Law

A Maryland Police Department will be deploying a fleet of what they call “ghost cars”. GeoBeats reports that there is “excitement” in the air at Maryland’s Cecil County Sheriff’s Office: The vehicles are intended to give authorities a leg up in catching criminals, as from a distance they appear to be unmarked. At closer ranges, the law enforcement emblems become clearly visible. Cecil County opted to employ the semi-stealth paint job on Ford SUVs. In announcing the debut of the vehicles, the Sheriff’s Office posted a video on Facebook. It’s titled, “The Ghosts Are Here…..

Three academics in Turkey has been thrown in jail after they signed a peace petition in January 2016 criticising Erdogan’s regime.  The academics were charged with “making terrorist propaganda” and jailed on March 15, 2016 amid an ongoing criminal investigation. Hrw.org reports: At least 30 other academics have been dismissed and 27 suspended by their universities pending investigation. The Istanbul prosecutor responsible for terrorism crimes is conducting a criminal investigation into all the academics who signed the petition and many local investigations are taking place.

An investigation has been launched after a 26-year-old homeless man, who successfully sued police in two New Hampshire counties last year, was found dead in jail Sunday. Last week, police arrested Jeffrey Pendleton for possessing a small amount of cannabis. Even though the plant is legal in some form in 23 state, Pendleton was jailed after a Nashua District Court judge set his bail at $100, an amount he was unable to raise as a homeless person. He was found dead in his cell just five days later. Activist Post reports: “There appeared no indication that Mr.

A top NASA official has been jailed and has subsequently gone missing under suspicious circumstances.  According to an article from June 2015, the NASA COMSEC Administrator was “fired” and put in jail after “admitting” to amassing child pornography whilst at work: “70-year-old NASA worker who was fired last month is in jail after admitting he amassed child pornography.” “He was in a mental hospital, where he was admitted because he was suicidal.” “He was fired May 29 from his job at Kennedy Space Center … as well as Science Applications International Corp., after they accused him of several

A group of homeless people filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles and the police department on Monday over the wrongful seizure and destruction of their property and violation of their civil rights The plaintiffs’ attorney Shayla Meyers told Courthouse News.”We brought this suit to prevent the city from engaging in a practice of unlawfully seizing and destroying homeless people’s property.