So I saw a few posts from mrjarral as this has worked its way through the legislative and judicial systems, but my search did not turn up this little late-breaking tidbit.
Supreme Court rules police can take DNA swabs from those arrested | Fox News
I'm going to have to read the whole...
On Friday, April 19, 2013, during a manhunt for a bombing suspect, police and federal agents spent the day storming people's homes and performing illegal searches. While it was unclear initially if the home searches were voluntary, it is now crystal clear that they were absolutely NOT...
The recent events in Boston has me thinking. What are your rights if something like this happened in Indiana?
Someone is on the run and the SWAT teams start searching in your area. They knock on the door and you answer. They want to search and you say "NO". He's not here.
What happens next???
United States Supreme Court holds that a dog sniff on your porch is a search pursuant to the Fourth Amendment.
Opinion issued in Florida v. Jardines (Updated) : SCOTUSblog
Here we go again. Obama is allowing the spy agencies to investigate your personal finances.
EXCLUSIVE - U.S. to let spy agencies scour Americans' finances | Reuters
Stop-and-frisk: A needed reality - Chicago Tribune
It's all about the guns. Don't worry about your rights, safety is far more important.
Yes, goose-stepping into the future.
Amazing. Yes, do away with the Constitution, that will solve everything. Until it doesn't. Then what?
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http://youtu.be/u4Ku17CqdZg
Checkpoints (some would say illegal checkpoints) have been popping up quite frequently in the USA. As you see in this video, you DO NOT have to comply with their questions or demands. Don’t forget, you have rights.
Having nothing to hide is not a valid enough...
After a fatal shooting occurred in Santa Cruz between police and a suspect, police decided to "secure the area" by going house-to-house, searching homes, garages, even closets, to determine whether there might be additional suspects.
Not to diminish loss of life, but police MUST obtain probable...
Wow. Talk about over reach. These people don't even think when they draft this crap. Giving the sheriff carte blanche to just enter and search a persons house without a warrant. All to insure that people are storing their firearms the way the government wants. Disgusting...
An Arizona Court of Appeals has taken the position that it is legal to give drivers a DUI if they ingested marijuana weeks earlier. Police can use blood tests to test for marijuana and 'its metabolite,' which can remain detectable in the body for around 4 weeks, and holds no bearing on...
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly says that within 6 months, police will have Tera-hertz radiation (T-ray) scanners on the streets, scanning pedestrians for concealed firearms.
If this technology ends up being used to generate probable cause, anyone could be stopped and searched at any time, and...
The National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) now has the power to troll through databases of "records" on innocent Americans, looking for non-criminal behavior patterns that they can use to create new terror suspects. This seems to be new ground for the agency (on the record, anyways).
U.S...
Two women say that after being pulled over for littering, Texas State Troopers insisted that they must be carrying marijuana in their vehicle and body orifices. A female officer slipped on a rubber glove, rubbed her hands all over the womens' breasts, and inside their pants where they say...
They gave us a taste of what TSA highway checkpoints would look like when the media covered the VIPR Teams harassing truck drivers in 2011. Now the TSA is asking for funding to create a Highway "BASE" (Baseline Assessment for Security Enhancement) program to expand their security theater to...
This Police Chief says his officers will be out in force, carrying rifles, questioning where people are going and demanding their IDs. If they refuse, they will be arrested. Citizens will have to prove their innocence to walk around in public.
Stay tuned for follow up stories of officers...
UK police officer fired following viral video, student talks to WHAS11 | WHAS11.com Louisville
Interesting that it appears that the aggressive physical contact seems to have been the reason for firing, although that would have been a bit harder from the other side of the door.