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A Touch Of Dystopia: Milwaukee Police Hid Stingray Use From Courts, Says ACLU

February 20, 2016February 20, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1753 Views 7th circuit court of appeals, Accountability, ACLU, america, american civil liberties union, American police culture, amicus brief, blog, Brutality, cell phone data, Civil rights, comment, constitution, cop block, copblock.org, cops, Corruption, courts, data collection, Department of Justice, discuss, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, dystopia, Ed Flynn, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, encouraging police to prey on the people, excessive force, FBI, federal bureau of investigation, federal probe, federal program, freedom, fugitive, Harassment, illegal, Illegal search/entry, insanity by definition, intelligence cop, jail, journalism, judge, Justice System, milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, milwaukee police, monitoring, MPD, news, no victim no crime, nondisclosure agreement, oddly vague language, orwellian, overuse, phone tracking, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police industrial complex, Police State, politics, PR event, prison industrial complex, rights, scrutinous pressure, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, share, stingrays, streamlining convictions, strike the root, subverting the courts, Surveillance, surveillance state, sustainable democratic models, Transparency, undisclosed Stingray use, unethical, Update, warrantless data collection, Warrior Cop, wi, Wisconsin, wisconsin police, writing

Scrutinous pressure continues to bury Milwaukee’s police department despite its recent DOJ-sponsored public forum. Days later, the ACLU blasted the

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Federal Judge Rules FBI Illegally Defies Freedom Of Information Act

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1260 Views Accountability, All Gov, all time low, America’s spearhead police organization, arcane methodologies, armed occupation of federal land, brought to task for its crimes, bundy, case evaluations, case law, Civil rights, classified national security matters, common American police department, compelling reasons, confidential information, Congress, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, District Judge Randolph D Moss, DoJ, double-standards, emboldened bureau entities, FBI, federal bereau of investigation, federal law enforcement agency, flagrant violation of federal law, FOIA exemption, FOIA policy, foia requests, freedom, freedom of information request, fundamentally at odds with the state, government transparency, Guardian, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, implicit disclosure of highly sensitive information relating to ongoing investigations, inherently secret, Justice System, Kel McClanahan, kelly patterson, law enforcement techniques, lost in a press loop, MIT, National Security Counselors, oregon standoff, orwellian, PhD, PHD-in-training, police, police accountability, Police State, privacy act of 1974, processing notes, protective layers of artificial secrecy, public knowledge, public outcry, renegade crusade, revolution, revolution of ideas, rights, Ryan Shapiro, search slips, Surveillance, Transparency, transparently criminal, treachery, treason, withholding evidence

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

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Cops Using Social Media Surveillance To Calculate Your “Threat Score”

January 12, 2016 Asa J 1546 Views ACLU, american civil liberties union, Beware, Beware software, big brother, Bureau of Justice Statistics, California, Chief Jerry Dyer, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Fresno, Fresno Police Department, gunshot detector, houston, Matt Cagle, New York City, orwellian, Orwells hell, Police State, Privacy, privacy rights, Real Time Crime Center, rights, San Joaquin Valley, seattle, social media, social media posts, Surveillance, surveillance algorithms, surveillance cameras, surveillance center, surveillance software, surveillance state, threat level, threat score, washington post, worrisome messages

Police in California are using state of the art surveillance tools to determine an individual’s “threat score” based on social

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Tennessee Bill to Ban Weapons on Drones, Except for Cops

January 4, 2016 CopBlock 1370 Views bean bag, big brother, cop block, cops, daniel byrd, domestic drones, drone, drones, less than lethal weapons, non-lethal weapons, orwellian, police, police drone, Police State, rubber bullets, Surveillance, taser, Tennessee, TN, uav, weaponized drones

A new bill has been introduced in the state of Tennessee that would make it illegal for citizens to possess

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Meddling Kids: And They Would Have Gotten Away With It … 7/27/15

July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 Alia Atreides 1431 Views 13 month old, 1984, asset forfeiture, Brunswick County Sheriff's Office, cameras, cameras everywhere, cover up, dan evidence, Denver, distrust, dog bite, dui, feature, former police officer, Frank Serpico, high speed chase, Hit and Run, identity theft, income, Indianapolis, John Connors, Joshua H, K9, Lake County, lapd, lawsuit, lottery, march, marijuana, McComb, meddling kids, New Castle Police Department, new haven police department, night stick, Officer Jeremy Dabush, orlando, orwellian, OWI, payroll, Police brutality, police chaplain, Police Chief, police shoot 4 year old, police supporters, poor, portsmouth, Prostitution, protestors, put-in-bay, rape, restaurant, Salt Lake Police Department, skid row, socio-economics, Tampa Polcie Department, Theft, Tom Gordon, Watkins, whitsleblower

Every week at CopBlock.org we bookmark many stories of police abuse, corruption and brutality; as well as other stories of

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Police Harass, Detain and Place Emu In Custody of Traffickers

July 6, 2015July 6, 2015 Alia Atreides 1280 Views 4th of July, animal farm, animal rights, emu, enslavement, Falls Township, funny, george orwell, Humor, Independence Day, Joshua H, llama, Morrisville, oligarchy, orwellian, Pennsylvania, Police State, rights, Satire

On Saturday, July 4th, a day we are told represents our liberty(s), an emu attempting to gain freedom from the

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Fighting Fascism: A brief history of America and ways to stop the Police State

January 26, 2014January 28, 2014 CopBlock 1038 Views alternative economies, america, American government, bitcoins, constitution, contradictory, Fascism, fighting fascism, mass tax boycott, modern day police, orwellian, police, tax resistance, tyrannical state

This post was shared via CopBlock.org’s submit page as an entry for the Bitcoin-Fueled Content Contest. Fighting Fascism: A Brief

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