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NYT Editorial: ICE Agents Ran Amok in Suburban New York Raids

allan12 years ago02 mins

New York Times Editorial In a series of raids in suburban New York in 2006 and 2007, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement burst into private homes in the dead of night, without warrants, looking for undocumented immigrants, often in the wrong houses. They pounded on doors, terrorized innocent residents, ineptly drew guns on police…

U.S. Supreme Court Limits Use of Drug-Sniffing Dogs, Citing an Unreasonable Search

allan12 years ago12 years ago01 mins

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Police who use drug-sniffing dogs outside of homes to detect crimes without a warrant are violating the ban on unreasonable searches, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday, the New York Times reports. In this case, a police dog detected the odor of marijuana outside a Florida house, and authorities used the…