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Long Island judge ignores bail law, refuses release of ‘menace to society’ A Long Island judge intentionally ignored the state’s controversial bail-reform law and refused to release a defendant he deemed a “menace to society,” The Post has learned. Nassau County District …

Your DNA Profile is Private? A Florida Judge Just Said Otherwise Privacy experts say a warrant granted in Florida could set a precedent, opening up all consumer DNA sites to law enforcement agencies across the country.

Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State | By John W. Whitehead Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly. Indeed, the m...

Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez wants to decriminalize prostitution He’s decriminalized ma*****na and now Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez wants to do the same for prostitution — and is even open to making s*x work legal. “I believe in decriminalization,” Gonzalez told an…

NYC judges have drastically cut back on bail and jail in criminal cases, study says Like many states, New York has a bail law that is half a century old. The legal rules that in 2010 made it possible for 16-year-old Kalief Browder to be jailed on Rikers Island for three years for allegedly stealing a backpack—just because his family couldn’t pay $3,000 in bail to get him out—...