Drug Enforcement Administration pays nearly $1 million for passenger data it could have gotten for free

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The nation's premiere drug war agency paid an Amtrak employee nearly one million dollars in government funds in exchange for passenger information the spies could have gotten for free. The Amtrak employee sold passenger data to the DEA "regularly" since 1995. And we only know about it because Amtrak—not the DEA—told the public.

Ferguson woke up the country to police militarization—now’s the time to act

Raytheon to open research center at UMASS Lowell as campus continues to militarize

Savage violence against young black men in America must end

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Private Westlake mall security pepper-sprayed and then arrested a young black male bystander at a Palestine justice demonstration in Seattle, Washington this week. The video above shows what happened right after the young man was sprayed in his eyes with the chemical weapon.

State senator asks Ferguson police chief if his officers will tear gas her again

Ferguson holds up a mirror to militarized American society, where dissent is a threat and police are above the law

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If companies don’t store detailed dossiers on us, the government won’t come knocking for them

NYPD spies on and then arrests man who filmed Eric Garner’s killing

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Gather round, people who think you have "nothing to hide."

Texas border war on steroids with Swiss made surveillance plane, infrared cameras

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Police officer in Massachusetts accused of using database access to aid kidnapping

Dedham police officer arrested in connection with kidnapping case #wcvb pic.twitter.com/0Okq6NwY3x