Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw testified before state legislators today that the police response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was an “abject failure” and said he strongly believed that the door to the classroom, which police officers waited outside of for more than an hour, was unlocked. The statements were […]
In the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde Texas, news outlets around the country have filed scores of public records requests trying to uncover more information about the delayed police response, but law enforcement agencies are fighting to reject those requests. Last week, a law firm representing the city of Uvalde sent a letter […]
Florida deputies shot and killed a man during an eviction process, and now a judge is prohibiting a local newspaper from printing the names of the officers involved. You can blame Florida’s Marsy’s Law for this unconstitutional censorship. These laws, passed through the ballot initiative process in a dozen states, were intended to detail certain […]
After spending over $21 billion trying to train a national police force in Afghanistan, the United States splurged on equipment rather than focusing on institutional reform and churned out police trainees who were effectively “barely qualified mall guards,” per an international observer. That’s according to a sprawling new report published by the Special Inspector General […]