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After 21 years of service, Flex Your Rights will close at the end of December. 💪🫡

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Abolish civil asset forfeiture.

Watch Cops Seize Combat Vet's Life Savings [RARE FOOTAGE] Stephen Lara did everything right. But, as subscribers of our YouTube channel know well, even innocent people aren’t safe from civil forfeiture.Stephen is a ...

Dear Henderson, Louisiana, if traffic ticket revenue is the only thing propping up your town, you shouldn't be a town.

From NYT: "... Henderson, La., a town of about 2,000 people perched along Interstate 10 that collected $1.7 million in fines in 2019 — 89 percent of its general revenues — and where officers were accused of illegally receiving cash rewards for writing tickets."

The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops Busted taillights, missing plates, tinted windows: Across the U.S., ticket revenue funds towns — and the police responsible for finding violations.

Cops can't force you to reveal your phone passcode. And if you refuse, they can't use that against you in court.

Police Can’t Demand You Reveal Your Phone Passcode and Then Tell a Jury You Refused The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide your password to law enforcement. Yesterday, along with the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in State v. Valdez, arguing that the constitutional privilege against self-...

Mr. Sankofa and Ms. Thomas bravely refused to consent to a suspicionless search of their vehicle. If they had agreed to a search, the Michigan State Police troopers might have dismissed them more quickly. But by waiving their rights — they’d otherwise have little or no chance for success in court.

ACLU Sues Michigan State Police for Racial Profiling and Unlawful Search and Seizure During Traffic Stop For years MSP has ignored urgent pleas to hire expert to review trooper traffic stop practices and implement plan to end racist policing FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DETROIT – Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan (ACLU) filed a federal lawsuit against the Michigan State Police (MSP) for r...

McGruff the Crime Dog has a new rights-flexing message!

McGruff the Crime Dog changes his mind in parody poster | Boing Boing McGruff the Crime Dog was created in 1980 to fight crime by appealing to children, but he’s been adopted by Means TV and is now providing the standard ACLU-approved advice on dealing with pol…

This cop thought he was clever. Lucky for us, he didn't anticipate that the video would go so viral that the bosses at YouTube would selectively override their Content ID automated takedown system. 😆

Watch a police officer admit to playing Taylor Swift to keep a video off YouTube He was apparentely trying to trigger an automatic takedown.

Imagine if your local fire department kept a secret list of arsonist firefighters. Would that be more or less outrageous than a DA with a confidential list of cops who are too crooked to testify in court?

Activists Demand To See Prince George’s ‘Do Not Call’ List Of Officers Who Cannot Testify In Trial | WAMU Prosecutors in many jurisdictions maintain such lists to keep track of officers with disciplinary or criminal backgrounds that could make them unreliable witnesses.

Confronting “the most awful thing she’s ever seen,” Darnella Frazier could have done the safest thing and walked away. Instead, she gazed into the heart of darkness, holding her hands steady for 10 minutes and nine seconds, capturing the last moments of a man’s life. Although her video changed the world forever, she suffers from survivor’s guilt.

“It’s been nights, I stayed up apologizing and apologizing to George Floyd for not doing more and not physically interacting and not saving his life,” she told the courtroom. Of course, no rational worldview would expect her to jump headfirst into the jaws of state power to save a stranger caught in its teeth. That burden of guilt belongs to the police. But facing a moment of horror beyond her control, Frazier did the wisest and most heroic thing within her power: she filmed the police.

Tearful witness regrets not doing more to possibly save George Floyd's life Darnella Frazier said that when she rewatches the video, she thinks of Black loved ones who could have been under a police officer's knee.

The people have spoken.

Police reform was a big winner this election These local ballot measure wins are just a first step in a "multi-year" fight to rethinking policing, activists say.

President Trump is an enemy of police reform. Pass it on.

Opinion | The Dystopian Police State the Trump Administration Wants Law enforcement’s problems could get even worse.

Here are five tips to keep cops from breaking into the “window to your soul.”

1) Never consent to a search. Cops don’t need a warrant or fancy technology to crack your phone if you hand it over at their request. So don’t let them trick or threaten you into giving verbal or written consent to search it.

2) If you can shell out the extra bucks, buy an iPhone. They’re more challenging to crack than Android devices.

3) Whether you’ve got an iPhone or Android, encrypt the contents of your device.

4) Ditch Face ID or Touch ID and go with a passcode entry. More digits = more security. For example, a six-digit iPhone passcode takes on average about 11 hours to guess. A 10-digit code takes 12.5 years to crack.

5) Make them work for it. If you encrypt your device with a strong passcode and refuse to consent to a search, cops might threaten to get a warrant to crack it. Again, never agree to a search. I’m repeating this because your security will fail you 100% of the time if you consent.

The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies have tools to get into encrypted smartphones, according to new research, and they are using them far more than previously known.