By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Meet Yaser Abdel Said, the latest addition to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. The 57-year-old is a suspect in the brutal New Year’s Day murders of his two teenage daughters, CBS News reports. The girls, ages 17 and 18, died after being shot multiple times in the back of a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com As FBI Director James Comey wants to force phone makers to create products that are easier to monitor, a Democratic senator is trying to pass a law that would protect the consumer’s privacy, Gizmodo reports. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon has proposed the Secure Data Act “to protect Americans’ privacy and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police killings are underreported and occur more often than federal agencies have reported, the Wall Street Journal reports. Between 2007 and 2012, more than 550 homicides by cops were not included in federal statistics. The Journal examined figures from the nation’s 105 largest police departments to find that at least 1,800…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A federal examination of the practices and procedures by the Cleveland Police Department prompted the Justice Department to deliver a scatting review of the department with a mandate for sweeping changes, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Attorney General Eric Holder based the findings on a civil rights investigation that involved nearly…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Federal agents did not commit “outrageous” misconduct by luring suspects into a robbery of a fictitious drug house, a federal appellate panel ruled Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports. The decision reverses a district court judge’s earlier ruling that the suspects’ due process rights were violated when the ATF enticed them…
