Critics say Broward College teaches police to profile, discriminate against...
By Karla Bowsher BrowardBulldog.org Broward College’s counterterrorism courses are supposed to teach Broward police officers how to protect citizens from terrorists. But critics say the college teaches...
View ArticleA pattern of brutality: Jury awards $175K to handcuffed suspect beaten by...
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org A federal jury has awarded $175,000 to a state prisoner it found was brutalized while in Miami police custody in 2006. Gerald Lelieve suffered severe internal...
View ArticleMurder victims’ kin call out Mike Satz; seek Broward probe of police in...
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org The arrest of Jerry Frank Townsend on Sept. 5, 1979 ended the hunt for a brutal serial killer and rapist who had terrorized a predominantly African-American...
View ArticleThe other crucial civil rights case the Supreme Court will be ruling on
By Suevon Lee ProPublica.org On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court said it would hear two cases challenging state and federal laws which prevent the legal union between same-sex couples. But it's not the...
View ArticleFinkelstein to feds: “Please do something” about improper police...
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate what he called the Broward State Attorney’s “long, distressing...
View ArticleThe impact and echoes of the Wal-Mart discrimination case
By Nina Martin ProPublica When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 5-4 decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes in June 2011, no one needed a Richter scale to know it was a Big One. In throwing out a mammoth...
View ArticleVoting rights advocates try to put oversight back the map
By Kara Brandeisky ProPublica When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act last June, justices left it to Congress to decide how to fix the law. But while Congress...
View ArticleEvidence of police dishonesty leads to overturned convictions nationwide
By Nancy West VTDigger.org Maybe Debra Jean Milke masterminded the murder of her tow-haired son Christopher in Phoenix just before Christmas 1989 to collect the 4-year-old’s $5,000 life insurance...
View ArticleBroward courts accused of nurturing double standard of justice for poor,...
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org A letter from the U.S. Justice Department urging state judges across the country to eliminate “common” court practices that illegally trap poor defendants in...
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