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Baltimore Revelations: Thousands of Suspects Arrive Too Injured To Go To Jail
Records obtained by the Baltimore Sun show that correctional officers refused to admit nearly 2,600 severely injured detainees who were in police custody between 2012 and 2015.
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NSA Phone Surveillance Revealed By Edward Snowden Ruled Illegal
The U.S. court of appeals has ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata is unlawful, in a landmark decision that clears the way for a full legal challenge against the National Security Agency.
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Material Responsibility: What the Banks Did To Baltimore
Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank and Deutsche Bank manipulated “interest rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of loans and investments” purportedly used to fund Baltimore and other cities.
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French Lawmakers Pass Sweeping Surveillance Bill, Drawing Outcry
The new law would permit intelligence services to place cameras and recording devices in suspects' homes and beacons on their cars without prior authorization from a judge.
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Why Countries Across the World Are Revoking Freedom Of Assembly
Faced with mounting unrest and unwilling to offer reforms, democratic governments are rolling back traditional rights at an alarming rate. How many rights must be abrogated before a democracy becomes a police state?
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Stepping Out From Shadow of Patriot Act, It's Time To End NSA Data Collection
Maintaining a database of phone records upends a fundamental premise of the Constitution – the government should intrude on Americans’ private lives only if it has probable cause to suspect criminal activity.
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Just Last Month Maryland Cop Lobbyists Helped Block Reforms
A package of police reform bills was weakened under political pressure from Maryland police unions.
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Broke Cities and Broken Bodies – It’s Time to Make the Connections
The bankers get our money, charge us for taking it and leave cities’ budgets bare. Schools close, small businesses shut down, social programs fold and only the cops remain.
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Police and Protesters Clash In Baltimore After Freddie Gray's Funeral
“It’s from years and years of taking shit. Now we’re at a point where people just don’t give a fuck.”
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Land Ownership Lies At the Heart of Deadly Statistics About Environmentalist Killings
As people worldwide await the UN conference on climate change in Paris, lost in the larger narrative are the individual stories of people battling environmental injustice on the local level – and paying the biggest price for it.