Oregon Extends Reach Of Red Light Camera Surveillance

"Red light cameras and speed cameras will be used to prosecute vehicle owners for dozens of new offenses in Oregon if Governor John Kitzhaber (D) signs a measure that cleared the state legislature on Tuesday. The state House voted 53-6 and the Senate 22-8 to repeal an existing law that prohibits the use of photo radar or red light camera photographs for the prosecution of anything other than a speeding or red light-related infraction." Continue reading

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David Silva Murder: Coroner Who Cleared Deputies Is…The Sheriff!

"No wonder the coroner’s report on David Sal Silva’s murder completely exonerates the sheriff’s deputies who beat him to death: Kern County’s coroner is none other than the deputies’ boss and tireless defender, Sheriff Donny Youngblood. As the Bakersfield Californian ironically puts it, 'Some have long worried that combining the sheriff’s department with the coroner’s office could lead to, at the very least, the appearance that the two entities are working hand in glove.' No, really? Tell me again why any rational person gives the murderers, thieves, and sociopaths in office even a featherweight of credibility or respect." Continue reading

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The NYPD Goes After Another Cop Who Secretly Recorded His Boss

"In the years since New York Police Department Officer Adrian Schoolcraft emerged with secretly recorded evidence of misconduct in a Brooklyn precinct, other cops have been inspired to follow in his footsteps, capturing their commanders pressuring them to hit illegal quotas. The NYPD has long denied that it's compelled officers to reach certain figures for arrests, stop-and-frisks, and summonses. But the recordings proved that officers faced the threat of bad assignments, transfers, or other punishment if they didn't make their numbers." Continue reading

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‘Florida’s Dirtiest Cop’ Charged With Kidnapping Man Who Wanted To File Brutality Complaint

"A notorious former Opa-Locka Police sergeant dubbed 'Florida's Dirtiest Cop' has been arrested for kidnapping a man who wanted to file a police brutality complaint against him. Investigators say Bosque punched the victim in August 2011 while on duty, responding to a domestic call. When the man wanted to file a police brutality complaint at the Opa-Locka Police station, Bosque 'forcefully escorted him from the lobby, handcuffed him and placed him into a holding area.' The victim was held against his will for a short time and was never provided an opportunity to file his complaint, according to the FDLE." Continue reading

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Man Arrested for Video Recording Military Exercise from City-Owned Parking Lot

"A man who was video recording a national guard training exercise from a city-owned parking lot in North Carolina was arrested over the weekend. The group of citizens who were in the parking lot video recording were speculating that the intent of the exercise was to to train the military to impose martial law on Americans. Whether that is true or not, they certainly weren’t dissuaded from that opinion when one of their friends was arrested because he apparently got too close while recording the helicopter in the air. The man appeared to have been confronted by two national guardsmen before a police officer walks up and arrests him." Continue reading

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*Action Alert* TODAY! Medicaid Expansion Vote!

“How willing they (the states) have been since the New Deal to take the Federal government’s money.. And it seems to me that they (the states) have compromised their status as independent sovereigns because they are so dependent on what the Federal Government has done, they should not be surprised that the Federal Government, having …

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Exonerated Chicago man claims police tortured him into confession

"After spending 24 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, a Chicago man has filed a lawsuit claiming that police subjected him to violent torture methods that made him urinate blood to force him to make a false confession. Former Chicago police Commander Jon Burge, who is named in the complaint, was convicted in 2011 for lying about police torture and sentenced to 4 ½ years in prison. Evidence presented at his trial showed that he suffocated suspects with plastic bags, held loaded guns to their heads and shocked them with electrical devices, Courthouse News reports. The former commander was allegedly also involved in the torture inflicted upon Kluppelberg." Continue reading

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Supreme Court Upholds Maryland Law, Says Police May Take DNA Samples From Arrestees

"As with other recent court decisions involving the Fourth Amendment’s 'right of the people to be secure in their persons, ­houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,' the justices split in an unusual fashion. In his dissent, Scalia wrote that the majority’s attempts to justify the use of DNA as an identification tool 'taxes the credulity of the credulous.' He added, 'Make no mistake about it: As an entirely predictable consequence of today’s decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason.'" Continue reading

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Mentally disabled woman calls 911 while being beaten during own arrest

"Federal Way Police are reviewing their use of force during a recent arrest in which a woman diagnosed with cognitive and hearing disabilities was punched several times, while being restrained. Police, in turn, are recommending the woman be charged with felony assault to an officer. Megan Graham told her story to KIRO 7, her face still black and blue and swollen from the beating. 'I had a concussion. I still have a hard time understanding how things got so out of control, so fast,' Graham said. 'It was a total lack of communication.' Graham says because the officer was speaking to her from his running car, she never heard his order to get back into her car." Continue reading

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Cop Shot Litter of Kittens in Front of Screaming Children

"On Monday in Ohio, animal control Officer Barry Accorti shot and killed a litter of kittens in front of freaked-out children nearby. 'He informed [a witness] that shelters were full and that these cats would be going to kitty heaven,' Ohio SPCA Executive Director Teresa Landon told the Sun News. Landon said the home owner, who had called for help, assumed the officer 'would be trapping them or something and taking them to a shelter and they would be humanely euthanized if they were not adopted.' The stunned observer alerted the Ohio SPCA to the officer's actions, and the animal rights group responded with a Facebook campaign to 'expose' the behavior." Continue reading

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