Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, ...

A Rockford activist is distributing “No ICE Access” flyers to local businesses in an effort to encourage owners to push back ...

A recent Supreme Court decisions strips away what little remained of the guardrails preventing police from seizing anyone under a flimsy pretext, law professors Daniel Harawa and Kate Weisburd ...

Thanks to the Supreme Court, now there is no real limit on police seizures. People of color will bear the brunt of this ...

The Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures has been regrettably whittled down over the years by the federal courts. Still, some meaningful protections contained in the ...

The Trump administration recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bless racial profiling by immigration agents, and a majority of the justices have now complied. While this regrettable action is not ...

A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...

Sig is a good boy, trained to obey. So, according to court documents in a federal case, he complied when his police handler ordered him to enter a home in Highlands Ranch, Colo., and bite anyone ...