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Wauwatosa Chief Denounces Body Cam’s In 2014, Department Suppresses Killing In 2016

August 13, 2016August 14, 2016 Isiah Holmes 953 Views Accountability, Activism, America 2016, apathy, ARTICLE, assault, black lives matter, Body-cam, Brutality, CA, California, cautious and informed approach, Chief Barry Weber, Civil rights, comic, Corruption, Dan Moore, dash cam, denouncing police reforms, descrimination, Dishonesty, dismissing issues, documentary, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, evidence, excessive force, Filming police, foia, Freedom of Information Act, full scientific study, Gun, Hart Park, head stuck in sand, ignoring issues, ignornace, Illegal search/entry, Jay Anderson, Jon Olson, journalism, Justice System, kelly patterson, knee-jerk reaction, malpractice, milwaukee, milwaukee police, news, no victim no crime, peaceful protests, Police Chief, police crimes, Police Lies, police misconduct, police reforms, politics, Post Crescent, quota, Race Relations, racial malpractice, racial profiling, rialto, Rialto Police Department, rights, segretation, shooting investigation, Speak Friend And Enter, Stingray, strike the root, suburb, supicious, Surveillance, Texas, Tosa, Transparency, undercover police, undisclosed information, unidentified killer, University of Wisconsin Madison, Update, Wauwatosa, Wauwatosa Chief Barry Weber, wauwatosa drug crackdown, Wauwatosa East High School, wauwatosa fort crackdown, wauwatosa killing, Wauwatosa Now, Wauwatosa police, wauwatosa police shooting, wi, Wisconsin, WPD, writing, young journalism

The tragic slaying of 25 year old Jay Anderson, if nothing else, highlights Wauwatosa PD’s lack of transparency. It’s been

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No Duty to Protect in Fairfax; the Hatchet Man and the Helicopter Pilot

March 18, 2016March 18, 2016 Lorelei McFly 973 Views car accidents, domestic violence, Elena Norfolk, failure to protect, Fairfax County, Fairfax County Police Department, foia, foia requests, Freedom of Information Act, Joel Burris, lawsuits, no duty to protect, NORTHERN VIRGINIA COPBLOCK, Officer Douglas Middlebrooks, sunshine week, Transparency, Virginia

This is the second of two Sunshine Week articles highlighting some of the things Northern Virginia Cop Block uncovered using

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Articles Original Content Police Abuse

Fun with FOIA — John Geer, Natasha McKenna, and Why Can’t FCPD Cops Drive?

March 18, 2016March 18, 2016 Lorelei McFly 724 Views Accountability, Adam Torres, Ashley McIntosh, assault, Brutality, car accidents, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, David Bulova, Dishonesty, Ed Long Jr, Fairfax Ad Hoc Commission, Fairfax County, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Fairfax County Police Department, Fairfax County Sheriff's Office, foia, foia requests, Freedom of Information Act, John Geer, Justice System, Ken Plum, lawsuits, Marcus Simon, NATASHA MCKENNA, Nicholas Beltrante, NORTHERN VIRGINIA COPBLOCK, police, police accountability, Police brutality, rights, Scott Surovell, Sharon Bulova, Sheriff Stacey Kincaid, sunshine week, Surveillance, Tim Hugo, Transparency, Update, video, Virginia, washington post

This is the first of two articles for Sunshine Week, an annual event which promotes open government and freedom of

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Articles Original Content Police Abuse

SB 552: The Dawn of Virginia’s Secret Police

February 22, 2016February 23, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2157 Views Accountability, foia, FOIA Requirements, Freedom of Information Act, government transparency, India Kager, open gov, open goverment, police accountability, Police State, political graft, SB 552, secret police, Sen. Chap Petersen, Sen. Dick Black, Sen. John Cosgrove, Senate, Senate Bill 552, The Virginian-Pilot, Virginia, War on Cops, war on police

We’ve been hearing a lot about criminal justice reform, a movement with support from both republicans and democrats who acknowledge

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Virginia Senate Passes Bill That Exempts Cops From FOIA Requirements

February 17, 2016February 17, 2016 Asa J 1553 Views Accountability, FOIA Requirements, Freedom of Information Act, Memorial Fund, national law enforcement officers memorial fund, police accountability, Police State, Sen. Chap Petersen, Sen. John Cosgrove, Senate, Senate Bill 552, The Virginian-Pilot, Virginia, War on Cops, war on police

On Monday, the Virginia Senate passed a bill that would keep the names of police officers in the state a

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Questionable FBI Surveillance Aircraft Fleet Outed by Coalition of Journalists, Activists, And Techies

February 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1228 Views Accountability, ACLU, aerial surveillance program, aerosol chemistry, air quality, air support, aircraft surveillance, airport, ap, Associated Press, az, Baltimore, Baltimore PD, baltimore police department, baltimore riots, Benjamin Shayne, boston, CA, cell phone collection tech, cell phone data collection technology, cell phone tower, chicago, Christopher Allen, Civil rights, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, cryptic program, curfew, death in custody, Dishonesty, Double Standard, drones, electronic signals collection, FAA, FBI, FBI spy planes, Federal Aviation Administration, federal bureau of investigations, fictitious corporations, First Amendment protected activity, flight data analysis, flight path, flightaware, flightradar20, foia requests, Freddie Gray, freedom, Freedom of Information Act, Fusion.net, FVX Research, glistening with trepidation, Harassment, high altitude observation of potential criminal activity, houston, huffington post, IBT, identifying people by their cellphones, IL, Illegal search/entry, Improv Online, infrared camera, inspector general, International Business Times, John Wiseman, justice department, kelly patterson, KQM Aviation, Kyllo v. United States, ma, mall of america, Maryland, md, Minneapolis, Minnesota, MN, modern western society, modified radio receiver, Nathan Wessler, NBR Aviation, NG Research, night vision, phoenix, photo surveillance, police, police accountability, Police State, Public safety, publicly accessible information, PXW Services, rapid response by police officials on the ground, reddit, rights, Robert Lindley, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, scanbaltimore.com, seattle, Southern California, subliminal pressure, Supreme Court, Surveillance, suspicious planes circling US neighborhoods, the daily mail, The Man, tracking aircraft registration numbers, Twitter, TX, unsung heroes, Update, video, Virginia, WA, washington post, web feeds, wide reaching and indiscriminate

The following post was submitted to the CopBlock Network by Isiah Holmes, who has been featured several times previously on

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Breaking Update: Chicago PD Threatened Laquan McDonald Witnesses; Fabricated Statements

January 8, 2016January 8, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 533 Views #16Times, 16 times, Accountability, assault, Brutality, chicago, chicago police, Chicago Police brutality, chicago police department, Chicago’s Southwest Side, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, cover up, dash cam, dash cam video, dash camera, dash-cam footage, dashcam footage, dashcams, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, Featured, film the police, first-degree murder, foia, foia request, Freedom of Information Act, Homicide, Illinois, Jason Van Dyke, Justice System, kelly patterson, Laquan McDonald, officer invloved shooting, Officer Jason Van Dyke, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police murder, Police State, police terror, prosecutorial, rights, Surveillance, systematic police abuse, Update, video, witness statements

Three witnesses to the Laquan McDonald murder in Chicago have come forward stating that they were intimidated and threatened for

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Chicago Police Release Burger King Video of Laquan McDonald Shooting – Minus 80 Minutes

December 4, 2015December 4, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 910 Views #16Times, 16 times, Accountability, assault, Brutality, chicago, Chicago City Council, chicago police, Chicago Police brutality, chicago police department, Chicago’s Southwest Side, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, dash cam, dash cam video, dash camera, dash-cam footage, dashcam footage, dashcams, Dishonesty, double-standards, excessive force, Featured, film the police, first-degree murder, foia, foia request, Freedom of Information Act, Homicide, Illegal search/entry, Illinois, Jason Van Dyke, Judge Franklin Valderrama, Justice System, kelly patterson, Laquan McDonald, officer invloved shooting, Officer Jason Van Dyke, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police murder, Police State, police terror, prosecutorial, rights, Surveillance, systematic police abuse, Update, video

After the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request, the Chicago police released surveillance footage from a Burger

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Bullied by Police Over a Facebook Post in Maine

November 27, 2015November 27, 2015 Kelly W. Patterson 1010 Views Accountability, Article 19, Bad apples, Brian MacMaster, Civil rights, Col Robert Williams, conflict of interest, constitutional violations, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Det. David Pelletier, Dishonesty, Due Process, embezzlement, foia, freedom, Freedom of Information Act, Gov. Paul LePage, Harassment, Justice Jeffrey Hjelm, kelly patterson, Lt. Anna Love, Lt. Joe Giniewicz, Lt. Scott Ireland, Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, Maine Department of Labor, Maine State Police, Merrills Investigations, Michael Harrington, no victim no crime, oversight board, police, Police State, presumption of innocence, private investigator, retaliation, rights, United Nations Declaration of Human Rights

The content included within this post was received anonymously via the CopBlock.org Submissions page. Date of Incident: November 23,2015 Officers

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The Surveillance State Couldn’t Prevent The Paris Attacks – So Why Expand It?

November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 Asa J 660 Views Apple, Bashar al-Assad, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Christopher Cantwell, CIA, CIA Director John Brennan, commissioner Bill Bratton, copblock, copblock.org, counterterrorism, cryptography, cultural enrichment, cybersecurity, data encryption, director James Comey, diversity, edward snowden, facebook, FBI, foia, Foreign Policy Magazine, France, Freedom of Information Act, Freedom of Information Act requests, French government, Google, Gun rights, iMessage, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, Islamic extremists, Islamic militants, Islamic State, Judicial Watch, Lisa Monaco, mass-spying bill, mass-surveillance, Michael Daniel, migrate wave, Mujahideen, national security, new york police, NSA, Obama administration, Paris attacks, Paris terrorist attacks, Police State, President Barack Obama, privacy protections, refugee crisis, Soviet war in Afghanistan, Stasi, stefan molyneux, Surveillance, surveillance reform, surveillance state, Syria, The Guardian, the New York Times, tolerance, united kingdom, USA Freedom Act, WhatsApp, White House cybersecurity office

In the wake of the unfortunate and diabolical terrorist attacks perpetrated in Paris, the international surveillance and intelligence communities have

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Confirmed: IRS Using Stingray Cell-Site Simulators To Track You

October 27, 2015October 27, 2015 Asa J 754 Views 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, ACLU, cell-site simulators, copblock, copblock.org, data interception technology, DEA, Dept. of Justice, Director Lois Lerner, expectation of privacy, FBI, fifth circuit court of appeals, fourth amendment, Freedom of Information Act, Freedom of Information Act requests, HailStorm, Harris Corporation, invoices, irs, IRS Using Stingray, libertarian, location data, location tracking, Nate Wessler, NSA, search warrants, Stingray, Supreme Court, tea party, The Guardian, Third Party Doctrine, U.S. Marshals, usa today, warrantless cellphone searches, warrantless cellphone tracking, warrantless search

A USA Today investigation published in late 2013 first revealed that police departments across the country were utilizing whats been

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Attorney: Officers Name Kept Secret 3 Years After Shooting To Avoid Lawsuit

October 4, 2015March 1, 2016 Asa J 596 Views Accountability, Attorney Robert Phillips, Brutality, Civil rights, civil rights violation, columbia, copblock, copblock.org, cops refuse to release name, cops stall to prevent lawsuit, Corruption, Dishonesty, excessive force, Fairfield County sheriff's department, federal lawsuit, Freedom of Information Act, freedom of information requests, Gregory McDaniel, police abuse, police report, SLED, Solicitor Randy Newman, south carolina, State Law Enforcement Division, statue of limitations

Almost three years after a South Carolina police officer shot a man twice during a raid, the Fairfield County sheriff’s

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