Recording police making arrests: The outrageous Illinois law that makes it a felony.

Is Chicago really planning on detaining anyone who records protestor arrests at the G-8 summit? In three months, thousands of reporters from around the globe will descend on Chicago for the G-8 summit. Part of what they will chronicle is the protests and police crackdowns that have made each annual meeting so newsworthy. Sadly for [...]

Memphis Police Delete Photographer’s Cell Phone Pictures

by Jeni DiPrizio MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) – If you are on a public street and take pictures or video of Memphis Police with your cell phone, you could end up in the back of a squad car and your pictures could be deleted. ABC 24 News photographer Casey Monroe said that’s what happened to him [...]

Case Study in How to Assert Your Rights to Police

DOJ Giving Police ‘Help With Confronting Veterans’

Kevin Johnson Officer.com January 29, 0212 The Justice Department is funding an unusual national training program to help police deal with an increasing number of volatile confrontations involving highly trained and often heavily armed combat veterans. Developers of the pilot program, to be launched at 15 U.S. sites this year, said there is an “urgent [...]

Oakland Police Fire Tear Gas, Flash Bang Grenades and Rubber Bullets at Occupy Oakland Protesters

Washington’s Blog January 29, 2012 New Violence and Press Intimidation Kevin Gosztola notes: Oakland police in riot gear fired smoke, tear gas, flash bang grenades and rubber bullets at Occupy Oakland protesters trying to take a vacant building this afternoon. Here is footage: http://www.ustream.tv/embed/recorded/20073032?ub=5D1719&lc=CD311B&oc=ffffff&uc=ffffff As usual at Occupy protests, reporters were harassed. Indeed – because [...]

Britain: Paratroopers Are Trained for Riot Control

Via: Telegraph: British troops are being trained in riot control tactics amid fears that violence and looting will return to Britain’s streets this summer. Hundreds of soldiers from 3rd battalion The Parachute Regiment spent last week learning how to contain and arrest “rioters” in a series of exercises mirroring last summers violence. Defence sources have [...]

UK Police issue security warning as fuel thieves hit lorries

Southern Reporter January 27, 2012 POLICE are urging businesses to be on their guard following several diesel thefts from vehicles parked in secured yards or industrial estates. They say that in the four days up to last Wednesday, a number of vehicles were targeted at Whitlaw Industrial Estate, Lauder. This resulted in 150 litres of [...]

Security video shows police lied about Rand Paul’s behavior

By Stephen C. Webster If Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) was acting “irate” during a recent visit to Nashville International Airport, it certainly hid it very well. After being briefly detained by police officers on Monday, Paul appears to be getting some vindication in the form of a security camera’s video. Although police described him as [...]

Two brave policemen shoot 43-year-old woman in the back with tasers

Brandon Turbeville Activist Post (Dees Illustration) Over the last few years, the use of tasers by police has been the center of some controversy amongst a few members of the general public. While the devices were originally justified as a means to subdue violent criminals without using lethal force, the fact is that tasers have [...]

‘Predictive policing’ could come to UK

Nigel Morris The Independent January 26, 2012 A pioneering technique to predict crime before it happens could be imported from the United States to this country, a senior British police chief said yesterday. Pilots of the scheme – under which officers are dispatched to crime hotspots identified by computer – have had early success in [...]

DNA sample to be taken from students before allowed to take SAT college entrance exams

Thursday, January 26, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) Standardized testing is a common method by which colleges and universities evaluate the competency of applying high school students. But an increasing amount of students are cheating on such tests, which has caused lawmakers in New York to consider actually harvesting “digital DNA” from students [...]

Investigation Underway After Man, 76, Injured In Police Custody

(Photo Credit: KDKA) PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -Was a 76-year-old man beaten by police during a traffic stop? Ruffing was stopped by police on Waddell Avenue because a man in his car was wanted by police. “His injuries were facial fractures which included the orbital bone, the maxillary sinus. He also ended up with inner-cranial bleeding. He [...]

DOJ Wants to Know Who’s Rejecting Your Friend Requests

BY JENNIFER LYNCH, Electronic Frontier Foundation In the latest turn in our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records related to the government’s use of social networking websites, the Department of Justice finally agreed to release almost 100 pages of new records. These include draft search warrants and affidavits for Facebook and MySpace and [...]

No Trial, No Doctor, No Judge: Man Held in Solitary Confinement 2 Years After DWI Gets $22M

By Greg Wilson A man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico’s Dona Ana County Jail. Stephen Slevin was arrested in August of 2005 for driving while intoxicated, according to NBC station KOB.com. He said he never got a [...]

3-D Facial Scans Being Sold To The Public Under The Guise That It Could Help Children

Shock Docs: Total Federalization of Police Under New Homeland Security Mission

Mission Creep: DHS Agency Abandons Fighting Terrorism, Shifts to Hiring Police, Taking Over America Aaron Dykes Infowars.com January 24, 2012 A new white paper presented to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence carves out an ‘evolving mission’ for Homeland Security that moves away from fighting terrorism and towards growing a vast domestic intelligence apparatus [...]

10 to the Chest: Cops Murder Man with ‘Electrical Bender’ at Carl’s Jr.

The Intel HubJanuary 24, 2012 A man shot dead outside a Los Angeles Carl’s Jr. fast food chain by trigger happy cops (unfortunately) sets the stage for more of what is to come with the looming economic collapse. This is a sign of the times as people (some more desperate than others) will sometimes go [...]

Federal Judge Says States Not Allowed to Regulate Nuclear Safety

Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky All Gov January 25, 2012 The state of Vermont’s effort to shut down a nuclear power plant has been halted by a federal judge who ruled officials exceeded their authority. In 2010, the State Senate voted 26-4 to cause the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, which has leaked radioactive material, [...]

Google Admits It Will Track Everything Its Users Do, No Opt Out

January 25th, 2012 In other words, Google now admits doing things that Cryptogon readers have known it has been doing for about a decade: Tracking everything. Via: Washington Post: Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite [...]

Idiot Politicians Propose Regulating Oil Companies With ‘Reasonable Profits Board’

by Christopher Helman, Forbes Staff In a scene straight out of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” a group of congressmen have submitted a bill that would create a “Reasonable Profits Board” to regulate how much profit oil and gas companies are allowed to make. The board would consist of three members, appointed by the President of [...]