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Chicago Poised To Become First City To Pay Reparations For Police Violence
Michael Pereckas (CC BY 2.0) Aaron Cynic writes at Chicagoist: Victims of police torture by Jon Burge and his notorious “midnight crew” are one step closer to reparations today, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
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Want to Record The Cops? Know Your Rights
There are some very disturbing videos circulating the Internet right now, depicting the deaths of unarmed civilians at the hands of trained, armed men. Many of these videos even show individuals being...
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When Cops Check Facebook
As if disinfonauts really needed reminding, be careful who you “friend” on Facebook or other social media platforms: they might be cops looking to arrest you and your associates, reports the Atlantic:...
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A Self-Styled Abolitionist’s Orwellian Assault on Sex Workers
r2hox (CC BY-SA 2.0) Self-styled abolitionist Ryan Dalton’s new tech startup, Rescue Forensics, wants to change the way the police fight human trafficking sex work by dredging up that old spectre The...
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3,000-Year-Old Masonic Police Department Uncovered in California
Three people have been arrested in California for impersonating law enforcement officers while operating an unofficial police department dating back (they claim) to the Knights Templar – the Masonic...
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Long Beach Police Officer ID’d in Fatal Shooting of Unarmed 19-Year-Old
Hector Morejon is shown in a family photo with his mother, Lucia Morejon. Matt Hamilton writes at the LA Times: A veteran of the Long Beach Police Department was identified Tuesday as the officer who...
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Google that shit! From pdfs to articles to videos to images to apps – yep, there’s an app for that – we’re showing you the resources and listing off the forces behind we, the people, from calmly...
View ArticleFilm The Police!
Brave New Films just released a new short film about police brutality with a call for us all to do our civil duty and film the police: From Brave New Films: Some lawmakers are still pushing to...
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It is Time We Discussed Abolishing the Police
Brian Platt writes at CounterPunch: Last week documents obtained by The Intercept revealed that undercover officers for the NYPD regularly attended Black Lives Matter events. Pictures of activists are...
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Will Your Car Obey You or the Police?
Philippe Gastonne via The Daily Bell: A few lines in a seemingly routine RAND Corp. report on the future of technology and law enforcement last week raised a provocative question: Should police have...
View ArticleHow to Get a Bad Cop Fired
Matt Agorist writes at the Free Thought Project: While police brutality may seem overwhelming at times, it is important to remember that brutal police are the few and those of us who want peace are the...
View ArticleMap of Police Violence
The Mapping Police Violence project has some shocking statistics to accompany this map: o At least 1148 people were killed by police in 2014. 304 (26%) were black. o Black people were nearly 3x more...
View ArticleCPD Still Stonewalling Privacy Advocates On Releasing Information About...
Aaron Cynic writes at Chicagoist: Privacy advocates filed another lawsuit yesterday in the ongoing battle to get the Chicago Police Department to provide information on the covert cell phone tracking...
View ArticleChicago Poised To Become First City To Pay Reparations For Police Violence
Aaron Cynic writes at Chicagoist: Victims of police torture by Jon Burge and his notorious “midnight crew” are one step closer to reparations today, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel agreed to a package... The...
View ArticlePolice Union Claims Rewarding Peaceful Officers Will Kill Cops
(ANTIMEDIA) Los Angeles, CA — This week, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck announced the initiation of a new award intended to encourage police officers to find more peaceful resolutions to...
View ArticleEditorial: Murder in My Name
Eight years ago, I heard what sounded like a car backfiring. About a minute later, there was a knock on my door. I was half-asleep, got out of bed without throwing on... The post Editorial: Murder in...
View ArticleStriking Analysis of Civil Rights Complaints Sheds Light on Why Police...
Newspaper investigation reveals that federal prosecutors failed to pursue civil rights complaints against police officers 96 percent of cases The post Striking Analysis of Civil Rights Complaints Sheds...
View ArticleSheriff Says Investigating Rape Is “Unnecessary” Because “Most Accusations...
It is no secret that police departments have diverted energy and resources away from real crime like rape, theft, and murder so they can enforce drug laws, traffic laws and a wide range of other...
View ArticleDoes the First Amendment protect people who film the police?
A 2015 nationwide study indicates that more courts – but certainly not all, as Fields indicates – are recognizing a limited First Amendment right to record police doing their jobs in public venues,...
View ArticleIdiot Falls for Joke Facebook Post, Gets Arrested
Granite Shoals Police Department in Central Texas put out a Facebook post last Tuesday warning citizens that new supplies of heroin and cocaine had been contaminated with the Ebola virus. The post...
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