Archive for the 'Police State' Category
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 […]
“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 […]
