Archive for the 'Police State' Category
We Are the Government: Tactics for Taking Down the Police State
August 27th, 2015They don’t like jury nullification. Using your First Amendment right to free speech in front of a court house could result in indictments. Jury Nullification Advocate Faces Indictment Denver DA Charges Man with Jury Tampering for Handing Out Jury Nullification Flyers Via: Rutherford Institute: Where nullification can be particularly powerful, however, is in the hands […]
India Just Turned Off Mobile Internet for 63 Million Citizens Amid Protests in Ahmedabad
August 27th, 201563 million! Imagine everyone in California and Texas without mobile data access. Via: The Next Web: Mobile internet services have been blocked in the Indian state of Gujarat (home to nearly 63 million people), following violent protests led by the Patel community after one of its leaders was detained by local police in Ahmedabad.
North Dakota Police Can Now Use Drones with Less Than Lethal Weapons
August 26th, 2015Via: The Daily Beast: It is now legal for law enforcement in North Dakota to fly drones armed with everything from Tasers to tear gas thanks to a last-minute push by a pro-police lobbyist. With all the concern over the militarization of police in the past year, no one noticed that the state became the […]
Police Secretly Track Cellphones to Solve Routine Crimes
August 24th, 2015Via: USA Today: In one case after another, USA TODAY found police in Baltimore and other cities used the phone tracker, commonly known as a stingray, to locate the perpetrators of routine street crimes and frequently concealed that fact from the suspects, their lawyers and even judges. In the process, they quietly transformed a form […]
Facial Recognition Software Moves From Overseas Wars to Local Police
August 12th, 2015The countries that run ECHELON, the largest civilian communications surveillance program in the world, have developed unified standards for biometric identification. See how this might look in the future by looking at Iraq. That’s the beta testing phase for what’s in store for the rest of us. —Cryptogon, 2007 Via: New York Times: Facial recognition […]
Denver DA Charges Man with Jury Tampering for Handing Out Jury Nullification Flyers
August 6th, 2015Via: Denver Post: Denver prosecutors have charged a man with seven counts of jury tampering after they say he tried to influence jurors by passing out literature on jury nullification on Monday. Mark Iannicelli, 56, set up a small booth with a sign that said “Juror Info” in front of the city’s Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse courthouse, […]
Chicago Police Detained Thousands of Black Americans at Interrogation Facility
August 5th, 2015Via: Guardian: At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal. Of the thousands held in the facility known as Homan Square over a decade, 82% were black. Only three received documented visits from an attorney, according […]
Britain: “Police May No Longer Attend Burglaries”
July 28th, 2015Via: BBC: The public should not expect to see a police officer after crimes such as burglary, the head of the new National Police Chiefs’ Council has said. Sara Thornton told the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire budget cuts and the changing nature of criminality meant police in England and Wales had to prioritise. She said it […]
Britain: Hundreds of Police Officers Convicted in Past Three Years
July 24th, 2015Via: BBC: At least 309 police officers and police community support officers in the UK have been convicted of offences in the last three years, figures show. The offences that led to convictions include sex crimes, assaults and possessing indecent images of children. However, only 25 of the 45 forces gave figures to the Press […]
Son of Boston Police Captain Arrested as Possible Terrorist
July 14th, 2015Via: ABC: The estranged son of a respected Boston police captain was arrested July 4 by FBI agents as part of a counter-terrorism operation against alleged ISIS-inspired domestic terrorists, federal officials told ABC News today. Alexander Ciccolo, 23, of Adams, Mass., was taken into custody on gun charges after buying two pistols and two rifles […]
