Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Florida Tweaks Traffic Lights to Rob Citizens of Millions of Dollars
May 15th, 2013Via: WTSP: A subtle, but significant tweak to Florida’s rules regarding traffic signals has allowed local cities and counties to shorten yellow light intervals, resulting in millions of dollars in additional red light camera fines. The 10 News Investigators discovered the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) quietly changed the state’s policy on yellow intervals in […]
Auditor: 100,000 Dashcam Videos Disappear from SPD Database
May 12th, 2013Your what hurts? Via: Seattle Post-Intelligencer: More than 100,000 dashcam videos have disappeared from the Seattle Police Department, prompting city investigators to recommend the department do a better job of tracking and saving those videos.
Cops Beat Woman For Filming Another Beating
May 11th, 2013Via: Alternet: Baltimore police beat up a woman and smashed her camera for filming them beating up a man, telling her: “You want to film something bitch? Film this!” the woman claims in court.
Police Practice for Gunbattle with… ‘Angry Parents at a School’
May 11th, 2013[???] Via: KOMO Repost by MoxNews:
Dad Who Died During Arrest ‘Begged for His Life’; Witness Videos Seized
May 11th, 2013Via: The Bakersfield Californian: Blood stains are still visible on the sidewalk at the corner of Flower Street and Palm Drive, where a Bakersfield man struggled with as many as nine officers and later died this week. David Sal Silva, 33 and the father of four young children, died early Wednesday morning after deputies say […]
Rio de Janeiro: Police Spray Automatic Weapons Fire at Fleeing Suspect Vehicle in Crowded Neighborhood
May 8th, 2013Madness. Via: Independent: Footage of a shootout between police and an alleged drug trafficker in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has emerged. In the short video, police can be seen firing from a helicopter at a car, as it speeds through the city. The car eventually stops and is surrounded by people from the local area […]
Alabama School to Jail Program
May 8th, 2013Via: Courthouse News Service: After a diabetic high school student fell asleep in study hall, the school police officer slammed her face into a filing cabinet, arrested her and took her to jail, she claims in court. Tieshka Avery claims she was so violently abused that she vomited in the police car. And all because […]
U.S. Judge Receives 28-Year Jail Term for His Role in Private Prison Kids-for-Cash Scheme
May 5th, 2013Via: Independent: An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars. Mark Ciavarella Jnr was ordered to pay $1.2m (£770,000) in restitution after he was found to be […]
Family Visits Hydroponic Store, Cops Raid Family’s House for Drugs… Find Tomatoes
May 5th, 2013Via: Kansas City Star: It took eight months for authorities to decide to raid the Leawood home of Robert and Adlynn Harte for drugs. And then it took a year for the Hartes to find out why sheriff’s deputies thought they had drugs in the first place.
‘Counterinsurgency Methods Used to Fight Gang Crime’
May 3rd, 2013Via: CBS: Massachusetts State Trooper Mike Cutone realized that the methods of the insurgents he combated as a Green Beret in Iraq were similar to those used by the Springfield gangs. “Insurgents and gang members both want to operate in a failed area,” he tells Stahl, referring to the breakdown in cooperation between the citizens […]
