Transparency, To What End?
• http://blog.simplejustice.us,The New York Times editorial calls for an end to the secrecy laws that keep police misconduct, even crimes, hidden from view.
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The New York Times editorial calls for an end to the secrecy laws that keep police misconduct, even crimes, hidden from view.
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Officer fired, arrested, faces charges of third-degree assault
We've estimated in the past that within two years time it will be significantly more difficult to get funds in and out of the US. Armstrong has come to the same conclusion. Most of the terrorism legislation and military and civilian terrorism measure
Victim gunned down for refusing to comply
74-year-old man was recovering from heart surgery; Police forced their way in at Midnight
Precedents exist for requiring citizens to produce special ID for domestic travel; they include Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa and Russia (both Imperial and Soviet).
The IRS said it is changing its policies and apologizing for seizing banks accounts from otherwise law-abiding business owners simply because they structured bank transactions to avoid federal reporting requirements.
On August 13, 1961, the government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began to establish an "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart".
{Read to the end.] Sometimes, real life can be stranger than parody. This can be particularly true when it comes to the civil liberties beat. With that in mind, I've gone out on a limb to make some predictions about what might happen
A lawsuit has been filed alleging that Austin police put a hood over a woman's head, restrained her arms and legs, put her in a choke hold until she went limp, and pinned her arm down with a boot, all to draw her blood over a DUI test.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg argued guns need to be kept out of the hands of minorities in order to keep them alive. While speaking at the Aspen Institute, Mr. Bloomberg, 72, said 95% of murders fall into a specific category:
Katko's bill (H.R. 719), will require the TSA to conduct criminal Investigators spending half their time "investigating, apprehending, or detaining individuals suspected of committing a crime."
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Local ordinances require hotels to copy ID's and keep it on hand. These laws also require that the information be made available to the police on request, for any reason or no reason, without a warrant.
"We need to get around this idea that you can resist arrest," Bratton testified, "You can't. You just can't do it. (It) results in potential injury to the officers, to the suspect, and we need to change that. One of the ways to change that is sta
This is the way everybody does it, says the local police chief.
Should the U.S. government mandate vaccinations?
The prominent Anonymous "hacktivist" Jeremy Hammond, who participated in some of the hacking collective's most audacious cyber acts, was placed by the FBI on a terrorism watchlist, the Daily Dot reported on Monday.
A mother-of-six with learning disabilities could be sterilized after health authority and social services bosses asked a judge for permission to force entry into her home, restrain her and take her to hospital.
NY Cop Pulls Gun on Black Youths Having a Snowball Fight (Video) BUTTTTTT has the media bothered to "update" or report the story fully? im shocked the NYDN did – no where have i found this update. 'There was no snowball fight': Video sh
Fearing for his life, a New York cop pulled a gun on a group of teens having a snowball fight.
Documents show the FBI created a "Plan C" during the Cold War, which could have been triggered in the event the US underwent a nuclear attack. It included putting the nation under martial law, rounding up "subversives," and interning enemy di
President Obama is proposing to spend $215 million on a "precision medicine" initiative the centerpiece of which will be a national study involving the health records and DNA of one million volunteers, administration officials said yesterday.
Reporters covering the House Democrats' retreat in Philadelphia this week are having a much different experience than when they're on their home turf on Capitol Hill.
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?" Mahatma Gandhi
DHS seeks to deter terrorism by treating all Americans like terrorists
Should it be illegal – a crime in and of itself – to dislike cops?
Ok – believe it or not, this really shows how the new younger generation of police are anti-society and just insanely pro-government beyond common sense.
Last week, lawyers for a group of poker players were gearing up to challenge the law in the state of Virginia after a militarized police force stormed the players' home poker game with semi-automatic weapons drawn this past November, the Washington