Why Would You Cooperate With Someone Whos Trying to Arrest you? |
By Scott Morgan In a fascinating NYT article on overzealous marijuana policing in New York City, I found this rather revealing passage: "I came out of the building, and this unmarked car, ...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Tue, 06 May 2008 12:27:00 PST |
No Warrant, No Search (video) |
By Steven SilvermanA couple weeks ago Scott and I joined the National Capitol Area ACLU for a door-to-door outreach effort in Southeast D.C. warning citizens about a "knock and talk" program the DC Po...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:40:00 PST |
Are Racist Cops Better Organized Than We Thought? |
By Scott Morgan This is just chilling:INSIDE the locker of a narcotics cop, Philadelphia police officials recently made a shocking discovery: A cartoon of a man, half as an officer in uniform and half...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:50:00 PST |
Plaintiffs Wanted for Right-to-Record-Police-Officers Case |
by Steven Silverman Eugene Volokh, of The Volokh Conspiracy got this request from Michael Rosman at the Center for Individual Rights writes:Like many of your readers, I was ...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:53:00 PST |
Severe Police Tactics in Suburbia |
by Steven Silverman I'm about to dive into a three-part series in The Philadelphia Inquirer investigating heavy-handed policing tactics in suburbia.It makes me proud that my hometown paper has the bal...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:02:00 PST |
Spread Holiday Cheer, Help Flex Your Rights |
For Immediate Release: Since its release in 2003, many of you have encouraged us to build on Busted's massive success by creating a new film dealing with the concerns of communities ...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:51:00 PST |
Police have been Tasering a lot of people lately... |
By Scott MorganHorrifying videos of police tasering people are finding their way onto the internet with alarming frequency as of late...To continue reading, follow the link below to Flex Your Rights...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:48:00 PST |
Bad Cop Caught on Camera |
By Scott MorganWhile most police officers are hard working professionals, far too many are total psychos. Knowing your rights is an important first line of defense against harassment by law-enforcemen...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:22:00 PST |
Videotaping Police Should Never Be a Crime |
By Steven Silverman Radley Balko, one of our favorite fellow constitutional fetishists, has an informative FoxNews.com piece on the legality of videotaping police encounters. For those of yo...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:50:00 PST |
Supreme Court Victory: Passengers Have Rights Too |
By scottmorgan On June 18th, the U.S. Supreme Court stood up for the 4th Amendment with a forceful unanimous ruling in Brendlin v. California:WASHINGTON Passengers in cars that are stopped by the po...
Posted by Flex Your Rights on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:36:00 PST |
