Archive for the 'Police State' Category
“Flaking”: What NYPD Calls Planting Drugs on Innocent People to Meet Arrest Quotas
November 4th, 2011Via: New York Post: A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas. The bombshell testimony from Stephen Anderson is the first public account of the twisted culture behind the false arrests in the Brooklyn South and Queens […]
SWAT Team Kills Marine Veteran at Home
November 4th, 2011Via: Courthouse News Service: A widow says a regional SWAT team killed her husband, a Marine veteran, in a botched raid not even aimed at him, riddling their house with 72 bullets while she and their 4-year-old son were in it. Vanessa Guerena says police refused to allow paramedics to help her husband, 26-year-old Jose […]
NYPD Holds College Student in Jail for Three Days Because She Wasn’t Carrying ID
November 3rd, 2011Via: New York Times: Early in the morning on Oct. 22, a Saturday, Ms. Zucker, 21, and her friend Alex Fischer, also 21, were stopped by the police in Riverside Park and given tickets for trespassing. Mr. Fischer was permitted to leave after he produced his driver’s license. But Ms. Zucker, on a visit to […]
Cordon Multi-Target Photo-Radar System
November 1st, 2011Via: Engadget: Go easy on the gas, Speed Racer, because Cordon is on its way. Developed by Simicon, this new speed sensor promises to take highway surveillance to new heights of precision. Unlike most photo radar systems, which track only one violator at a time, Simicon’s device can simultaneously identify and follow up to 32 […]
Britain: Met Police Using Mass Surveillance System to Monitor Mobile Phones
October 31st, 2011Via: Guardian: Britain’s largest police force is operating covert surveillance technology that can masquerade as a mobile phone network, transmitting a signal that allows authorities to shut off phones remotely, intercept communications and gather data about thousands of users in a targeted area. The surveillance system has been procured by the Metropolitan police from Leeds-based […]
NYPD Monitors Everyone in City Who Changes Their Name
October 29th, 2011Via: AP: For generations, immigrants have shed their ancestral identities and taken new, Americanized names as they found their place in the melting pot. For Muslims in New York, that rite of assimilation is now seen by police as a possible red flag in the hunt for terrorists. The New York Police Department monitors everyone […]
Britain: Undercover Police Officers Allowed to Give False Evidence in Court
October 28th, 2011Via: Telegraph: Senior police chiefs authorised undercover police officers to give false evidence in court to protect their cover as environmental protesters, it was claimed last night. The claims led to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary delaying a report into undercover police tactics at the last minute. It had been due to be published today […]
Oakland: Former U.S. Marine and Protestor in Critical Condition After Being Shot in the Head by ‘Police Projectile’
October 27th, 2011Via: AFP: An Iraq war veteran was critically injured after riot police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters near San Francisco, supporters said Wednesday. Officers also fired bean bags but denied using rubber bullets to quell protest on Tuesday in Oakland, California, where unrest erupted after a protest camp was broken […]
‘We’re ICE… The Warrant Is Coming Out Of My Balls’
October 25th, 2011Via: ACLU: On the night of October 20, 2010, Angel Escobar and Jorge Sarmiento were in bed in their small, two-bedroom apartment in the Clairmont complex in Nashville. The doors and windows were all shut and locked. Suddenly there was a loud banging at the door and voices shouting “Police!” and “Policia!” When no one […]
Department of Homeland Security Deployed on Tennessee Interstates
October 20th, 2011Via: NewsChannel5: You’re probably use to seeing TSA’s signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agents are hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR). “Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate,” said Tennessee Department of […]
