Archive for the 'Police State' Category
School Surveillance: How Big Brother Spies On Pupils
June 11th, 2011Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes Via: Guardian: ‘Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that increasingly have come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased […]
Los Angeles Abandons Red Light Cameras; Most Citations Unpaid
June 8th, 2011Via: CBS: The civilian board that oversees the Los Angeles Police Department has put the brakes on the city’s red-light traffic camera program. The Police Commission agreed Tuesday to reject a proposal from police officials to award a new contract to the company that has been operating the cameras. An audit last year questioned the […]
California: SWAT Team Breaks Into Home, Detains Family Over Student Loan Default
June 8th, 2011Update: Questions, Questions News10 dissappeared the first story about this. Via: News10: A federal education official Wednesday morning offered little information as to why federal agents raided a Stockton man’s home Tuesday. The resident, Kenneth Wright, does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe why what he thought was a […]
Miami Police Smashed Mobile Phones Belonging to People Who Witnessed Shooting; One Witness Hid His Phone’s Memory Card in His Mouth
June 4th, 2011Update: Narces Benoit’s Video —End Update— This is a pretty timely development, coming just a day after the news about Apple’s iCensor technology. Via: Miami Herald: On Thursday, The Miami Herald spoke to the couple that saw the end of the 4 a.m. police chase on Collins Avenue, then watched and filmed from just a […]
Park Police Arrest People for Dancing at Jefferson Memorial
June 2nd, 2011Ok, please stop submitting this. Yes, it’s stupid that these people were arrested, but these types of tactics are a total waste of time. If you want to protest, do it as a general strike that shuts down the Ponzi scheme economy, make a lot less taxable income, produce your own food, participate in local, […]
Aussies to Be Fined for Swearing [???]
May 31st, 2011Nat, they’re coming for you. Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Australians may have a love of plain speaking but new laws are set to curtail some of their more colourful language with police issuing on-the-spot fines for obnoxious swearing. The country’s second most populous state Victoria is due to approve new legislation this week under which […]
Miami Shootout
May 30th, 2011Via: Miami Herald: Three police officers are in the hospital Monday after emptying several rounds of bullets on a driver who opened fire on South Beach. The driver was killed; four bystanders were injured. The police officers involved are in non-life-threatening condition, said Miami Beach Police Sgt. Alejandro Bello.
Police Threaten CNN Journalist Looking for “Secret Morgue” [???]
May 29th, 2011What’s this all about?
Dangerous Debris, Evidence, Left in Abandoned Detroit Police Crime Lab
May 28th, 2011Via: Detroit Free Press: Thousands of rounds of live ammunition, sealed evidence kits and case files — some containing Social Security numbers of rape and assault victims — lay amid rubble in a crime lab abandoned by Detroit police two years ago. The Free Press discovered the ruins this week. Judicial experts expressed shock that […]
LAPD Chevy Caprice PPV
May 26th, 2011Via: AOL Autos: Taking a ride in a police squad car is typically an unenviable experience, but not today. Bradley teams up with our friends at the LAPD to check the tech on the all new Chevrolet Caprice PPV (Police Patrol Vehicle). From an infrared night vision camera to an automated license plate scanner, this […]
