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Booking Fees and Incarceration Costs; The Latest Revenue Generation Tools For Money Hungry Governments

December 29, 2016February 15, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 951 Views Accountability, Civil rights, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, courts, Dishonesty, double-standards, freedom, Harassment, kelly patterson, Money Hungry, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, Policing for Profit, profit motive, revenue generation, rights, strike the root, Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is preparing to consider the legality of a couple of new methods the police and courts have

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DEA Will Kill Thousands Banning Kratom

August 31, 2016September 1, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2048 Views chronic pain, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, DEA, Drug Enforcement Agency, drug prohibition, drug schedule, Drug war, heroin, Human rights, incentives, kratom, kratom ban, kratom saves lives, marijuana, opiates, opioid addiction epidemic, opioids, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, self-medicating, Self-ownership, state-sanctioned murder, undertreatment, victimless crimes, war on drugs

This headline is not hyperbole. When the Drug Enforcement Administration outlaws kratom by making it a Schedule I substance on

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Speed Traps, Ticket Quotas, and Policing for Profit

August 25, 2016 Carrollton Speed Tax 1689 Views #RevenueRexRedden, Accountability, bad drivers, carrollton cops, carrollton police, Carrollton Speed Tax, carrollton tx, carrollton tx police, Chief David Brown, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dallas police, dangerous driver, Dishonesty, Double Standard, double-standards, film the police, Filming police, Justice System, Merriam Webster Dictionary, no victim no crime, Officer Wylie, police, police abuse, police accountability, police double standard, Police State, Policing for Profit, quotas, revenue generation, rights, road pirates, special equipment, Speed Tax, speed trap, speed traps, Texas, ticket jockeys, TX, video

At what point does traffic enforcement become more about revenue than about safety? It would appear once speed traps become the

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Does The Everyday Work of Police Officers Constitute as Terrorism?

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 Ademo Freeman 1687 Views Accountability, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, crime, defense, Double Standard, excessive force, Justice System, no victim no crime, police, Police State, Policing for Profit, protection, quotas, revenue, rights, terrorist, Tickets, Transparency, victimless crimes

*Written by Jake McCauley and originally published at The Odyssey Online* Are police officers terrorists? How could somebody even ask such

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NYPD Facing Federal Class Action Lawsuit Over Civil Asset Forfeiture Thefts

June 17, 2016June 17, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1796 Views Accountability, amateur, Asa Jay, babies sleeping in their cribs, Baby Bou Bou, bank robbery, bronx, Bronx Defenders, Bronx District Attorney, checkpoint, civil asset forfeitures, Civil rights, co-conspirators, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, DA's office, debit card, Dishonesty, double-standards, Drug war, drug warriors, elaborate system, Ethics, extortion rackets, fleecing people, forfeiture, free money, freedom, Gang in Blue, Harassment, innocent 92 year old woman, Justice System, Kaleb Hagis, Kathryn Johnson, kelly patterson, license to kill, license to steal, lucrative schemes, military gear, military vehicles, military weaponry, Molly Kovel, New York, New York Daily News, ny, nydailynews.com, nypd, OK, Oklahoma, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, Policing for Profit, property clerk, release forms, revenue generator, rights, road pirates, seventh largest army, shakedown, speedtrap, strike the root, the war on some drugs, Theft, Traffic stop, Victor Encarnacion, video, war on drugs

As everyone in the world (and several other parts of the galaxy) knows, civil asset forfeiture laws are essentially a

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Civil Asset Forfeiture Goes Digital In OK, Cops Emptying Bank Accounts

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 Asa J 1176 Views bank accounts, bank cards, Civil asset forfeiture, Civil rights, constitution, copblock, copblock.org, corporate scheme, electronic civil asset forfeiture, electronic device, Electronic Recovery and Access to Data, Electronic Recovery and Access to Data machine, ERAD, ERAD Group Inc, FBI, Institute for Justice, Justice System, Lt. John Vincent, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, Policing for Profit, prepaid cards, revenue generation, rights, seized cash, Sen. Kyle Loveless

Civil asset forfeiture has gone digital in Oklahoma with the state’s highway patrol now utilizing an electronic device that allows

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What Does it Mean to Be a “Good” Cop?

May 13, 2016May 18, 2016 Lorelei McFly 1764 Views Anthony Raymond, barry washington, blue lives murder, blue privilege, chicago police department, Civil asset forfeiture, Darius Pinex, Flint Farmer, Gildardo Sierra, good cops, national police week, NPW, NPW16, police accountability, Police brutality, police misconduct, police murder, Police Week, Policing for Profit

This is the first article in a series for National Police Week. National Police Week (May 15-21 this year) is

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Class Warfare

May 4, 2016July 24, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2345 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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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Murder

May 2, 2016July 24, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2853 Views adderall, cash, cash is criminal, chronic pain, Civil asset forfeiture, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, crime clearance rates, criminogenic, DEA, drug cartels, Drug Enforcement Agency, drug prohibition, drug schedule, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, felony homicide, felony murder, hepatitis c, heroin, HIV, Hsiu-Ying “Lisa” Tseng, Human rights, incentives, Joey Rovero, kratom, legal highs, marijuana, Matthew Lowery, Medical marijuana, narcoterrorism, needle-exchange, opiates, opioid addiction epidemic, opioids, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, Rush Limbaugh, self-medicating, state-sanctioned murder, undertreatment, victimless crimes, Violent Crime Clearance Rates, war on drugs

This is the third article in a series on how the “War on Drugs” is state-sanctioned theft, rape, murder, and class warfare.

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Rape

April 29, 2016July 24, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2233 Views anal probe, anal rape, anal searches, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, drug prohibition, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, Human rights, illegal rectal searches, incentives, invasive search, marijuana, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot, pot prohibition, rape culture, Self-ownership, sexual assault, state rape, state-sanctioned theft, the failed war on drugs, unbanked, victimless crimes, war on drugs

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

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The Drug War is State-Sanctioned Theft

April 27, 2016May 5, 2016 Lorelei McFly 2938 Views Attorney General Loretta Lynch, cash, cash is criminal, Civil asset forfeiture, civil liberties, Civil rights, civil rights violations, criminalization, criminalization of the poor, Department of Justice, double-standards, drug cartels, drug prohibition, Drug war, drug war is state-sanctioned theft rape and murder, equitable sharing, Equitable Sharing Civil Asset Forfeiture Program, HSBC, Human rights, incentives, Institute for Justice, marijuana, overcriminalization, police crime, Policing for Profit, pot prohibition, state-sanctioned theft, unbanked, underbanked, United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch, victimless crimes, war on drugs

This is the first article in a series on how the war on drugs is state-sanctioned theft, rape, murder, and

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“Justice” For The Wealthy, Law Enforcement For The Poor

April 19, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2167 Views 2008 financial meltdown, Accountability, America’s Divided Justice System, assault, attorney general, Barack Obama, Barclays, Bill Clinton, blocking pedestrian traffic, book review, broken windows, Brutality, C4SS, center for a stateless society, Civil rights, Collateral Consequences, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, Covington and Burling, criminalization of the poor, criminalizing homelessness, Department of Justice, deportation, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, draconian punishments, Drug war, dystopian reality, economic inequality, England, eric holder, Fairfax Financial Holdings, financial crimes, fishing with dynamite, fraud, freedom, gang of well-funded hedge fund managers, Goldman Sachs, graffiti, harassing the homeless, Harassment, Howard Safir, HSBC, Immigrant, indirect negative economic consequences, injustices, jail, James C. Wilson, JP Morgan Chase, Justice System, kelly patterson, late-night phone calls, Latin America, Lehman Brothers, low income, massive kidnapping industry, Matt Taibbi, Minorities, New York Police Commisioner, New York Press, nightmarish bureaucracy, no victim no crime, Patreon, people of color, phony accusations of a criminal activity, Playboy, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, Policing for Profit, poverty, ptutocracy, punishment, repost, rights, robo-signing, Rolling Stone, Rudy Giuliani, strike the root, The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap, The Nation, threats, too big to fail, too big to jail, victimless crimes, wealthy offenders, zero tolerance

This post was written by James C. Wilson and originally published at the Center For a Stateless Society (C4SS) under the

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