The war by the police on your right to film, continues

Ian Van Kuyk is a student at Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA. I have been to Philadelphia a couple of times, it is a beautiful city. He, along with his girlfriend were arrested on March 14, 2012. Heinous crime, they committed? Not really, they were arrested because he...

UK Public sector pensions strikes Police to join up to 400k .

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers are taking part in a 24-hour UK-wide strike in a dispute with the government over pension changes. The government says current pension schemes are unfair - and...

Warning to MI6 over Gareth Williams spy death probe

Britain's top police officer has warned MI6 it is not above the law as he revealed proposals for mass DNA screenings in the long-running Gareth Williams investigation. An independent forensics review will form a...

NYPD cops violate civil liberties of Occupy Wall Street activists

This is an interesting case out of New York City, where NYPD cops raid a house because of a six year old open carry violation of alcohol. Six cops in fact. At 6:30 in the morning. Of course, the raid wasn't about a six year old case of open carry. It was because they were...

Knifepoint robberies soar by 9% in UK

The figures are just the tip of the iceberg because many crimes go unreported due to the time it takes to make statements... Pickpocketing, bag and phone-snatching soared by 13 per cent and knifepoint robberies...

Police abuse, pro-marijuana protest banned and gay rights

In this case out of New Jersey, a female cop named Ragina Tasca, who stopped a beating of an emotionally disturbed man, might (or by this time already has) lost her job on the Bogota, New Jersey Police Department. The other cops had ran out of their police car and attacked...

Help the cause of legalizing marijuana today in Colorado today

In the state of Colorado there is an initiative that would make limited amounts of marijuana legal for adults. Well, adults 21 or older, at least. This would be a historic vote, come November. Never before has a state legalized marijuana. Well, you can help the cause,...

Barbers in Florida, be ready to have police point guns at you

In most states there are licensing requirements for barbers. Well, in Florida, the police take advantage of those licensing requirements to check for drugs in barber shops. Sometimes, with guns drawn. I wish I was kidding. Would police take advantage of licensing of doctors...

Can a police chief arrest you if you criticize him, for criminal

One of the most amazing things I find about the law is that in some states, there are still criminal defamation cases. The government can imprison you for defamation, but the defamation often involves public officials. See, if the Constitution means anything it is that those...

Illegal strip search and concussion for minor with baggie of pot

In Beloit, WI, local police got a call of suspected drug use. An officer found a 16 year old boy in a parked car, with two others. He told the teenager to get out. After patting him down for weapons and drugs, the officer, Kerry Daugherty, saw a bulge in the boy's pants....

Can the police jail you for a week, after an illegal arrest?

A recent U.S. Supreme Court case affirmed the ability of police to engage in strip searches after an arrest, at a police station, even for minor arrests. I am kind of torn on this, because while I don't support the drug war, along as it exists I can understand police wanting...

Atheist protest banned and entrapment in prostitution case

The Spanish government banned a protest march by atheists in Madrid, during what is called, Holy Thursday. The Thursday, right before Easter. It was banned because it would be, as the Spanish government stated, offensive to Catholics. Spain is a secular republic, like us here...

Connections between Trayvon Martin shooting and the War on Drugs

I have chosen, on purpose, not to write any articles on the Trayvon Martin/ George Zimmerman case. I might be the only political based Examiner, who hasn't written on it. It's too emotional at this point, and I am still not sure what happened that day. I reserve though to...

Judge lies to get man arrested, and is still on the bench

A judge in New Hamsphire, Edward Burke, lies to police  and states that a citizen named Ademo Freeman, who was asking him questions in a courthouse that the judge obviously didn't like, threatened him. I didn't have to watch the video more than once to know it was...

Police MEMO: "Gang Stalking Implicated in Workplace Violence"

     The author of this article has obtained an internal memorandum from the City of Santa Cruz Police Department stating that "gang stalking has implications to workplace violence". The memo: The intent is a psychological impact and socially ostresizing...

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