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3 days ago | 
reason.com | Charles Oliver
Roads | (Andery Moskvitin | Dreamstime.com) Oakland residents, fed up with dangerous late-night sideshows where cars do stunts, built their own speed bumps on East 21st Street and 19th Avenue after the city ignored four years of pleas for help. Costing $3,000, these homemade speed bumps stopped the sideshows for eight months, but the city's Department of Transportation removed them for lacking official approval, angering locals who say the city doesn't care about their safety. Previously, the...
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4 days ago | 
reason.com | Charles Oliver
Building codes | (Brian T.
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5 days ago | 
reason.com | Charles Oliver
Police | (Svershinsky | Dreamstime.com) Two police officers in East Sussex, England, are accused of using excessive force against 93-year-old Donald Burgess, a wheelchair-bound amputee with dementia, after he threatened care home staff with a small knife. Within 83 seconds of entering his room, Officers Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto allegedly pepper-sprayed Burgess in the face, struck him with a baton, and tased him. Both have been charged with assault. Prosecutors argue the force was...
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5 days ago | 
aol.com | Charles Oliver
Two police officers in East Sussex, England, are accused of using excessive force against 93-year-old Donald Burgess, a wheelchair-bound amputee with dementia, after he threatened care home staff with a small knife. Within 83 seconds of entering his room, Officers Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto allegedly pepper-sprayed Burgess in the face, struck him with a baton, and tased him. Both have been charged with assault.
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1 week ago | 
reason.com | Charles Oliver
Police | (Ezthaiphoto | Dreamstime.com) Mark Brave, formerly the sheriff of Strafford County, New Hampshire, received a prison sentence of three-and-a-half to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to perjury, theft, and falsifying evidence. Brave spent $19,000 in county funds on travel and accommodations, to conduct extramarital affairs. He will have to pay the money back as part of his sentence....
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1 week ago | 
reason.com | Charles Oliver
Police Abuse | (Andrey Popov | Dreamstime.com) Justin Gaither, a former police officer in Venice, Illinois, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law. Gaither struck a handcuffed man twice in the face, without provocation, leaving the suspect with a broken nose....
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1 week ago | 
reason.com | Charles Oliver
India | (Seemanta Dutta | Dreamstime.com) Ali Khan Mahmudabad, head of the political science department at Ashoka University in India, was arrested for a Facebook post about Operation Sindoor, India's military response against Pakistan to the Pahalgam terrorist attacks, after a complaint by a member of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party's youth organization. Mahmudabad wrote in his post he was "very happy to see so many right-wing commentators applauding" the effort but added that "perhaps...
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Charles Oliver |Peter Bagge
According to a federal complaint, New York City bars and nightclubs paid protection money to James Caban, and in return, Caban got police to go easy on them. He did this by impersonating his twin brother—a police commissioner at the time—at the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights to stop raids on those businesses for breaking the law. (Illustration: Peter Bagge)Two police officers in England waited outside a woman's house while her husband killed her.
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1 week ago | 
reason.com | Charles Oliver
Gold | (Clearviewstock | Dreamstime.com) Michel Dupont, a farmer from France's Auvergne region, discovered a massive gold deposit worth about £3 billion ($3.41 billion) in a stream on his farm while out for a walk, but he won't receive any money from it because French law says underground resources belong to the state, not the landowner. The gold, found in an area historically known for mining, was reported to authorities, and a state-owned company is now set to mine it, leaving Dupont with...
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Charles Oliver
Charles OliverTue, May 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM UTC1 min readClearviewstock | Dreamstime.comMichel Dupont, a farmer from France's Auvergne region, discovered a massive gold deposit worth about £3 billion ($3.41 billion) in a stream on his farm while out for a walk, but he won't receive any money from it because French law says underground resources belong to the state, not the landowner.
