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Article • April 15, 2025 • from CLN May, 2025
Crowdsourcing a Map to Track License Plate Surveillance by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso An open-source initiative is empowering citizens to monitor automated license plate readers (“ALPRs”) worldwide, cataloging their locations to reveal how police and private companies deploy these surveillance tools. Flock Safety (“Flock”), a leading ALPR vendor …
Article • May 15, 2024 • from CLN May, 2024
California AB 2773 Requires Police to State Reason for Traffic Stops Before Questioning by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Knott On January 1, 2024, Assembly Bill 2773 took effect in California. The law requires police officers to tell drivers why they have been pulled over before questioning them on …
Article • March 15, 2024 • from CLN March, 2024
New York Court of Appeals Announces Traffic Stop of Bicyclist Is Seizure Under Both Fourth Amendment and State Constitution Requiring Reasonable Suspicion of Crime or Probable Cause of Traffic Violation by Richard Resch by Richard Resch The Court of Appeals of New York suppressed incriminating evidence recovered from a cyclist …
Article • June 23, 2023
St. Joseph County Sheriff Pleads Guilty to Two Misdemeanors for Driving Drunk at a 100 mph and Carrying Concealed Weapon While Drunk by Channel 3 News in Michigan reported that St. Joseph County Sheriff Mark Lillywhite, 47, was sentenced to one year of probation after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from CLN July, 2023
Memphis Police Beat Man to Death by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss Five Memphis police officers have been charged with second degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression in the death of the 29-year-old Black motorist Tyre Nichols. Ex-Memphis police Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond …
Article • May 11, 2023
“I Can’t Breathe!” – California Reaches Record $24 Million Civil Rights Settlement in Fatal Police Custody Incident Two Months Before George Floyd Uttered Same Plea by California authorities have reached a groundbreaking settlement in a case that has cast a spotlight on the use of excessive force by law enforcement. …
Article • April 15, 2023
Filed under: Police Chases, Traffic stop
Police Using GPS Sticky Darts to Avoid High-Speed Car Chases by Jordan Arizmendi by Jordan Arizmendi Every day, law enforcement is developing contraptions to make it easier for them to track and ensnare the general public. The latest device is a GPS dart that gets launched onto a suspect’s vehicle …
Article • April 15, 2023 • from CLN May, 2023
Idaho Supreme Court: Drug-Detection Dog Conducted Warrantless Search by Placing Paws on Exterior of Vehicle to Sniff for Drugs by Richard Resch by Richard Resch In a case of first impression, the Supreme Court of Idaho held that police conducted a warrantless search of a vehicle when a drug-detection dog …
Article • March 22, 2023
Facing Driving-While-Suspended Charge in Oregon? DMV Has Thousands of Inaccurate Records, So You May Actually Be Innocent. But Other Innocent Drivers Already Sent to Prison by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Oregon law enforcement stopped Nicholas Chappelle on January 30, 2022, for expired tags. When the officer ran …
Article • January 20, 2023
Tenth Circuit Reminds Cops That Conducting a Traffic Stop to Flirt With Motorist Is Not Okay by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott In December, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit revisited the 2020 decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah in …
Article • January 15, 2023 • from CLN February, 2023
Los Angeles: Police Union Resists Changes to Pretextual Stops by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins In March 2022, the Los Angeles Police Commission, an oversight board of the LAPD, implemented minor policy changes to the way the department conducts pretextual stops. According to the Los Angeles Times, officers “can no …
Article • January 15, 2023 • from CLN February, 2023
Montana Supreme Court: Odor of Marijuana by Itself Insufficient to Prolong Traffic Stop by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso The Supreme Court of Montana ruled a state trooper impermissibly extended a traffic stop to investigate a drug possession based solely on the odor of marijuana and undeveloped hunches. William …
Article • January 11, 2023
Abusive Cop in Vallejo, California, Has Cost the Taxpayers More $500,000 in Settlements; Latest Brutality Victim Is a Marine Veteran and Stanford Grad by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott The City of Vallejo, California, agreed to pay Adrian L. Burrell $300,000 to settle an excessive force lawsuit brought …
Article • December 18, 2022
Maryland Cop Arrested for Sexually Abusing Woman During Traffic Stop by Kaden Gicker by Kaden Gicker A Maryland police officer’s nascent, misconduct-riddled career was upended, when a woman sat down in front of a camera on Oct. 30, 2022, and agreed to be interviewed by detectives. The 27-year-old had a …
Article • December 13, 2022
Tampa Police Chief Resigns After Caught Flashing Her Badge and Sense of Entitlement During Traffic Stop, Asking Cop if He Knew Who She Is by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On November 12, 2022, the former police chief of Tampa, Florida, and her husband decided to ride out …
Article • September 26, 2022
Colorado Female Suspect Hit by Freight Train While Sitting in Cop Car by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Yareni Rios Gonzalez of Greeley, Colorado, was struck by a train in Platteville while sitting detained in the back seat of a patrol car that …
Minnesota Supreme Court Announces Expanding Scope of Traffic Stop to Investigate Occupant’s Pretrial Release Conditions Violates Minnesota Constitution by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In a case of first impressions, the Supreme Court of Minnesota held that violation of a condition of pretrial release doesn’t constitute criminal activity, so police …
Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022
Cop Training Other Cops to Use Facial Recognition to ID Individuals During Traffic Stops by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Maryland Detective Nick Jerman was featured in a July 2021 episode of the Street Cop Podcast in which he teaches officers to use subterfuge and publicly available facial recognition …
Article • March 26, 2022
Tased Genitals During Traffic Stop: ‘Unlawful, Potentially Criminal, and One of the Most Cruel and Troubling Cases of Police Misconduct,’ Say Police Experts by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman Glendale, Arizona, police officer Matt Schneider is facing a civil rights lawsuit for excessive force after tasing a vehicle passenger 11 …
Article • March 12, 2022
What to do if a cop tries to scan your face during a traffic stop by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman In recent years, law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology during investigations has steadily increased. This rise can largely be attributed to the “booming” surveillance industry, which draws from …
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