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Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Wandering cops shuffle between departments, abuse citizens

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 17, 2022

Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his dad. The Independence, Ohio, police department hired him but.

Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Two St. Louis police killings similar to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor deaths

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 10, 2022

ST. LOUIS — Five years before George Floyd died of “asphyxia-restraint” on a Minneapolis street, 27-year-old Nicholas Gilbert died.

Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Encircling protesters and targeting journalists undermine right to assemble

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 3, 2022

The right to assemble is as American as apple pie. It is written in the First Amendment — “the.

Media News, News, Police Accountability Project

Abusive police officers evade punishment through an array of legal roadblocks to accountability

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • December 22, 2021

Police officers who abuse citizens usually escape punishment because of an array of legal doctrines that stack the law.

News

Publisher’s Note: The First Amendment’s nervous breakdown at 230

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • November 16, 2021

230 years after its ratification, the First Amendment is having a nervous breakdown. Billions of bits of information and.

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