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Shifting the Overton Window (Episode 17)

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Join us this week as we cover the Attorney General resurrecting civil asset forfeiture, a big win for a pro se litigant down in Florida, the latest in misbehavior by law enforcement around the country, and then spend our #Law140 segment talking about ways to get involved with reforming our justice system.

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Show Notes:

  • Sean Spicer has resigned, and the new guy is about the same as the old guy (Washington Post)
  • Naranjillo Nixon wants everyone to know he has “complete power to pardon” (Twitter)
  • The Apricot Authoritarian had some choice words about the Attorney General (New York Times)
  • Attorney General Beauregard perjured himself… (Washington Post)
  • …and is bringing back civil asset forfeiture with a vengeance (Twitter)
  • 11th Circuit rules in favor of a pro se litigant on recording police (Scribd)
  • The Illinois Supreme Court ends a prosecutor’s roving group of highway bandits (Forbes)
  • Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court says its new sex offender registry is an ex post facto law (Sentencing Law & Policy Blog)
  • New Jersey’s Supreme Court rules police video is a public record (NJ.com)
  • Colorado’s Court of Appeals ends the use of K9s for traffic drug searches (Justia)
  • CJ Ciaremella on bad forensic labs (Reason Magazine)
  • Excellent long-form piece on defense attorneys who become elected DAs (Christian Science Monitor)
  • 99% of the jail population growth over the past 15 years: pre-trial detention (Arizona Capitol Times)
  • The federal Bureau of Prisons deals with the mentally ill by tossing them in solitary (The Marshall Project)
  • ALASKA: Police fight for their right to sleep with prostitutes before arrest (Glamour Magazine)
  • ARIZONA: Inmates testify to inhumane prison conditions (KJZZ 91.5)
  • CALIFORNIA: Perris police beat, arrest 52-year-old woman for selling unlicensed flowers (UK Daily Mail)
  • COLORADO: Boulder cops will now ticket you for not pressing the crosswalk button (Fox 31)
  • COLORADO: Longmont PD refuses to release details on that illegal training exercise (The Times-Call)
  • Our podcast on the Longmont program (Fsck ‘Em All)
  • DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Secret Service attempts to stop an anti-Trump protest (Periscope)
  • FLORIDA: Ocoee police commit puppycide (Fox 35)
  • ILLINOIS: Great editorial on ending taillight policing (Chicago Tribune)
  • MARYLAND: Baltimore police catch themselves planting drugs (Baltimore Sun)
    • My tweet on these clown-show f*cks – now my most-viewed tweet ever (Twitter)
    • MINNESOTA: Minneapolis bodycam released confirming last week’s puppycide (StarTribune)
    • MINNESOTA: And the Chief of Police has resigned (StarTribune)
    • MISSOURI: St Louis County police tape paper over security cameras to avoid doing their jobs (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
    • NEW HAMPSHIRE: Gilford police spend the day herding buffalo (Yahoo News)
    • NEW JERSEY: Dashcam video of the Rahway mayor’s reckless driving has been released (NJ.com)
    • NEW YORK: 18-year-old Pedro Hernandez is in Rikers for a murder 9 people say he didn’t commit (Pix 11)
    • OHIO: Ray Tensing will officially get away with the murder of Samuel DuBose (WCPO 9)
    • OHIO: police prosecute a 9th grader for not paying a free fare (WKYC 3))
    • PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia’s Police Advisory Commission refuses to investigate the execution of David Jones (WHYY)
    • SOUTH CAROLINA: Psychological exams will now be mandatory for all police (US News)
    • SOUTH CAROLINA: Spartanburg officer arrests an 11-year-old boy and his mother for literally nothing (Twitter)
    • TENNESSEE: White County judge Sam Benningfield brings back eugenics (NBC News)
    • TEXAS: Balch Springs officer Roy Oliver has been indicted for murder (Twitter)
      • Our episode on the execution of Jordan Edwards (Fsck #2)
      • UTAH: Orem police claimed to put a 17-year-old on a terrorist watchlist for Instagram (BuzzFeed)
      • VERMONT: Burlington police release bodycam video arresting 18-year-old Logan Huysman (The Root)
      • WASHINGTON: Thurston County Sheriff’s Office recommends assault charges against two Shelton police officers for brutally beating a homeless man (The Olympian)
      • WASHINGTON: A 14-year-old girl is beaten in Vancouver for stealing candy (KATU 2)
      • Right on Crime
      • The R Street Institute
      • The Charles Koch Institute
      • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
      • Campaign Zero
      • My criminal justice platform from my NC Senate campaign

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