NYPD Marijuana Arrests Scandal Blows Up Again
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A Customs agent, a Texas deputy, and a small-town California cop all go down this week. Let's get to it: In Yuma, Arizona, a US Customs and Border Patrol officer was arrested last Thursday on money...
View ArticleNYPD Facing Double-Barreled Challenge to Marijuana Practices [FEATURE]
There has been a double-barreled challenge this week to the NYPD and its heavy-handed policing. On the one hand, the department and the city are being sued in federal court over their stop-and-frisk...
View ArticleAs NYC Pot Busts Continue, New York Punts on Marijuana Reform
People—almost all of them young people of color—are being arrested at the rate of a thousand a week in New York City for pot possession "in public view," but although a legislative fix was in sight...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Limits Front Door Drug Dog Sniffs
The US Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a drug dog's sniff of a residence's front door is a search under the meaning of the Fourth Amendment and that police must therefore obtain a search warrant...
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Dirty cops go down in Miami and New York, so does a jail guard in DC, and a Long Island dope squad's problems continue to mount. Let's get to it: [image:1 align:right]In Southampton, New York, drugs...
View ArticleNew Mexico Drug Squad Kills Fugitive at Motel 6
Police in New Mexico shot and killed a man they were trying to arrest on drug charges Monday. Artesia resident Wesley Davis, 35, becomes the 8th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement...
View ArticleAfghan Opium Cultivation Rising, Officials Say
Illicit opium poppy production cultivation in Afghanistan is on the increase this year, the Afghan Ministry of Counternarcotics said Monday. The increase comes despite efforts to target traffickers and...
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A Texas cop gets caught pilfering pain pills, a Georgia sheriff's captain gets nailed for trying to frame a woman, and a Louisiana police chief is accused of having sticky fingers. Let's get to it:...
View ArticleFeds' New Cell Phone Spying Device Raising Privacy Concerns [FEATURE]
special to Drug War Chronicle by independent investigative journalist Clarence Walker, freelancewriter82@gmail.comBlocked by a Supreme Court decision from using GPS tracking devices without a warrant,...
View ArticlePolice Kill Texas Woman Fleeing Drug Warrants
A police officer in the suburban Dallas community of Richardson, Texas, shot and killed a woman with outstanding drug arrest warrants as she fled from an attempted traffic stop Monday morning. Emily...
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Some Utah narcs are having a spotlight shined on them, an NYPD cop goes down for robbing drug dealers, and a Florida deputy gets caught buying pain pills on the street and stealing them from his...
View ArticleModest Changes in Obama's FY 2014 Drug Budget
The Obama administration released its Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal Wednesday, including its 2014 federal drug budget. Pundits and politicians on both sides of the aisle quickly pronounced the Obama...
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Are We Really "Going Dark"? -- The DEA and Apple's iMessage [FEATURE]
special to Drug War Chronicle by veteran investigative crime journalist Clarence Walker, cwalkerinvestigates@gmail.comWhen the tech world news web site CNET published excerpts of a leaked DEA memo...
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There's something rotten in the Salt Lake Valley and maybe in East Tennessee, too. Meanwhile, an Arkansas cop heads to prison for protecting dope loads and a Mississippi narc gets nailed for his pill...
View ArticleMissouri Man Killed After Firing at Police in Drug Raid
A Warrensburg, Missouri, man was shot and killed by police executing a drug search warrant last Thursday night. Beau Appleton, 57,becomes the 10th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement...
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There are problems at a Maryland state prison in Baltimore, fallout continues from a bust of crooked cops in suburban Chicago, and a jail guard goes down in a Texas border town. Let's get to...
View ArticleWhite House 2013 National Drug Strategy Released
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP -- the drug czar's office) released its 2013 National Drug Control Strategy Wednesday. The strategy is being billed as a "21st Century...
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A couple of strange and disturbing items this week, plus some good, old-fashioned thievery. Let's get to it:[image:1 align:left]In Quincy, Illinois, an Adams County probation officer was arrested last...
View ArticleLouisiana Man Swallows Drugs, Dies During Search
[image:1 align:right]A Baton Rouge, Louisiana, man died last Thursday evening after apparently swallowing drugs as police executed a search warrant. Dontrunner Robinson, 32, becomes the 11th person to...
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