Cato Institute Archives - Cop Block

Feds Making Thousands Of Augmented Reality Surveillance Flights Across US

April 9, 2016 Asa J 1675 Views Adam Bates, agumented reality surveillance, aircraft, Associated Press, augmented reality, BuzzFeed News, Cato Institute, cellphone tracking, Cessna, Cessna Skylane 182, Cessnas, civil liberties, copblock, copblock.org, department of homeland security, DHS, FBI, FBI front companies, federal bureau of investigation, FlightRadar24, front companies, helicopters, Pilatus PC-2, planes, Police State, Privacy, privacy rights, Surveillance, surveillance aircraft, surveillance flights, surveillance state, Technology

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security have been running thousands of surveillance missions employing cellphone tracking

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DO NOT ALTER!

Meddling Kids: And They Would Have Gotten Away With It … 8/3/15

August 5, 2015August 4, 2015 Alia Atreides 2051 Views 911, a sick joke, abuse of force, activists, Alabama, Alan Buford, albuquerque, alex horton, Arkansas, assaulted, asset forfeiture, Berkeley, Black Liberation Project, Brandon Jones, Brian Fanelli, California, Cato Institute, cecil the lion, Charles Dewey, Charlie Alvarez, child pornography, Cleveland, cleveland police patrolmen's association, Colby, conflicting accounts, crash, cremated, David Downey, deal with it yourself, death in custody, Decatur, dispatcher, district attorneys, Doug Dewey, dwi, ethics audits, excessive force, Fairfax County, feature, filing the police, fired, Flint, Florida, Frank Linham, grumpy dog, Harold 'Alex' Dominguez, illegal spending, Jade Helm, Jason Sigman, Joshua H, Kansas, killed by police, LA Times, lapd, laundromat, Los Angeles, Lowell, manhunt, Matthew Sanchez, Mauray Deshaun Randolph, meddling kids, medical treatment, Michigan, militarization, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, no final visit, no restitution, Ohio, Oklahoma, Osceola, pepper-sprayed, Police brutality, police chase, Police Officers Bill of Rights, police shooting, prescription drugs, Radley Balko, ray tensing, rent-free, robbery, Sam Dubose, Springdale, student loans, Ted Rall, thrown to ground, Tremaine Brown, unarmed man, Virginia, Walter Olson, weapon fired, Weatherford, westchester county police

Every week at CopBlock.org we bookmark many stories of police abuse, corruption and brutality; as well as other stories of

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Des Moines Register Suggests Iowa Asset Forfeiture System Is A ‘System of Legal Thievery’

April 8, 2015April 9, 2015 Alia Atreides 1757 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, asset forfeiture, badged bullies, Cato Institute, Civil asset forfeiture, civil forfeiture, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Des Moines, Des Moines Register, Dishonesty, Drug war, Featured, forfeiture, freedom, Institute for Justice, Iowa, Joshua H, Justice System, legal theft, legalized theft, Michael Sanchez-Ratliff, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, rights, road pirates, system of legal thievery, the free thought project, Theft, thievery, traffic stops, video, war on drugs

In a recent investigation into the asset forfeiture laws of Iowa and how they are being applied, the Des Moines

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DC Meetup Catalyst

January 25, 2013January 1, 2014 Pete Eyre 635 Views 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

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Injustice Everywhere folded-into Cato Institute portfolio

May 23, 2012January 1, 2014 Pete Eyre 1356 Views 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

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Cops on Camera

September 18, 2010September 19, 2010 CopBlock 442 Views 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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Big Brother is watching Chicago

August 16, 2010April 14, 2011 CopBlock 422 Views Cato Institute, Chicago IL, Illinois, Surveillance

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Riot Police Ferguson 2014

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Are Police Domestic Soldiers Terrorizing Communities?

April 29, 2010June 6, 2016 Dylan Donnelly 1472 Views Cato Institute, Civil asset forfeiture, Drug war, Homicide, Psychology, Rad Geek, Radley Balko, Reckless driving, swat

The following post was submitted via our Submit Page Here’s an excerpt from an interesting USA TODAY article discussing the

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Police loot and destroy shops, keep cash, candy and cigarettes for themselves

April 27, 2010January 1, 2011 Georgia Sand 813 Views 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

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Flex Your Rights Or You’ll Lose Them

April 13, 2010May 9, 2013 Ademo Freeman 1225 Views 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.

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