Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Britain: Armed Checkpoints on Local Roads Around Bilderberg, Residents Must Show Passports to Enter Their Own Driveways
June 6th, 2013Via: Telegraph: No such encounters will take place in Watford this week, as the Bilderberg, the annual conference for 140 of the world’s most powerful, meet for four days at The Grove, a £300-a-night golf hotel close to the M25. The entire hotel has been booked out, and a high fence erected around the exclusion […]
SUPREME COURT: POLICE MAY TAKE DNA FROM EVERYONE THEY ARREST
June 3rd, 2013Via: CBS: A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, equating a DNA cheek swab to other common jailhouse procedures like fingerprinting. “Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under […]
Justice Department Secret Document Details Unconstitutional Surveillance of American Citizens
May 31st, 2013Via: IB Times: The Justice Department may soon be forced to reveal a classified document that details unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens. The Justice Department has fought to keep the document secret for about a year, but a recent court order demands that they respond to a formal request filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation […]
Florida: Police State Urban Week
May 22nd, 2013Via: CBS: Cameras, both mobile and stationary, have been installed throughout the city. Ready to be deployed throughout the city of Miami Beach are a total of 62 light towers, twelve visual messaging boards and three watch towers. Roughly 400 officers per shift from multiple agencies will pack the streets of Miami Beach. In addition […]
China Now Spends $125 Billion Per Year On Riot Gear And ‘Stability Maintenance’
May 20th, 2013Via: AFP: Mannequins in riot gear, armoured cars and drones line a police equipment and “anti-terrorism technology” trade fair in Beijing as vendors seek to profit from China’s huge internal security budget. The country is estimated to have more than 180,000 protests each year and the ruling Communist Party spends vast sums on ensuring order […]
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 […]
