The tragic slaying of 25 year old Jay Anderson, if nothing else, highlights Wauwatosa PD’s lack of transparency. It’s been over a month and still, the killer remains unidentified, no press conference held, and footage is elusive. Interestingly, devices which could’ve helped reveal what happened that night were denounced by Tosa’s police chief in 2014. […]
No Duty to Protect in Fairfax; the Hatchet Man and the Helicopter Pilot
This is the second of two Sunshine Week articles highlighting some of the things Northern Virginia Cop Block uncovered using the state’s Freedom of Information Act (read the first one here). The documents discussed below are actually from court documents that were obtained after we noticed one lawsuit that stood out from the others filed […]
Fun with FOIA — John Geer, Natasha McKenna, and Why Can’t FCPD Cops Drive?
This is the first of two articles for Sunshine Week, an annual event which promotes open government and freedom of information (read the second one here). FOIA is a valuable tool that anyone who opposes government corruption and abuse should be using to help uncover the misdeeds of public officials. Be warned though, it’s not […]
SB 552: The Dawn of Virginia’s Secret Police
We’ve been hearing a lot about criminal justice reform, a movement with support from both republicans and democrats who acknowledge the myriad problems with the huge numbers of people we send to jail and prison each year, why we send them there, and how we send them there. However, this is a movement that has […]
Virginia Senate Passes Bill That Exempts Cops From FOIA Requirements
On Monday, the Virginia Senate passed a bill that would keep the names of police officers in the state a secret. Introduced by Sen. John Cosgrove, Senate Bill 552 applies to any local or state officer, including officers from agencies such as the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control and the Virginia Marine Police – and […]
Questionable FBI Surveillance Aircraft Fleet Outed by Coalition of Journalists, Activists, And Techies
The following post was submitted to the CopBlock Network by Isiah Holmes, who has been featured several times previously on Cop Block, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. In this post, Isiah discusses the use of aircraft FBI to conduct surveillance and the role that private citizens (along with the media) played in uncovering and exposing […]
Breaking Update: Chicago PD Threatened Laquan McDonald Witnesses; Fabricated Statements
Three witnesses to the Laquan McDonald murder in Chicago have come forward stating that they were intimidated and threatened for hours by the Chicago police in an attempt to get them to change their stories to match that of the official narrative. When that was unsuccessful, their statements were left out and other statements were […]
Chicago Police Release Burger King Video of Laquan McDonald Shooting – Minus 80 Minutes
After the Chicago Tribune filed a Freedom of Information Act request, the Chicago police released surveillance footage from a Burger King near where Laquan McDonald was shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke 16 times as he walked away from police. Except eighty minutes of that video is missing and that missing footage just happens to […]
Bullied by Police Over a Facebook Post in Maine
The content included within this post was received anonymously via the CopBlock.org Submissions page. Date of Incident: November 23,2015 Officers Involved: Col. Robert Williams, Lt. Scott Ireland, Det. David Pelletier Department Involved: Maine State Police Contact Number: (207) 626-3811 In a clear bullying tactic by Col. Robert Williams of the Maine State Police, I was […]
The Surveillance State Couldn’t Prevent The Paris Attacks – So Why Expand It?
In the wake of the unfortunate and diabolical terrorist attacks perpetrated in Paris, the international surveillance and intelligence communities have responded with a predictable refrain: give us more power and give us more money. Never mind that it has been reported that French and German intelligence agencies knew about the attacks one month in advance, […]
