Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Aggressive Police Take Hundreds of Millions of Dollars from Motorists Not Charged with Crimes
September 7th, 2014Via: Washington Post: After the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the government called on police to become the eyes and ears of homeland security on America’s highways. Local officers, county deputies and state troopers were encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband. The departments of Homeland Security […]
Red Light Camera Industry Fights Citizen Vote
September 4th, 2014Via: WTSP: Florida’s leading red light camera-provider American Traffic Solutions confirms to 10 Investigates Wednesday that it has joined the fight to prevent a citizen-backed referendum on red light cameras from ever reaching a ballot. The city is also fighting the referendum on grounds that it infringes upon city council’s power. However, the enemy of […]
New Orleans Police Officer Turns Off Body Camera Minutes Before Shooting Suspect In Forehead
August 28th, 2014Via: Jonathan Turley: …I am still unclear why these body cameras can even be turned off by officers. The point of a body camera should be that it runs from check in to check out. It should not be under the control of the officer to guarantee a record that cannot be challenged by either […]
Philadelphia Earns Millions By Seizing Cash And Homes From People Never Charged With A Crime
August 28th, 2014Via: Forbes: Chris Sourovelis has never had any trouble with the law or been accused of any crime. But that hasn’t stopped the City of Philadelphia from trying to take his home. The Sourouvelis family, along with thousands of others in Philadelphia, is living a Kafkaesque nightmare: Their property is considered guilty; they must prove […]
Variety of Military Weapons Given to Police Departments Have Gone Missing
August 27th, 2014Via: Fusion: Fusion has learned that 184 state and local police departments have been suspended from the Pentagon’s “1033 program” for missing weapons or failure to comply with other guidelines. We uncovered a pattern of missing M14 and M16 assault rifles across the country, as well as instances of missing .45-caliber pistols, shotguns and 2 […]
The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
August 26th, 2014Via: First Look: The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first definitive evidence […]
Ferguson: Cop Pointing a Rifle at Protesters Says He Will “Fucking Kill” Them, Tells Them to Go Fuck Themselves When Asked His Name
August 20th, 2014Via: YouTube:
Police Come Under Gunfire, Arrest 31 in Missouri Racial Unrest
August 19th, 2014Heavy gun fire??? Via: Reuters: Police said early on Tuesday they came under heavy gunfire and arrested 31 people during another night of racially charged protests in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked by the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white policeman 10 days ago. Demonstrations, mostly peaceful but with spasms of violence by […]
Police in Ferguson Fire Tear Gas Amid Looting
August 16th, 2014Via: NBC: Armored vehicles rolled back onto the streets of Ferguson early Saturday, as riot police faced off with looters in the Missouri town gripped by protests since the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teen. The violence broke the brief period of calm that had settled over Ferguson, Missouri, after outrage over the […]
Ferguson: Molotov Cocktails, Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets
August 14th, 2014This thing doesn’t seem to be going away. Via: Guardian: Heavily armed police in Missouri fired teargas and rubber bullets to force hundreds of protesters out of the centre of Ferguson on Wednesday, as the crackdown on demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old intensified on their fourth night. Dozens of officers, some carrying […]
