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Simply carrying a large amount of cash in a grocery sack in your car is now sufficient grounds for a police officer to seize your money, a US circuit court has ruled. A panel of the Eighth US Circuit Court ...

An Indiana woman is facing felony charges that could land her in jail for three years and cost her her job because she refused to pull off the road for a sheriff’s deputy on a dark country road. DelRea Good, ...

Simply questioning civil forfeiture apparently can get you arrested and jailed in Michigan. On Feb. 23, cancer patient Thomas Williams, 72, was featured in a Detroit Free Press article about a drug taskforce’s seizure of his television, cell phone, shotgun, ...

Police used a SWAT team, an armored vehicle and a flash-bang grenade to raid the home of a man wanted simply for unemployment insurance fraud. To make matters worse, the raid ended with the shooting of a North Miami Beach ...

Police in Chicago circumvented the Constitution by setting up a so-called “black site,” a secret jail where US citizens were held without charges or access to lawyers — and even possibly abused, The Guardian newspaper is alleging. The police are ...

A very sick joke apparently led to a SWAT team raid on an innocent man’s home, as well as the shooting of a police chief. Police raided the home of a Sentinel, Oklahoma, man in late January because of a ...

For two years, dozens of law enforcement agencies quietly have been using radar equipment that can literally see through walls, and they have been doing so without a warrant. The radar’s use was only revealed by a federal court case ...

Letting your children play in the park and walk home together on the street is now a crime in Montgomery County, Maryland, according to one family. Danielle Meitiv claims her husband was threatened by police in front of their children ...

Police can now stop you and search your vehicle even if you are not obviously violating the law, according to a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling. In a landmark case called Heien v. State of North Carolina, the court ruled ...

Police in one Wisconsin town are telling residents: Let us search your home for guns you don’t know you have. Incredibly, the police want to come into homes without a warrant to look for firearms that have perhaps been long ...