a Better Bubble™

Aggregator

ShotSpotter Pitches In To Help Cops Open Fire On A Teen Setting Off Fireworks

2 years 1 month ago
Back in 2021, the Chicago Office of the Inspector General released a report on the PD’s ShotSpotter tech. The acoustic detection system was apparently mostly useless, no matter what ShotSpotter may have commented in response. Residents of Chicago are paying nearly $11 million a year for this system. But it’s obvious they’re not getting much […]
Tim Cushing

Missouri revokes nine social-equity cannabis business licenses for out-of-state companies

2 years 1 month ago

Missouri cannabis regulators have revoked nine of the 48 social-equity cannabis licenses issued in October, after finding the companies that obtained them didn’t meet eligibility requirements.  Eight were dispensaries linked to out-of-state groups and one was a wholesale facility. Among them is Canna Zoned, a Michigan company that secured two of the 16 dispensary cannabis […]

The post Missouri revokes nine social-equity cannabis business licenses for out-of-state companies appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Rebecca Rivas

Police used an AirPod tracking app to find carjackers. It led them to an innocent family

2 years 1 month ago
A St. Louis County SWAT team used a battering ram to burst into a home in Ferguson. Officers had used the Find My app to trace a pair of stolen AirPods linked to a carjacking to that address. The only problem? The AirPods had been tossed into the street. The family inside had nothing to do with the carjacking and never had the AirPods. This month’s Legal Roundtable convenes to discuss the raid. Attorneys Eric Banks, Dave Roland and Nicole Gorovsky also discuss a white professor suing St. Louis’ historically Black university for racial discrimination, whether the Republican Party has a legal basis to stop an “honorary” Ku Klux Klan member from running as a GOP candidate for governor, and more.