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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: PART 7
A narcotics dog cannot testify, cannot explain what it smelled, and cannot distinguish between what is illegal and what the law has chosen to make lawful. Yet its behavior—interpreted by a handler—can still unlock a warrantless search. When reward cues, ambiguous alerts, and outdated drug-war assumptions are treated as probable cause, justice doesn’t merely err.…
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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: CONCLUSION
A system that predictably strips liberty, discourages scrutiny, and externalizes harm is not malfunctioning—it is operating as designed.
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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: PART 6
When defendants are used as informants, the state outsources danger without assuming responsibility—leaving harm uncounted and unaddressed.
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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: PART 5
When prosecution is institutionally supported and defense is not, justice resolves faster than it is tested.
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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: PART 4
Meeting your counsel often comes after money, liberty, and leverage are gone—leaving defense shaped by depletion, not preparation.
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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: PART 3
In Indiana, bail does not restore liberty. It redirects defendants into a system of detention, supervision, and fees that drains defense funds before guilt is ever adjudicated.
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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: PART 2
Qualified immunity no longer just protects officers after the fact—it reshapes policing behavior at the point of encounter. By insulating discretion from accountability, the doctrine shifts constitutional risk onto citizens and allows violations to persist without correction, especially in Indiana, where no state-level remedy exists.
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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS CRIME: PART 1
POLICING: THE POINT OF ORIGIN In Indiana, every failure that follows in the criminal justice system begins at the same place: the first encounter between law enforcement and the citizen. Before there is a charging decision, before a public defender is appointed, before a risk assessment score is generated under Indiana’s pretrial framework (see Indiana…
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WHEN JUSTICE COMMITS THE CRIME
Justice rarely collapses in one dramatic moment. It erodes quietly—behind plea agreements, qualified immunity, conflicted funding, and a system that punishes resistance more than wrongdoing.
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Canine Conspiracy: A 1st Account of a Constitutional Collapse in Tippecanoe County
By Jimmie L. Clayton, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, The Wabash Watchdog Introduction: A View From the Passenger Seat I was there. When the blue and red lights flooded the cabin of the truck in the early morning hours, I was not just another reporter working on another story. I was an eyewitness, sitting in the passenger seat…