Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Human Resources
December 5th, 2010If Cryptogon had a “required viewing” list, Human Resources would be at the top. However, this is not a movie for beginners. I’ve been gazing down the barrel of this predicament of ours for twenty years and I felt my pulse quicken and the hair on my arms standing on end as I watched this. […]
British Innovation: New Speed Camera Can Catch Drivers Committing Five Offenses at Once
November 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: A speed camera designed to catch motorists committing up to five offences at the same time could be heading to Britain’s roads. As well as catching speeding motorists, the Asset camera should be able to pick out drivers who are not wearing seatbelts and accurately measure distances between moving cars to identify tailgating. […]
Police Running Security Screening to Enter London Park?
October 30th, 2010A Cryptogon reader emailed to say that he encountered the police running a security checkpoint at one of the entrances to one of London’s main parks. According to the reader, “There was a metal detector, many police officers, a little tent, and officers with wands if necessary. They asked if I had any ‘sharp objects’ […]
Britain: No Terror Arrests in 100,000 Police Counter-Terror Searches
October 29th, 2010Via: Guardian: More than 100,000 people were stopped and searched by police under counter-terrorism powers last year but none of them were arrested for terrorism-related offences, according to Home Office figures published today. The statistics show that 504 people out of the 101,248 searches were arrested for any offence β an arrest rate of 0.5%, […]
Private Prison Interests Behind Arizona Immigration Law
October 29th, 2010“I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.” —Fight Club Via: NPR: Last year, two men showed up in Benson, Ariz., a small desert town 60 miles from the Mexico border, offering a deal. Glenn Nichols, the Benson city manager, remembers the pitch. “The gentleman that’s the main thrust of this thing has a huge turquoise […]
Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese
October 15th, 2010Via: Poor Richard’s Blog: Morningland Dairy is the latest attempt by the FDA to fulfill the Healthy People 2020 objective to kill raw dairy. Morningland is owned by Joseph and Denise Dixon, who operate the cheese plant and make raw cheese from cows kept right on the property and managed by one of their eldest […]
Incarceration’s Impact on Society
October 12th, 2010Via: McClatchy DC: You won’t need a calculator, but get ready to decipher a bunch of numbers β data that ought to make Americans feel both sadness and shame. … While the costs of housing prisoners — $50 billion annually for state correctional costs alone — should be enough to cause us to rethink our […]
‘Dying Communities See Salvation in New Prisons’
October 10th, 2010Hope and Change: Replacing collapsed industries with prisons. Via: AP: Mike Secinore is pinning his hopes on prison. Fresh with a criminal justice degree from the local community college, the 20-year-old Berlin native plans to apply for a corrections officer job at the federal prison expected to open in the city next summer. There aren’t […]
Caught Spying on Student, FBI Demands GPS Tracker Back
October 8th, 2010βMe and my friend went to the mechanic today and we found this on his car.β Via: Wired: A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether […]
“Me and my friend went to the mechanic today and we found this on his car.”
October 4th, 2010Update: FBI Demands Return of the Device Via: Wired: A California student got a visit from the FBI this week after he found a secret GPS tracking device on his car, and a friend posted photos of it online. The post prompted wide speculation about whether the device was real, whether the young Arab-American was […]
