Monthly Archives: February 2014

Armed Mundanes: The Reason Why SWAT Teams Exist

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“Police in Ankeny, Iowa deployed a 12-member SWAT team in full battle array to execute a warrant in an investigation of alleged credit card fraud. The invasion of Sally Prince’s home was captured on camera, despite efforts to destroy the home security cameras used to record their crime.  The invaders did not find any of the items listed in the search warrant. Captain Makai Echer insisted that the military-style assault was necessary and justified because the department was aware that an occupant of the home had a firearms permit.  Gun ownership is one of the key considerations in the standardized ‘Threat Matrix’ used in planning SWAT operations.”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/armed-mundanes-the-reason-why-swat-teams-exist/

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Scenes from a militarized America: Iowa family ‘terrorized’

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“You’ll see the raid team, dressed in battle-dress uniforms, helmets and face-covering balaclava hoods take down the family’s door with a battering ram. You’ll see them storm the home with ballistics shields, guns at the ready. More troubling still, you’ll see not one but two officers destroying a surveillance camera and blocking another camera’s lens.  From the images in the video, you’d think they were looking for an escaped murderer or a house full of hit men. No, none of that. They were looking for a few people suspected of credit card fraud. None of the people they were looking for were inside of the house, nor was any of the stolen property they were looking for.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/02/04/scenes-from-a-militarized-america-iowa-family-terrorized/

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The DEA Manual: The Terrifying Way Law Enforcement is Lying to Us

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“A secretive unit within the DEA known as the ‘Special Operations Division’ (SOD) specializes in gathering information on defendants through cavalier means (including data-sharing with the NSA), and then helps investigators recreate information trails so evidence appears to have come from ‘normal investigative techniques.’  The new documents reveal ‘DEA trainers routinely teach the finer points of parallel construction to field agents and analysts across the country, not just within the SOD’.  In addition to concerns over constitutionality, the documents urge local law enforcement to hide their surveillance methods because ‘Americans don’t like [them.]’.”

http://www.alternet.org/peek-inside-dea-manual-terrifying-way-law-enforcement-lying-us

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McGruff, The Crime Dog, Sentenced To 16 Years For Pot, Weapons

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“The man who played the famous ‘Take a bite out of crime’ dog was arrested in 2011 after Galveston police and drug-sniffing dogs pulled over the McGruff actor for speeding, the Houston Chronicle reports. Authorities found diagrams of two indoor pot-growing operations sitting on the front seat, and multiple pot seeds stored in the trunk of his Infinity.  Police raided Morales’ home and found the multitude of marijuana plants, ammunition and weapons, which included a grenade launcher.  Morales insisted that he was nonviolent, but U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore stated that, ‘Everything I read about you makes you seem like a scary person.'”

http://houston.cbslocal.com/2014/02/06/mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-sentenced-to-16-years-for-pot-grenade-launcher/

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Officer Arrested For Stealing Cash From Motorists

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“‘We believe this officer, Sgt. Scott A. Greene, has been targeting Hispanic motorists and stealing cash from them during traffic stops,’ District Attorney Spota said. ‘We set up a sting to catch him in the act and that’s exactly what happened last night.’  A press conference will be held today in Hauppauge, where the District Attorney will show a video excerpt of the officer searching the vehicle and taking cash from an envelope in the vehicle.  Greene, of Shirley, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in district court today to charges of petty larceny and official misconduct. Judge Paul Hensley released the defendant on his own recognizance.”

http://www.newsli.com/2014/01/31/suffolk-county-police-officer-arrested-charged-with-official-misconduct-petty-larceny/

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Cops Ordered to Return $1+ Million Seized From Innocent Woman

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“In 2012, Tara Mishra decided to invest over one million dollars in a nightclub.  Mishra gave the money to her future business partners, a married couple, to transport from California to New Jersey for her.  The Nebraska state trooper who stopped the pair asked to search the vehicle, and the couple consented. Officers discovered Mishra’s cash in multiple plastic bags stuffed with $100 bills in $10,000 stacks.  The officer, suspecting drug involvement, called in drug-sniffing dogs. Trace amounts of illegal drugs were found on the bills. The officers felt this was enough reason to seize Mishra’s money, even though studies show that up to 90% of U.S. paper money contains traces of cocaine.”

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/cops-ordered-to-return-over-1-million-seized-from-innocent-woman-and-fed-gov-ordered-to-pay-nearly-40k-in-legal-fees_022014

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Chicago Issues $100 Million in Bonds to Settle Police Brutality Cases

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“The city is attempting to issue the $900 million in bonds to lower some of its borrowing costs and to double its short-term credit line to $1 billion. But fully $100 million of that debt burden is going to pay off lawsuits, much of it to plaintiffs who won judgments against the city in police brutality cases.  Several years ago, the CPD was rocked by a high profile case that eventually found Police Commander Jon Burge and his ‘Midnight Crew’ of officers guilty of torture aimed at forcing suspects to confess to various crimes, whether they were guilty or not.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/02/05/Chicago-Floats-100-Million-in-Bonds-to-Settle-Police-Brutality-Cases

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Lawsuit claims Chicago Police strip-searched trio in public

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“Officers opened both men’s waistbands and searched down their pants. The suit alleges police then walked Douglas to a nearby house, handcuffed his wrist to bars on the home’s window, and pulled his pants to the ground while bending him over and searching his buttocks in the open air, then took all of them to an alley behind a church in the 9100 block of South Bishop Street, where they ordered Halley to remove her pants. Halley claims she ‘pleaded’ with a female officer not to, but that the officers made her remove her tampon and submit to a body cavity search in the alley.  A female officer searched her, while a group of male officers watched.”

http://www.suntimes.com/news/25265996-761/lawsuit-chicago-police-strip-searched-trio-in-public.html

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Teen Faces Child Porn Charges For Tweeting Nude ‘Selfie’

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“A local teenager is facing child pornography charges after police say she shared nude photographs of herself on the social networking site Twitter.  According to WAVY, the unnamed 16-year-old suspect took ‘selfies’ in which she was not wearing clothing, then shared them online at the end of last month.  A school resource officer was informed of the then-publicly available photographs’ lewd nature, and talked with both the teen and her mother about the situation.  Authorities then confiscated her phone and charged her with one count of distribution of child pornography. The matter could become a criminal one with the potential of jail time.”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/02/07/police-teen-faces-child-porn-charges-for-tweeting-nude-photos-of-self/

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Fed Accused Of Sending Nude Selfie To Woman Who Needed Help

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“A federal police officer is under investigation for allegedly sending a nude selfie to a woman who had come to him for help.  ‘It’s scary,’ she said, ‘I mean, this is a police officer.’  The picture is almost a full-length nude. He allegedly sent it to the woman’s cell phone.  ‘It’s shocking,’ she said, ‘No one has ever sent me a nude selfie before. Let alone a police officer who I was going to him for help.'”

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/01/27/only-on-2-federal-police-officer-accused-of-sending-nude-selfie-to-woman-who-needed-help/

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