Information Liberation – by Sonia Roubini, ACLU

We recently received a handbook from the DEA, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, seeking information about the use of impersonation as an investigative technique. While the 1999 handbook, titled Online Investigative Principles for Federal Law Enforcement Agents, was almost identical to a version of the handbook that is available online, there is one notable difference: the version that the DEA sent us includes a copy of the DEA’s Consent to Assume Online Identity: Adult Consent form.   Continue reading “Here’s How Law Enforcement Agencies Impersonate Your Friends”

Philly.com – by William Bender

THE LABOR union representing Philadelphia police officers is working with a Republican state representative to introduce legislation that would grant anonymity to most cops involved in on-duty shootings.

John McNesby, president of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police, is expected to join state Rep. Martina White tomorrow to outline a bill to prevent the release of officers’ names and identifying information – except in cases where they are charged with a crime as a result of the shooting.   Continue reading “Fraternal Order of Police backs bill for police anonymity”

RT

While President Barack Obama has promised to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison complex in Cuba, the US Secretary of Defense suggested there might be no alternative to detaining inmates anywhere else.

During a livestream event with military personnel worldwide on Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter was asked by a petty office about Guantanamo Bay. Carter said the problem with closing the prison was that “some of the detainees have to be detained indefinitely.”   Continue reading “Indefinite detention at Gitmo still a possibility – US Defense Sec.”

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At least 300 high-ranking sheriffs and police from agencies large and small – from New York and Maine to Orange County and Oakland, California – have traveled to Israel for privately funded seminars in what is described as counterterrorism techniques.

Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer called Israel “the Harvard of antiterrorism” after taking part in a 2005 trip sponsored by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). Capt. Brad Virgoe of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in California called the 2013 session he took part in an “amazing experience,” recalling visits to checkpoints in Eilat at the Israeli-Egyptian border and in the West Bank near Bethlehem.   Continue reading “DHS investors are sending police to train in Israel”

Lubbock Online – by Leonard Pitts Jr.

Here is a challenge for you. Reconcile the following:

In 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified, including the Fourth Amendment, guaranteeing “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

In 2015, a 21-year-old woman named Charnesia Corley says she underwent a public body-cavity search for drugs at a gas station in Texas.   Continue reading “Corley endured an assault on her, the Fourth Amendment”

Valley Central – by Nestor Mato

A single gunshot was heard through the halls of St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston  on Thursday after an off-duty officer shot Rio Grande Valley native Alan Pean in the chest.

His brother Christian Pean told Action 4 News that the Mission family was finally able to see him – 48 hours after he was admitted into the St. Joseph Medical Center.

Alan Pean was shot in his own hospital room by an off-duty officer, after police said he had become “combative.”   Continue reading “Man Shot in his Hospital Room By a Cop After Checking Himself in for Mental Health Help”

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Soon EMS & firefighters everywhere will respond to a fire or accident wearing Kevlar helmets and ballistic vests!

‘They’ (DHS) claim having such gear available will help medical personnel get inside a shooting scene quicker to treat the wounded.

What’s really scary is EMS & firefighters are conducting joint training sessions with police.   Continue reading “Police State America is giving EMS crews tanks, Kevlar helmets and ballistic vests”

My Fox Memphis – by Darrell Greene

MILLINGTON, Tenn. (FOX13) – More than $12,000 is cash is missing from a dead man’s belongings. The brother of that deceased man is pointing a finger at the police.

We obtained court records which indicate $19,962 was found in the home of Jimmy Wayne Smith. He was found dead due to natural causes in his Millington home on Brinkley Street on April 28.   Continue reading “TBI investigating Millington police after money goes missing”

Down and Drought – by Sun Burns

Down and Drought has learned that VirTra Systems, Inc., a Tempe company that produces a shooting simulator used for law enforcement and military training, employs former Scottsdale police officer James Peters who resigned from the department amid controversy in 2012 following revelations that he had tallied six fatal shootings during his twelve year career.

James Peters was cleared in his final fatal shooting, that of John Loxas, an unarmed man carrying his grandchild when Peters shot and killed him. The incident ignited anti-police protests and debate around this officer who had killed so many, and resulted in the city paying out a $4.25 million dollar settlement to the Loxas family.  In the summer of 2012, Peters took an early retirement from the city, and effectively dropped out of sight. But while he was no longer a police officer he continued to work alongside law enforcement in the private sector.   Continue reading “The Scottsdale police officer who killed six is now training cops when to shoot to kill”

The Hill – by Julian Hattem

The Associated Press is bringing a lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking information about the government’s use of a fake news story to catch a teenager suspected of calling in bomb threats.

Along with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the AP asked a district court on Thursday to force the department to turn over records regarding the FBI’s impersonation of a journalist and creation of a fake story in 2007.   Continue reading “AP sues feds over fake news story”

SHTF Plan – by Mac Slavo

Ostensibly, and on the surface, they are trained to “help out” with things like natural disasters, floods and hurricanes.

They are “ready” too for chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear hazards.

Slightly below the surface, these Fort Bragg Army engineers are also training — this time in Florida — to assist local authorities in the event of domestic disorder and potential chaos — prepared to quell civil unrest, riots, mass unrest or even the aftermath of terrorist attacks.   Continue reading “Fort Bragg Troops Train for Domestic Emergency: “This Exercise Is About the Home Front””

MassPrivateI

The American police state keeps growing, private citizens can stop, ticket and arrest anyone for a traffic violation:

The Newspaper:

The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday decided to emphasize the private citizen’s right to pull over other motorists, even for minor traffic infractions. A three-judge panel reviewed the September 2, 2012 incident in which Pigeon Forge Police Officer Jeremy Croce stopped Steven Roy Wilburn outside of his jurisdiction.    Continue reading “Private citizens can ticket and arrest anyone for traffic violations in Tennessee”

Mother Jones – by Julia Lurie

On the main road through Lower Lake, a town of 1,294 people in the heart of Northern California’s Lake County, spray-painted signs reading, “THANK YOU FIREFIGHTERS!” hang from fences and windows. Over the past month, the town, just north of Napa’s vineyards and south of the forests of Mendocino, has seen two of the biggest fires in the state’s recent history decimate roughly 70,000 acres of land.

The fires are mostly out now, but in recent media coverage of them, a surprising statistic came out: More than 30 percent of California’s wildfire fighters are state prisoners—low-level felons who volunteered to spend their sentences doing the manual labor of forest fire prevention and response rather than remaining behind bars.   Continue reading “Capitalizing on Slave Labor: 4,000 Inmates Were Hired For $1 Per Hour to Fight California’s Wildfires”

WWL TV 4 – by Antwan Harris

NEW ORLEANS — Law enforcement agencies from across the metro area, as well as U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite, went door-to-door in New Orleans East on Saturday to hand out information on the penalties of gun crimes in school zones.

The group started at Dolores T. Aaron School, and Polite was joined by the ATF, New Orleans Police Department and the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office as part of the initiative.   Continue reading “Cops go door-to-door to remind of gun-free school zones”

WSB TV

GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Gwinnett County woman has filed a lawsuit, claiming a police officer faked her drug arrest on a national TV show.

She accuses the officer of planting suspected cocaine to show off for the cameras.

The woman’s attorney told Channel 2’s Carl Willis she doesn’t feel safe in Gwinnett County anymore.    Continue reading “Lawsuit Says Officer Planted Drugs On Woman For Episode Of ‘COPS’”

The San Diego Tribune – by Kristina Davis

ENCINITAS — A confrontation over a drone flying above beachgoers ended with damaged equipment, a man behind bars and lingering questions over the line between public air space and personal space.

Augustine Lehecka, a Carlsbad electronic engineer, said he was enjoying the ideal summer afternoon at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas with friends on Sunday. A rock ‘n’ roll band was on stage, the water was warm for bodysurfing and the beach was packed.   Continue reading “Downing drone at beach leads to jail”

The Newspaper

A Mississippi Highway Patrol officer who issued bogus traffic citations to meet his ticket quota was fired on Friday by the state supreme court. All nine justices agreed that the department was right to terminate Sammy William Ray and that the state Court of Appeals was wrong to intervene to give him his job back, with full back pay.   Continue reading “Mississippi Supreme Court Busts Lying, Ticket Quota Cop”

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The Regal Entertainment Group – the nation’s largest movie theater chain just added a bag and purse check policy as a so-called security measure in some of its theaters, which undoubtedly will include every theater soon!

Regal Entertainment’s website uses public safety as a reason to ILLEGALLY search everyone’s handbag, backpacks etc.   Continue reading “DHS works with movie theaters to search your handbags and backpacks”

ABC News – by Bill Barrow

Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the government should have broad surveillance powers of Americans and private technology firms should cooperate better with intelligence agencies to help combat “evildoers.”

At a national security forum in the early voting state of South Carolina, Bush put himself at odds with Republican congressional leaders who earlier this year voted to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records.   Continue reading “Jeb Bush: NSA Needs Broader Powers to Combat ‘Evildoers’”