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“In California v. Lange�?(2019), the California Court of Appeal held that a police offer may always enter a suspect’s home without a warrant if the officer is in “hot pursuit” of the suspect and has probable cause to believe that the suspect has committed a misdemeanor.

May be a first amendment right (and probably should be). A lot of people that work with the public don’t particularly care for this, but often times its the appearance of things that is more important than the ability to do or not do something (if you can’t record certain people because of their job or station when they are in public, it implies they have something to hide.

The police break into the wrong home belonging to a 78 year old they throw to the ground and the court decides the police and the government are protected by “qualified immunity.”

“The Justice Department will require federal agents to wear body cameras when executing arrest warrants or searching buildings, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Monday, reversing a longstanding federal policy as more local police agencies mandate the devices for accountability.”

It is often hard to believe that people will admit to things they didn’t do, but it happens more often than people believe.�? A pretty good summation of the phenomenon is right here.

Can often be unending and impossible to get out of once the whole is dug deep enough.�? The working poor often have vehicles that aren’t working well

A fifth of the gun owners are new gun owners, and the volume of firearms being purchased is higher than it has been before.

Here’s the article and video of the FBI searching a woman’s safety deposit box despite it being outside of the warrant and a lack of any evidence of doing anything wrong.

Supreme Court refuses to hear inmates plea for a firing squad.

“Until January 2020, the Portland Police Bureau did not have mobile forensics policy guiding how it conducted the searches. Absent policies, officers were still constrained by nascent and rapidly changing case law.