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Latest Articles: Watching The Cops
Edits to Wikipedia pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo traced to 1 Police Plaza
Post Date: 2015-03-14 08:29:58 by cranky
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Edits ranged from sensitive entries on cases of police brutality to the British band, Chumbawamba.Computers operating on the New York Police Department’s computer network at its 1 Police Plaza headquarters have been used to alter Wikipedia pages containing details of alleged police brutality, a review by Capital has revealed. “The matter is under internal review,” an NYPD spokeswoman, Det. Cheryl Crispin, wrote in an email to Capital after examples of the changes were presented to the NYPD. The edits and changes were linked to the NYPD through a series of Internet Protocol addresses, or IP addresses, which can be publicly tracked by various websites. (Here, for example, is ...
Two officers shot outside Ferguson police department
Post Date: 2015-03-12 02:46:01 by GeorgiaConservative
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(Reuters) - Two police officers were shot during a protest outside the Ferguson, Missouri police department early on Thursday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper reported. The Post-Dispatch reported that Ferguson Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff said he did not believe either of the officers were part of his department. He could not provide details on their injuries to the Post-Dispatch. Click for Full Text!
Video claims San Marcos city, police websites hacked (by Bitcoin Baron)
Post Date: 2015-03-05 12:55:10 by Hondo68
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12:30 p.m. update: San Marcos officials confirmed the city and police websites were taken offline Monday night after receiving security threats.In a statement, city officials confirmed that a hacker group claimed responsibility and stated the threats are retaliation for an incident involving former San Marcos police officer James Palermo and 22-year-old Alexis Alpha, who was arrested and thrown to the pavement during a downtown traffic stop in May 2013.Palermo was charged with aggravated assault by a public servant after another officer reviewed that night’s dash camera video, officials said. Earlier this year, Palermo pleaded guilty and was required to serve 10 years of deferred ...
Searing DOJ report says Ferguson PD routinely violated rights of African-Americans
Post Date: 2015-03-04 09:57:14 by misterwhite
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The Ferguson Police Department routinely violated the constitutional rights of the local African-American population in the Missouri city for years, the Department of Justice has found in a searing report. The investigation, launched after the August shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, found that the department violated the Fourth Amendment in instances such as making traffic stops without reasonable suspicion and making arrests without probable cause. The report provides direct evidence of racial bias among police officers and court workers, and details a criminal justice system that through the issuance of petty citations for infractions such as walking in the middle ...
The 21 Foot Rule
Post Date: 2015-03-02 19:54:23 by GrandIsland
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Officers throughout the United States have heard use of force instructors discuss the “21 Foot Rule” during their officer safety, firearms and deadly force training. As a use of force instructor and a forensic police practices expert, I have trained and testified to this concept myself. In 1983, the concept’s founder, Salt Lake City PD police firearms instructor Lt. John Tueller (Ret.) set up a drill where he placed a “suspect” armed with an edged weapon 20 or so feet away from an officer with a holstered sidearm. He then directed the armed suspect to run toward the officer in attack mode. The training objective was to determine whether the officer could draw and ...
IMPD Chief: Detective not removed from decades-old cold case
Post Date: 2015-02-28 20:28:03 by cranky
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A detective who requested public funding for a DNA test in a decades-old murder has not been removed from the case, Indianapolis' chief of police said Friday. IMPD Detective Sgt. Bill Carter has spent his own time working on a cold case -- trying to solve the homicide of Carmen Van Huss. The 19-year-old was raped and killed in her apartment on the city's north side March 23, 1993. She was found by her father two days later. Chief Rick Hite said Carter may have been temporarily removed from the case -- apparently due to a miscommunication between Carter, IMPD and the crime lab -- because of payment for a DNA test, but that he will continue to be a part of the investigation going ...
SWAT Raids for Mundanes, Taxi Rides for the Elite
Post Date: 2015-02-25 08:59:42 by Deckard
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Scenes from the American Soyuz: More than 120 "door-kicks" take place each day. Summoned from his slumber by the insistent pounding on his front door, Mark Casterline opened his bedroom window to ask what was wanted. By way of reply a blinding spotlight was trained on him. An instant later his front door was kicked in to admit more than a dozen armed men, who dragged him naked from his bed.“They intended to kill me,” Casterline said during an interview in the kitchen of his home outside of Ontario, Oregon. “I was sound asleep when the SWAT team showed up and had no idea why they were in my house. They came thundering in and I hear clicking noises as they ...
Sheriff that Laughed about Flash Banging a Toddler, Was Just Shot By Murderous Rogue Cop [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-02-24 13:34:11 by Hondo68
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Habersham County, GA — Sheriff Joey Terrell and one of his deputies were shot and injured while responding to a domestic violence complaint that involved another officer. Terrell has been the subject of a number of reports at The Free Thought Project, because he is the law enforcement official who authorized the “no knock raid” that maimed and nearly killed a young toddler. Terrell then later broke a promise to pay the family’s medical bills when he left them to take care of it on their own. On Sunday, Sheriff Terrell and Deputy William Zigan were dispatched to a domestic disturbance that involved former Gainesville city police officer Anthony Giaquinta. Giaquinta was ...
Three dead after fired cop ‘ambushes’ sheriffs
Post Date: 2015-02-23 19:04:46 by cranky
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CLARKESVILLE, Ga. — A shooting killed three people, including the suspect, who was a former police officer, and also left a county sheriff and a deputy wounded in what authorities described as an ambush in northeastern Georgia. Officers responding to a domestic dispute call arrived around 7:30 p.m. Sunday at a home outside Clarkesville and found a woman dead in the garage, Deputy Director of Investigations Rusty Andrews of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told Atlanta station WSB-TV. Andrews said when officers entered the house to check for other victims, “it appears they were ambushed.” Habersham County Manager Phil Sutton told the station that Sheriff Joey Terrell and ...
New York cop murders daughters, commits suicide
Post Date: 2015-02-23 09:19:22 by GeorgiaConservative
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HARRISON, N.Y. -- Police on Sunday were investigating the deaths of a retired White Plains police officer and his two teenage daughters in an apparent murder-suicide. Police arrived at the home on Adelphi Avenue around 3:50 p.m. Saturday after receiving a call about something suspicious and found the three bodies inside, CBS New York reports. Harrison Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said the deaths of 52-year-old Glen Hochman and his daughters Alissa and Deanna on Saturday "would appear to be a double murder-suicide." He said the motive was unknown. "It looks at this time that the father killed the two girls and then himself," Marraccini said. Click for Full Text!
A Fervent Cop Supporter Changes His Mind About NYPD After Gravity Knife Arrest
Post Date: 2015-02-23 09:08:23 by GeorgiaConservative
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A few weeks ago, when relations between the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio were at their nadir, some of Carsten Vogel's friends had been enthusiastically bashing the NYPD on Facebook. Vogel, who has always been a police supporter and even counts some cops among his friends, took exception to their criticism. At the time, police were in the midst of an intentional "slowdown" in arrests and ticketing in protest of the mayor's many perceived slights toward the department, and Vogel was quick to the NYPD's defense. "The police in NYC are now refusing to make the mayor look good," Vogel wrote in a thread on his Facebook page. "I get it. I don't think the ...
Jailed Man Punches Himself 45 Times, Accuses Cops of Assault
Post Date: 2015-02-19 22:34:52 by GrandIsland
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File this one under "dumbest criminal ever." A California man accused Oregon police of beating him up at the Lane County Sheriff’s Office on January 9, but surveillance footage told a different story. Aleksander Robin Tomaszewski, 33, said that during an interview regarding an unrelated case that’s under investigation, he was assaulted by detectives. Showing a pair of black eyes and multiple bruises on his face, Tomaszewski signed an incident report and repeatedly stated that he wanted to press charges against the officers. The only problem with his story was that surveillance cameras were rolling. The camera outside Tomaszewski's holding cell captured him ...
The Anti-Cop Pose is a Libertarian Strategic Error
Post Date: 2015-02-19 08:48:02 by Gatlin
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Libertarians have found themselves in an impossible position thanks to years of regular anti-police activism, bombastic statements against police, and sloganeering around the Drug War. I would argue that the leading voice in this strain is Radley Balko, who ran a widely-read blog on police abuses that he eventually turned into a book contract and columnist gigs at the Huffington and Washington Posts. The main reason why this strain of activism has turned into a dead-end for the libertarians comes down to a several reasons: The problems of maintaining a stable legal order.Misunderstanding what the Drug War is, due to taking political propaganda at face value.Being unable to speak honestly ...
Police Corporal Charged in Firearms Training Accident That Killed State Trooper
Post Date: 2015-02-11 18:39:32 by GrandIsland
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A Pennsylvania state police corporal was arrested Tuesday on reckless endangerment charges in a firearms training accident that claimed the life of a state trooper. Cpl. Richard Schroeter, 43, was conducting a training session Sept. 30 and pulled the trigger on his firearm while discussing the weapon's mechanism, prosecutors said. The gun discharged, killing 26- year-old Trooper David Kedra. Family, Fellow Police Mourn Trooper Killed at Gun Range Prosecutors said they asked a grand jury to consider charges of homicide, involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangering. The panel found sufficient evidence that Schroeter, although a highly qualified firearms instructor, recklessly ...
Florida lawyer sparks debate about rights at DUI checkpoints
Post Date: 2015-02-10 13:03:02 by Murron
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Florida lawyer sparks debate about rights at DUI checkpoints AP Photo: In this Friday, Jan. 30, 2015 photo (above), attorney Warren Redlich holds up a flyer he designed following an interview in Delray Beach, Fla. The DUI attorney contends that when a driver approaches a police drunk-driving checkpoint, they don't have to speak to the officers. He contends that commonly-used police drunk driving checkpoints violate drivers' constitutional rights. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) MIAMI (AP) -- Drivers at drunken-driving checkpoints don't have to speak to police or even roll down their windows. They just have to place their license and registration on the glass, along with a note ...
Cops Put Bag On Woman’s Head, Strap Her To Chair And Choke Her To Draw Blood For DUI Test [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-02-10 00:46:24 by GeorgiaConservative
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A woman is suing a host of parties after it emerged that cops in Austin, Texas, forcably took her blood for a DUI test, in a scene that sounds more like something that would occur at a Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Caroline Callaway was arrested by a police officer after she refused to take a breath test during a routine traffic stop. Ms Callaway was taken directly to the Travis County jail where the shocking events unfolded. Callaway’s attorney told reporters with Courthouse News that despite only “passive and verbal resistance” she was taken “to a small padded room, where she was surrounded by officers and strapped into ‘the chair,’ with her legs, wrists ...
Porker Pig Sheriff Cop Finally Polices Himself! (good riddance DUI porker)
Post Date: 2015-02-09 00:59:04 by TEA Party Reveler
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It took a while, but Wayne DeWitt ultimately policed himself Another "Son of Gatlin and GrandIsland"...LOL!!! Brian Hicks Wayne DeWitt really didn’t have a choice, and he knew that — it just took awhile for it to sink in. Last week, the Berkeley County sheriff resigned more than a month after his arrest on DUI and hit-and-run charges. It was unfortunate, but even his peers in law enforcement privately agree it was the right thing to do. The damage had been done, and not just to that car DeWitt’s county truck rear-ended. Following his arrest, DeWitt at first said he would work to regain the public trust. But that was just pride talking. It’s ...
Deputy in slap video is charged, steps down
Post Date: 2015-02-08 10:15:35 by GrandIsland
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Longtime lawman arraigned on misconduct, harassment charges A Saratoga County sheriff's sergeant abruptly resigned Monday as he was charged with official misconduct and harassment after a video was posted on the Internet over the weekend that purportedly captured him slapping a man whose car he wanted to search. Sheriff Michael H. Zurlo said his office began an investigation into the actions of Sgt. Shawn R. Glans immediately after they learned the video was posted on the department's Facebook page around 9 p.m. Friday. The video shows Glans demanding to search the vehicle of a young man, Colin Fitch, who was standing next to the deputy in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store in ...
'Cop blocking' leads to Tazing and charges for River Falls man
Post Date: 2015-02-07 23:22:00 by GrandIsland
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Police used a Taser to subdue a 26-year-old River Falls man who allegedly interfered with a traffic stop on Carmichael Road in Hudson Wednesday night, Feb. 4. According to Hudson Police Chief Marty Jensen, Aaron J. Meulemans said he was “cop blocking” when he pulled over in front of the car of a driver who had been stopped for speeding. Meulemans reportedly told patrol officer Kate Potter to go away when she walked up to his vehicle and asked him what he was doing. He then said he was “cop blocking,” according to Jensen. Meulemans reportedly refused to leave the scene, became agitated and got out of his car, leading Potter to call for backup. Jensen said Meulemans ...
Polk Sheriff Grady Judd makes his name on moral outrage
Post Date: 2015-02-06 20:42:44 by Gatlin
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Dated, but good reading: A man in Colorado a couple of months ago published a book called The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure, and he didn't get arrested for it, and this made Grady Judd mad. So the sheriff of Polk County, whose job is to protect and serve the roughly 500,000 people who live in the mostly agricultural area between Tampa and Orlando, had one of his undercover detectives contact Phillip Greaves of Pueblo, Colo., and ask to buy his book. Greaves sent a signed copy back to Polk, where Judd got a search warrant, and then sent two of his men 1,856 miles to arrest him the week before Christmas. After the news broke, Judd sat in the studio of a country radio ...
VIDEO: Psycho Cops Run Over Man, Beat Him Senseless Then Charge Him With Assault
Post Date: 2015-02-06 13:11:10 by Hondo68
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Officers lied in report, now face multiple charges Two Philadelphia police officers falsified a report after intentionally running over a man on a scooter then severely beating him. The facts only came to light when the man’s girlfriend took it upon herself to investigate the incident and recover surveillance footage. The cops pulled over 23-year-old Najee Rivera, but the man, fearing for his life, drove off on the scooter, prompting the cops to speed after him, crack him over the head with a club, and drive into him, knocking him off the bike. The footage shows that officers Kevin Robinson and Sean McKnight then beat Rivera to a bloody pulp as he screamed for help. Officers who ...
erguson police testing new device aimed at reducing fatal police encounters
Post Date: 2015-02-06 08:20:16 by GrandIsland
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Brown, 18, was unarmed when he was fatally shot by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson in August, leading to widespread protests. The shooting also spurred a national discussion about police use of force. The Alternative is made by Poway, California-based Alternative Ballistics. The company's website says the bright orange device sits in a pouch that attaches to an officer's belt, and it can be attached to the top of a gun within a second. Then, if the officer fires, the bullet embeds itself into a new, round projectile the size of a ping pong ball. That decreases the velocity of the bullet, and, because the bullet is embedded inside a ball, the company says it is less likely to ...
Baby pulls cocaine from Florida woman's shirt during traffic stop: police
Post Date: 2015-02-05 04:35:03 by Gatlin
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No drugs were found inside Candyce Harden's car but when the baby reached inside her shirt police said the child pulled out a baggie full of cocaine. Three more baggies and pills without a prescription were also allegedly recovered. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Deputies say an 11-month-old boy pulled a baggie full of cocaine from inside the shirt of a woman during a traffic stop near Daytona Beach. Volusia County Sheriff's deputies stopped a car Sunday for traffic violations. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports a K-9 unit arrived to check the car and deputies asked the occupants to step outside with the baby. No drugs were found inside the car, but as the deputy handed a ...
How cops are catching grow ops with AM radios
Post Date: 2015-02-05 04:17:53 by Gatlin
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With the proliferation of indoor marijuana grows, the indoor “horticulture” industry has been booming. Chinese manufacturers are turning out indoor grow equipment at a rapid pace with little to no regulatory oversight or compliance. Because of this, there has been a significant amount of radio frequency interference (RFI). Before we get into how to detect a marijuana grow with your car radio, you have to understand some simple mechanics of how a grow operates. To grow marijuana indoors, you need supplemental lighting necessary for photosynthesis. These lights may be fluorescent, LED, and for larger operations, high pressure sodium (HPS) or metal halide (MH). The HPS and MH lamps ...
Cops Tackle 11-Year-Old Girl and Hold Her at Gunpoint, In Her Own Home [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-02-03 07:51:28 by Deckard
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Groveland, Florida – Two Florida cops are being accused of throwing an 11-year-old girl to the ground and holding her at gunpoint in her own home. The police were dispatched to the home because someone had accidentally set off the burglar alarm. Since the alarm tripped accidentally, no one in the house was aware that the police were on their way. When officers let themselves into the house with guns drawn, it was a total surprise to the young girl who was sitting at home watching television. “One of the officers was pushing me down and when he was pushing me down, (he) put his knee on me and the other officer had his gun pointed at me,” the young girl told Channel 9. The ...
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