“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
When the Los Angeles Police Department had a contest in Feb. 1955 to select a motto for the department, officer Joseph S. Dorobek submitted the winning slogan that has since been adopted by many police forces: “To Protect and to Serve.” Since President Nixon launched...
A newly-released major audit of law enforcement agencies in California show that some of the largest police departments in the state have been illegally sharing automated license plate reader surveillance and tracking data with other entities around the country. Up to...
If you’ve seen the film minority report – or read the Philip K Dick short story it’s based on, you’re familiar with the idea of “precrime.” It’s a dystopian vision of a predictive policing system where government detains people before they commit a given crime....