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Rebuilding Trust 2.0: Denver Passes Police Reforms As America Continues To Cry For Change

March 16, 2016March 16, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1497 Views Accountability, America 2016, american police, ARTICLE, assault, Bernie Sanders, black lives matter, blog, Brutality, Chokehold, Civil rights, civil rights group, copblock.org, Corruption, democrate, Denver, denver police, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, freedom, Harassment, hearing, Illegal search/entry, journalism, journalist, Justice System, Law, meeting, news, police, police accountability, police and the community, Police brutality, Police Chief, police misconduct, police policy, police politics, police recruiting, police reform, police responsibility, Police State, police trust, politician, politics, public program, rebuilding trust, Republican, rights, Self-defense, share, social media, state house, State Law, strike the root, Transparency, writing

Police reforms swept through Denver city hall’s recently, after lawmakers issued two new progressive bills. “Rebuilding Trust 2.0”, as legislators call

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Wisconsin Goveronor Scott Walker: This Is Why Milwaukee Needs Marijuana Reform Now!

March 9, 2016March 9, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1481 Views Accountability, America 2016, ARTICLE, black incarceration, blog, call to action, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, DEA, Dishonesty, double-standards, drug crimes, drug health, drug incarceration, Drug war, drugs, Featured, freedom, funding schools, Harassment, human health, Illegal search/entry, improving poverty, journalism, Justice System, marijuana, marijuana prohibition, marijuana reform, marijuana taxes, Medical marijuana, milwaukee, news, no victim no crime, police accountability, police and weed, police orders, police reform, Police State, politics, poverty, rights, share, social media, sources, strike the root, tax and regulate weed, teenagers, Transparency, Wisconsin, writing

Marijuana legalization is sometimes treated as a topic to be easily dismissed, laughed off, or delegitimize. Sure journalists, writers and

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The P.R. SNAFU’s: DOJ forced to investigate it’s own after agent holds Madison teens at gunpoint

March 8, 2016March 9, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1198 Views Accountability, America 2016, ARTICLE, assault, blog, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, cop holding people at gunpoint, copblock.org, Corruption, DCI agent, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, DoJ, doj investigation, double-standards, email, excessive force, fake cop, film the police, freedom, gunpoint, Harassment, hidden information, Illegal search/entry, journalism, Justice System, madison police, madison police chief, news, open records request, police, police abuse, police accountability, police brutality 2016, Police Chief, police privilage, protecting police, punishment, red and blue, rights, share, sources, strike the root, Surveillance, teen drivers, teenagers, thin blue line, Traffic stop, Transparency, traumatic experience, Undercover, undercover car, writing

A Department Of Justice (DOJ) agent caught their employer a ridiculous case of the P.R. SNAFU’s following a renegade traffic

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US Army Soldier Mourns Loss Of Cousin, Killed By Police In Muskego Wisconsin

March 1, 2016March 2, 2016 Isiah Holmes 2274 Views 2016, 2016 police killing, Accountability, administration, america, army veteran, ARTICLE, assault, blog, Brutality, car chase, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, facebook, Featured, film the police, Fox, freedom, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, interview, Investigation, journalism, Justice System, media, memorial, milwaukee, mourning, new, no victim no crime, patrol, police, police abuse, probe, redaction policy, sad, Sherif, strike the root, Transparency, walworth county sheriff's department, Wisconsin, writing

A consistent disconnect persists throughout our collective conversation on police, and their relationship with the heavily policed. For many minority groups–including

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Amidst A Deadlock: Supreme Court Ruling Could Weaken Fourth Amendment Protections Against Illegal Searches

February 28, 2016February 28, 2016 Isiah Holmes 3376 Views 4th amendment, Accountability, arrestees, ARTICLE, blog, Chief Justice John Roberts, Civil rights, clerical errors, compromisingly deadlocked, constitution, constitutional protections, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, court, Detective Douglas Fackrell, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, Edward Strieff, excessive force, factual realities, feared for my safety, ferguson, fourth amendment, freedom, good faith, Harassment, illegal search, Illegal search/entry, in the line of duty, journalism, judge, justice, Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Scalia’s death, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Law, lawsuit, lawyers, live to fight another day, loopholes and bypasses, low income, minority communities, Missouri, MO, New York Times, news, police, police abuse, police abuses, police reform, police search, Police State, predatory exploitation of residents, public frustrations, ramifications, rights, ruling, scalia, share, strike the root, suppress evidence, Supreme Court, tie breaker, traffic warrant, Transparency, uncertain doors of possibility, Update, Utah vs Strieff, valid exemptions, VOA News, Warrior Cop, writing

Amidst grounding itself, a post-Scalia supreme court stands compromisingly deadlocked. Before its remaining justices sits a case which, if lost,

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Spotlighting A Black Site: Chicago-Local Officials Pass Resolution Calling For DOJ Probe Of Homan Square

February 24, 2016 Isiah Holmes 890 Views 2016, Accountability, america, assault, black site, blog, Brutality, chicago, chicago police, Civil rights, Cook County, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, crimes, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, federal probe, Filming police, freedom, Harassment, homan square, illegal, Illegal search/entry, interrogation, Investigation, journalism, justice, Laquan McDonald, military cops, news, police, police abuse, police accountability, police killing, Police State, politics, prison industrial complex, rights, share, strike the root, Surveillance, surveillance state, tourture, Transparency, undercover officers, Update, warrior cops, Washington, writing

County officials near Chicago recently upped the ante amidst a federal probe of the cities police. Their grievances, however, don’t revolve

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Music Scene Saviors: Philidelphia Bill Proposing Police Monitor Concerts And Artists Withdrawn

February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1920 Views Accountability, ban, ban list, bill, blog, Civil rights, concerts, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, freedom, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, journalism, Justice System, Law, monitoring, Music, music scene, news, no victim no crime, nypd, party, philidelphia, police, Police State, politics, rights, spying, strike the root, Surveillance, surveillance state, Transparency, Update, venue owner, writing

A Philadelphia city councilman’s widely criticized bill was recently withdrawn by none other than it’s creator. The move marks a

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Prison Industrial Cancer: Former NYPD Crime Lab Researchers Sue State Police, Claim Intimidation And Supression

February 22, 2016 Isiah Holmes 2016 Views Accountability, blog, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, court, crim, crime lab, Dishonesty, DNA, double-standards, Drug war, falsifying data, freedom, Harassment, information, Intimidation, journalism, justice, Justice System, lab, lawsuit, New York, no victim no crime, police, police abuse, Police brutality, Police State, prison industrial complex, punishment, research, researcher, rights, science, scientist, share, strike the root, sue, Surveillance, Transparency, TrueAllele, writing

“It’s a sad day” doesn’t adequately describe when scientific fact is devoured and vomited back up by the prison industrial

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Articles Police Abuse 

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

February 20, 2016February 20, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1749 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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Undercover Wisconsin Cops Targeted Teen “Forts” in the Woods

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 Isiah Holmes 2032 Views Accountability, ARTICLE, assault, blog, Brutality, Civil rights, classified, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, coverup, crackdown, department, Dishonesty, documentary, Double Standard, Drug war, drugs, excessive force, Featured, Film, film the police, forts, freedom, Freedom of information, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, journalism, no victim no crime, Photography, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, redaction policy, rights, strike the root, Surveillance, teenagers, Transparency, truth, Update, video, Wauwatosa police, Wisconsin, woods, writing, Youtube

The human tendency to hoard knowledge for a few has never been more transparent than in the modern digital age.

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Hey Cop Blockers, Get a F*cking Job

July 24, 2015April 6, 2017 CopBlock 1079 Views Accountability, army, blog, Civil rights, constitution, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, druggies, film the police, Filming police, freedom, get a job, government, Justice System, larry kiddey, military, no victim no crime, original content, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, rights, unemployed, Waste of time, welfare whores, work

How many times have I heard that same sentence when someone doesn’t agree with what I do as an activist?

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