Eric Tucker

Police Are Using Confidential Databases To Target Political Opponents, Personal Enemies And Scorned Lovers

“It’s personal. It’s your address. It’s all your information, it’s your Social Security number, it’s everything about you.”

Eric Tucker
Sadie Gurman
By Eric Tucker
And Sadie Gurman
A Las Vegas police officer looks at the computer in his cruiser while working on a swing shift in downtown Las Vegas.

D ENVER  — Police officers across the country misuse confidential law enforcement databases to get information on romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work, an Associated Press investigation has found. Criminal-history and driver databases give officers

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DOJ Finds Racist, Profit-Driven Police Practices In Ferguson

Between 2012 and 2014, black drivers were more than twice as likely as others to be searched during routine traffic stops, but 26 percent less likely to be carrying contraband.

Jim Salter
Eric Tucker
By Jim Salter
And Eric Tucker

Police wearing riot gear walk toward a man with his hands raised Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.  Photo: Jeff Roberson/AP ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal investigation into the police killing of an unarmed, black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, lays bare what officials contend are racist, profit-driven law enforcement practices in the

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Justice Department Investigation Shows Rampant Fraud, Corruption In US Military

“The schemes we see really run the gamut from relatively small bribes paid to somebody in Afghanistan to hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of contracts being steered in the direction of a favored company who’s paying bribes.”

Eric Tucker
By Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fabian Barrera found a way to make fast cash in the Texas National Guard, earning roughly $181,000 for claiming to have steered 119 potential recruits to join the military. But the bonuses were ill-gotten because the former captain never actually referred any of them. Barrera's case, which ended last month with a prison

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