The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that police can conduct searches and seize evidence after arrests that may have violated state law. The high court ruling comes from a case out of Portsmouth, Virginia, where city detectives seized crack cocaine from a motorist after arresting him for a minor traffic offense. David Lee Moore was pulled over for driving on a suspended license.

James Booker doesn’t have to look too far back to remember the bad old days. There was still a “whites only” sign hanging on the precinct house water fountain in 1964 when James Booker joined the suburban College Park Police Dept. But it wasn’t just the water fountain that was off-limits to Booker. Until 1976, black officers were prohibited from joining a state-supported supplemental police retirement fund. Now white officers who entered the fund before that year are taking home hundreds of dollars more every month in retirement benefits than their black colleagues.

In an unusual move, the union representing deputies with the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office in Florida has filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Bob White and the County Commission. The FOP’s lawsuit seeks to get a ruling on who has the final say in an impasse – the County Commission or the Sheriff. Trouble started back in 2006 when Pasco deputies voted to join the Fraternal Order of Police. The vote came with the expectation that they would now bargain for a contract.