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The Many Ways That Police Brutality Payouts Cost Taxpayers

September 28, 2016March 16, 2017 Kelly W. Patterson 1774 Views 2 percent raise, Accountability, assault, Brazil, Brutality, casino licensing fee, city managers, city schools, Civil rights, cop block, Copblock submissions, copblock.org, Corruption, cost to taxpayers, dailygazette.com, deductible levels, direct complicity, Dishonesty, double-standards, evaluating police merit, excessive force, freedom, general fund, Harassment, Justice System, kelly patterson, lawsuits, Martha K. Huggins, misconduct liability insurance, municipal government, New York, ny, officer base pay, overtime, payout, PBA, pension, pension indebtedness, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police Benevolent Association, Police brutality, Police Brutality Raises Costs to Taxpayers, police civil rights abuses, police salaries, Police State, police violations of human rights, police-related liability insurance, premiuims, private attorneys’ fees, professor, public education, Public safety, rewarding police violence, rights, risk-manage, Schenectady, Schenectady City Council, Schenectady Police Department, scholar of Brazil, settlements, taxes, taxpayer costly, taxpayers, The Daily Gazette, Transparency, Tulane Professor Emerita, Tulane University, Union College

The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by Martha K. Huggins, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. The post

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Police Union President Bullies Woman Who Called Out Cop For Speeding

February 7, 2016February 6, 2016 Georgia Sand 1227 Views arrogance, Asthma, beer, Bhagwan Bang, Boat, bullying, California, charges, Claudia Castillo, Deaths, Doctor, Earmarks, emergency, entitlement, film the police, Filming, Fine, fines, Florida, Government Projects, Judicial Operations, Lt. Javier Ortiz, Miami, Miami Police Union, Orange County Register, Pediatrician, Penalty, Police Union, Public safety, punishment, red-light, Roadway Safety, Safety, social media, speeding ticket, State Fund, Traffic ticket, traffic violation, Wisconsin, Youtube

It’s a fact police (and plenty of other government employees, for that matter) are above the law they are tasked

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Hawaii Legislature Proposes Access to Disciplinary Files of Police Officers

February 7, 2016February 6, 2016 Georgia Sand 1603 Views above the law, assault, Criminal History, Discharge, disciplinary action, Disturbing, Drafter, Gods, government, Government Employee, Hawaii, Hawaii's Revised Statutes, Heroes, History, Honolulu, Honolulu Civil Beat, honolulu police department, information, Law, laws, legislation, Medical Information, negligible consequences, police, police officers, Privacy, Privacy Interest, Psychiatric Information, Public safety, public servant, public trust, religion, Section 92F-14, Senate Bill 3016, Senate Public Safety Committee, Suspension, Tampering With Government Records, taxes, taxpayer, Transparency, Welfare Eligibility

According to the Honolulu Civil Beat, Hawaii’s Senate Public Safety Committee passed Senate Bill 3016, which changes Hawaii’s laws to allow access

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

February 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2453 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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VIDEO: Misread License Plate Leads to Officer-Involved Shooting

October 8, 2015October 8, 2015 Steven Thomas 1458 Views Accountability, assault, blatenly violating policy, Brutality, Captain Colin Smith, Chief David Thomas, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, excessive force, Fairfield, Fairfield Police Department, felony, high speed chase, IA, Illegal search/entry, Iowa, Officer Kathryn Blumhagen, Out Of Jurisdiction, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Public safety, Pursuit Policy, rights, thrill ride, Traffic stop, video, willful disregard of public safety

Two Incompetent Fairfield, Iowa Police Officers fired at a car occupied by two teenage kids, all because the frightened teenagers

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Dishonorable Ohio Trooper Ordered Reinstated With Back Pay

September 6, 2015September 6, 2015 CopBlock 2713 Views Accountability, administration of office, appealed, arbitrator, back pay, code of ethics, Corruption, deceit, Falsified, integrity, lies, Lt. Roger Norris, moral compass, oath, Ohio, Ohio State Highway Patrol, ovi, patrol, Public safety, public trust, reinstated, respect, screenings, sexual misconduct, thin blue line, Trooper, Trooper Bryan Lee, Trooper Tammy Soto

I bring you another story of the Thin Blue Line once again at work. An arbitrator has overturned the job

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A Quick Rundown of Miranda Rights

June 8, 2015June 8, 2015 Georgia Sand 1858 Views Arkady Bukh, Boston Marathon Bomber, crime scene, criminal justice, Custodial Interrogation, Hollywood, interrogation, Jailhouse Informant, Miranda, Miranda rights, Miranda v. Arizona, Miranda Warnings, Mirandize, Movies, police, public, Public safety, Right to Attorney, Routine Booking, TV

Submitted by Guest Writer Arkady Bukh If you believe Hollywood, then you believe that a cruise liner capsized, two hillbillies

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Colorado Cop Earns 93 Percent of Towns Budget Writing Tickets

May 4, 2015May 4, 2016 Alia Atreides 1429 Views Accountability, Brad Viner, Campo, Campo Colorado, city revenue, Colorado, Drug war, Joshua H, Police State, Public safety, Ray Johnson, revenue generation, speed limit, speed traps, Tim Grey, traffic tickets, traffic violations, victimless crimes

We have claimed on many occasions that the duty of police is rarely to serve and protect average citizens

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Slavery Is Due Process

January 19, 2014 CopBlock 1007 Views checkpoint, cop block, copblock.org, FBI, police accountability, Public safety, terrorists, Transparency

by bewaremouse One of the problems as you begin to get older is that you begin thinking. You begin to

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Cop Fired for Speaking Out Against Ticket and Arrest Quotas

July 25, 2013January 6, 2014 CopBlock 933 Views Alabama, Alex Manning, arrest quotas, Auburn, Auburn Police Department, Auburn University, cop fired for speaking out, huffington post, Justin Hanners, Public safety, Radley Balko, revenue generation, Rise of the Warrior Cop, The Jowe Head Band, ticket quotas, Tracy Oppenheimer, video

This post was originally published by Tracy Oppenheimer at Reason.com on July 24th. Police officers are not there to protect and serve

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Police Department Email Admits Traffic Ticket Money Funds Pay Raises

June 29, 2013June 28, 2013 CopBlock 1011 Views Accountability, Civil rights, Corruption, Dishonesty, extortion, Naivete, Pay raise, Paycheck, Police State, Public safety, Safety, Salary, Traffic stop, traffic tickets

Channel 2 Action News has obtained an email sent to Atlanta police that says traffic ticket money will fund future