Police State Blog: the cops are out of control

Cuffed man ‘unfortunate victim’

2007-11-04T14:58:00.000-08:00

Cuffed man ‘unfortunate victim’ - BostonHerald.com: "The man arrested at a Needham pizzeria Friday leads a human rights watchdog group, has penned op-eds for international newspapers and delivered a scathing and widely publicized address on Israel before the United Nations earlier this year. Hillel C. Neuer, 37, who lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland, was cuffed after an hourlong standoff with police when jittery pizza shop workers thought they spotted him with a gun. No gun was found. Neuer was charged with disorderly conduct."

He was arrested for saying things the people in power didn't like. So they sent their hired killers, the cops, to intimidate him.

That's how they fight freedom of unpopular speech. They don't stop you from saying it, they just harass you constantly until you move or stop saying it.

Cops harrass woman because of link

2007-11-03T12:08:00.000-07:00

The Sheboygan Press - City tries to block link to police Web site: "A Sheboygan woman who runs a Web site often critical of Mayor Juan Perez has been ordered by the city to remove a Sheboygan Police Department link on her unrelated business site, a demand a legal expert says the city has no right to make. In a move initiated by Perez, City Attorney Steve McLean sent a cease-and-desist letter earlier this month to Jeni Reisinger, who was among the leaders of a mayoral recall effort last year, officials acknowledged Friday. The letter, dated Oct. 19, states, 'maintenance of this link could be construed as having been authorized or endorsed by the city and/or its police department' and should be removed 'until such time as the city were to authorize such a link.' Madison attorney Bob Dreps said the law is clear that neither Reisinger nor anyone else needs permission to link to the police Web site. 'It's a public site. (A link) is like saying this is somebody's address and helping them get there,' Dreps said. 'It just doesn't raise anything that any court has found violates any law.'"

They take away free speech and you people sit there and do nothing. You deserve what you get.

Cop goes crazy, just arrests everyone for dui

2007-11-02T19:16:00.000-07:00

.: Corvallis Gazette-Times: Community News

Cox has been on administrative leave since Sept.14 while the department investigates potential policy violations, according to Lt. Dave Henslee. The department has remained silent about the specific reasons for the investigation, but Henslee confirmed that one factor was Cox’s arrest of a man whose blood alcohol level proved to be 0.00 percent and who also tested negative for drugs.

An attorney representing the man arrested by Cox filed a tort claim notice — formally putting the city on notice of the possibility that it might be sued over the matter — two weeks before Cox was placed on leave.

“My client should never have had to go through this,” Dan Rayfield, the man’s attorney, said. “We filed a tort claim notice saying, ‘Hey, there’s going to be an issue here.’ ”

That notice was sent to the city of Corvallis on Aug. 30.

Cox has been widely recognized for the number of DUII arrests he has made. Of the 35 DUII arrests made by Corvallis police in the month of May this year, 27 were made by Cox.

However, six of the 27 people arrested by Cox that month had blood alcohol levels under the legal limit and were not found to have been using drugs. And about one-quarter of the people he arrested were either not prosecuted by the District Attorney’s Office, or had charges dismissed by the court.

But all of those people still have the DUII arrests on their records. State law says arrests for motor vehicle violations cannot be removed from a driver’s record — even if the individual was never actually charged or convicted.

“An arrest for traffic is not expungeable,” said Corvallis defense attorney Jennifer Nash. So when innocent people are arrested, she said, “There is actual damage.”

I've got a great idea. Just arrest everyone and put them in jail. Then you can let them out only if they're good! It would make things so much easier for the cops, and that's the real point, right? Making it easy for the knuckle dragging thugs, that's what America's all about, right? Right?

Jerks With Authority: TSA Breaks Your Laptop, Threatens You With Arrest

2007-10-27T14:48:00.000-07:00

Jerks With Authority: TSA Breaks Your Laptop, Threatens You With Arrest: "Reader Jake says a TSA agent dropped his laptop, smashing it in several places, then threatened him with arrest when he asked about filing a damage claim. From Jake's blog: I wasn't happy about this... I was rather upset! I approached the TSA guard who dropped my laptop and I asked him what he was thinking. He didn't even apologize to me. Then I asked him how we could resolve this matter. And he told me that there were too many people waiting to get through the line, and I should move along as not to hold up the screening process. So I asked him again, where can I file a claim to resolve the damage done to my laptop. That's when the supervising TSA guard walked over and told me that I should gather my belongings and move on to the departure terminals and if I create a scene, he would arrest me."

Taser death in Canada

2007-10-26T16:30:00.000-07:00

More:

"'Recently police at the Vancouver airport were attempting to question a recent immigrant that could not speak English. They tasered him after 24 seconds of speaking with him. The man had spent 10 hours stuck in the airport with no-one helping him.'"

It seems that the cops have gone crazy even in Canada.

The Worst Mayor in America

2007-10-23T15:35:00.000-07:00

Reason Magazine - The Worst Mayor in America

• He regularly suits up and leads SWAT-style “raids” on homes, businesses, and even roadblocks in busy traffic—without cause or a warrant.

• He has tried to close down the city’s strip clubs for moral reasons, despite no authority to do so.

• He once bulldozed an elderly woman’s house, promising to build her a better one. He then forgot to build it.

• He recruited a team of kids to torch a row of dilapidated shotgun houses, without clearance or first turning off the utilities.

Student charged with harassing police dog

2007-10-22T21:07:00.000-07:00

Student charged with harassing police dog - Northwest Florida Daily News: "A 15-year-old Okaloosa Academy Charter School student was arrested for offenses against a police dog after he “knowingly and maliciously” harassed a K-9 dog named Ruger. According to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office report, the boy struck the side of the classroom portable with his hand in an attempt to distract Ruger while his handler was making a special presentation at the school. The Crestview boy was arrested and released to his mother."

Now Barney Fife has a dog. The kid should be grateful he didn't get tased.

Investigators Send Letters To Orlando Weekly About Adult Ads

2007-10-19T22:11:00.000-07:00

Investigators Send Letters To Orlando Weekly About Adult Ads - News Of The Strange Story - WFTV Orlando: "ORLANDO, Fla. -- Orange County vice investigators want the Orlando Weekly to cancel ads they say are really fronts for prostitution. Investigators with the Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation say they've sent several letters to the Orlando Weekly and its parent company about the criminal connections they found to certain adult ads. Vice investigators in Orange County say that the advertising in the Orlando Weekly's adult services section is what keeps large prostitution rings in business and, where there's prostitution, there are drugs, guns, violence and HIV. Local vice agents say prostitution is not a victimless crime. They say a typical prostitute that's HIV-positive could potentially infect more than 18,000 people a year and Orange County investigators have identified 85 HIV infected prostitutes over the last several years."

This just proves how dumb the pigs are.

If a prostitute is infecting 18,000 in a year, then how many people does he or she have sex with in a day?

49.3

Let's round that down to 49. That would mean the prostitute would have to have sex with 2 people an hour. That's one busy whore. Maybe it's possible but I don't think she'd have time to sleep or eat.

Also, "where there's prostitution, there are drugs, guns, violence and HIV."

I guess they have something in common with the police, then. Because wherever they are there are drugs, guns and violence. Maybe not so much HIV, but they do find a lot of cops with child porn.

Constable Loses Power After Ticket Flap

2007-10-19T22:04:00.000-07:00

cbs3.com - Constable Loses Power After Ticket Flap: "The general sales manager, Dennis Crilly, was placed in handcuffs over a $10 parking ticket that was not even his. Deputy Constable Steven Sokoloff told Crilly he owed $150 for an unpaid $10 parking ticket in Narberth last May and that he was going to jail. The only problem was that Crilly never got a parking ticket last May in Narberth, or anywhere else. The ticket had been issued to a customer who happened to purchase her car months earlier at the dealership. 'It was somebody else's parking ticket, it had nothing to do with us,' Crilly explained."

Then the dirty cop tried to blame the victim.

When asked why he had Crilly handcuffed for so long, Sokoloff said, "Because he wanted to be handcuffed for 40 minutes."

No one is safe. It's like all the cops in the country have gone power mad.

Cops hang disabled man upside down

2007-10-18T18:00:00.000-07:00

Police allegedly hang quadriplegic man - Yahoo! News: "LOS ANGELES - Jurors ruled the city of Pasadena must pay $80,000 to a quadriplegic man who sued because police officers allegedly jerked him out of his wheelchair and hung him upside down to search him."

Yeah, sure it was to search him. It was probably to punish him for saying something the pigs didn't like. It's amazing how little respect they show to citizens.

Police shove screwdriver up man's rectum

2007-10-17T17:40:00.000-07:00

Man wins case vs. cops :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State

The Chicago Police Department has agreed to pay $4 million to a 23-year-old man who says police shoved a screwdriver into his behind.

"The Police Department does not do an effective job policing themselves. ... Why can't the Police Department see what everybody else sees?" said Loevy, who noted that in all six million-dollar-plus verdicts he has won against the department in recent years, OPS had exonerated the officers in every case. "And nothing is going to happen now."

Being a cop means never having to say you're sorry.

Four sue police, alleging "dirty tactics"

2007-10-16T07:45:00.000-07:00

Four sue police, alleging "dirty tactics" - Multimedia from The Oregonian - OregonLive.com

When one woman was told to stop recording, she gave the videocamera to Waterhouse. He walked to the edge of the property, climbed up a dirt embankment and continued to record. At one point, he yelled to his friend, "Yes, I got it all on film. They had no right to come on this property."

He says in the suit that police immediately came after him, and yelled at him "put it down." Officers moved towards him, and he said, "Don't come after me." Waterhouse said seconds later he was shot with a bean bag gun and a Taser and fell to the ground.

Officers wrote in their reports that Waterhouse ran off, they chased and then bean-bagged and Tasered him. One officer wrote, "He had refused to drop the camera which could be used as a weapon."

It won't be long before they make it illegal to video police.

You aren't even safe in Canada

2007-10-15T08:39:00.000-07:00

globeandmail.com: Man dies at Vancouver Airport

An RCMP officer used a taser in an attempt to subdue the man. However the man continued to strike out, Sgt Lemaitre said.

Three officers finally restrained him. The man passed away shortly afterwards.

That wasn't a coincidence. That was murder. But it's ok if the cops do it, right?

Principals Feud With Safety Agents - October 11, 2007 - The New York Sun

2007-10-13T21:20:00.000-07:00

Principals Feud With Safety Agents - October 11, 2007 - The New York Sun

The arrest of a high school principal is triggering a dispute between principals and police-appointed security officers on the issue of who has authority over school discipline.

The principal, Mark Federman, was arrested Tuesday after protesting the treatment of one of his students. School safety agents arrested the student after she resisted an attempt to prevent her from entering her school before the official start time, allegedly punching an agent.

Mr. Federman interfered, in an attempt to prevent the student from being made a spectacle of, the president of the city principals' union, Ernest Logan, said yesterday. The school safety agents were about to escort her through the front door in front of a crowd of students. After a scuffle, Mr. Federman and the two safety agents were treated for minor injuries at a hospital.

The executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Donna Lieberman, defended Mr. Federman, saying he was "trying to protect a student," and Mr. Logan said the incident echoed concerns of principals across the city who are clashing with safety agents.

"These are schools; these are not prisons," Mr. Logan said. "We need to move away from the criminalization of young people in this city."

No, that's exactly what they are. They are preperation for the prison that the world is becoming. Might as well get used to it now.

Citizen police-review board stalled -

2007-10-12T15:03:00.000-07:00

Citizen police-review board stalled - The Boston Globe

The citizen panel appointed in January to review complaints of Boston police misconduct has yet to review a case, in part because the Police Department has not turned over any complaints.

Under an executive order establishing the board, the department's Internal Affairs Division is required to turn over to the panel any cases it has dismissed that allege serious police misconduct, along with a random sampling of other dismissed complaints.

But none of the approximately 50 complaints dismissed by Internal Affairs so far in 2007 have been handed over to the panel.

Police would not characterize any of the complaints but said that none of the cases involved "serious bodily injury or death."

Don't these people realize that police officers never do anything wrong? Ever.

Policeman goes on shooting rampage

2007-10-08T14:06:00.000-07:00

Policeman goes on shooting rampage - World - smh.com.au

An off-duty deputy sheriff has shot and killed six people in a small logging town in the United States.

You would think I would be jumping all over this. But, ....

It is understood Peterson had been in the job for only one week.

The shooting was the result of a love triangle involving the deputy, a young woman, and another police officer, said Ray Statezny jnr, township supervisor of the north-west Wisconsin town of Crandon.

This is just a crazy guy doing what crazy guys do. Sure, he was a cop, but he could have been anything. Maybe the USPS didn't want him.

Now the doctors are in on it

2007-10-05T22:47:00.000-07:00

Doc, what’s up with snooping? - BostonHerald.com: "Debbie is a mom from Uxbridge who was in the examination room when the pediatrician asked her 5-year-old, “Does Daddy own a gun?” When the little girl said yes, the doctor began grilling her and her mom about the number and type of guns, how they are stored, etc."

Guilty until proven innocent

2007-10-05T22:29:00.000-07:00

DEA returns cash to truck driver : Local : Albuquerque Tribune: "The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico says the Drug Enforcement Administration has returned to a truck driver nearly $23,000 seized in August at a weigh station in southern New Mexico. The ACLU had sued the agency on behalf of Anastasio Prieto of El Paso after the DEA told him he would forfeit the money unless he could prove it did not come from illegal drug sales."

For once the good guys won.

Man imprisoned for mistaken identity

2007-10-05T22:26:00.000-07:00

Man Threatens Suit After Being Wrongly Jailed For 37 Days - News Story - WFTV Orlando

Marvin Lopez went to the court house to pay some traffic tickets and he was arrested on outstanding warrants for DUI and reckless driving. It turned out the guy wanted on those warrants goes by the alias Marvin B. Lopez. The two share the same name, but don't look anything alike.

Despite not looking at all alike, Lopez spent 37 days at the Orange County jail for a crime he didn't commit. Lopez's lawyer, Larry Hanks, told Eyewitness News jail employees refused to check his client's fingerprints against Marvin B. Lopez, the man wanted for DUI and reckless driving.

"They would have known immediately if they had run them that it is not the same person," Hanks said. "It's the most incredible example of negligence I have ever seen."

He's lucky the guy wasn't wanted for murder.

After bra flap, federal courthouse adds changing room

2007-10-05T18:07:00.000-07:00

After bra flap, federal courthouse adds changing room - Northwest - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

There's an update on the underwire bra flap at the federal courthouse in Coeur d'Alene.

Earlier this week, a woman complained she was forced to remove her bra before going through the metal detector.

But yesterday, the U.S. Marshal's Service announced it was adding a changing room - so people with garments that include metal bits could take them off in private.

Marshal Patrick McDonald in Boise says, "We don't want anyone to be embarrassed when they come to the courthouse."

Lori Plato, who says her husband shielded her with his coat as she removed the offending article of clothing, says she's pleased to hear of the changes.

Plato says, "Nobody else has to go through this. It's a good thing."

Notice how they don't actually say they made a mistake. The time of the slippery slope has passed. We've fallen over the side. So many of our rights have been taken away that it's a good day if the cops don't strip you naked and taser you.

They have that wand thing. They could have just run that over her.

I think she has a sexual harassment case.

Idiots at Homeland "Security" screw themselves

2007-10-05T08:57:00.000-07:00

DHS Injects Itself with DDoS

The Department of Homeland Security inadvertantly exposes hundreds of security pros' names and e-mail addresses.

The Department of Homeland Security self-inflicted what one observer called a mini distributed denial of service, with a reported mass of more than 2.2 million messages stuffing the inboxes of the nation's security experts.

Soon You'll Have To Ask Permission Before You Fly

2007-10-04T18:55:00.000-07:00

Soon You'll Have To Ask Permission Before You Fly: "Under the TSA's 'Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) initiative,' you'll need to obtain permission from the U.S. government to travel on ANY commercial airliner or ship that goes to or from the United States. You won't receive your boarding pass until you are cleared by APIS. You'll also need permission to travel through the United States (e.g., if you're changing planes at a U.S. airport on a trip between two foreign countries). It doesn't matter if you're a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Everyone will need permission to enter - or leave - the United States."

Yakov Smirnoff once said, "In Soviet Russia you need passport to travel inside the country...." and that was a joke.

Soon it will be true in the US as well.

Cops hold competition

2007-10-04T18:49:00.000-07:00

Deputies Criticized For Competing With Arrests, Impounding - News Story - KNBC | Los Angeles: "'Operation Vehicle Impound,' was aimed at seizing as many cars as possible, according to the Times. It took place July 11 and dramatically increased the number of vehicles seized."

What do you want to bet they just impounded any car they wanted to, at random?

They also held a competition for arrests. I bet they just arrested as many black people as they could.

TSA killed a woman

2007-10-04T15:44:00.000-07:00

*Carol Anne Gotbaum did not strangle herself with the handcuffs that were used to restrain her.

Thus it follows that the Phoenix Police Department, which claimed that the tiny, 45-year-old mother of three small children somehow choked herself on the cuffs, is concealing the truth about what killed her.

Mrs. Gotbaum, who was on mood stabilizing drugs (which she hadn't taken that morning), was detained at Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport en route to a very expensive alcohol rehabilitation clinic in Tucson.

Her family contact hadn't met her there, as he was supposed to, which didn't improve her mood. She had been singled out by the TSA groper squad for individualized molestation, which likewise helped to undermine her serenity. Carol Anne had reportedly attempted suicide in New York a year ago, which suggests that she was severely troubled and desperately seeking help.

The Chicago Police Department: A Perpetual Crime Wave

2007-10-04T09:15:00.000-07:00

Pro Libertate: The Chicago Police Department: A Perpetual Crime Wave

“So I'm walking down the street and I was minding my own business,” recalled Chicago resident Vance Estes. “The police come up out of nowhere, right up on me, get out of the car.”

Surrounding the puzzled man, the police asked if he had drugs or guns in his possession. Finding that their prey was unarmed and not carrying contraband, the officers threw him into the back of a car and demanded ID. Rather than running a background check, however, the police used the ID to learn the Estes' home address. On their arrival, the officers kicked in the door, seized Estes' pregnant girlfriend, and ransacked the apartment, making off with roughly $1000 in cash.

Then they arrested the victim on bogus gun and drug charges. Estes spent eight months in jail following that January 6, 2006 a

Man Shot With Taser By Police Dies

2007-10-03T08:52:00.000-07:00

Man Shot With Taser By Police Dies - News Story - KCTV Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- An investigation is under way after a man died in police custody on Monday.

Family members said that Keith L. White, 44, was a drug user and was spotted by police Monday night as he went behind a church near North 57th Terrace and Nogard Avenue to get high.

"I lost my heart and soul. If I would've let him smoke crack in my house, he would still be alive, and I blame myself," said Leyva White, Keith White's mother.

When police tried to arrest him, White ran into a nearby creek and started fighting with officers, according to authorities.

"My baby was a drug user. He did not carry weapons or anything like that," said White's mother.

During the struggle, White was shot twice with a Taser gun.

"They don't know if they are mentally ill or the things they go through. Evidently, if you see him running around in his shorts smoking dope behind a church, something is wrong with him, even if they do buck up. They should use something different than those Tasers. Tasers kill," said the man's mother.

White started complaining of chest pains and was rushed to the hospital, where he died.

An autopsy was completed on Tuesday, but police didn't have the results by late Tuesday afternoon.

They were also still awaiting toxicology results.

One officer was on paid administrative leave Tuesday while authorities investigated the incident.

Oh, goody. The pig was rewarded with a paid vacation for killing a man.

Stupid cops

2007-10-03T08:10:00.000-07:00

Cop shoots self accidentally | Philadelphia Daily News | 10/03/2007

When an officer started to interview a man who lived at a house where cops thought Bohannon might be staying, the man's dog - a German shepherd-pit bull mix - ran outside and bit the officer's leg, police officials said.

The officer fired his gun once at the dog, but ended up wounding himself below his left knee. Officials said the officer was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center and listed in stable condition.

Instead of being stupid and corrupt, sometimes they're just stupid. Also, don't they have pepper spray? If he had just sprayed the dog instead of trying to be all macho and shoot it, he wouldn't have shot himself.

Pro Libertate

2007-10-02T09:44:00.000-07:00

Pro Libertate: "The Second Amendment made plain the Framers' understanding that citizens must protect their ability to kill government agents when such action is required to defend the innocent. They understood that free people have no duty to retreat when confronted with illicit armed violence from the State. And they inscribed that understanding in the Second Amendment."

£90 expenses investigation cost taxpayers £500,000 - Times Online

2007-09-29T11:53:00.000-07:00

£90 expenses investigation cost taxpayers £500,000 - Times Online

A policeman who sued Lancashire Police for racial discrimination after the force spent three years and an estimated £500,000 investigating allegations that he fiddled £90 on his expenses has now settled the claim out of court.

Detective Constable Jayson Lobo, 37, of Blackburn, Lancashire, was suspended from his job on full pay for three years in September 2003 before he was cleared in a criminal court and by an internal force investigation.

Mr Lobo, who admitted making genuine mistakes in his expenses, was cleared of 12 counts of false accounting and one of attempting to pervert the course of justice when the prosecution offered no evidence at Liverpool Crown Court in 2005.

It's not just that the police are mad dogs running in the street, there's a system of corruption that goes all the way to the top.

Orlando cops to carry machine guns

2007-09-29T01:14:00.000-07:00

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Members of the Orange County anti-crime unit will carry automatic submachine guns to combat heavily armed criminals roaming Central Florida streets.Sheriff's deputies who patrol areas around South Orange Blossom Trail have the same stories to tell, going up against criminals with powerful guns almost every night, Local 6 reported."(It's) a simple concept: Where there's drugs, there's going to be guns," Orange County sheriff's Cmdr. Al Rollins said.

This should work out well. How long do you think it will be before they shoot some old lady and try to say it was drugs?