Author: Joe from MassPrivateI

Jacksonville – by David Bauerlein

For those who prefer to back vehicles into their driveways, a proposal pending before City Council would make it illegal to park their cars that way unless their license plate information is clearly visible from the street.

The proposed bill is aimed at cracking down on the visual blight that occurs when vehicle owners store cars that don’t work on their property.   Continue reading “Backing into your own driveway could cost you under proposed bill before Jacksonville Council”

The Daily Caller – by Patrick Howley

Conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents Monday while returning through an airport to U.S. soil. Why? Because he once filmed a video in which he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without going through customs. And customs agents told him he will be detained every single time he enters the country from overseas henceforth.   Continue reading “Feds Detain At Least One Border Crosser…James O’Keefe!”

Fox 13 Now – by Zach Whitney

PANGUITCH, Utah – Commissioners in Garfield County have declared a state of emergency, saying a decline in school enrollment in rural communities has put the future of those cities at risk.

Commissioners unanimously approved the declaration, which commissioner Leland Pollock said is meant to raise awareness to the fact that the county has been put in a situation where the federal government is eliminating jobs in the area, forcing families to relocate.   Continue reading “Garfield County declares state of emergency with decline in student enrollment”

WHAS 11

CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (WHAS11) – A local member of law enforcement is now facing multiple charges, including pepper spraying an infant.

Charles Edelen is now charged with aggravated battery, criminal recklessness and domestic battery.

Edelen is a reserve police officer for the city of Clarksville and is also a Clarksville firefighter.   Continue reading “Ind. law enforcer pepper sprayed infant, faces multiple charges”

KIRO TV 7 – by David Ham

Daniel Gehkle said he plans to fight a $138 ticket for holding up a sign that said, “Cops ahead – Stop at Sign and Lights.”

Gehkle used a black permanent marker to write on a plastic lid to make the sign.

“I think that the problem with my case is I interrupted their revenue for the city and they were like okay we need to stop this guy,” said Gehlke who was ticketed last Wednesday at the intersection of 14th Avenue and South Washington.

Gehlke added, “I saw an injustice so I thought I needed to come out and warn people that something was happening. I thought it was a problem.”   Continue reading “Seattle man ticketed for warning drivers about ‘speed trap’”

Fox News

MARIETTA, Ga. –  A Georgia special education teacher who was accused of holding an autistic boy upside-down and lowering him head-first into a trash can while comparing him to Oscar the Grouch says she was trying to calm the boy, not hurt him.

At a school system hearing Monday near Atlanta, Mary Katherine Pursley said the second-grader was screaming and upset April 30, and she was trying to “shake out the grouchy.”   Continue reading “Teacher: Lowering boy into trash can was meant to calm him”

Chron – by Katherine Driessen

A Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy fatally shot a man armed with a power drill who came toward the officer in an apartment at 910 Cypress Station Drive on Sunday, according to an agency spokesman.

Deputy Thomas Gilliland, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office, said deputies responded to a call in north Harris County about a disturbance Sunday afternoon. When they entered the residence, deputies found a suicidal 49-year-old man who was acting belligerent and continuing to threaten to kill himself, Gilliland said.   Continue reading “Authorities: Deputy fatally shot belligerent man in N. Harris County”

Tulsa World – by Rhett Morgan

OWASSO — An Owasso police officer who was fired in 2011 for violating the department’s use-of-force policy — and later reinstated — is again the target of excessive force allegations, the officer’s attorney said Wednesday.

Mike Denton, who rejoined the police force in September, has been placed on paid administrative leave while the Police Department investigates the new allegations, Denton’s attorney, Pat Hunt, said. Continue reading “Suspended Owasso police officer is same one fired in 2011 for excessive force”

MassPrivateI

The court often sides with police, and frequently at the behest of the Obama Justice Dept. where police groups saw Mr. Holder as an ally.

AG Eric Holder’s Justice Department has supported police officers every time an excessive-force case has made its way to arguments. Even as it has opened more than 20 civil rights investigations into local law enforcement practices, the Justice Department has made it harder for people to sue the police and that gives officers more discretion about when to fire their guns.   Continue reading “Supreme Court often sides with police in misconduct cases, resulting in more police powers”

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Massachusetts was once at the forefront of liberty but sadly it’s now at the forefront for having some of the most secretive police in the country.

The Mass. State Police are the most secretive department in the country! They make it extremely difficult for the public to access any information.   Continue reading “Massachusetts police the most secretive in the nation”

Armstrong Economics – by Martin Armstrong

If you apply for a mortgage, you will suddenly encounter the REAL hunt for money. My sister just bought a house and to get the mortgage she had to explain every deposit and cash withdrawal in her account going back five years. My mother had simply written her a check for $400 to reimburse her for picking up some medicine. They wanted her to explain why my mother gave her $400.

Another friend, who lived with his girlfriend for five years and shared an apartment, encountered the full fury of the government’s hunt for spare change. His girlfriend had written him checks for half the rent for five years. He had to explain every one of those checks before they could get a mortgage to buy a home together.   Continue reading “The Feds Are Hunting Money Retroactively – Is a Real Estate Crash Coming?”

Sacramento Bee – by DENNY WALSH AND SAM STANTON

For years, the California Highway Patrol has consistently denied that its officers are subject to a quota for the number of traffic tickets they write each month.

The practice is illegal under state law, and agencies that have been found to use a quota system have paid millions of dollars in damages and faced lawsuits filed as recently as April.   Continue reading “Court case hinges on claim of illegal CHP ticket quotas”

Washingtonian – by Benjamin Freed

Uttering some of the more expressive words in the English language will cost you up to $250 if you say them in Arlington, now that county officials have upped their fines on public uses of profanity. The Arlington County Board just approved a measure increasing penalties for public intoxication and blue language from $100 to $250.

Even if Arlington is sacrificing its reputation as an urbanist’s dream community, its leaders have not given up their mission to clean up its residents sometimes-naughty antics. The code change adopted during Saturday’s board meeting came after the Arlington Police Department reported making 664 arrests for public inebriation and foul-mouthed talk in 2014.   Continue reading “Arlington Cracks Down on Salty Language”

Off the Grid News

A Michigan family which had dreams of camping during the summer in the great outdoors was horrified when state officials seized their six children simply because they were temporarily living in tents, Off The Grid News has learned.

The nightmare experience for Christopher and Antonia Hernandez began May 19 when Otsego County Sheriff deputies and a CPS official took their children, and ended June 10 when their children were returned after the parents won a court ruling based on the fact the mother and children are eligible for enrollment in the Tlingit Native American tribe. The federal Indian Child Welfare Act makes it more difficult for state officials to separate Native American families. Michigan has a similar state law.   Continue reading “Police Seize 6 Children Simply Because Family Was Camping”

Courthouse News – by Victoria Prieskop

ALBUQUERQUE (CN) – Albuquerque police jailed a middle school special ed student twice because they thought it better to jail disabled kids to than leave them in school, the teenager claims in court.

Sidney Summers, now 18, sued the Albuquerque Police Department and Sgt. Michael Archibeque in Bernalillo County Court, citing two incidents from 2009, when Summers was 12 years old.   Continue reading “School to Jail Pipeline for Disabled Kids?”

MassPrivateI

Each year the Florida Escambia County Sheriff’s Office training division, domestic security division, resource officers, Explorers program, Escambia County fire and EMS, along with the school district run active shooter training scenario’s.

“Law Enforcement Exploring is the preeminent career orientation and experience program for young people contemplating a career in law enforcement or a related field in the criminal justice system. Its mission is to offer young adults, 14 and have completed the eighth grade and not yet 21 years old, Continue reading “Police shoot middle school kids during ‘TEMS’ active shooter drills with EMS and firefighters”