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Americans Agree Violent Crime Should Be Police Priority – Not Drugs

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“A newly released Cato Institute/YouGov survey of 2,000 Americans finds that when people are asked to select their top three priorities for the police they choose the following: Investigating violent crime like murder, assaults, and domestic violence (78%); Protecting individuals from violent crime (64%); Investigating property crime and robbery (58%). Notably, only 30% think police should make enforcing drug laws a top three priority. Some may find these results surprising, given that police made more arrests for drug abuse violations (1.6 million) than they did for violent crimes (498,666) in 2014.”

https://fee.org/articles/americans-agree-violent-crime-should-be-police-priority-not-drugs/

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Trump Gets Behind Philippines Drug War Death Squads

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“The Filipino strongman took office earlier this year with a promise to unleash mass murder on Philippine drug users and dealers, and he has lived up to that vow, leaving the streets running with the blood of more than 5,000 killed so far, either directly by his police, or in a more shadowy fashion by ‘vigilantes.’  Duterte’s bloody campaign has drawn scathing criticism from human rights groups, the United Nations, and the Obama administration, with Duterte responding to the latter by calling Obama a ‘son of a whore.’  But in his phone call with the Filipino strongman, Donald Trump was singing a different tune.”

Read more: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/trump-gets-behind-philippines-drug-war-mass-murderer

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Mark Nestmann: They’ve spit on the Bill of Rights yet again

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“[The Wisconsin Supreme Court] recently ruled that police do not need a search warrant to forcibly open locked doors in a private home.  It’s bad enough that a citizen can be fined and imprisoned for possession of a plant with medicinal properties. But with this decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has declared that so long as police have permission to enter a home with or without a warrant, once they’re inside, they can conduct a protective sweep. Police then have the right to rifle through your belongings, break down locked doors, and seize evidence that can later be used against you.”

http://www.nestmann.com/theyve-spit-on-the-bill-of-rights-yet-again

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El Chapo v. Longstanding CIA Global Drugs Trafficking

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“His operation and others like his pale compared to CIA global drugs trafficking – a topic media scoundrels won’t touch. Its involvement began in 1947, its first year of existence. In his book titled ‘The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade,’ Alfred McCoy documented CIA and US government complicity in drugs trafficking at the highest official levels.  Iran-Contra and Afghan opium cultivation for global heroin trafficking are two among numerous other examples.  Hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenues are produced – a US government-supported bonanza for the CIA, organized crime and Western financial institutions, heavily involved in money laundering.”

http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2016/01/el-chapo-v-longstanding-cia-drugs.html

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2015 News Stories You Should Have Heard About, But Probably Didn’t

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“In 2015, the iron fist of power clamped down on humanity, from warfare to terrorism (I repeat myself) to surveillance, police brutality, and corporate hegemony. The environment was repeatedly decimated, the health of citizens was constantly put at risk, and the justice system and media alike were perverted to serve the interests of the powers that be.  However, while 2015 was discouraging for more reasons than most of us can count, many of the year’s most underreported stories evidence not only a widespread pattern that explicitly reveals the nature of power, but pushback from human beings worldwide on a path toward a better world.”

http://theantimedia.org/15-news-stories-from-2015-you-should-have-heard-about-but-probably-didnt/

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Oklahoma man faces life in prison for selling legal Colorado marijuana

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“An Oklahoma man faces a possible life sentence after he allegedly sold 4 grams of marijuana to a pair of confidential informants working with police in the city of Enid, an hour and a half drive north of Oklahoma City. Bourbonais was arraigned last week and faces charges of possession with intent to distribute within 2,000 feet of a school, two counts of distribution of a controlled substance and a misdemeanor count of possession of drug paraphernalia.  Because of his rap sheet, he faces 12 years to life in prison — a stunning sentence for an amount of marijuana that would have been legal in Colorado, which shares a border with Oklahoma.”

http://fusion.net/story/132914/oklahoma-man-faces-life-in-prison-for-less-than-an-ounce-of-marijuana/

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Want My Blood? Get a Warrant.

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“‘Probable cause,’ a phrase used by the Fourth Amendment itself, has never been precisely defined, but it is not a very high standard. According to the Supreme Court, it may amount to no more than a ‘substantial chance’ or a ‘fair probability.’  Nor is getting a judge to certify probable cause much of a burden in an age of instantaneous mobile communications and electronic warrants. But police tend to take short cuts when they are available, so it is not surprising that the cops who arrested Birchfield, Beylund, and Bernard for driving under the influence (DUI) made no attempt to obtain warrants authorizing chemical testing of the alcohol in their blood.”

https://reason.com/archives/2015/12/21/want-my-blood-get-a-warrant

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Cops in ‘Podunk’ Florida Town Sent Millions to Venezuela, Other Countries

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“A routine Department of Justice inquiry into a police forfeiture account found, according to the Herald, ‘no arrests, no audits, lack of reports, and massive amounts of drug money sent to banks without alerting federal agents. The DOJ concluded that Bal Harbour misspent hundreds of thousands in forfeiture funds on police salaries.’ The city had to return the money, a short time after another forfeiture account unknown to the public came to light.  The Herald found Bal Harbour police had sent $4 million to Panama and $1.6 million to China. Venezuela came in third out of nine countries and territories, at $305,000 sent by police to Venezuela. That number now matches Panama’s.”

https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/28/cops-in-podunk-florida-town-sent-million

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Kansas Couple SWAT Raided After Tea Was Mistaken for Marijuana

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“U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum said police acted legally and reasonably in planning and conducting the fruitless raid on the home of Robert and Adlynn Harte, former CIA employees whose children were 7 and 13 at the time. The family was held at gunpoint for two and a half hours while Johnson County sheriff’s deputies went through the house, after which they gave the Hartes a receipt saying ‘no items taken’ in lieu of an apology. Because the cops refused to say why they thought the Hartes were growing marijuana, the couple spent a year and $25,000 in legal fees to get a look at the affidavit supporting the search warrant.”

https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/22/couple-whose-tea-was-mistaken-for-mariju

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Cop who killed unarmed teen for selling marijuana not charged

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“Seneca Police Lt. Mark Tiller shot and killed Zachary Hammond, 19, of Seneca, S.C., in an attempted marijuana bust July 26 in a fast-food parking lot. The officer said he shot Hammond because he feared the teenager was trying to run over him with his car. Eric Bland, lawyer for the Hammond family, said video from the officer’s dashboard camera clearly shows that Tiller was not in danger of being run over when he fired the fatal shot and said federal charges of civil-rights violations could still be forthcoming. Tori Morton of Pickens, Hammond’s date that night, was charged with simple possession of marijuana.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/27/teen-shot-officer-not-charged/74683454/

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