This article was originally published on Pontiac Tribune by the same author. Since December 2016, I’ve emailed Kathleen Ehly–mayor of Wauwatosa Wisconsin– ten times as a concerned citizen, and journalist. These attempts have been met with a jarring, uniform silence from her office. It’s a response that’s not isolated to just me, and revolves around […]
Book Review: Urban Yogini, A Superhero Who Can’t Use Violence
Urban Yogini, a comic series written by Bretigne Schaffer, chronicles a young lady’s adventures, and ultimately activism, in a growing police state. The first volume is called The New Face of Terror, and opens with the struggles of Kyra, a young woman who finds herself trying to make ends meet in the big city. She ends up participating […]
Police Executive Research Forum – Law Enforcement Think Tank
Today during my strolls through the internets endless halls of police-related news I came across articles mentioning the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a law enforcement think tank headed by Executive Director Chuck Wexler, who was formerly a Boston Police official. The Washington DC group began in 1976 and Wexler has been leading it since […]
Noncompliance: the Path to Liberty
The text below was authored by Liz Reitzig and posted to NurishingLiberty.org on April 1, 2014. It is reposted here as it doesn’t just outline wrongs committed by some police employees, but suggests that noncompliance and self-reliance can help create a better reality. _______________________ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest […]
Cuban Police – Like All Police – Fail to “Protect & Serve”
This post came to us from Gregory who now lives in Spain but has family ties to Cuba. Like him – most anyone who sees the world around them with open eyes is concerned about widespread institutionalized violence caused by police employees. Perhaps not as readily apparent is that the same perverse incentives according to […]
Reconstructing Leviathan: Academics Outline Harm of Growing Security State
There is no (direct) total war but rather the never ending ‘wars’ on crime, terrorism, illegal immigrants and anti-social behaviour. There is no formal abolition of civil rights, just their hollowing out. In short, there is a need for a new politics of law and order. The old problematic of how to perfect and refine […]
