Louisville police abuses show civil liberties are meaningless without accountability: Supervisors and judges tolerated outrageous constitutional violations, including illegal searches and brutal assaults

FREEDOM: March 15, 2023

The form that Louisville, Kentucky, police officers use when they seek search warrants includes a list of possible justifications, such as the expectation that stolen property, tools of crime, or other evidence of illegal activity will be discovered. In one case recently highlighted by the U.S. Department of Justice, an officer checked “other” but wrote nothing on the three lines next to that option, where he was supposed to explain the reason for the warrant.