- Nevada State Troopers: Our Drug Dogs Are a Con: "the drug-sniffing dogs... were intentionally being trained to operate as so-called trick ponies, or dogs that provide officers false alerts for the presence of drugs." http://www.theagitator.com/2012/06/29/new-hampshire-state-troopers-our-drug-dogs-are-a-con/ 390 comments politics
- The Costs of Sanctioned Police Dishonesty: 'The police lied to get into a woman’s home. This isn’t disputed. They then claim she gave them permission to search further. This, she disputes. So it’s her word against the police officer’s. Florida Circuit Judge Will gives his opinion http://www.theagitator.com/2012/06/03/the-costs-of-police-dishonesty/ 104 comments politics
- Monterey cop took $22,000 off a driver - even though he had committed no crime. Officer Bates confiscated the cash based on his suspicion that it was drug money... the amount of money and the way it was packed gave him reason to be suspicious http://www.theagitator.com/2012/05/14/another-highway-robbery/ 19 comments politics
- Illinois Republicans Kill Amendment That Would Allow Citizens To Record Police http://www.theagitator.com/2012/03/22/illinois-republicans-kill-amendment-that-would-allow-citizens-to-record-police/ 21 comments politics
- Two residents received the full brunt force of a SWAT drug raid because they dared to exercise their constitutional rights - previously they had refused to let cops in because they didn’t have a warrant http://www.theagitator.com/2012/02/29/turns-out-they-had-nothing-to-hide/ 22 comments politics
- 20 cops crashed into man's home; zipcuffed, kicked and punched him until he was unconscious, lying in a pool of his own blood. They searched his house and didn’t find what they were after -- but there's no record of the incident anywhere http://www.theagitator.com/2012/02/03/lawsuit-alleges-another-isolated-incident/ 407 comments politics
- ICE mistakenly deports a 14-year-old U.S. citizen to Colombia: The Colombian govt is now refusing to release her from a detention center http://www.theagitator.com/2012/01/04/good-enough-for-government-work-7/ 56 comments politics
- Congress, Department of Justice Want to Make It a Federal Crime To Lie on the Internet http://www.theagitator.com/2011/11/16/congress-obama-administration-want-to-make-it-a-federal-crime-to-lie-on-the-internet/ 13 comments politics
- Texas Appeals Court: Motorists Have No Right To Potentially Exculpatory Dashcam Footage http://www.theagitator.com/2011/08/15/texas-appeals-court-motorists-have-no-right-to-potentially-exculpatory-dashcam-footage/ 17 comments politics
- Police: 69-yr-old man killed by police during paramilitary drug raid shows the dangers police must face every day http://www.theagitator.com/2011/06/21/police-man-killed-by-police-during-paramilitary-drug-raid-shows-dangers-of-paramilitary-drug-raids-dangers-police-must-face-every-day/ 44 comments politics
- A SF public defender releasing video of cops in civilian clothes caught raiding hotel rooms without search warrants and confiscating property without logging it as evidence. But Police chief is pissed off at the public defender for f***ing up his cases! http://www.theagitator.com/2011/05/14/shocker-cops-caught-on-camera-committing-crimes/ 22 comments politics
- In 1989 Donald Trump took out a full page ad in four New York City newspapers calling for the execution of the alleged rapists in the Central Park Jogger case. Never mind that the five alleged assailants were all minors, or that rape wasn’t a capital crime. There was a moral panic to be stoked. http://www.theagitator.com/2011/04/29/when-donald-trump-didnt-need-proof/?utm_source=feedburner 22 comments politics
- Police mistake 35 year old woman for a 5 or 6 year old child in a photo next to a man's genitalia. And do a no-knock raid his family's home with a SWAT team because the man was a concealed carry permit holder. Court rules against the cops (Denies qualified immunity for the botched SWATT raid). http://www.theagitator.com/2011/03/23/fourth-circuit-denies-qualified-immunity-for-botched-swat-raid/ 62 comments reddit.com
- Better That 83,990 Be Libeled Than 10 Go Free http://www.theagitator.com/2011/02/18/better-that-83990-be-libeled-than-10-go-free/ 8 comments technology
- "I witnessed someone calling Ron Paul people a “cult” while eating a cake shaped like Reagan’s face." http://www.theagitator.com/2011/02/14/its-his-party-and-hell-cry-if-he-wants-to/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=feed%3A+radleybalko+%28the+agitator%29&utm_content=facebook 204 comments politics
- "while citizens who don’t know the law can be fined, arrested, and jailed, cops and prosecutors who wrongly threaten with arrest and wrongly charge people based on a misunderstanding of the law typically face no sanction at all." http://www.theagitator.com/2010/08/02/this-weeks-crime-column-4/ 51 comments politics
- AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio, armed with a belt-fed 50 cal machine gun, staged a 100 man "crime supression" operation Thursday http://www.theagitator.com/2010/07/16/sheriff-joes-war-now-more-war-ry/ 25 comments politics
- Dear Cleveland: Want to register your indignation at LeBron on a grand scale? Make him play in front of an empty stadium next season. http://www.theagitator.com/2010/07/13/hey-cleveland-i-have-an-idea-for-you/ 14 comments reddit.com
- Absolutely heartbreaking. These kids in villages across Nigeria are beaten, tortured, burned, starved, and murdered because some idiot religious figure deemed them witches http://www.theagitator.com/2010/06/13/saving-africas-witch-children/ 259 comments worldnews
- City beuracrat see's a homeless guys success story in local newspaper.... and decided to fuck him over to "educate" him (teach him a lesson). http://www.theagitator.com/2009/06/04/if-only-his-bootstraps-were-made-of-red-tape/ 28 comments reddit.com
- How one man is using Google Earth to pull back the veil on North Korea's secrets. http://www.theagitator.com/2009/05/22/unveiling-north-korea/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Fifth Circuit Says you can NOT use SWAT Teams for "Regulatory Inspections" (as an end-run-around from having to get a warrant for a drug raid). http://www.theagitator.com/2009/05/11/fifth-circuit-says-no-swat-teams-for-regulatory-inspections/ 3 comments reddit.com
- The woman arrested for dancing at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in D.C. last year has filed a lawsuit agains the cop who arrested her. http://www.theagitator.com/2009/03/30/jefferson-1-dancer-files-lawsuit/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Audio of Police Interview With Ryan Frederick: Does this sound like a cop-killer? http://www.theagitator.com/2009/01/31/audio-of-police-interview-with-ryan-frederick/ 2 comments reddit.com
- Ballsy guy reports, then confronts illegally parked cop. Cop then follows him home. All on video. http://www.theagitator.com/2009/01/26/loud-and-clear/ 6 comments reddit.com
- Plainclothes cops jump out of van, snatch up 12-year-old girl, beat her during a prostitution raid. They had the wrong house. They're now charging *her* with "assaulting a public official." http://www.theagitator.com/2008/12/18/another-isolated-incident-26/ 662 comments reddit.com
- Police coerce mentally retarded man into confessing to double murder. CSI team then "finds" victim's blood in getaway car. Yep. Innocent. http://www.theagitator.com/2008/12/05/csi-nebraska/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Stupid sex offender laws strike again: Woman, 29, must vacate her home by Thanksgiving because of a blowjob she gave to a classmate in high school. http://www.theagitator.com/2008/11/23/woman-may-lose-home-over-decade-old-blowjob/ 402 comments reddit.com
- Cops who killed mayor's labs in mistaken drug raid did the same thing last November http://www.theagitator.com/2008/08/10/puppycide-in-prince-georges-county/ 38 comments reddit.com
- The Republican nominee for president doesn't even know what "habeas corpus" means. That's a truly terrifying thought. http://www.theagitator.com/2008/06/13/you-want-gaffes-ive-gotcher-gaffe/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Asstistant Atlanta police chief who misled about the botched drug raid that killed a 92-year old woman, headed police department awash in corruption may be promoted to police chief in Winston-Salem. http://www.theagitator.com/2008/05/28/failing-upward-new-frontiers-in-scalias-new-professionalism/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Visiting the Jefferson Memorial at midnight to celebrate Jefferson's birthday is an ARRESTABLE offense. And no, of course the cops won't give their badge numbers! http://www.theagitator.com/2008/04/13/so-about-that-tree-of-liberty/ 3 comments politics
- Texas attorney is a fascist moron, declares that merely advocating jury nullification is in itself a crime, and Time has broken the law by publishing article about The Wire http://www.theagitator.com/2008/03/27/you-want-it-to-be-one-way-but-its-the-other-way/ 77 comments reddit.com
- problems with the "drug warrior" mentality: "When was the last time you heard of a Michelob transaction gone wrong?" http://www.theagitator.com/2008/03/17/heroin-addicts-for-the-drug-war/ 20 comments reddit.com
- Hillary may be the GOP’s last hope of retaining the White House http://www.theagitator.com/2008/03/05/obama-vs-hillary/ 47 comments politics
- Ohio woman brutally strip searched by police after calling them for help http://www.theagitator.com/2008/02/02/disorderly-conduct/ 2 comments reddit.com
- "The lesson here is be very careful with email. And don't be a racist douchebag." http://www.theagitator.com/2007/11/28/beware-the-emails/ 8 comments reddit.com
- Those exorbitant traffic fines in Virginia? Designed by a legislator to increase his private practice. http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027900.php 4 comments reddit.com
- One Woman Videotapes Police Carousing, Posts Video to Youtube, Receives Threat from "The Brotherhood" http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027827.php 11 comments reddit.com
- Your "What Country Are We Living In?" Photo of the Day (and why emulating the military is a bad idea for the police) http://www.theagitator.com/archives/027788.php 65 comments reddit.com