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Former Albuquerque DA Calls APD a Criminal Enterprise Admits She Refused to Charge Cops

January 20, 2017January 21, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1882 Views Accountability, albuquerque, albuquerque police department, assault, Bernalillo County, Bernalillo County District Attorney, Brutality, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, criminal enterprise, criminal justice system, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, DNA, dominique perez, double-standards, excessive force, grossly noncompliant, Harassment, homeless man killed by police, Homicide, IPRA, James Boyd, James Ginger, Justice System, Kari Brandenburg, keith sandy, kelly patterson, New Mexico, NM, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police oversight board, Police State, racketeering, rights, Settlement Agreement, U.S. Attorney Damon Martinez, Update, video

As she left office last month, Bernalillo County District Attorney Kari Brandenburg stated in a letter (embedded below) to U.S. Attorney

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Articles Toxic Cops

“Beatrice 6,” Seek to Garnish Wages, Seize Property of Officers Involved in False Murder Convictions

December 9, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2873 Views 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, Accountability, appeal, Bankruptcy, Beatrice, Beatrice 6, Civil rights, cold case murder, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Deputy Burdette Searcey, Dishonesty, District Judge Richard Kopf, DNA, execution of judgment, false convictions, False imprisonment, Gage County, Gage County Sheriff's Office, Harassment, Helen Wilson, Homicide, James Dean, Jennifer Tomka, Justice System, kelly patterson, lawsuit, lincoln, ne, nebraska, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, personal property, police, police accountability, private-practice attorney, property lien, psychologist, Reserve Deputy Wayne Price, rights, Sheriff Millard “Gus” Gustafson, stay, strike the root, wage garnishment

In November, one of six people falsely imprisoned for murder filed motions to have the wages garnished and liens placed

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Police Lineups, False Identifications, And Wrongful Convictions

June 24, 2016June 24, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2656 Views A Guide for Law Enforcement, Accountability, admissibility hearing, American Judicature Society, Barry Scheck, Camden, Civil rights, cognitive neuroscience, confession, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, cross racial identifications, dallas, Dishonesty, DNA, evidence, experimental psychologists, Eyewitness Evidence, eyewitness identification, eyewitness testimony, failsafe, fallible, freedom, Gary Wells, Harassment, informant testimony, Innocence Project, Itiel Dror, Judge Geoffrey Gaulkin, Justice System, kelly patterson, knifepoint, Larry Henderson, legal architecture, Manson Test, memory, mistaken identification, nationwide reform, New Jersey, new jersey supreme court, NJ, photographic lineups, physical evidence, police, police lineups, poor eyesight, pre-trial, Professor Daniel Medwed, rape, reckless manslaughter, Rickey Dale Wyatt, rights, S. J. Quinney College of Law, scientifically sound, Texas, TX, unintentional verbal or body clues, University College of London, University of Utah, weapons possession, written procedures, written protocal

The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network anonymously, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. It was originally published at

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Denver Police Sued by Man Coerced Into Murder Confession at Age of Fourteen

June 22, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1599 Views Accountability, Civil rights, CO, coerced confession, Colorado, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, David Fisher, Denver, Denver homicide detectives, denver police department, Dishonesty, DNA, Double Standard, Emily Johnson, false confession, false conviction, Fox 31 Denver, freedom, Harassment, Homicide, innocent, interrogation, Justice System, kelly patterson, Lawrence Lorenzo Montoya, lawsuit, life sentence, Lisa Polansky, murder, new years, police, police abuse, police accountability, police interrogation tape, Police State, rights, teacher, video

When he was just fourteen years old Lawrence Lorenzo Montoya, was arrested on suspicion of having committed a murder. Initially,

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

February 22, 2016 Isiah Holmes 2034 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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Paying To Add Your DNA To a Government Database via Ancestry.com and 23andMe

October 31, 2015October 31, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 4416 Views 23andMe, Accountability, Ancestry.com, big brother, big brother is watching, civil liberties, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, crazy conspiracy, database, Dishonesty, DNA, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, FBI, filmmaker, freedom, Fusion.net, genealogy, government funded DNA databases, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, Justice System, kelly patterson, Michael Usry, murder, new orleans, New Orleans Advocate, NYU law, police, Police State, Privacy, private genetic databases, Professor Erin Murphy, rape kit, rights, totally reasonable steps by law enforcement, Transparency, video, wild goose chase, Wired

Normally, Big Brother has to go through the hassle of getting a warrant and establishing some sort of probable cause

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More Than 300 Rape Kits Destroyed in North Carolina

September 22, 2015 CopBlock 1251 Views Accountability, blue live matter more than yours, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, destroyed, destroyed evidence, DNA, False confessions, Fayetteville North Carolina, Fayetteville police, Fayetteville Police Chief Medlock, felony, Larry Freeman, original content, rape kits, rape victims

Rape kits that were evidence in 333 cold cases have been reported to have been destroyed by Fayetteville Police in

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Police Can Now Take Your DNA for Mere ‘Suspicion’ of A Violent Crime

August 4, 2015August 4, 2015 Alia Atreides 1955 Views Authoritarianism, dakota county, Dakota County Sheriffs Office, DNA, existential risk, Fingerprinting, freedom, Joshua H, liberty, Minnesota, mugshots, rights, Supreme Court, Tim Leslie, totalitarianism

On Monday August 3rd, 2015, the Dakota County (Minnesota) Sheriff’s Office became the first in the nation to implement a

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