The Warrior cops are out of control

[CosmicCowboy]

yea i remember reading about a homeless person found dead a few blocks from you at the SA library. man you chose a terrible spot to run a business lol.

well thank you for getting rid of most of that crap. honestly, your business is so cluttered and dirty looking it does look like a dump. as a business owner in the downtown area, you should do some community outreach and pay the homeless guys a few bucks to pick up trash or do odd jobs around your business.

at you talking about my business. Every time you drive by I hope you think 'Damn...that ugly junks sitting on 2 million dollars worth of real estate".

As for the the homeless guys they are cutting through my fence every weekend stealing stuff. I'm sure as not gonna pay them to stake out the place.

[boutons_deux]

Facial Recognition Software Moves From Overseas Wars to Local Police


Facial recognition software, which the American military and intelligence agencies have used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan to identify potential terrorists, is now being eagerly adopted by dozens of police departments around the country to pursue drug dealers, pros utes and other conventional criminal suspects.

Law enforcement officers say the technology is much faster than fingerprinting at identifying suspects, although it is unclear how much it is helping the police make arrests.

The software can identify 16,000 distinct points on a person’s face — to determine the distance between the eyes or the shape of the lips, for instance — and compare them with thousands of similar points in police booking or other photos at a rate of more than one million faces a second.

It is among an array of technologies, including StingRay tracking devicesand surveillance aircraft with specialized cameras, that were developed in overseas wars but are finding their way into local law enforcement agencies, often paid for with federal counterterrorism grants.

But the technologies are being employed with few guidelines, oversight or public disclosure.

When Aaron Harvey was stopped by the police here in 2013 while driving near his grandmother’s house, an officer not only searched his car, he said, but also took his photograph and ran it through the software to try to establish his iden y and determine whether he had a criminal record.

Eric Hanson, a retired firefighter, had a similar experience last summer. Stopped by the police after a dispute with a man he said was a prowler, he was ordered to sit on a curb, he said, while officers took his photo with an iPad and ran it through the same facial recognition software. The officers also used a cotton swab to collect a DNA sample from the inside of his cheek.

Neither man was arrested. Neither had consented to being photographed. Both said the officers had told them that they were using facial recognition technology.

“I was thinking, ‘Why are you taking pictures of me, doing this to me?’ ” said Mr. Hanson, 58, who has no criminal record. “I felt like my iden y was being stolen. I’m a straight-up, no lie, cheat or steal guy, and I get treated like a criminal.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us...er=rss&emc=rss

And Hanson's photo will be in the police database, even shared nationally, FOREVER.

In America, EVERYBODY is suspect.

[boutons_deux]

When Innocence Is No Defense

SUPPOSE someone has been convicted of a serious crime, but new evidence emerges proving his innocence. Does he have a cons utional right to be freed?

The answer might seem obvious, but it is far from clear that the Cons ution protects an innocent person against incarceration, or even execution, if his original trial was otherwise free of defects. Despite growing awareness about the problems of unreliable witness identification, questionable forensic evidence and inadequate legal representation of indigent defendants,

the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to decide this basic question — even though some 115 prisoners have been exonerated from death row since 1989.

Faulty convictions happen for many reasons: because juries are composed of human beings, who are fallible; because witnesses feel certain but can be mistaken; and because defense lawyers, particularly those representing indigent defendants, are notoriously overworked and underpaid. The issue is what courts should do in the face of strong evidence that the wrong person has been punished.

Mr. Bharadia now has a habeas corpus pe ion pending that seeks his release from unlawful imprisonment.

If denied by Georgia courts, his case would present an excellent vehicle for the United States Supreme Court to decide, once and for all, that incarceration or execution of an innocent person is cons utionally impermissible.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/12...o-defense.html

Kafka would ROFLMAO

Why would the Supremes decline to rule? Because it would impugn the judicial system over which they reign supreme?

[Clipper Nation]

What’s striking in the progression of these later studies is a steady decrease in the number of people having interactions with the police—from about 45 million in 2002 to 40 million in 2011—or from about 21 percent of the 16-and-older population to about 17 percent.

More important, perhaps, was that reports of use of force by police also fell, from 664,000 in 2002 to 574,000 in a 2010 report. Those declines occurred across all races. The number of African-Americans reporting that police used force against them fell from 173,000 to 130,000. Among whites, the number has dropped from a peak of 374,000 to 347,000.

In the most recent survey, in 2011, 88.2 percent of those stopped by the police said they thought officers acted properly. There were few significant distinctions by race. Nearly 83 percent of African-Americans judged police behavior to be proper, for instance.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1204sm.html

[SpursforSix]

When Innocence Is No Defense

SUPPOSE someone has been convicted of a serious crime, but new evidence emerges proving his innocence. Does he have a cons utional right to be freed?

The answer might seem obvious, but it is far from clear that the Cons ution protects an innocent person against incarceration, or even execution, if his original trial was otherwise free of defects. Despite growing awareness about the problems of unreliable witness identification, questionable forensic evidence and inadequate legal representation of indigent defendants, the Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to decide this basic question — even though some 115 prisoners have been exonerated from death row since 1989.

Faulty convictions happen for many reasons: because juries are composed of human beings, who are fallible; because witnesses feel certain but can be mistaken; and because defense lawyers, particularly those representing indigent defendants, are notoriously overworked and underpaid. The issue is what courts should do in the face of strong evidence that the wrong person has been punished.

Mr. Bharadia now has a habeas corpus pe ion pending that seeks his release from unlawful imprisonment.

If denied by Georgia courts, his case would present an excellent vehicle for the United States Supreme Court to decide, once and for all, that incarceration or execution of an innocent person is cons utionally impermissible.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/12...o-defense.html

Kafka would ROFLMAO

[boutons_deux]

she's a 21-year-old black cutie, of course

After officer says he smelled marijuana, Texas woman given humiliating cavity search in parking lot



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...?detail=email#

[CosmicCowboy]

cutie?

[Trill Clinton]

[SpursforSix]

cutie?

He means for a black. I thought it was pretty racist.

[TheSanityAnnex]

The irony of Fraud King mentioning someone else lying about an altercation

[Clipper Nation]

What’s striking in the progression of these later studies is a steady decrease in the number of people having interactions with the police—from about 45 million in 2002 to 40 million in 2011—or from about 21 percent of the 16-and-older population to about 17 percent.

More important, perhaps, was that reports of use of force by police also fell, from 664,000 in 2002 to 574,000 in a 2010 report. Those declines occurred across all races. The number of African-Americans reporting that police used force against them fell from 173,000 to 130,000. Among whites, the number has dropped from a peak of 374,000 to 347,000.

In the most recent survey, in 2011, 88.2 percent of those stopped by the police said they thought officers acted properly. There were few significant distinctions by race. Nearly 83 percent of African-Americans judged police behavior to be proper, for instance.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1204sm.html

Cop haters and race-baiters ignoring these inconvenient truths, as expected.

[DarrinS]

http://fusion.net/video/55314/study-...black-suspect/

[Michael Corleone]

Disturbing video footage of the 2013 fatal police shooting of*Jonathan Ferrell*has been released.*

Captured by a dash cam, Ferrell, who was unarmed, is seen walking toward officers and then breaking out in a sprint.

The man was ordered to "get on the ground" by one officer just a few seconds before multiple gunshots ring out.

An officer then says '"shots fired, shots fired" before saying "don't move."
Prosecutors in the case say that Officer*Randall Kerrick*panicked, did not identify himself and did not give any commands before shooting at the former college football player 12 times, reports the*Daily Mail.

http://www.centrictv.com/news-views/...car-crash.html

[Michael Corleone]

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/1...lice-shootings

[Splits]

Cop haters and race-baiters ignoring these inconvenient truths, as expected.

Authoritarians are the worst people in this country, and you are their embodiment, you glorify them. It is the an hesis of libertarianism. Radley Balko doesn't go a day without criticizing the militarization of the police, yet here you are, fake got libertariancuck , fellating the cops every chance you get. You're as much a libertarian as Kobe is an alpha.

[Michael Corleone]

Cleveland cops shot at 2 unarmed black people 137 times. No one is going to prison for*it.http://www.vox.com/2015/5/23/8649675...olice-shooting

[Clipper Nation]

Authoritarians are the worst people in this country

And yet you're lining up to vote for either Shillary or Sanders, two insane, power-mad authoritarians.

I'm a minarchist libertarian, not an An-Cap. The police are a legitimate part of the ideal night-watchman state.

[boutons_deux]

Probe Leads to 560 Drug Convictions Being Overturned

Accusations of fraud and tax-payer milking are not unusual when it comes to discussions of the DEA. The latest reversal of more than 158 convictions, bringing the total to 560 reversed drug charges in Philadelphia, is another reason why.

A Philadelphia judge has reversed 158 additional narcotics convictions as a result of a long-running probe of seven narcotics officers, all of whom were acquitted of corruption charges.

Public defender Bradley Bridge says that about 560 convictions have now been reversed.

Bridge tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that fewer than half of the squad’s convictions have been reviewed. This means that even more drug convictions are likely to be overturned.

Federal prosecutors accused the veteran officers of stealing large sums of cash and drugs from their ‘suspects’ lying in court when asked about these accusations.

Officer Jeffrey Walker is serving a three-year prison term after pleading guilty and testifying against his former squad members at trial this year.

A jury acquitted the other six who were accused of similar crimes – they all got their jobs back, with the exception of Officer

Perry Betts who was suspended and faces dismissal after allegedly testing positive for marijuana.

?http://naturalsociety.com/probe-leads-to-560-drug-convictions-being-overturned/

[boutons_deux]

PIC is a magnet for sadists

Chelsea Manning Faces "Indefinite Solitary Confinement" for Possession of Expired Toothpaste

http://gawker.com/chelsea-manning-fa...ent-1723778400

[boutons_deux]

After 2 Killers Fled, New York Prisoners Say, Beatings Were Next

Night had fallen at the Clinton Correctional Facility in far northern New York when the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander. They handcuffed him and took him into a broom closet for questioning. Then, Mr. Alexander said in an interview last week, the beatings began.

As the three guards, who wore no name badges, punched him and slammed his head against the wall, he said they shouted questions: “Where are they going? What did you hear? How much are they paying you to keep your mouth shut?” One of the guards put a plastic bag over his head, Mr. Alexander said, and threatened to waterboard him.

Hours earlier, Richard W. Matt and David Sweat had made their daring escape from the unit — called the “honor block” — where they were housed. Now it appeared that Mr. Alexander, a fellow convicted murderer who lived in an adjoining cell, was being made to suffer the consequences.

For days after the June prison break, corrections officers carried out what seemed like a campaign of retribution against dozens of Clinton inmates, particularly those on the honor block, an investigation by The New York Times found. In letters reviewed by The Times, as well as prison interviews, inmates described a strikingly similar catalog of abuses, including being beaten while handcuffed, choked and slammed against cell bars and walls.

They were also subjected to harsh policies ordered by the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision: Dozens of inmates, many of whom had won the right to live on the honor block after years of good behavior, were transferred out of Clinton to other prisons. Many were placed in solitary confinement, and stripped of privileges they had accrued over the years — even though no prisoners have yet been linked to Mr. Matt’s and Mr. Sweat’s actions.

Indeed, it is prison employees who have been implicated: One has pleaded guilty to aiding the escape; another faces criminal charges; nine officers have been suspended; and the leadership of the prison, in Dannemora, has been removed.

More than 60 inmates have filed complaints with Prisoners’ Legal Servicesof New York, an organization that assists indigent prisoners. And 10 members of an inmate council at Clinton signed a letter last month to state corrections officials making similar allegations.

“We have been daily getting complaints along these lines from around the state,” said Michael Cassidy, a lawyer for Prisoners’ Legal Services.

After The Times published its findings, the corrections department released a statement saying the inmate complaints had been under investigation for several weeks and had “also been referred to the state inspector general.”

“Any findings of misconduct or abuse against inmates will be punished to the full extent of the law,” the statement continued.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/ny...were-next.html

[boutons_deux]

Arrested in Ferguson Last Year, 2 Reporters Are Charged

Two reporters who were arrested while covering the protests in Ferguson, Mo., last August, were charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer, their outlets said on Monday.

The reporters, Wesley Lowery of the Washington Post and Ryan J. Reilly of the Huffington Post, were arrested at a McDonald’s restaurant while covering nightly demonstrations that followed the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer.

In an account Mr. Lowery wrote of the incident, he said he had been arrested after receiving contradictory instructions from the officers about which direction to exit the restaurant, which had served as a kind of staging area for reporters. At the time, the Post’s executive editor, Martin Baron, said that there had been “absolutely no justification for his arrest.

The Post reported Monday that Mr. Lowery had been ordered to appear in a St. Louis County municipal court on Aug. 24.

“You’d have thought law enforcement authorities would have come to their senses about this incident,” Mr. Baron said in a statement to his own newspaper. “Wes Lowery should never have been arrested in the first place. That was an abuse of police authority.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/us...s-charged.html

[TheSanityAnnex]

Cop haters and race-baiters ignoring these inconvenient truths, as expected.

The numbers have been steadily declining but that will be ignored as long as everyone continues to post their youtube videos.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Very interesting, and ignored here of course.

http://fusion.net/video/55314/study-...black-suspect/

The Results: Cops Can Control Their Biases

The lab has published two papers based on pilot research. While the results are early and limited, they are surprising. Cops do have biases, but it did not affect their behavior the way you might expect.
“Participants do seem to have implicit associations between African American suspects and threat, however the more unusual finding is that this does not even remotely predict how they’ll behave in the simulator,” James said. “What we’ve found in the simulator is that there tends to be a greater hesitation to shoot African American suspects than white or Hispanic suspects.”
On average, she said, they took a quarter of a second longer to pull the trigger on black suspects, and they made fewer mistakes. The researchers theorize cops could be exhibiting a kind of a counter-bias, responding to real-world concerns about race.
“If an unarmed suspect is shot, they’re more likely to be a white unarmed suspect than a black unarmed suspect,” she said.

[Trill Clinton]

Probe Leads to 560 Drug Convictions Being Overturned

Accusations of fraud and tax-payer milking are not unusual when it comes to discussions of the DEA. The latest reversal of more than 158 convictions, bringing the total to 560 reversed drug charges in Philadelphia, is another reason why.

A Philadelphia judge has reversed 158 additional narcotics convictions as a result of a long-running probe of seven narcotics officers, all of whom were acquitted of corruption charges.

Public defender Bradley Bridge says that about 560 convictions have now been reversed.

Bridge tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that fewer than half of the squad’s convictions have been reviewed. This means that even more drug convictions are likely to be overturned.

Federal prosecutors accused the veteran officers of stealing large sums of cash and drugs from their ‘suspects’ lying in court when asked about these accusations.

Officer Jeffrey Walker is serving a three-year prison term after pleading guilty and testifying against his former squad members at trial this year.

A jury acquitted the other six who were accused of similar crimes – they all got their jobs back, with the exception of Officer

Perry Betts who was suspended and faces dismissal after allegedly testing positive for marijuana.

?http://naturalsociety.com/probe-leads-to-560-drug-convictions-being-overturned/

Damn shame stories like this don't get the attention it deserves. Peace to all those who got their cases overturned.

[boutons_deux]

What’s striking in the progression of these later studies is a steady decrease in the number of people having interactions with the police—from about 45 million in 2002 to 40 million in 2011—or from about 21 percent of the 16-and-older population to about 17 percent.

More important, perhaps, was that reports of use of force by police also fell, from 664,000 in 2002 to 574,000 in a 2010 report. Those declines occurred across all races. The number of African-Americans reporting that police used force against them fell from 173,000 to 130,000. Among whites, the number has dropped from a peak of 374,000 to 347,000.

In the most recent survey, in 2011, 88.2 percent of those stopped by the police said they thought officers acted properly. There were few significant distinctions by race. Nearly 83 percent of African-Americans judged police behavior to be proper, for instance.

http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon1204sm.html

574,000? 130,000? and all those uses of force were justified? and these were "reports" by whom? the police? they don't even have to report to the Feds killings by police.