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Op-Ed

Our Platform To Reduce Police Violence

Post author By Alex Marthews
Post date September 4, 2020
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The United States is in the middle of a pandemic of racist police violence that shows no sign of abating. For many police officers, expressing verbal opposition to a police killing, police tactic or police budget, is itself an act of unreasoning aggression no sane person could endorse. So it’s at protests against police violence […]

Tags DHS, forfeitures, ice, immigrants, immigration, no-knock warrants, police, police brutality, police surveillance, qualified immunity, surveillance, surveillance ordinances, surveillance reform

Op-Ed

OP-ED: THE COLLAPSE OF “REGULAR ORDER” IN CONGRESS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR SURVEILLANCE REFORM

Post author By restorethe4th
Post date December 12, 2017
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Summary To the surprise of few, Congress is once again failing to function. Congress is in a pickle, and is structurally unable to return to anything resembling “regular order”; The reform or renewal of Section 702 (which allows the infamous ‘backdoor searches’ on American citizens) may be kicked down the road to the spring as […]

Tags congress, FISA, FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act, section 702, surveillance reform