The NYPD is conducting an internal affairs investigation after an officer used a Taser on a pregnant teenager. The chaotic situation in the hallway of a Bronx apartment building was captured on cell phone video and then made its way to social media and the news media. Dailene Rosario, a 17-year-old who is fourteen weeks […]

At some point in the average person’s life they are likely to have encountered an overzealous police officer who issued a ticket for some minor infraction, such as jaywalking or driving with a burnt-out turn signal. The fines for such trivial offenses are often somewhat formidable, and in many cases the recipient of the ticket feels […]

Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin failed to recognize the recent events at the UC Berkeley campus as Left-wing inspired terrorist attacks against free speech. Arreguin sided with the unruly crowd who used force to intimidate other protesters, physically attacking some of them. Rioters also shot fireworks at the building where Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak. […]

Thousands of identity thieves have made away with hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen earnings from the Social Security program, a new internal government investigation has revealed. And roughly $30 million of this fiat loot was obtained by criminals committing identity theft using the social security numbers (SSNs) of people who are already deceased. […]

In mid-August of 2006, Candace Hiltz’s parents immediately called the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) after finding their daughter murdered inside their home. Investigators promptly arrived at the scene, but the family wasn’t exactly thrilled with the investigation. Pieces of evidence were left behind by investigators, and the police identified Candace’s brother James as the prime […]

On Tuesday afternoon, a Los Angeles man randomly started stabbing people on Sunset Boulevard, right across the street from CNN’s Hollywood location. The suspect managed to injure four people before being shot to death by Los Angeles Police Department officers. The attack happened in broad daylight, presumably while CNN employees were coming and going on […]

In yet another example of the government wasting taxpayer dollars to enforce ridiculous laws and regulations, a police officer in Roseville, Michigan wrote resident Nick Taylor a $128 ticket for committing the heinous crime of cranking his vehicle up and turning the heat on without actually sitting inside of the cold car. Taylor’s intention was obvious: ensuring […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Hours after a fugitive in the slaying of a police officer told a judge he was brutalized during his arrest, Orlando’s police chief released a video of his surrender and described the suspect as “extremely violent, dangerous and very unpredictable.” (Article by Mail.com) The nighttime aerial video shows Markeith Loyd crawling […]

The New York Department of Corrections (DOC) has a long history of illegal, invasive and humiliating strip searches. According to The New York Times, in a 10-month period spanning 1996 and 1997, more then 50,000 individuals – many of whom were either first time offenders, or arrested for “minor infractions like loitering, disorderly conduct or subway offenses” – […]

2016 went out with a bang in regards to the growing police state in America that many people try their best to ignore. In what surely has to be one of the stranger, and more enraging, stories of the past year, a man was thrown in jail for possessing kitty litter — which the police […]

Privacy is something that should be extremely important to every free American. On the surface, it still is, but its importance has certainly been dwindling in recent years. After it was revealed that the Obama administration has been pushing forward to make it much easier for the government to spy on the American people, the […]

Service professionals working various positions in Illinois will now be required to complete domestic abuse prevention training as part of their licensing requirements. The new law, which just went into effect on Sunday, impacts hair stylists, barbers, cosmetologists, estheticians, hair braiders and nail technicians. Although workers won’t be required to report violence, they are protected […]

In the latest incident of law enforcement gone too far, a Houston man was charged and arrested for possession. You may be wondering, “What’s so bad about that?” And normally, you’d be correct. But in this particular incident, the man in question — one Ross LeBeau — was merely in possession of kitty litter. Kitty […]

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (Article by John W. Whitehead, republished by rutherford.org) Despite our best efforts, we in the American police state seem to be stuck on repeat, reliving the same set of circumstances over and over and over again: egregious […]

A bureaucratic mistake has led to the imprisonment of a Chicago area mother. For 49 days, Latasha Eatman was forced to leave her six-year-old son behind, missing both his birthday, and Thanksgiving. Eatman was held without bail after a series of miscommunications took place between several law enforcement agencies and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s […]