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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Wisconsin filed suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Wednesday alleging that the Milwaukee Police Department discriminates against black and Latino men...

New York City on Monday agreed to settle a 2010 lawsuit filed against the New York Police Department (NYPD) for issuing summonses without legal justification. The lawsuit regards approximately 900,000 summonses...

The Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he plans to declare martial law if the country's drug problem becomes "very virulent." Duterte, who recently called reports that he intended to institute martial law "nonsense," has made a...

The Connecticut ACLU filed a lawsuit on Thursday against three officers on behalf of a DUI-checkpoint protester, Michael Picard. Video footage was soon after released showing the officers discussing bringing false charges against Picard. Picard...

A Chicago task force assigned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday issued a report finding that racism has caused systematic failures within the city's police department. The report includes statistics illustrating how African Americans are...

Three former detainees filed a lawsuit Monday against the City of Chicago and a number of Chicago police officers for alleged abuse at an "off the books" detention center. The lawsuit alleges abuses at the Homan...

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday ruled to broaden police authority to search vehicles without a warrant based on probable cause. The ruling, which was decided 5-2, was praised by the state attorney general...

The Chicago Police Department has decided to allow independent evaluations of their stop-and-frisk procedures that many have said specifically target African Americans under an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) . The...

JURIST Guest Columnist Fredrick Vars, of the University of Alabama School of Law, discusses the new Alabama Gun Control Law and argues that the state's gun regulations will be largely unaffected by the new constitutional amendment...Alabama voters, on November 4,...

New York City on Wednesday formally dropped the city's appeal of rulings in lawsuits involving the New York Police Department's (NYPD) use of stop-and-frisk tactics. Mayor Bill De Blasio's administration agreed...