Archive for the 'Police State' Category
G20 Police ‘Used Undercover Men to Incite Crowds’
May 11th, 2009Via: Guardian: An MP who was involved in last month’s G20 protests in London is to call for an investigation into whether the police used agents provocateurs to incite the crowds. Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says he saw what he believed to be two plain-clothes police officers go through a police cordon after presenting their […]
Police to Severely Curtail Use of Stop and Search Powers
May 7th, 2009Via: Guardian: Police have bowed to mounting opposition and are to significantly reduce their use of controversial terrorism powers that allow them to stop and search people without reasonable suspicion, the Guardian has learned. Stop and search is one of the most draconian powers employed by police in the war on terror and a constable’s […]
SUPREME COURT CUTS BACK OFFICERS’ SEARCHES OF VEHICLES
April 22nd, 2009WOW! It’s Ripley’s Believe It Or Not on Cryptogon this morning. This is the best news I’ve posted in… Well, I’d pretty much forgotten about good news. It’s not all good (as you’ll read if you click through), but when the driving doom of Cryptogon lets up, even a little, it feels significant. Of course, […]
Rent-A-Cops: Cash-Strapped Cities Using Private Armed Guards Instead of Police
April 21st, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: Facing pressure to crack down on crime amid a record budget deficit, Oakland is joining other U.S. cities that are turning over more law-enforcement duties to private armed guards. The City Council recently voted to hire International Services Inc., a private security agency, to patrol crime-plagued districts. While a few Oakland […]
Phoenix: Radar Camera Employee Murdered
April 21st, 2009Via: Arizona Republic: It has come under attack from protesters, politicians and even a pickax-wielding resident, but sentiment against Arizona’s photo-enforcement program had not turned to bloodshed until Sunday night. Doug Georgianni, 51, of Cave Creek, was shot and killed while sitting in a van alongside the highway and monitoring cameras that snap photos of […]
FBI Shuts Down Entire Hosting Provider Because of Alleged Activity of a Single Customer
April 4th, 2009Via: PCWorld: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have raided a Dallas ISP, knocking the company and almost 50 of its clients offline. The early morning Thursday raid closed down the operations of Core IP Networks, which operated out of two floors of a Telx collocation facility at 2323 Bryan Street in Dallas. The raid […]
Phoenix Police Raid Home of Blogger Critical of Department
April 3rd, 2009Via: Carlos Miller: In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department. Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, […]
TSA Detains, Harasses Man for Carrying $4700 in Cash, Ron Paul Bumper Stickers
April 3rd, 2009Three Oakland Police Officers Killed, One Critically Wounded After Traffic Stop
March 22nd, 2009Via: San Jose Mercury News: In the most horrific day in Oakland Police Department history, a parolee shot to death three police sergeants within two hours of one another Saturday afternoon. When officers tracked down the suspect, a fourth officer was shot and was in critical condition Saturday night. The three veteran officers killed were […]
Secret State Police Report: Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Libertarians are Terrorists
March 13th, 2009Via: Prison Planet: Alex Jones has received a secret report distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) entitled “The Modern Militia Movement” and dated February 20, 2009. A footer on the document indicates it is “unclassified” but “law enforcement sensitive,” in other words not for public consumption. A copy of the report was sent […]
