From the Trenches World Report
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The opening seconds of the Saltus Technologies video says it all. Electronic tickets are about one thing, increasing productivity (profits).
“The digiTICKET electronic ticketing solution is an innovative force multiplier for Public Safety – enabling officers to quickly create and submit tickets electronically. ” Continue reading “Police use electronic ticketing to fine more people and increase profits”
(St. Louis) Project Veritas Action Fund has released a third undercover video from campaigns during this 2018 election season. This report exposes how incumbent Senator McCaskill and individuals working on her campaign conceal their liberal views on issues in order to court moderate voters. Continue reading ““People just can’t know that.” MO Sen. McCaskill Hides Agenda Including “semi-automatic rifle ban” from Moderate Voters, Staffers Reveal in Undercover Video it “could hurt her ability to get elected.””
Riverfront Times – by Sarah Fenske
In July, 25-year-old Vanity Allen checked in to SSM Health DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton for stomach pain — only to be left bloodied by one of the hospital’s security guards. Now surveillance footage obtained by her lawyer shows the guard grappling with Allen, then tackling her.
You can see a video of the incident below. While the initial interaction takes place just outside the camera’s field of vision, Allen has said the guard struck her over her left eye with his fist, sending her falling into the sidewalk. Continue reading “Video Shows SSM Hospital Security Guard Taking Down Patient”
Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey
LANSING, Mich. (Oct. 12, 2018) – A bill introduced in the Michigan Senate would allow customers to opt out of installing “smart meter” technology on their homes and businesses without penalty. Passage of this bill would enable Michigan residents to protect their own privacy, and it would take a step toward blocking a federal program in effect.
Sen. Patrick Colbeck (R) introduced Senate Bill 1128 (SB1128) on Sept. 26. Under the proposed law, Michigan utility customers would have the option to refuse an “advanced meter,” commonly known as a smart meter. Continue reading “Michigan Bill Would Allow Customers to Opt Out of Smart Meters, Undermine Federal Program”
Anyone pumped for this week’s launch of Google’s Home Hub might want to temper their excitement. A smart home is a surveilled home. That’s been the concern of privacy activists since citizens started lighting up their abodes with so-called “smart” tech in recent years.
Take Google’s current smart home division, Nest Labs. It’s been told to hand over data on 300 separate occasions since 2015. That’s according to a little-documented transparency report from Nest, launched a year after the $3.2 billion Google acquisition. The report shows around 60 requests for data were received by Google’s unit in the first half of this year alone. In all those cases recorded from 2015 onward, governments have sought data on as many as 525 Nest account holders. Continue reading “Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google’s Nest To Hand Over Data 300 Times”
Soon nowhere will be safe from Big Brother’s prying eyes. Imagine walking down Main St., and seeing officer friendly approaching you. As the officer approaches you, he or she has already scanned your face against a 15 million person database and knows if you have any outstanding tickets, warrants etc.
That is the future of American policing. Continue reading “Police facial recognition body cams can be edited by law enforcement”
The College Fix – by Daniel Payne
Administrators at Long Island University Post recently called a student into a meeting after that student posted photos of himself on Facebook legally handing unloaded firearms at an off-campus event.
The meeting occurred after another student told the university that the student who handled the guns, Anand Venigalla, “might have violent intentions.” Neither the university nor the student appear to have had any evidence that Venigalla had any violent tendencies or desires whatsoever. Continue reading “He held an unloaded gun off-campus. His school didn’t like it”
Waking Times – by Terrence Newton
The global rollout of 5G is well underway, and we soon may see new small cell towers near all schools, on every residential street, dispersed throughout the natural environment, and pretty much everywhere. But the safety of this technology is in serious question, and there is a raging battle to stop the taxpayer funded implementation of 5G.
The new cell network uses high band radio frequency millimeter waves to deliver high bandwidth data to any device within line of sight. Continue reading “5G Network Uses Same EMF Waves as Pentagon Crowd Control System”
LEESBURG, Fla. – A 26-year-old man on Friday was arrested on charges of practicing dentistry without a license, the Leesburg Police Department said.
Investigators said Allen Turner had been making custom molds for dental grills at his home.
Turner told Channel 9 on Monday that he was unaware that what he was doing was illegal and that he considers himself more of a jeweler. Continue reading “Leesburg man made teeth grills at home without dentistry license, police say”
LOUISVILLE, Ky., (WDRB) – Shortly after he was pulled over by a Kentucky State Police trooper on Sept. 16 near his home in eastern Kentucky last year, David Gabbard said he wrote a Facebook post sharing his anger at what he felt was an illegal stop.
“Just love being pulled over for no reason lmao. #maybenexttime. #policeharasment (sic),” the post read.
Continue reading “Lawsuit: KSP trooper attacks man after Facebook post”
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook is launching the first electronic device to bear its brand, a screen and camera-equipped gadget intended to make video calls easier and more intuitive.
But it’s unclear if people will open their homes to an internet-connected camera sold by a company with a questionable track record on protecting user privacy. Continue reading “Facebook wants people to invite its cameras into their homes”
In Virginia, the scariest thing about Halloween is how much legal trouble people can face for merely trying to enjoy the holiday.
The city of Chesapeake, for instance, prohibits anyone over the age of 12 from engaging in “the activity commonly known as ‘trick or treat.'” Those who break the law are guilty of a misdemeanor, and could face a fine of $25 or up to six months in jail. Continue reading “13-Year-Olds Who Trick or Treat in Chesapeake, Virginia, Face Fines, Possible Jail Time”
CR80 reports that Apple’s long-standing vision of tracking students has now become a reality.
Earlier this month Apple kicked off its mobile student ID program at three college campuses, much to the delight of university police. Continue reading “University police can use Blackboard Transact to track everything a student purchases and everywhere they go”
An internal investigation is underway at the Gary Police Department after officers were captured on video Sept. 1 arresting a person for filming them from what appears to be a public walkway.
With smartphone use increasingly common in recent years, an individual’s constitutional right to film on-duty officers has been hotly debated and called into question, but later affirmed through various lawsuits across the U.S.
Behind the Badge – by Lou Ponsi
The line of walkers, about 200 strong and strung out over a quarter mile, made their way along some of Tustin’s main thoroughfares.
Many waved U.S. flags, divided with a blue line down the middle – the universal symbol for law enforcement – and others displayed homemade signs reading, “RESPECT POLICE,” “I WALK FOR LAW ENFORCMENT,” and “POLICE MATTER.” Continue reading “Citizens walk Tustin to support police”
Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom
ST. PAUL, Minn.—The Pew Research Center last week released a new public opinion report on “patient matching,” a term which is simply a less-offensive moniker for “national patient ID,” says Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF).
Pew led off the study with this dubious claim about developing a national system of patient identification: “Enhanced Patient Matching Is Critical to Achieving Full Promise of Digital Health Records.” However, problems abound with both the idea of pushing a national patient ID strategy to link patient data and the proposed use of a national infrastructure to collect and store the biometrics of Americans, such as their DNA, fingerprints or iris scans.
Huffington Post – by Nick Wing
One of the nation’s largest gun suppliers has donated nine semi-automatic AR-15 rifles to school resources officers in Bismarck, North Dakota, helping police in the state’s capital fulfill a request for additional firepower to protect students.
In August, the Bismarck Police Department submitted a budget proposal that included nearly $26,000 to purchase new rifles, gun safes, bulletproof vests and medical kits to treat gunshot wounds. The cost was supposed to be split evenly between the school district and police department, but the county said it wouldn’t pay for the AR-15s themselves, according to The Bismarck Tribune. Continue reading “Gun Company Donates AR-15s To School Cops In North Dakota”
Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel
The TSA is using facial recognition technology with a “biometric confirmation” rate of 85% for testing purposes at airports.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is expected to complete a 30-day test next month testing the use of facial recognition technology at Los Angeles International Airport, the LA Times reported. Continue reading “TSA Facial Recognition Experiment Receives 85% Accuracy Rate”
On a Thursday night in July 2015, an Indianapolis police dog named Scooter was chasing a suspect on foot. After the suspect ran into Mara Mancini’s yard, she heard her own dogs barking and stepped onto her back porch to investigate. That’s when Scooter attacked Mancini, who was seven months pregnant at the time. He bit her repeatedly, tearing pieces of flesh out of her arms and thighs. She underwent several surgeries as a result of the attack. Continue reading “Judge Rules Against Woman Mauled by Police Dog Because She Wasn’t the Intended Target”
The Transportation Security Administration’s Instagram page is a nightmarish mash-up of national security state propaganda and bad dad jokes. The fact that the TSA has captured more social media awards than it has terrorists says something about what the agency is actually good at.
Sometimes the account serves up a truly maddening cocktail of earnest obedience to nonsensical rules while simultaneously demonstrating just how silly those rules are. That’s what happened Wednesday when the TSA Instagram account posted a picture of six bullet-shaped whiskey stones agents had confiscated from an unlucky traveler at Idaho’s Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport: Continue reading “TSA Confiscates Bullet-Shaped Ice Cubes, Even Though Unusable Bullets Are TSA-Approved”