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Booking Fees and Incarceration Costs; The Latest Revenue Generation Tools For Money Hungry Governments

December 29, 2016February 15, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 607 Views Accountability, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, courts, Dishonesty, double-standards, freedom, Harassment, kelly patterson, Money Hungry, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, Policing for Profit, profit motive, revenue generation, rights, strike the root, Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is preparing to consider the legality of a couple of new methods the police and courts have

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Articles Police Abuse

DOJ Probe Reveals Unconstitutional Strip, Cavity Searches By Baltimore Cops

August 15, 2016 Asa J 1011 Views Accountability, anus, Baltimore, baltimore police department, BPD Central District, BPD Eastern District, broken headlight, cavity search, complaints, copblock, copblock.org, courts, Department of Justice, Department of Justice probe, doj investigation, fourth amendment, Harassment, illegal strip searches, internal affairs, latex gloves, lawsuits, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, public cavity search, public strip search, unconstitutional, unconstitutional search

The findings of a Department of Justice probe into the Baltimore police department has reveled “many instances in which BPD

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A Few Corrections To “Cop Block Terminology”

May 20, 2016May 20, 2016 Georgia Sand 777 Views arrest, Blogger, Bootlicker, cameras, Civil asset forfeiture, Civil Lawsuits, constitution, cops, copsucker, courts, definitions, Due Process, Fervor, Filming police, first amendment, fourth amendment, george orwell, Hit and Run blog, Immunity, judges, keeping the peace, law enforcement, laws, logic, murder, police, police abuse, Police brutality, police murder, preserving order, Productive, Reasonable, religion, resisting arrest, search and seizure, Slave, Strawmen, Systemic Abuse, taxation, taxation is theft, Toy gun, truth, Unreasonable, World View

We get a lot of haters here at Cop Block because there’s nothing the Average American hates more than people

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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 841 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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Articles Original Content

Live Free or Else: Enforcing Freedom In The “Live Free or Die” State

October 31, 2015November 1, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 1024 Views abuse, Accountability, bill of rights, Civil rights, constitution, cop block, copblock.org, courts, crime, Dishonesty, Double Standard, first amendment, freedom, Freedom of speech, Harassment, Hypocrisy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Justice System, kelly patterson, Live Free or Die, logic, nevada cop block, New Hampshire, nh, no victim no crime, nvcopblock.org, police, Police State, religious freedom, rights, Supreme Court, wrongful convictions

While searching for images to use on the blog recently I came across a bit of ever-present Government logic. You

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Is Fingerprint Identification Really as Foolproof as Portrayed?

October 30, 2015October 30, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 937 Views Accountability, Alfred Stratton, blood, bloody thumbprint, Civil rights, common points, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, courtroom, courts, crime, crime scene, Dishonesty, evidence, fingerprints, Forensic science, freedom, grease, Henry Faulds, identical twins, Investigation, Justice System, kelly patterson, LA Times, Maryland, murder, myths, National Academy of Sciences, nevada cop block, nvcopblock.org, partial print, police, rights, Scotland Yard, smudges, sound science, sweat, trials, unemployed ruffian, wrongfull convictions

It’s a pretty accepted idea that fingerprint evidence is an airtight method of proving that an accused person was at

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Andrew Henderson Meets with Minn. Chief Over Previous Police Intimidation For Filming

July 16, 2015July 16, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 1411 Views Accountability, Ademo Freeman, andrew henderson, andrew j henderson, bill of rights, Chief Tom Smith, Civil rights, constitution, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, courts, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, Downtown, Featured, film the police, Filming police, first amendment, Freedom of speech, Harassment, illegally detained, Investigation, kelly patterson, lies, Minnesota, minnesota copblock, MN, no victim no crime, Officer Alba-Reyes, Officer Armando Abla-Reyes, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, ramsey county sheriff's office, rights, Saint Paul, Saint Paul Police, St. Paul, st. paul police department, Supreme Court, the drewks, Transparency, Update, video, video taping, Youtube

Recently, Ademo posted about an interaction Andrew Henderson, a CopBlocker from the St. Paul area in Minnesota, had with a

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Maryland Court Hides Police Misconduct From Public

July 16, 2015July 16, 2015 CopBlock 872 Views Accountability, Block, cop, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, courts, Dishonesty, double-standards, Judge Robert M Bell, Justice System, Maryland, Maryland Court of Appeals, md, misconduct, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, Public records, question authority, Refuse obidence, serious misconduct, Sgt. John Maiello, strike the root, Teleta Dashiell, Transparency

In a day and age when police misconduct is at an all time high, and accountability is a laughable concept,

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Police, Courts and DHS Cover Up Child Sex Abuse – Medford, OR

July 4, 2015July 4, 2015 Alia Atreides 1295 Views call flood, child, child molestation, child sex abuse, contact, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, courts, cover up, Department of Human Services, DHS, father, FBI, grandmother, Joshua H, Justice System, Medford, Medford Police Department, mother, OR, Oregon, pedophilia, Portland FBI, protecting a child molester, rape porn, Salem Insider, sex abuse, tramp stamp

Cast of Characters: Female Child – At the center of this horrifying story is a very young girl who has

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Reliance on Traffic Ticket Revenue Has Left Nevada Supreme Court Broke

June 18, 2015October 16, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 751 Views assessment fee, bloomberg, budget, citations, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, courts, Dishonesty, Drug war, fees, funding, Harassment, Justice James Hardesty, Justice System, kelly patterson, Las Vegas Constable, las vegas metropolitan police department, Las Vegas Review Journal, lvmpd, LVRJ, metro, Money Hungry, Nevada, nevada highway patrol, Nevada state legislature, Nevada Supreme Court, NHP, NHP Strategic Plan, NV, NV SB469, nvcopblock, police, police abuse, Policing for Profit, reliance on ticket revenue, revenue generation, traffic tickets, vehicle registration, video, war on drugs, Zero Fatalities education program

Back in March, Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty warned state legislators that the NV Supreme Court coffers were bare,

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When There Are No Cameras: The Case Of Aaron Parrish

June 12, 2015June 12, 2015 Georgia Sand 773 Views Aaron Parrish, assault, Bainbridge, BikeFest, Christopher Kines, Civil rights, Consequences, Corruption, courts, Dishonesty, Double Standard, Elizabeth Croley, false report, FBI, Federal Rights, felony, film the police, GA, Georgia, Harassment, lawsuit, lawyer, Litigation, physical abuse, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police Lies, police reports, Police State, probation, rights, Robert Umbach, Sheriff, Sheriff's Son, thin blue line, victims, video, Witnesses

Proponents of filming police understand the vital importance of recording police interactions. Not all members of the public have the

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Articles Videos

ALEC: A Corporation That Makes the Laws Police Enforce

May 30, 2015May 30, 2015 Alia Atreides 982 Views ALEC, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, Bribery, bribes, copblock, copblock.org, corporations, Corruption, courts, Dishonesty, Ethics, freedom, Georgia, hero, Joshua H, Justice System, laws, legal system, legislation, legislators, lobbyists, morals, oligarchs, oligarchy, police, politicians, values, video

Murder, rape, assault, kidnapping, theft…these are things we can all pretty much agree should be on the moral no-no list.

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