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Jefferson County, Florida, is in northern Florida and had a population of only 14,761 at the 2010 census. It elects County Commissioners from five single-member districts. District three happens to contain a state prison that has 1,157 inmates.
On March 9, some voters who live in Jefferson County, but outside district 3, filed a federal lawsuit, alleging that the County Commission Districts violate the U.S. Constitution. When the county draws the districts, it uses census data to make sure the districts have approximately equal population. However, 43.2% of the voting age population in District 3 is in …read more

On February 25, the Arizona House of Representatives passed HB 2608. It makes it far more difficult for a member of a small qualified party to get on his or her own party’s primary ballot. Existing law makes the number of signatures 1% of a party’s registration. The bill converts that to one-fourth of 1% of all the registered voters for statewide office, and one-half of 1% for U.S. House and legislature.
It is irrational to raise the number of signatures for primary ballot access, since no minor party primary ballot in Arizona has ever been crowded. …read more

As more and more officers across the country expose quota systems within their departments the mission of the American police officer is becoming quite clear; revenue generator.
As there is no money in solving murders or preventing rapes, police departments in America have focused their duties on traffic citations and the drug war. Both of these venues are highly profitable for departments.
City and state governments have become so addicted to these revenue streams that we are now seeing full-on military raids on people in fruitless attempts to find drugs and money. Along with the drug raids, we are seeing police officers …read more

New York, NY — A lawsuit has been brought against two New York City cops claiming they exploited a mentally challenged woman for their own disgusting buffoonery.
According to the complaint, Hannah Biggan – a janitor working at the 52nd Precinct station in the Bronx for 23 years – claimed that in May 2013 officers Nicholas Konner and John Repetti gave her a size 3XL t-shirt with “I’m Dope @cashcowmovement” written on it.
They then asked her to put it on and pose with Konner, while both men cruelly mocked her and snapped photos, the complaint says.
“She had no idea what it …read more

This story says the Kentucky Republican Party doesn’t want to switch from a presidential primary to a caucus, unless the party can construct a method for overseas military voters to participate in a caucus. …read more

Louisiana Court of Appeals orders compensation for woman arrested for driving while black in Woodworth.

The NewsPaper.com
The town of Woodworth, Louisiana is in hot water. Police officers were caught on dashcam video shaking down innocent motorists during a traffic stop, and the state’s second highest court wants the city to pay for it. On Wednesday, the Court of Appeals in favor of Patricia Parker’s lawsuit against the town.
At 6am on January 4, 2009, Parker was in a pickup truck driving her colleagues, Rufus Smith and Gracie Jackson, to work at the Methodist Center. As she drove on Coulee Crossing Road, Officer …read more

Protesters in Chicago have held a rally to demand the police shut down a formerly abandoned warehouse that is reportedly being used to interrogate suspected criminals without recourse to legal representation.
RT.com
The detention facility, which was first brought to public attention in a report by the Guardian in February, is a plain warehouse located on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, which has“long been the scene of secretive work by special police units,” the paper revealed.
While many Americans are aware of the ongoing militarization of their police departments, with the federal government backing programs that allow local police forces to …read more

On March 7, the Kentucky Republican Party kept the idea of using a caucus, instead of a presidential primary, alive, although the idea still hasn’t been approved. See this story. …read more

“It’s like having an 18- wheeler driving on your chest and you believe that the only way to get that weight off your chest is to tell the police whatever they want to hear … even admitting to a murder.” – Marty Tankleff describing the police interrogation that brought about his false confession and conviction, when he was a juvenile.

More than two decades later, juvenile police interrogations are still a wretched procedure. Only recently has light been shed on the coercive, deceptive tactics used by U.S. police departments to get kids to waive their Constitutional rights and fess up, whether …read more