Detroit amid a sharp spike in violence, reports the Wall Street Journal. [read post]
7 Aug 2020, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  Earlier this week the New York Times podcast The Daily ran an episode about Robert Julian-Borchak Williams, a man who was arrested, jailed, and accused of larceny after being misidentified by facial recognition software used by the Detroit Police Department. [read post]
31 Jul 2020, 11:41 am by Sanjali De Silva
In cities like Detroit, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and South Bend, Indiana, campus police departments also patrol in the city, often in predominantly Black neighborhoods which already suffer from devastating structural inequalities. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 9:57 am by Kanya Bennett
Despite the dangerous nature of these weapons, local police departments continue to have access to them, free of charge, through the Department of Defense 1033 program. [read post]
29 Jul 2020, 9:48 am by Paul Cassell
Similarly, police departments often keep data on street stops and other measures of police activity. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
‘It Was Like Being Preyed Upon’: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them Washington Post – Katie Shepherd | Published: 7/17/2020 Several men in green military fatigues and generic “police” patches sprang out of an unmarked gray minivan in front of Mark Pettibone during a protest in Portland, Oregon. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 12:30 pm by John Ross
In which two-thirds of a Sixth Circuit panel "encourage[s] the interested reader to watch the video for herself" to see if Detroit officers used excessive force putting a wheelchair-bound protester into a police van. [read post]
7 Jul 2020, 1:00 pm by Guest Author Gary Arlen
 Nonetheless, police attacked the scrum with pepper spray and rubber bullets. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 8:51 am by Stewart Baker
The ACLU has filed a complaint against the Detroit police, faulting them for arresting the wrong man based on a faulty match provided by facial recognition software. [read post]
30 Jun 2020, 9:12 am by Timothy B. Lee
Detroit's police chief admitted on Monday that facial recognition technology used by the department misidentifies suspects about 96 percent of the time. [read post]