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Cases Thrown Out of Court Because Police Held “Contest” For Arrests; Which Chief Denied Happened

April 13, 2017 Ademo Freeman 2324 Views Abington, Abington Police Department, Accountability, arrest, arrest quotas, boston, bounty, Chief David Majenski, Civil rights, competition, cop block, copblock, copblock network, copblock.org, Corruption, david majenski, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, friendly competition, Harassment, jail, Joseph Krowski Jr., Justice System, kelly patterson, Kidnapping, ma, mass, Massachusetts, MyFoxBoston, no victim no crime, officers, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, Prison, quotas, rights, rumors, Tickets, video

Kelly Patterson broke a story in 2015 about the Massachusetts Police Chief who was offering his police officers a weekend off

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Must We Choose Between Mob Justice And The Police State?

April 22, 2016January 27, 2017 Georgia Sand 1426 Views accountable, African Americans, aggression, Bretigne Shaffer, community, competition, confrontation, Crack Alley, crime, crime prevention, Crime Reduction, criminal justice, dale brown, david friedman, detroit, Detroit Threat Management Center, DTMC, Guns, Ida B. Wells, landlord, law enforcement, lawsuits, Lynching, mob justice, murder, Murders By Police Officers, murray rothbard, Non-Violent Crimes, obedience, peace, Peaceful Resolution, police violence, Prison, private security, Psychological Bridge, Racism, rape, Resolution, state, threat, thugs, Tuskeegee Institute, victims, violence, voluntaryist

By Bretigne Shaffer On May 25, 1911, Laura Nelson, her baby daughter and her teenaged son were kidnapped from a jail

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Chief David Majenski Held Contest for Most Arrest; So What? (UPDATE)

November 22, 2015April 13, 2017 Ademo Freeman 1684 Views Abington, Abington Police Department, arrest, competition, cop block, copblock, copblock network, copblock.org, david majenski, Double Standard, double-standards, jail, kelly patterson, Massachusetts, no victim no crime, officers, Prison, quotas, Tickets

Abington, MA Police Chief, David Majenski, was exposed recently for rewarding officers who could make the most arrest. Kelly W. Patterson,

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Why Government Policing Monopolies Can Neither Serve Nor Protect You

August 18, 2015May 9, 2016 Asa J 2190 Views anarcho-capitalism, arbitration, barrier of entry, capitalism, common law, competition, contract, copblock, copblock.org, cost-benefit analysis, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, Economics and Knowledge, F.A. Hayek, government monopoly, Hans Hermann Hoppe, knowledge problem, limited liability, ludwig von mises, market policing, monopoly, price signals, price system, private law society, private prisons, private property, regulation, socialist calculation problem, State or Private Law Society, taxation, The Use of Knowledge in Society, victimless crimes, voluntary exchange, voluntaryism, warren v. district of columbia

In 1920, the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises expanded on what is known as the “economic” or “socialist calculation

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Is the Franklin County KY Sheriff’s Office Trying to Incite Drug Violence?

August 6, 2015August 6, 2015 Alia Atreides 1296 Views bad joke, competition, drug dealers, Drug war, flier, flyer, franklin county, franklin county sheriff's office, inciting violence, Informant, Joshua H, Kentucky, narc, Sheriff Pat Melton, snitch

The idea for catching drug dealers via other drug dealers first originated in Georgia, as we recently covered in this

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How Much Do Taxpayers Pay For Police Misconduct?

March 25, 2015November 4, 2015 Asa J 3037 Views Accountability, Bureau of Justice, CA, California, Chicago Sun-Times, Civil rights, competition, cop block, copblock.org, Dallas Morning News, denver post, double-standards, excessive force, Featured, free-market solutions, government monopoly, Justice System, legal fees, Minneapolis Public Radio, MuckRock.com, Oakland Police Beat, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police misconduct, Private Protection Services, Radley Balko, rialto, rights, Todd Feathers, waste of taxpayer money

A Growing Financial Burden for Taxpayers. Police brutality and misconduct lawsuits are a point of growing contention. Obviously, victims of

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Warrant For My Arrest in a State I’ve Never Visited?

September 9, 2014September 7, 2014 CopBlock 1023 Views centralization, competition, cop block, copblock.org, databases, gorham, gorham police department, gorham police outfit, incentives, monopoly, New Hampshire, no victim no crime

This content, shared by twitter.com/bakedflounder via CopBlock.org/Submit, details the harms inherent in the centralization of information within an apparatus that

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Know Your Place: A Response

December 21, 2012January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 755 Views competition, cop block, copblock.org, incentives, know your place, law enforcement, leo's, monopoly, Pete Eyre, policemag.com, strike the root, thin blue line, video, william harvey

Transcript used in the video: Howdy y’all, Pete here from CopBlock.org. Recently a couple of friends shared with me an

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Police Accountability in Fredericktown, MO

August 6, 2012August 6, 2012 CopBlock 837 Views competition, copblock, copblock.org, fredericktown, ky3.com, madison county sheriff's department, Missouri, monopoly

This post comes to us from Spirit of 46 – a frequent contributor to CopBlock.org who shares a somewhat unusual

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Join the NYPD & F* S* UP!

September 14, 2011January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 683 Views amadou diallo, competition, cop block, nypd, police accountability, Police State, private defense agencies, surveillance state, video, voluntaryism

At the West Indian Day Parade in Sept. of 2011 video captured showed individuals wearing “NYPD badges” grinding with attendees,

Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies form gang

May 10, 2011May 10, 2011 Georgia Sand 2861 Views Accountability, Blind loyalty, competition, Corruption, Double Standard, Featured, Gangs, Immunity, Los Angeles CA, monopoly, Sheriffs

From time to time, here on Cop Block, contributors and commenters have referred to police as uniformed gang members (e.g., here