Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Bloomberg Refers to NYPD as His Own Army
December 1st, 2011Via: Politicker NY: “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have,” Mayor […]
LAPD to Occupy LA: “You Have Ten Minutes to Disperse”
November 30th, 2011Via: OakFoSho:
Widespread Police Use of Drones Coming Soon
November 30th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: Drone aircraft, best known for their role in hunting and destroying terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan and Pakistan, may be coming soon to the skies near you. Police agencies want drones for air support to find runaway criminals. Utility companies expect they can help monitor oil, gas and water pipelines. Farmers believe […]
Lots of Cops in Riot Gear at Occupy Los Angeles
November 28th, 2011Update: A Few Arrests Via: Los Angeles Times: The Los Angeles Police Department arrested several people Monday morning as it worked to deal with a swelling crowd that came to protest the planned eviction of Occupy L.A. campers on the lawn of City Hall. When the LAPD announced that it wanted the campers out by […]
Robots Will Soon Begin Patrolling South Korean Prisons
November 25th, 2011Via: Telegraph: Robot guards with sensors to detect abnormal behaviour will soon begin patrolling South Korean prisons to ease the burden on their human counterparts, researchers said on Thursday.
Canada: G20 Case Reveals ‘Largest Ever’ Police Spy Operation
November 23rd, 2011Via: CBC News: Police organizations across the country co-operated to spy on community organizations and activists in what the RCMP called one of the largest domestic intelligence operations in Canadian history, documents reveal. … In all, the RCMP-led joint intelligence group — a conglomeration of federal, provincial and municipal police tasked with G8/G20 reconnaissance — […]
Vast Surveillance System Tracks Everyone Driving Around Washington, D.C.
November 21st, 2011Via: Washington Post: An armed robber burst into a Northeast Washington market, scuffled with the cashier, and then shot him and the clerk’s father, who also owned the store. The killer sped off in a silver Pontiac, but a witness was able to write down the license plate number. Police figured out the name of […]
Monitoring #N17
November 17th, 2011Monitoring the Wall Street protest this morning: So far, the cops have it fully under control. They have barricaded the area around NYSE and are requiring that people show work IDs to get inside the zone. Live video streams: Livestream, Ustream. NYPD Manhattan Precincts 1-23 and Citywide 1-3 Live Audio Feed. Monitor Twitter with monitter.com […]
Occupy Wall Street: Cops Have Cleared Protesters from Zuccotti Park
November 15th, 2011LRAD on scene, pic1, pic2. Live video streams: Livestream, Ustream. NYPD Manhattan Precincts 1-23 and Citywide 1-3 Live Audio Feed. Via: AP: Occupy Wall Street protesters have been ordered to leave Zuccotti Park, their longtime encampment in Lower Manhattan, but they’ve been told they can return once it has been cleaned. At about 1 a.m. […]
Ustream Mobile Package
November 14th, 2011The cops are about to swarm Occupy Oakland. I was just watching the Occupy Oakland live stream and it’s a really clear stream. As I was wondering how the person was pulling it off, he started to talk about it. He’s using a system called the Ustream Mobile Package. It load balances the stream over […]
