Author: Joe from MassPrivateI

The Newspaper

Many top photo enforcement industry executives have found themselves behind bars or under federal investigation. While the bribery scandal in Chicago, Illinois generated the most attention, envelopes filled with cash from Redflex Traffic Systems were also handed to politicians in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington according to Aaron M. Rosenberg, the Australian company’s former executive vice president.

Rosenberg entered a guilty plea on two counts of bribery in 2016. He was sentenced to just three months of home confinement, 120 hours of community service and ten hours of online ethics training in return for his testimony against colleagues.   Continue reading “Top Ten Photo Enforcement Felons”

Cincinnati.com – by Chris Mayhew

COVINGTON, Ky. – Business owner Marty Boyer accidentally paid the electric bill for lights on the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge for five months.

Boyer was charged based on electrical poles across West Third Street from the Theatre House in Covington, a business he acquired in November. The poles supply electricity for lights on the Ohio River bridge, Duke Energy acknowledged Monday after Boyer made a “plea for help” on social media.   Continue reading “Man finds out he pays Ohio River bridge’s electric bill”

Courthouse News – by Nick Cahill

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – Driving into a dead end, a mentally disabled man opened his car door and raised his hands in surrender. He was met with a kick to the face and ferocious baton beating that culminated with two California highway patrolmen high-fiving in celebration, all captured on film.

The street-level punishment of a young man with schizophrenia by uniformed officers went unnoticed by news outlets, compared to the worldwide attention given to the similar beating in similar circumstances of Rodney King in Los Angeles X years ago and the recent killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento more recently.   Continue reading “California Police Beating Ducks Attention With Settlement Just Shy of $1 Million”

Reason – by Christian Britschgi

The insanely broad “assault weapons” definition used by the small town of Deerfield, Illinois, to prohibit common peashooters has now migrated to the entire state of Oregon.

This week activists in support of Initiative 43 received a draft ballot title from the state’s attorney general, which describes the initiative as criminalizing the “possession or transfer of ‘assault weapons’ (defined) or ‘large capacity magazines’ (defined), with exceptions.”   Continue reading “Insanely Broad Definition of ‘Assault Weapon’ Moves From Illinois Village to Oregon Ballot Initiative”

Fox 31 Denver

ARVADA, Colo. — An Arvada woman said she’s facing a $500 fine from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol after she saved a free apple she received from an airline on her way home from Paris.

Crystal Tadlock said toward the end of her flight, attendants passed out apples in plastic bags.   Continue reading “Arvada woman trying to stomach $500 fine for free airline snack, files complaint with customs”

Miami Herald

Step out of line at the Miami-Dade juvenile lockup and you just might get a beating, dished out by an enforcer, orchestrated by members of the staff, and rewarded by a treat from the officer vending machines.

The beatings were known as “honey bunnings,” and the culture they spawned was codified in secret language and gestures known only to officers and their charges.  Continue reading “Officer accused of bribing youths to savagely assault 17-year-old detainee. The teen died.”

Papers Please

One of the major goals of the REAL-ID Act of 2005 was to create, and to pressure state governments to participate in, a national database of drivers’ licenses and state-issued ID cards.

The REAL-ID Act requires that, “To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall … Provide electronic access to all other States to information contained in the motor vehicle database of the State.”   Continue reading “Is your drivers license or state ID in the national REAL-ID database?”

Middle East Eye – by Mark Curtis

Some commentators in the British mainstream media believe the UK has “done nothing” in the war in Syria and lament the failure to help stop it.

In fact, Britain has engaged in a covert operation with allies to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad for more than six years, and this policy has helped prolong and radicalise the terrible war. It is British action, not inaction, that is the biggest problem with government policy towards Syria. The full story of this covert operation may take years to emerge, but some elements of it can already be pieced together.    Continue reading “How Britain engaged in a covert operation to overthrow Assad”

Strategic Culture – by Philip M Giraldi

False Flag is a concept that goes back centuries. It was considered to be a legitimate ploy by the Greeks and Romans, where a military force would pretend to be friendly to get close to an enemy before dropping the pretense and raising its banners to reveal its own affiliation just before launching an attack. In the sea battles of the eighteenth century among Spain, France and Britain hoisting an enemy flag instead of one’s own to confuse the opponent was considered to be a legitimate ruse de guerre, but it was only “honorable” if one reverted to one’s own flag before engaging in combat.  Continue reading “How False Flag Operations Are Carried Out Today”

The Economic Collapse – by Phil Hart

Back in the 1770’s there was a collection of radicals, who were highly educated in the natural law and the errors and successes of past political and economic systems. They were American Colonists with names like John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, et. al. They believed that each man was uniquely created by God and could have a personal relationship with the Creator if he or she chose to do so. This mind-set also caused these men to reject the idea that God only spoke to men through either the Pope or the King, and that the political theory of the “Divine Right of Kings” was a scam used by kings to justify their dictatorial form of government. Claiming their divine right, kings would claim they represented God to the people and that all their policies were God ordained and therefore infallible.   Continue reading “Uncle Sam is Biggest Brother”

MassPrivateI

Breathalytics and Precision Kiosk Technologies are trying to convince courtrooms, probation officers and police to purchase self-service biometric DUI kiosks

“Participants login to the kiosk with a fingerprint scan, while a camera records the session and confirms the user’s identity with facial recognition software.”

Breathalytics will scan a participants fingers while simultaneously confirming their identity with facial recognition software. (To find out more about their fingerprint scanner click here.)   Continue reading “Police facial recognition DUI kiosks coming to a city near you”

WSRZ

A 67-year-old man was sentenced to eight months in prison after he admitted to using a laser jamming device to avoid detection by speed cameras. Timothy Hill was caught by police after he flipped off mobile speed camera vans on three separate occasions. He was also banned from driving for one year.

Traffic Constable Andrew Forth said that Hill made himself an easy target by “repeatedly gesturing at police camera vans with your middle finger while you’re driving a distinctive car.”  Continue reading “Man Jailed After Flipping Off Traffic Camera While Using Laser Jammer”

AL.com

Alec Allen has suffered from persistent nausea and other gastrological problems since 2011, when he was incarcerated in the Etowah County jail for about nine months.

Doctors have not been able to pinpoint a culprit, but the long-haul truck driver said he had a parasite when he was released, and he blames his ongoing medical issues on the food he and other inmates were served.   Continue reading “Jail kitchen workers say donated, spoiled food keeps costs low for beach house sheriff”

Reason – by Jacob Sullum

After a police officer pulls over a teenaged girl without any legal justification and frightens her to the verge of tears, the local press portrays the incident as charming rather than alarming. You know what that means: Prom season is upon us.

The cop-assisted promposal, in which police help a teenager carry out a prank that ends with an invitation to the big dance, has become a familiar springtime ritual, documented in online videos and feel-good newspaper stories. But beneath the warm and fuzzy images of adolescent couples lurks a disturbing willingness to tolerate abuses of power by police officers as long as their motives are pure.   Continue reading “Are Cop-Assisted Promposals Charming or Alarming?”

Reason

On June 21, 2016, Chicago police pulled Spencer Byrd over for a broken turn signal. Byrd says his signal wasn’t broken, but that detail would soon be the least of his worries. Ever since, Byrd has been trapped in one of the city’s most confusing bureaucratic mazes, deprived of his car and his ability to work. He now owes the city thousands of dollars for the pleasure.

Byrd, 50, lives in Harvey, Illinois, a corrupt, crime-ridden town south of Chicago where more than 35 percent of the populace lives below the poverty line. He’s a carpenter by trade, but until the traffic stop, he had a side gig as an auto mechanic. Byrd says he’s been fixing cars “ever since I was 16 years old and blew my first motor.” Sometimes he did service calls and would give clients rides when he couldn’t repair their cars on the spot.  Continue reading “Chicago Is Trying to Pay Down Its Debt By Impounding Innocent People’s Cars”

Tenth Amendment Center – by Mike Maharrey

Sometimes I think there is some central office somewhere writing scripts for police departments to read when they need to oppose (support) something. No matter what city or state, or what issue we’re talking about, police arguments are almost exactly the same.

“If this happens (or doesn’t happen) criminals will have free rein and officers will die in the streets.”

Seriously, that’s barely even hyperbole.   Continue reading “My Trip to Court and the Stories Cops Tell”