Monthly Archives: August 2013

Police officer pleads guilty to selling law enforcement information

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“The car dealerships could not find the people who had defaulted on loans and whose vehicles they intended to repossess. So on about 60 occasions over 29 months, they turned to an Omaha police detective with access to a database containing information on suspects and witnesses, criminal histories, driver’s license information and other data. The dealerships and repossession companies received leads on the locations of vehicles from detective Kevin L. Cave in exchange for paying him as much as $200 per lead. Cave had access to computers intended for and legally restricted to legitimate police work, and not meant to be used to run a side business.”

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130827/NEWS/130829054/1694

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Bloomberg loves security cameras –until NYPD officers are ordered to wear them

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“New York spent over $700 million on settlements in the last year alone, which covered suits claiming negligence, police abuse and property damage. It expects that total to rise to over $800 million per year by 2016. Now, suddenly, there’s a privacy concern because, and only because, a cop might find himself creating some damning footage. Screw Kelly. If privacy’s ‘off the table,’ it’s off the table for EVERYONE. In 2010, the NYPD had only 500 cameras up-and-running. In its quest to turn New York into the next ‘Ring of Steel,’ the department upped that to nearly 3,000 cameras by the end of 2011. Kelly loves cameras. But not on his guys.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/30/bloomberg-loves-security-cameras-until-nypd-officers-are-ordered-to-wear-them/

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NJ State Police dashboard camera shows confrontation with county police

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NJ State Police dashboard camera shows confrontation with county police

“Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan’s chief of staff this afternoon said that two county police officers received unspecified discipline for going face-to-face with a New Jersey State Police trooper in a profanity-laced shouting match on the shoulder of the NJ Turnpike. The officers berate the trooper for briefly removing his gun while investigating their unmarked van, in a May 31 confrontation captured on the trooper’s dashboard video camera. Just five days before the county police incident, a vehicle was pulled over on the Turnpike outside Newark by two men wearing what looked like police clothing — one of them armed with a semi-automatic handgun — who carjacked the motorist.”

http://cliffviewpilot.com/video-nj-state-police-dashboard-camera-shows-ergen-county-police-confrontation/

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New Orleans Police Officer Jailed for 2012 Drug War Killing

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“A New Orleans police officer who gunned down an unarmed 20-year-old man during a 2012 drug raid pleaded guilty to manslaughter last Friday and was led off to begin serving a four-year prison sentence. Joshua Colclough, 29, who resigned from the force the previous day, apologized to the family of his victim, Wendell Allen, before he was led away.  Colclough was part of a police team that raided a Gentilly home in March 2012 as part of a marijuana investigation. A shirtless, unarmed Allen appeared at the top of the stairs as Colclough searched the house, and Colclough shot and killed him.  Defense attorney Claude Kelly said Colclough made a split-second decision.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/aug/22/new_orleans_police_officer_jaile

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DEA Must Pay $3 Million in 2010 Killing of LA Teen

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“A federal judge Tuesday awarded $3 million to the family of an 18-year-old Los Angeles honors student who was gunned down by undercover DEA agents in a parking garage in 2010. But the judge also ruled the officers were not negligent in their actions.  Officers claimed that Champommier’s vehicle struck a deputy as he attempted to leave the scene. Officers opened fire, killing the 18-year-old honor student and ‘band geek.’  Both the DEA and the LA County Sheriff’s Department said the shooting was justifiable because Champommier had tried to run down an officer.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/aug/22/dea_owes_three_million_to_victims

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Mexican Cartels Not in “Over 1,000 US Cities,” Report Finds

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“The refrain that Mexican drug cartels ‘now maintain a presence in over 1,000 cities’ has been widely heard ever since the claim was first made in a 2011 report by the now defunct National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC). But the Washington Post reported Sunday that it isn’t true. The figure is ‘misleading at best,’ law enforcement sources and drug policy analysts told the Post. The number was arrived by asking law enforcement agencies to self-report and not based on documented criminal cases involving Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations, the so-called cartels.”

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/aug/26/mexican_cartels_not_over_1000_us

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The NSA and Its “Compliance Problems”

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“For ordinary citizens, ‘compliance problems’ with the law are better known as ‘crimes’ (or possibly civil wrongs) and these lead to judgment debts, fines, and possibly even jail time, depending on the severity of the lack-of-compliance. But for government officials such notions are irrelevant — legal compliance problems are just something you file a report about, and send to another bureaucrat higher up in the government chain, so that he can bury it on his desk. Unfortunately, this is not a new phenomenon. The notion of the rule of law is the wellspring of an endless stream of hypocrisy in the modern social-democratic welfare-warfare state.”

http://mises.org/daily/6517/

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James Clapper Says Feds Will Start Releasing Some FISA And NSL Metadata

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“For what it’s worth this is a step forward — and something the government should have done ages ago, but perhaps not nearly as big as Clapper would like everyone to believe. Note that they only say they’ll reveal the number of ‘targets’ rather than people impacted. Given that each person “targeted” may lead to scooping up records on many, many others, this seems fairly weak. Remember, for a ‘target’ they can scoop up all kinds of records, and then go three hops deep. So, one target could impact thousands or possibly hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of people. This is a baby step forward, but it still seems designed to mislead.”

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130829/16313524357/james-clapper-say-feds-will-start-releasing-some-fisa-nsl-metadata-not-kind-that-matters.shtml

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Fidel Castro denies Cuba refused Edward Snowden asylum

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“Castro, in the same article, praised Snowden, who disclosed the existence of secret US government surveillance programs used to scoop phone and Internet data on a vast scale. ‘I admire how brave and just Snowden’s declarations were, which in my opinion provided a service to the world by revealing the disgustingly dishonest politics of the powerful empire that lies and deceives the world,’ Castro wrote. ‘It is absolutely clear that the United States will always try to put pressure on Cuba as it does with the UN or any public or private institution in the world, that is one of the characteristics of that country’s government and it would not be possible to expect anything else.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/28/fidel-castro-denies-cuba-refused-edward-snowden-asylum/

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Snowden Leak: U.S. Paying Contractors Ten Times as Much as Bureaucrats

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“While contractors represent fewer than 20 percent of the workforce, 70 percent of the intelligence budget goes to them, according to a figure from the U.S. Director of National Intelligence Agency (DNI) at a Colorado sponsored by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).  That rare peek behind the veil is likely still relatively accurate. Traditionally the lion’s share of this money has gone to Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC), Honeywell Int’l Inc. (HON) (via is Science Applications Int’l Corp. subsidiary), Raytheon Comp. (RTN), Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT), and Edward Snowden’s former firm Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Comp. (BAH).”

http://www.dailytech.com/Snowden+Leak+US+Paying+Contractors+Ten+Times+as+Much+as+Bureaucrats/article33277.htm

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