Posted on 25 January 2013. Tags: Cato Institute, cop block, cop block protection, cop block tour, copblock.org, dc cop block, freestategirlvideos, greenbelt police department, ideas have consequences, maryland cop block, outreach, Pete Eyre, the cop block tour, Update
Note that the videos below are all raw (shot with my HTC Evo 5 via Cop Block’s Bambuser channel, my chest-mounted GoPro, and/or my Canon Vixia HF R10. At the conclusion of The Cop Block Tour I’ll make time to put-together some solid, over-arching videos using content from this stop. ________________________________________ On Tue., Jan. 23rd, [...]
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Posted on 23 May 2012. Tags: anok black, Cato Institute, cop block, copblock.org, David Packman, double-standards, edmond dantes, Injustice Everywhere, Martin Luther King Jr., national police misconduct reporting project, Pete Eyre, Police brutality, police misconduct, tim lynch, Update
In early 2009 – a year before CopBlock.org came online – David Packman started Injustice Everywhere to catalog police misconduct with weekly reports, editorials, statistical analysis and quarterly maps. (If you never visited the site his name is likely still familiar as his weekly reports were reposted here on CopBlock.org by Edmond Dantes and Anok [...]
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Posted on 18 September 2010. Tags: Anthony Graber, Cato Institute, Filming police, Maryland, SWAT
At Cop Block, we’re big advocates of filming the police and this video from the Cato Institute provides one of the clearest explanations as to why.
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Posted on 29 April 2010. Tags: Cato Institute, Civil asset forfeiture, Drug war, Homicide, Psychology, Rad Geek, Radley Balko, Reckless driving, SWAT
Here’s an excerpt from an interesting USA TODAY article discussing the dangers of high-speed police chases: Innocent bystanders account for one-third of those who are killed in high-speed police chases, a USA TODAY review has found. The deaths have several communities around the USA wrestling with whether to restrict pursuits only to suspects in violent [...]
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Posted on 27 April 2010. Tags: Brutality, Cato Institute, Drug war, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, Theft
Officer Jeffrey Cujdik and his Philadelphia narcotics squad raided a tobacco shop for selling small zip-lock bags considered to be “drug paraphernalia.” Ignoring the ridiculousness in criminalizing and prosecuting the sale of small zip-lock bags, the cops took it a step further and committed more absurdities. Cujdik and his team, drew their guns and destroyed [...]
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Posted on 13 April 2010. Tags: Cato Institute, Filming police, Flex Your Rights, strike the root, US Constitution
Click here, here, and here for parts 2, 3, and 4. If you don’t use your rights, you’ll lose them. Nobody understand this better than Flex Your Rights. FYR focuses on educating the public on the Bill of Rights and how its applied to encounters with law enforcement. Their website features a blog, FAQ, success [...]
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