The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has admitted that a deputy killed an innocent man after shooting him from a gun turret in an armored vehicle. Officials said Tuesday that 27-year-old Donnell Thompson was not the carjacking suspect officers were looking for when they responded to a Compton neighborhood on July 28 after the actual perpetrator […]
Feds Transferred $2.2B Worth Of Military Equipment To Police Since 2006
The federal government has transferred around $2.2 billion worth of military gear to local police departments around the country since 2006, according to a new report. Released by the non-profit government transparency group Open the Books, the report, titled The Militarization of Local Police Departments, says the equipment includes “helicopters and airplanes, armored trucks and […]
2015 And The Myth Of The War On Cops
2015 saw several high-profile killings of officers around the county, leading police supporters and pundits the nation over to rail against a perceived “war on cops.” But what was the truth of the matter? According to data collected by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, which tracks police deaths, there is no upward trend in the killing of […]
Barrack Obama Signs Executive Order Stripping Police Departments of Military Surplus Weapons and Vehicles
Police to Give up Some Military Surplus: You Are More Likely to Die from a Bee Sting or to be Crushed by Your TV, Than Die from a Domestic Terrorist Attack The Rundown Live President Barrack Obama has ordered the federal government through an executive order to confiscate some of the military surplus equipment from police departments across the country. The […]
List of War Equipment Local Police Receive from the Federal 1033 Program, What is Your Local PD Getting?
Federalization of Local Police Forces Across America has Allowed Them To Receive War Machines from Overseas The Rundown Live The US government has been giving local police military equipment from battlefields across the world. Here is a list of current proven equipment used by law enforcement, given to them through the Pentagons Federal 1033 program. In […]
ACLU Releases Map of Police Departments Using Stingray to Wiretap Local Cellphones
ACLU Releases Map of Police Department’s Around the Country that Acquired Stingray Surveillance Technology from the Federal 1033 Program The Rundown Live The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released a map of states that are known to use military grade spying technology known as “stingray”. They have pinpointed 50 agencies across 21 states that […]
First Police Department Voluntarily Denies 1033 Military Surplus Program
The Rundown Live A Vermont Police Department Becomes America’s First to Voluntarily Withdraw From Controversial 1033 Military Surplus Program Vermont’s Burlington Police department announced they will be withdrawing from the Pentagon’s questionable 1033 military surplus program. This will mark the first time a police department has ever willfully withdrawn from the Department of Defense’s (DOD) federal program, according to the NY Daily […]
Police to Enter Private Unlocked Vehicles and Take Valuables To Remind Locals to Lock Up:New Update
The Rundown Live Police to Break Into Vehicles and Illegally take Personal Belongings to Remind You to Lock Up Police in East Rock Connecticut will be investigating local residents vehicles and confiscating valuables that are left in eye-view of unlocked vehicles under a new “caretaker program,” according to the New Haven Register. This time of […]
No, the Police Don’t Work For You
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University of Minnesota Lied in Public Communications About Militarization of Campus Police
Pam Wheelock, Vice President of University Services for U of Minn, 612-624-3557 Questions Raised over UMPD Participation in 1033 Program Was the university dishonest in public safety announcements about the militarization of the University of Minnesota Police Department (UMPD)? In September 2014, public attention was brought to the involvement of the University of Minnesota with […]
