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News Releases

New Street-Level Surveillance Project Tracks Spying Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement
2015-08-09
Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF Web Portal Provides In-Depth Resources About License Plate Readers, Biometric Collection, and Other High-Tech Surveillance Tools.
No Reason for Force Applied to UWO Student by Police
2009-10-16
Omar Ha-Redeye
Members of the legal community at UWO have also raised issue with an incident of forcible arrest on the campus.

Sources Select Resources

On Handcuffed and Felonious Children
McElroy, Wendy
Article
2005
ifeminists.net
Arresting young children for a crayon drawing, not unlike the games of hangman we once all played, is the ultimate meaning and logic of Zero Tolerance. Zero tolerance involves the application of law i...
The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
Platt, Brian
Article
2015
CounterPunch
The criminal justice system has increasingly become the preferred way to fund city governments in the modern neoliberal nightmare that is the United States. The police target the poor for petty infrac...
US has a new tool to control the masses
No one should want the state to have power to strip your clothes off. And yet that's what is happening, thanks to the supreme court
Wolf, Naomi
Article
2012
The Guardian
Denouncing a new US Supreme court ruling that allows police to strip search any person who is placed under arrest for any offence at any time. Wolf says this state sanctioned sexual humiliation is a t...

Sources Bookshelf

Life Sentence
Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges)
Blatchford, Christie
Book
2016
Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, u...


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