Showing posts with label police tactics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police tactics. Show all posts
Saturday, February 9, 2019

Addendum to a botched drug raid

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Here is a link to the actual warrant for the botched drug raid. The article states that the warrant had been uplifted to Scribd, but when...
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Friday, February 8, 2019

Anatomy of a botched drug raid

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Last month five officers from the Houston Police Department were injured - four were shot - in a drug raid gone incredibly wrong. At the tim...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Blaming the victim, Texas style

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This is a video that Texas now requires all high school students to view. Its purpose is to "teach" students how to interact wit...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Dancing with the stars

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Once upon a time there was a strip club on the North Freeway called Fantasy Plaza. Now, believe it or not, drugs were sold at the club and m...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Of split-second decisions

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Whenever an unarmed person is shot and killed by police we hear the same old tropes about officers having to make split-second decisions. Gr...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Sending in the stormtroopers to quell dissent

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Back on August 9 of this year, Ferguson (MO) police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. The kill...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

New toy for Wyoming police

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Wyoming has a very low crime rate. It has one of the lowest murder rates in the country at 2.4 per 100,000 people. For comparison, the rate...
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Book review: Rise of the Warrior Cop - The militarization of America's police forces

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In Rise of the Warrior Cop , Radley Balko takes a look at the current state of policing in these United States and asks "how did we get...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

NH police view Occupy protesters as terrorists

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From the website Common Dreams  comes this story of the increasing militarization of the police: In a bid to bring armored vehicles to the...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Warriors for a new tomorrow

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No, that's not an armed invasion of the City of Houston. It's just the latest example of the increasing militarization of the pol...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Police attack protesters in San Antonio

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The Alamo? Forget about it. Police in San Antonio shut down the Occupy! protest in HemisFair park on Monday, arresting at least five prot...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Did an 82-year-old man really need to be tasered?

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Tasermania is the new fad sweeping the English countryside these days. According to the BBC, on June 28, 2011, police were called out to ...
Tuesday, September 2, 2008

So much for the First Amendment

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Cheap Trick sang about them two decades ago -- the Dream Police have invaded the Twin Cities. This past weekend, while everyone else was f...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Interrogation and false confessions

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I came across some interesting articles on police interrogation methods and false confessions after my trial was continued this morning (se...