Monthly Archives: January 2013

NYPD looks to GPS bottles to combat pill bandits

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“The New York Police Department wants pharmacies in and around the city to fight prescription drug thefts by stocking pill bottles fitted with GPS tracking chips. Prescription drug abuse ‘can serve as a gateway to criminal activities, especially among young people,’ the commissioner says. The NYPD has begun creating a database of the roughly 6,000 pharmacies in the New York City area with plans to have officers visit them and recommend security measures like better alarm systems and lighting of storage areas. Kelly says it also will ask them to stock the GPS bottles containing fake oxycodone.”

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/20592464/nypd-looks-to-gps-bottles-to-combat-pill-bandits

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Of Course, Gun Laws MUST Exempt the Police

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“Apparently, when the legislature wrote New York’s new gun law, they did not exempt the police, who carry 15 rounds in their handguns and much more in their ‘assault rifles.’ Not surprisingly, they already are working on an amendment to allow the police to ignore the law.  The standard response is that the police must fight the ‘bad guys,’ who are heavily armed. However, since the U.S. Supreme Court already has ruled that the police have no legal obligation to protect regular citizens, why is it right for police to be able to protect themselves but citizens cannot?”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/130846.html

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Parents Furious After Boys Suspended For Using Fingers As Guns

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“Two 6-year-old boys were suspended while playing cops and robbers during recess and using their fingers to make an imaginary gun.  This is the second time a Maryland child has been suspended for such play. Earlier this month, 6-year-old Rodney Lynch was suspended from his Montgomery County school after pretending to fire an imaginary gun more than once.”

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/01/15/parents-furious-after-young-boys-suspended-after-playing-with-imaginary-weapon/

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X-ray full-body scanners to be taken out of U.S. airports

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“According to Bloomberg News, OSI Systems, the company that makes the scanners, was unable to write a software program that would cover passengers’ genitals.  The TSA has terminated its $5 million contract with OSI’s Rapiscan unit, which was awarded to the company with a software fix in mind.  The TSA removed 76 of the Rapiscan machines from the nation’s busiest airports in 2011. The remaining 174 machines will now be decommissioned. The TSA plans to switch over to scanners manufactured by a company called L-3 Communications Holdings, which use radio signals rather than X-rays to scan passengers for weapons.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/18/naked-image-full-body-scanners-to-be-taken-out-of-u-s-airports/

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Can the DEA Hide a Surveillance Camera on Your Land?

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“A case that began with reports of suspicious activity in northeast Wisconsin forest land last spring may be headed for the US Supreme Court. That’s because a US district court judge ruled in the case last fall that it was okay for the DEA to enter the rural property without a warrant and install surveillance cameras that were used to help convict five members of a family on charges they were growing marijuana.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/jan/16/can_dea_hide_surveillance_camera

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Texas bank welcomes concealed handguns

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“With a population of just 350 people, what Chappell Hill lacks in size — it more than makes up for in flair.  ‘You never know who’s sitting in this bank,’ said Ed Smith, president of the Chappell Hill Bank. ‘If you’re coming in to rob it, I think you’re going to be in a world of hurt.’  That’s because the person standing next to you could be packing heat. You see, the Chappell Hill Bank is the first in the nation that actually welcomes legally concealed handguns.”

http://www.khou.com/news/Chappell-Hill-bank-welcomes-concealed-handguns-187399451.html

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5-year-old kindergartner with pink bubble gun suspended from school

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“A 5-year-old kindergartner who told classmates she was going to shoot them, and then herself, with her pink bubble gun, was grilled for three hours by Mount Carmel school officials without her mother’s knowledge, then suspended, a family attorney said.  The girl was initially kicked out for 10 days in what the school categorized as a ‘terroristic threat,’ according to the kindergartner’s mother and confirmed by the family attorney. That suspension was reduced to two days and labeled as a ‘threat to harm others.'”

http://dailyitem.com/0100_news/x964877896/Bubbles-shooter-5-suspended

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Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt

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“The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether a suspect’s refusal to answer police questions prior to being arrested and read his rights can be introduced as evidence of guilt at his subsequent murder trial.  Salinas’ lawyer argued that his client deserved a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, even though he had not been under arrest or read his rights under the landmark 1966 decision Miranda v. Arizona.  Last April, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction but noted that federal appeals courts are split as to whether ‘pre-arrest, pre-Miranda silence is admissible as substantive evidence of guilt.'”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/11/us-usa-court-silence-idUSBRE90A13P20130111

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DOJ sends bundle of completely censored documents in response to ACLU lawsuit

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“Responding to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Department of Justice (DOJ) turned over a bundle of documents that are completely blacked out.   The lawsuit was filed after the DOJ ignored a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking information on how the agency interpreted a 2011 Supreme Court decision that bans law enforcement from using GPS technology to track Americans without a warrant.   The Department responded to the lawsuit with 111 pages of attorney memos, but only two pages are legible. The rest are covered by large black rectangles that blot out all useful information.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/17/doj-sends-bundle-of-completely-censored-documents-in-response-to-aclu-lawsuit/

 

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