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Ademo Speaks From Jail: Why LEO’s Should NOT Pay Taxes

March 16, 2017March 26, 2017 Ademo Freeman 1336 Views Accountability, Ademo Freeman, Ademo Speaks From Jail, Civil rights, Cleveland, cop block, copblock.org, corrections and Law Enforcement, corrections officers, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, felony charges, freedom, Harassment, House of Corrections, house slave, Jail Blog, jails, just doing my job, Justice System, law enforcement against prohibition, LEAP, LEO, marijuana, Master Smith, masters and slaves, no victim no crime, OH, Ohio, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, possession of a plant, prison overcrowding, prisons, revenue generation, rights, Self-ownership, stealing cars, strike the root, taxes, the law is the law, the war on some drugs, Update, victimless crime, video, war on drugs, Warren County House of Corrections

That’s right, Law Enforcement Officers should not be paying taxes – at all! Yet, any time I’ve asked an LEO

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Ademo Speaks From Jail: The Mindset of a Corrections Officer

March 15, 2017March 29, 2017 Ademo Freeman 3335 Views Accountability, Ademo Freeman, Ademo Speaks From Jail, Civil rights, Cleveland, cop block, copblock.org, corrections and Law Enforcement, corrections officers, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, felony charges, freedom, Harassment, House of Corrections, Jail Blog, jails, just doing my job, Justice System, law enforcement against prohibition, LEAP, LEO, marijuana, Master Smith, masters and slaves, no victim no crime, OH, Ohio, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, possession of a plant, prison overcrowding, prisons, Raeford Davis, revenue generation, rights, Self-ownership, stealing cars, strike the root, the law is the law, the war on some drugs, Update, victimless crime, video, war on drugs, Warren County House of Corrections

By the time you read this, I’ll have been locked in a cage (for 19 hours a day) for over

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Class Warfare

May 4, 2016July 24, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2208 Views Civil asset forfeiture, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, class warfare, classism, cocaine, Colorado, crack, crack vs cocaine, DoJ, drug prohibition, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, drug war propaganda, economic discrimination, Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program, Human rights, incentives, law enforcement against prohibition, LEAP, marijuana, marijuana legalization, Matthew Fogg, meth, Methamphetamine, methamphetamine crisis, Occupational licensing, Oregon, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, pseudoephedrine, Racism, sentencing disparities, state-sanctioned class warfare, unintended consequences, victimless crimes, war on drugs, wealth redistribution, working class

This is the fourth and final article in a series on how the “War on Drugs” is state-sanctioned theft, rape,

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Why I Hated Being A Cop

April 23, 2016April 23, 2016 Brian Sumner 1900 Views assault, Brian David Sumner, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, Featured, film the police, Filming police, freedom, Harassment, Justice System, law enforcement against prohibition, LEAP, michael slager, no victim no crime, North Carolina, North Charleston, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Raeford Davis, repost, rights, TheMarshallProject, vice

Below is an Op-Ed, written Raeford Davis, he recalls the violence he and other officers perpetuated against the small South Carolina town of

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Former Prosecutor: “Drug Policy Kills More People Than The Drugs Themselves”

December 1, 2012January 6, 2014 CopBlock 806 Views Beyond Bars Campaign, boston, John Amabile, law enforcement against prohibition, LEAP, SafeKeepers, video, war on drugs, war on people

John Amabile was a prosecutor in Boston and saw the effects of the War on Drugs first-hand. What he saw

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Officer Lost a Friend to The War on Drugs; Now He Wants to End It

October 16, 2012January 6, 2014 CopBlock 767 Views Baltimore, End the War on Drugs, LEAP, Maryland State Police Department, Neill Franklin, video, war on drugs

Neill Franklin was a commander for the Maryland State Police Department. He saw the War on Drugs turn his hometown

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Obsession with law and order

October 1, 2010October 30, 2010 Georgia Sand 678 Views Brad Jardis, Drug war, Due Process, Jack Cole, LEAP, Liberty On Tour, marijuana, Parking violations, Police State

While members of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) generally support legalization of marijuana, former Copblock writer Brad Jardis took this

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Former NH Police Officer Joins Cop Block

June 17, 2010September 16, 2010 Ademo Freeman 430 Views Brad Jardis, Double Standard, LEAP, New Hampshire, NH police, Police State

In the last few weeks Cop Block has taken some huge leaps; with the first ever Friday’s Finest Video Contest,

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