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POPSUniv of Mississippi journalism student arrested for taking photos Disorderly conduct. The catch-all offense when a cop can’t legally arrest someone. What crime did this ‘lawbreaker’ really commit? Police say: interfering with police assisting someone to an ambulance, getting in the way of the fight, cursing at the officers. Besson said he did not curse at them until after they handcuffed him when he was telling them not to delete his photos. I don’t know if they were actually deleting any photos, the story doesn’t get into that aspect. But can we safely say they wouldn’t? And the two guys fighting? They were not arrested.
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POPSSupport Your Global Police Force The UN wants to build a global police force. And, if that itself were not bad enough, Ronald K. Noble, a man whose actions have been defined by the UN as attempted genocide, is laying the foundation for. Thanks to the near-ubiquity of inconspicuous digital cameras and the technological blessing of internet file-sharing sites, Americans are just now coming to realize how commonplace criminal abuse by the police has become -- and how difficult it is to hold an abusive police officer accountable for crimes against innocent people. But this is the square root of the problem we would confront in the event that the UN actually created a global police force.
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POPSMysterious Private Security Firm Gets Control Of Empty Jail In Small Montana Town This is what happens when a town is desperate for money and they have no qualms about selling their soul to a renegade paramilitary force. APF plans to build a training facility “where law enforcement will get sniper training and learn "DNA analysis" skills”. APF refuses to divulge the source of the $30 million that will be used to fund this endeavor. According to their Blackwater-esque website http://www.americanpolicegroup.com/special.html they will be capable of providing training for all types of law enforcement organizations. It seems all those rumors of the ‘coming police state’ have just received another reason to ‘validate’ their fears. http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwocomingpoliceindex.shtml http://www.etherzone.com/2005/rose101705.shtml http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/171541-the-coming-police-state http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/26440
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POPSSurprise winner of Obama stimulus spending: gun industry Gun culture magazines in the ‘90s named President Clinton ‘gun salesman of the year’, but Obama has become the gun salesman of the century. As police departments order new firearms using stimulus funds, there's more than a little irony in the fact that a president whom the gun industry looked upon with suspicion has put forward a federal program from which gunmakers are benefiting. It seems the Democrats have realized they have become victims of their own antigun propaganda. Among the general public, a record 1 million guns were sold across the U. S. in August alone, rebuffing expectations that, after 10 months, the post-Obama election gun-buying spree would abate. Gunmaker Smith & Wesson on Wednesday reported a 30% rise in sales in the first quarter, leading to unexpected profits and a rising stock price. For those of you who are for gun control, how do you like your president now?
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POPSCop gets fine for alleged assault I don’t have any statistics to back me up but I’m willing to bet that if a civilian had done this his ‘sentence’ would be a lot more than what this guy got. Plus, if it had been a civilian holding the knife to a cop’s throat, forget about it.
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POPSTaser-crazy cops becoming global epidemic Last month in Canada, a judge called for tighter control of Taser guns after controversy over a death of an airline passenger in 2007. Last Saturday, one of the most influential Hispanic organizations in the United States, the League of United Latin American Organizations, called for the end of Taser guns in police departments across the country, claiming that the blacks and Hispanics are the most common groups Tasered. And the BBC yesterday published a piece on how Taser incidents have been on the rise in the United Kingdom. Police departments insist that the taser is a good tool that keeps the officer safe, keeps the citizens safe and saves lives. Who do they think they are kidding?
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POPSAmericans Are Living and Dying In A Militarized Police State
Criminals have gotten better armed and more violent. Drug dealers are notorious for carrying weapons and historically have easily outgunned police. So these are reasons why police have become more heavily weaponized. Plus, respect for police has gone into the crapper. Blame for this lies with the police as well as with civilians. Frustration on both sides heat up seemingly benign situations and if there is a gun within reach someone is going to suffer. This has created a very dangerous atmosphere for unarmed citizens which has lead to increased gun sales. It has become an arms race between citizens and their protectors. All of this adds up to the increased need to protect our rights to bear arms and to loudly declare our opposition to our government paving the way for martial law. No one wants to see our cities become militarized police zones. Read the clip for horror stories of police and civilians over-reacting on misinformation usually resulting in death.
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POPSIdaho police sodomize man with Taser There is a case in Florida where a group of 14-year-old boys are going to be tried as adults because they sodomized one of their classmates with broomsticks and hockey sticks. These are cops in this case. Should be treated any differently? After an internal investigation, police determined that the first officer violated the department’s use-of-force policy. And the second officer violated department policy when he erased the taped interview. They have been “disciplined” and are to receive more training. This was a deviant and sadistic act. No amount of ‘training’ is going to suppress the trigger that allowed this individual to resort to this type of inhumane treatment. What is additionally disgusting is that none of the other cops present tried to stop this. It is unconscionable that police will allow this individual back on the street with only a slap on the wrist. I used to have respect for cops. Now I am scared to death and on guard whenever near a cop. Fear is no
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POPSUnarmed, Innocent Man Shot, Killed by Miami Beach Police Hey cops, notice that he is a tourist, not a terrorist. Later that night police arrested Samir, accusing him of beating up his girlfriend. According to the Miami Herald, Samir’s girlfriend denies he hit her. “He wasn’t armed, how can you shoot someone for no reason? I need to know the reason, we all need to know what happened and we don’t know,” said Husien’s cousin Najwa Ghannam. We all want to know.
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POPSRussian woman on trial for raping 10 men At present, the police know about ten of Valeria’s victims, although one of them refused to file a complaint against her. “It was great,” the unnamed man said. “I like hot women. I only wish she hadn't use the clonidine on me.”
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POPSCheney's Revenge: Coming to a Police Station Near You A case in which torture was used by police to obtain a DNA sample from a suspect. What is deemed (ruled) acceptable today will become routine tomorrow. With police regularly using tasers to administer summary punishment to non-compliant civilians, it's not surprising that their use has now been authorized as a means of extracting self-incriminating evidence from criminal suspects. It is becoming more likely that tasers and any other “reasonable manner” (as determined by the prosecution) of enforcing compliance will be used to enforce court-ordered compliance. It is also becoming increasingly apparent that the use of torture during the Bush/Cheney regime needs to be addressed, quickly. As the author states: “Don't be surprised if, ere long, the interrogation rooms in American police departments mutate into CIA-style "black sites" of the sort now familiar to more than a few traumatized innocent foreigners.” How many times have the police have arrested the wrong person?
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POPSPolice Swarm Tiananmen Square to Bar Protest China must realize that their actions today is putting Tiananmen Square in the news. It would be best to get it out into the open and allow those people most affected by that tragic event 20 years ago to grieve for what they know they will probably never have.
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POPSTexas cop uses Taser on 72-year-old great grandmother Ooh, her use of profanity made him fear for his safety. What is this guy a freaking nancy-boy? I’ll bet he let a lot of drivers go by and chose her because she looked ‘safe’. Part of the responsibility for so many people basically blatantly ignoring speed limit signs falls on the cops themselves. They randomly enforce speed limits. I have witnessed speeders driving past police officers who do nothing. I have witnessed police officers driving over the speed limit and I can truthfully say there was no apparent reason for them to do so, because further down the road I would again see them driving along with the crowd. The lackadaisical enforcement gives drivers a false sense that they will not be ticketed and then along comes an officer who may have been bored or pushed by his municipality to raise money. They need to be serious about enforcement or continue to allow drivers to do whatever they please, just as they have for quite some time now.
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POPSCop knocks news videographer’s camera down before handcuffing him I understand the reason for the cops actions. I would not want to view any news story and see the bloodied mess one might expect at a fatal traffic accident. And I don’t think the press should go down that road. Perhaps the cop should have attempted to appeal to the cameraman’s sense of decency instead of coming off as the ‘high and mighty’ authority. Likewise, I would not want to be the relatives of the deceased and learn of the death by seeing it on a news broadcast. Typically, police don’t release names until a next of kin is notified, for a very good reason. Should the police have assumed the news would not release the photos until after that notification was made? I don’t think so. Sometimes the press just pushes their ‘Freedom of the Press’ beyond sensibility and good taste. So far, all the comments I read on this clip are against the police and typically I would be too. But in this case the officer simply handled the situation poorly albeit with good intentions.
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POPSMan arrested for "endangering" officers with camera prepares for trial This would be laughable if it weren’t happening virtually everywhere. You might ask “why would a cop arrest someone for videotaping a police action?” Evidently, police don’t like having their photos taken while doing their jobs. Why? Because they feel threatened that the photo can incriminate them? But, how can a photo incriminate you if you are doing nothing improper? If they are not using excessive force, if they are performing their duty without endangering the safety of others then where is the problem? If you acquire video or photographic evidence that warrants an official investigation, create and secure copies of the evidence, then forward it to local police monitoring groups such as civilian review boards, ACLU, and NAACP chapters And get legal representation for yourself in case the police department retaliates against you.
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POPSOhio man arrested for mowing unkempt grass at park Man tries to help out the city by going beyond his civic duty and gets arrested. There is something very wrong about this situation. Aren't we trying to get more people involved in community affairs? These cops should be thankful the city isn't loaning them out to the parks department to mow the grass and pick up trash.
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POPSOklahoma cop pulls ambulance over; puts EMT in chokehold while patient lingers The trooper wanted to cite the driver of the ambulance but the other paramedic insisted on driving the patient to the hospital first, then allowing the driver to be cited. The trooper then told the second paramedic that he was under arrest for obstruction and attempted to grab the paramedic’s arm. But the paramedic reminded him that it was a felony to assault a paramedic in the line of duty, especially when he needs to transport a patient to the hospital. They struggled briefly before the paramedic was able to hop in the back of the ambulance to tend to the patient. The officers finally allowed the paramedics to transport the patient to the hospital where they planned to arrest the paramedic. Police say they have their own version of the truth that was recorded by their dashboard cam. Of course they are refusing to release it.
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POPSPolice to destroy DNA profiles of 800,000 innocent people This represents less than 18% of the 5.1 million DNA profiles they have in their database. Is this a token move to appease civil rights groups? Will they actually destroy these samples? Are these samples merely copies and therefore not really being destroyed? England is ground zero for the Big Brother scenario as described by George Orwell in the book 1984. I find it difficult to believe they would simply discard DNA data on anybody. The argument for a DNA database is that it can play a crucial role in proving innocence and overturning miscarriages of justice. Earlier this year DNA was a vital factor in proving the innocence of Sean Hodgson, who spent nearly 30 years in prison for the death of a young woman in 1979. But then again if the testing and matching is accurate in the first place innocent people would be prevented from being convicted.
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POPSObama legal team wants to limit defendants' rights Hear that sound? The chip, chip, chipping away of our constitutional rights? Apparently, it doesn’t matter if the president is republican or democrat we are all going to lose in the end. Even if the court decides not to hear the case, the fact that Obama wants to overturn this means he is willing to put constitutional rights aside to get what he wants. This is indicative of how much closer we are coming to a police state.
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POPSA Culture Soaked in Blood We’re confiscating shampoo from carry-on luggage at airports while at the same time handing out high-powered weaponry to criminals and psychotics at gun shows. I believe in everyone’s right to own firearms. I also believe that everyone should have the common sense to responsibly care for these handguns and keep them out of the reach of children. You can regulate things, you cannot regulate common sense and responsibility.
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POPSPolice handcuff news crew covering traffic accident Evidently policeman Ramirez gets mad when someone refuses his orders. The only comment from police comes from a sergeant who claims the two were interfering with police. How they were interfering from the other side of the freeway remains a mystery.
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POPSThe public are fast losing patience with thuggish policing From the author: “This (police) aggression is no doubt linked to the government's nasty habit of writing laws that prefer the convenience of security forces to the rights of free citizens. But the police are public servants, not government enforcers. Their job is to keep the peace, not clear the streets of dissent.” This steady evolution of laws being written to favor government instead of to protect its citizenry reeks of fascist idealism: Control the masses before they can do anything that might hint at voicing their opinion. The government’s fear stems from not being able to ‘control’ its citizens. The answer is simple, politicians should abandon their self-idealized role as ‘controllers’ and return to their intended function as public servants. Put the public’s needs first, stop lining your pockets with our money, stop setting up sweetheart deals with corporations, and listen to what the public has to say.
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POPSCops Gone Wild: A 24-hour glimpse into police misconduct And going back deeper still, say within the last 24 hours, you can read about a Delaware cop arrested for stealing thousands from a police union; a California cop jailed for breaking into the homes of women during a drunken binge; and a Georgia cop who was arrested for fighting with a student inside a high school, On the blog, there is a news feed, which is compiled by Injustice in Seattle, is in the left sidebar of this site. It’s mind-blowing how often it is updated. These are just some of the reports being made public. I wonder how many others are not brought to the public's attention? Remember, their motto is 'To Protect and Serve'.
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POPSPhoenix police raid a blogger Jeff Pataky is part of a growing number of citizens who are not afraid to expose police foul-ups, unwarranted excessive behavior, and just plain Gestapo-like tactics. Sadly, the Phoenix police department is not unique in their use of thug-force. How does your police department compare? It is unfortunate that good cops get grouped in with the bad cops, but they are in a better position to help identify these thugs and get them out of law enforcement. You can read more on the Bad Phoenix Cops blog: http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/
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POPSDavid Byrne’s Snapshot of UK Police Posters Here’s a reminder for all of you who carry cameras around hoping to catch police misconduct. If they are going to watch us we need to watch them. Photography is not a crime. http://carlosmiller.com/
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POPSCameras Help Protect Citizens From Bad Cops These are just two examples of why citizens need to arm themselves with video cameras, because you just never know. The article has many more examples. It is our duty to keep cops honest. There are some good cops out there but the dishonest ones are the ones we need to fear the most. Arm yourselves with video cameras and expose these people every chance you get. Photography is not a crime.
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POPSTeen gunman dead after killing 15 I will never understand the level of frustration or hatred someone feels that allows them to take the lives of and destroy the families of so many people that did not have anything to do with the shooters problems.
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POPS'Mafia Cops' Get Life, and Their Pensions There is something terribly wrong with anyone convicted of these heinous crimes receiving government pensions. Despite having retired before being accused they committed the crimes as city employees, this alone should automatically negate their pensions. The same goes for any government employee. There are instances of federal congressmen in prison receiving pensions. The latest most notable is Randy Cunningham: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/pretty_pensions.html My research shows talk of banning this practice over the past several years, and Congress has unanimously passed legislation several times but nothing has changed. How do politicians justify allowing a dishonored fellow politician or government employee to continue to reap the benefits of their position after bringing such dishonor to those positions?
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