by David Kim
At the close of Derrick Ulett’s murder trial, his lawyer pointed the jury toward a gap in the People’s case. Ruben Alexandre had been shot in March 2008 in front of an apartment building at 48 St. Paul’s Place in Brooklyn, and that building had …
by Richard Resch
Jake Laperruque of the Center for Democracy and Technology offered a blunt analogy in a March 2026 NPR interview. Imagine the police want to search your home but lack a warrant. Instead of going to a judge, they hand your landlord a hundred dollars for …
by Richard Resch
The Gold Standard That Isn’t
On the night of November 29, 2012, a group of men broke into a mansion in Monte Sereno, California, and killed its owner, Raveesh Kumra, a 66-year-old Silicon Valley investor. When the county crime lab processed evidence from the …
by Richard Resch
In December 2023, Google announced that Location History would be migrated from its servers to users’ devices, a change that would effectively end the company’s role as the principal recipient of law-enforcement demands for mass location data and render obsolete the centralized database (known internally …
by David Kim
Introduction: A Booking Procedure That Does Not End at Booking
In late January 2026, a Minneapolis resident identified only as Ben drove with his wife to a street where federal immigration officers had been spotted. He stood on the sidewalk and filmed. According to …
