american civil liberties union Archives - Cop Block

Drug War Gone Mad: Three-Year-Old Forcibly Catheterized By South Dakota DSS Workers

July 12, 2017 Asa J 2081 Views Aaron Henning, american civil liberties union, Avera St. Mary's Hospital, Catheterization, child abuse, childhood abuse, civil liberties, Civil rights, Cody Holcombe, constitution, constitutional violations, copblock, copblock.org, degrading, Dept. of Social Services, Dirk Sparks, Drug war, DSS, emotional pain, end the drug war, federal lawsuit, Fifth Amendment, Forced Catheterization, Forcibly Catheterized, Fourteenth Amendment, fourth amendment, Gena Alvarez, Jason Riis, Kirsten Hunter, marijuana, Pierre, Pierre Police Department, police abuse, Police State, Sisseton, Sisseton Police Department, South Dakota, South Dakota Highway Patrol, staph infection, Trauma, urine sample

A three-year-old boy was forcibly catheterized on behest of South Dakota Dept. of Social Services employees during a child abuse

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21,587 MA Drug Cases Tainted By Lab Chemist To Be Thrown Out

April 20, 2017May 10, 2017 Asa J 1181 Views Accountability, ACLU, ACLUM, american civil liberties union, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Annie Dookhan, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Department of Public Health, Dishonesty, Dookhan Defendants, Drug Cases, drug cases dismissed, drug samples, dry labbing, Evidence tampering, Hinton lab, Justice System, lab chemist, Massachusetts, Matthew Segal, misconduct, obstruction of justice, perjury, Police State, Supreme Judicial Court

At least 21,587 drug cases will be dismissed because of the broad and blatant criminal misconduct of a Department of

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Don’t Call the Pigs: An Informal Guide to Alternative Policing Within an Anarchist Justice System

October 19, 2016March 11, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1461 Views 3%ers, ABC, Accountability, ACLU, agorist defense services, american civil liberties union, Anarchist Black Cross, anarchists, anti-statist, assault, Black and Pink, black guerrilla family, Black Panther style community patrols, black panthers, Books for Prisoners, Brutality, C4SS, Cell 411, center for a stateless society, Civil rights, cop watch, copblock, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, crowdfunding, de-arrest, directly democratic community watch groups, Dishonesty, DoJ, Don’t Call the Pigs: An Informal Guide to Creating an Anarchist Justice System, Double Standard, entertainment and education, Eric Garner, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, FAMM, FIJA, Food Not Bombs, Free Alabama Movement, freedom, fully informed jury association, General Defense Committee, government agencies, high environmental costs of prisons, Huey P. Newton Gun Club, Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, Industrial Workers of the World, Institute for Justice, IWOC, IWW, jury duty, Jury nullification, Justice System, kelly patterson, Kurdish People’s Protection Units, legal fees, Libertarians, Logan Glitterbomb, media promotion, mike brown, mutual aid, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, national lawyers guild, Nationalism, NCADP, networking, nonviolent communication techniques, Patriotism, peacekeeper, people of color, Pink Pistols, police, police departments, Police State, Prison Ecology Project, prison industrial complex, prisons, public freedom campaign, Public Relations, punishment, radical public defender, Rest In Power, restorative and/or transformative justice process, RIP, Rojava, Shield Mutual, sounds good in theory, soveriegn citizen crap, soveriegn citizens, supplies reading materials, Sylvia Rivera Gun Club for Self Defense, TSA, unarrest, unfair living conditions, voluntary militias, Zapatistas

This post was written by Logan Glitterbomb and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the title

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Half Of U.S. Adults Already In Facial Recognition Database Study Shows

October 19, 2016 Asa J 1379 Views american civil liberties union, civil liberties, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, databases, department of defense, Department of Motor Vehicles, facial recognition, facial recognition database, facial recognition network, facial recognition software, FBI, freedom of information requests, fusion centers, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology, intelligence agencies, mugshot database, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Police State, Privacy, state police, Surveillance, surveillance cameras, Technology, West Virginia Fusion Center

A new study conducted by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology shows that half of all U.S. adults are

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Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Provided Data Access for a Surveillance Product Marketed to Target Activists of Color

October 11, 2016 Brian Sumner 1399 Views #fuckyourbadge, ACLU, american civil liberties union, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, facebook, ferguson, freedom, GeoFeedia, Harassment, Instagram, Justice System, Matt Cagle, mike brown, no victim no crime, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, repost, social media, strike the root, Surveillance, Transparency, Twitter

Originally published at ACLUNC.org by Matt Cagle The ACLU of California has obtained records showing that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

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Innocent Man Killed By Cop From Armored Vehicle Gun Turret

August 11, 2016August 11, 2016 Asa J 1343 Views 1033 Program, Accountability, american civil liberties union, amphibious tanks, armored vehicle, attorney Brian Dunn, bearcat, Brian Dunn, California, Capt. Steve Katz, carjacking, carjacking suspect, Compton, copblock, copblock.org, Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services, department of defense, Donnell Thompson, drones, federal lawsuit, flash-bang, flash-bang device, Gun Turret, Homicide, innocent man, lawsuit, Los Angeles, los angeles sheriff's department, M4, M4 assault rifle, militarization of police, militarized police, militarized police vehicle, military hardware, police kill innocent man, police killing, police murder, police shooting, Police State, rubber bullets, swat, swat team, tragedy, unarmed man, War Comes Home

The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has admitted that a deputy killed an innocent man after shooting him from a gun

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Indiana State Trooper Who Was “Policing For Jesus” Fired; Tried to Convert Drivers

April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1749 Views #JusSayin, Accountability, ACLU, american civil liberties union, Cambridge City, CBS 4, cbs4indy.com, Christianity, Christians, Civil rights, coercive, Connersville, convert, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Douglas G. Carter, Ellen Bogan, extremely upsetting, First Baptist Church, God’s Plan for Salvation, Harassment, Highway 27, home church, illegal pass, in, Indiana, Indiana State Police, Indianapolis, ISP, Jesus, Jews, Justice System, kelly patterson, Monty Python, Muslims, New York Times, no victim no crime, nobody expects the Inquisition, police, policing for Jesus, prayer list, probably things we are not aware of, proselytizing, questioning drivers about their religious beliefs, religion, religious affiliations, revenue generation, rights, road pirates, savior, sinners, termination, The Pope, traffic stops, Trooper Brian L. Hamilton, union county, unwanted, video, Wendy Pyle

An Indiana State Trooper somehow thought that giving people tickets was a really good opening to try and save their

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Jails and the “Justice” System Punish the Poor For Being Poor

April 9, 2016March 7, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 3574 Views Accountability, ACLU, american civil liberties union, assault, black woman, Brutality, building alternative forms of dealing with crime, chris hedges, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, criminalization of the poor, criminalizing homelessness, death in custody, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, fair and equal treatment, focus of rehabilitation, freedom, gofundme, harassing the homeless, Harassment, high-profile victim, Homicide, Independence, jail, Jeffery Pendleton, Justice System, kelly patterson, low income, marijuana, meaningless term, New Hampshire, New York Times, no victim no crime, outstanding fines, peaceful and creative ways, people of color, perverse incentives that treat individuals as a stream of revenue, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Policing for Profit, poverty, pre-detention centers, punishment, rights, Sandra Bland, strike the root, Texas, victimless crimes

This post was written by Nick Ford and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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Fresno City Council Rejects Beware Surveillance Software (For Now)

April 7, 2016 Dylan Donnelly 1358 Views Accountability, ACLU, address-specific public data, american civil liberties union, back-end algorithms and variables, bells and whistles, Beware software, Booker T. Lewis, CA, California, Civil rights, color-coded threat levels, community involvement and participation, community policing, contract, controversy, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, facebook, Faith in Community board, first responders, freedom, Fresno, Fresno Bee, Fresno City Council, Fresno Peoples Media, Fresno Police Department, grant, Harassment, homeland security, Illegal search/entry, Instagram, Intrado, Justice System, Michael Lee, pastor, police, Police Chief Jerry dyer, Police State, potential danger to responding officers, public skepticism, rights, Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church, social media, Surveillance, trustworthiness, Twitter, Update

The Fresno City Council rejected a proposal by Police Chief Jerry Dyer Thursday to purchase the Beware software the police

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A Touch Of Dystopia: Milwaukee Police Hid Stingray Use From Courts, Says ACLU

February 20, 2016February 20, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1915 Views 7th circuit court of appeals, Accountability, ACLU, america, american civil liberties union, American police culture, amicus brief, blog, Brutality, cell phone data, Civil rights, comment, constitution, cop block, copblock.org, cops, Corruption, courts, data collection, Department of Justice, discuss, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, dystopia, Ed Flynn, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, encouraging police to prey on the people, excessive force, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, federal probe, federal program, freedom, fugitive, Harassment, illegal, Illegal search/entry, insanity by definition, intelligence cop, jail, journalism, judge, Justice System, milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, milwaukee police, monitoring, MPD, news, no victim no crime, nondisclosure agreement, oddly vague language, orwellian, overuse, phone tracking, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police industrial complex, Police State, politics, PR event, prison industrial complex, rights, scrutinous pressure, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, share, stingrays, streamlining convictions, strike the root, subverting the courts, Surveillance, surveillance state, sustainable democratic models, Transparency, undisclosed Stingray use, unethical, Update, warrantless data collection, Warrior Cop, wi, Wisconsin, wisconsin police, writing

Scrutinous pressure continues to bury Milwaukee’s police department despite its recent DOJ-sponsored public forum. Days later, the ACLU blasted the

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Hackers Leak Top Police Union’s Private Data Online

January 29, 2016January 29, 2016 Kristan T Harris 2756 Views american civil liberties union, assistant attorney general, Chauffeurs, Chuck Canterbury, collective bargaining, cop block, copblock.org, Cthulhu, cyber crime, data dump, eff, Encryption, FBI, FOP, fop.thecthulhu.com, Fraternal Order of Police, freemasons, grand lodge, Hacked, hackers, magnet, Nipper 47, pg_crypto, pirate party, police, police corruption, Police State, Police Union, police union hacked, strike the root, teamsters, the rundown live, TOR, torrent, UK Guardian, union

America’s Top Police Union has Documents Hacked from Grand Lodge The Rundown Live A Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) data dump has

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Cops Using Social Media Surveillance To Calculate Your “Threat Score”

January 12, 2016 Asa J 1652 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, Beware, Beware software, big brother, Bureau of Justice Statistics, California, Chief Jerry Dyer, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Fresno, Fresno Police Department, gunshot detector, houston, Matt Cagle, New York City, orwellian, Orwells hell, Police State, Privacy, privacy rights, Real Time Crime Center, rights, San Joaquin Valley, seattle, social media, social media posts, Surveillance, surveillance algorithms, surveillance cameras, surveillance center, surveillance software, surveillance state, threat level, threat score, washington post, worrisome messages

Police in California are using state of the art surveillance tools to determine an individual’s “threat score” based on social

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