Cop Block

Over the past week or so, I’ve added nine new incidents to the War on Cameras Map.

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Earlier this year, I launched a project called “The War on Cameras: An Interactive Map” using Google Maps to track incidents where police and other government officials have harassed, detained, threatened, attacked, arrested, or charged people with a crimes for using cameras, incidents where cameras have been seized, and incidents where government officials attempted to [...]

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Over the past couple years, members of East Atlanta Copwatch have been working to monitor police activity in their city. Unsurprisingly, many of the Copwatchers have been harassed and even physically assaulted by camera-shy cops. In one incident, a group of police officer showed up in a public park to harass Food Not Bombs volunteers [...]

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Over the past week, I’ve added 14 markers to the War on Camera map which brings the total number to 80. I’ve also made a few corrections, spelling/grammar fixes, and updates to several entries. I still have a sizable backlog of stories that I’m looking into, but I would appreciate it if people would continue [...]

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Earlier today, I added three incidents to my “War on Cameras” map. Two of the incidents occurred last year. The third occurred just last month. Below, I’ve included the full text of the additions: 1. Texas state trooper harasses reporter, strikes his camera In February, 2010, Aaron Dykes, a reporter for the website Infowars.com, was [...]

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Interactive Google map highlights the problem of government hostility to photography and audio/video recording.

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