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Utah Police Used SWAT Teams/No Knock Warrants Significantly More Often For Drug Crimes Than for Known Violent Criminals

August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2001 Views Accountability, assault, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, drug raids, Drug war, excessive force, freedom, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, Justice System, kelly patterson, myth that the police are there to protect you, no victim no crime, Non-Violent Crime, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, poorly constructed and easily debunked sham, Radley Balko, rights, rural and low population state, the war on some drugs, Utah, victimless crime, violent crime, war on drugs, washington post

Earlier this week, the Washington Post’s Radley Balko reported on recent stats from Utah concerning the use of SWAT teams

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Articles Police Abuse Toxic Cops

2015 Was a Record Year For Exonerations of Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1303 Views Arson, brooklyn, Cameron Todd Willingham, capital punishment, Cheese, chocolate chip cookies, committed doubters, controlled substance, criminal justice system, Death Penalty, death row, declared innocent, drug crimes, Drug war, exonerated, false conviction, false convictions, false guilty pleas, forensic arson investigation, freedom, Harassment, Harris County, Homicide, intellectually disabled, judicial misconduct, Justice System, juvenile, kelly patterson, la, Louisiana, Making a Murderer, mentally ill, mistaken for drugs, Mother Jones, MotherJones.com, National Registry of Exonerations, new orleans, New York, no victim no crime, no-crime crimes, non-violent, ny, Officer Misconduct, overrepresented on death row, Plea Bargain, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, prosecutor misconduct, radio program, Radley Balko, repost, rights, riven with errors and official misconduct, Serial, Texas, the war on some drugs, tortilla dough, University of Michigan Law School, victimless crime, washington post, wrongfull convictions

As originally reported by Mother Jones, a report from the University of Michigan Law School has declared that 2015 set

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Articles Killer Cops Original Content

Utah Police and SWAT Made Over 559 Forcible Entries in 2014

August 27, 2015August 27, 2015 Michael Storm 1794 Views Accountability, assault, authority, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, dead cops, decentralized police, Drug war, excessive force, FBI statistics, federal intervention, forcible entries, freedom, global collapse, Harassment, Libertas Institute, non-violent situations, Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, racial bias, Radley Balko, rights, Rise of the Warrior Cop, S.W.A.T, Salt Lake City, social unrest, SWAT, Transparency, Unified Police, Utah, violent police

In an effort to increase transparency in policing, lawmakers in the state of Utah last year ordered a report on

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DO NOT ALTER!

Meddling Kids: And They Would Have Gotten Away With It … 8/3/15

August 5, 2015August 4, 2015 Alia Atreides 2058 Views 911, a sick joke, abuse of force, activists, Alabama, Alan Buford, albuquerque, alex horton, Arkansas, assaulted, asset forfeiture, Berkeley, Black Liberation Project, Brandon Jones, Brian Fanelli, California, Cato Institute, cecil the lion, Charles Dewey, Charlie Alvarez, child pornography, Cleveland, cleveland police patrolmen's association, Colby, conflicting accounts, crash, cremated, David Downey, deal with it yourself, death in custody, Decatur, dispatcher, district attorneys, Doug Dewey, dwi, ethics audits, excessive force, Fairfax County, feature, filing the police, fired, Flint, Florida, Frank Linham, grumpy dog, Harold 'Alex' Dominguez, illegal spending, Jade Helm, Jason Sigman, Joshua H, Kansas, killed by police, LA Times, lapd, laundromat, Los Angeles, Lowell, manhunt, Matthew Sanchez, Mauray Deshaun Randolph, meddling kids, medical treatment, Michigan, militarization, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, no final visit, no restitution, Ohio, Oklahoma, Osceola, pepper-sprayed, Police brutality, police chase, Police Officers Bill of Rights, police shooting, prescription drugs, Radley Balko, ray tensing, rent-free, robbery, Sam Dubose, Springdale, student loans, Ted Rall, thrown to ground, Tremaine Brown, unarmed man, Virginia, Walter Olson, weapon fired, Weatherford, westchester county police

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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How Much Do Taxpayers Pay For Police Misconduct?

March 25, 2015November 4, 2015 Asa J 3161 Views Accountability, Bureau of Justice, CA, California, Chicago Sun-Times, Civil rights, competition, cop block, copblock.org, Dallas Morning News, denver post, double-standards, excessive force, Featured, free-market solutions, government monopoly, Justice System, legal fees, Minneapolis Public Radio, MuckRock.com, Oakland Police Beat, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police misconduct, Private Protection Services, Radley Balko, rialto, rights, Todd Feathers, waste of taxpayer money

A Growing Financial Burden for Taxpayers. Police brutality and misconduct lawsuits are a point of growing contention. Obviously, victims of

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Articles Killer Cops Police Abuse Toxic Cops

To Terrify and Occupy: How the Excessive Militarization of the Police Is Turning Cops Into Counterinsurgents

October 7, 2014June 16, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 3013 Views 1033 Program, ACLU, Bou Bou Phonesavanh, cop block, copblock.org, counterterrorism, defense logistics agency, department of defense, department of homeland security, federal grants, habersham county sheriff, hobbs police department, incentives, institutionalized violence, Jason Westcott, justice department, matthew harwood, mrap, newport beach police department, norm stamper, personal responsiblity, pete kraska, police accountability, police militarization, Police State, Psychology, Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop, Security theater, Self-defense, swat, tampa bay, tampa police department, Terrorism, tomdispatch.com, war on drugs

Patti Silliman shared a link via CopBlock.org/Submit to a piece authored by Matthew Harwood, which opened by outlining the needless killing

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Magazine Warns Dog Owners to be Cautious Around “Law Enforcers”

July 6, 2014July 5, 2014 Pete Eyre 1694 Views animal cruality, bill buppert, cop block, copblock.org, dogs naturally magazine, double-standards, ideas have consequences, pat miller, police accountability, Police brutality, police shooting, protecting enforcement and canines through education, Puppycide, Radley Balko

If you’re a reader of CopBlock.org, or if you are stay attune to issues related to police employee accountability, you’re

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Calling for Violence Against LEOs is WRONG

September 18, 2013September 18, 2013 CopBlock 820 Views cop block, copblock.org, Featured, law enforcement, non violence, Non-aggression principle, police, Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop, Self-defense, Technology, violence, voluntaryism

Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop really is an amazing book, particularly for those of us who read and

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Humble Cop Not So Humble in Denying Police Militarization

August 28, 2013August 28, 2013 CopBlock 683 Views American police forces, domestic warfare, Doug Deaton, humility, Kraska, logical fallacies, military-inspired technology, Oregon Cop Block, Peter Keane, police militarization, policeone.com, Radley Balko, San Francisco CA, state oppression, SWAT, violence

Humble Cop Not So Humble in Denying Police Militarization by Justin 165 About a week ago, PoliceOne.com, which touts itself

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Drawing Down: How To Roll Back Police Militarization In America

August 15, 2013January 1, 2014 CopBlock 1068 Views Anti-Drug Byrne Grants, Baltimore City, Baltimore City Police Department, community policing, DHS, dispute resolution, end the drug war, Equitable Sharing Civil Asset Forfeiture Program, FBI, Featured, Federal marijuana raids, forced-entry police raids, huffington post, police accountability, police culture, police militarization, Radley Balko, swat teams, war on drugs, Whitey Bulger

Mike Donnelly shared this post via CopBlock.org’s submit page. I spend a lot of time in Baltimore city where I

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Radley Balko’s “Rise of the Warrior Cop” Book Tour

August 11, 2013August 11, 2013 Pete Eyre 994 Views austin, Bloomington, book tour, boulder, chicago, cop block, copblock.org, Denver, Indianapolis, memphis, mobile, police abuse, police accountability tour, policeaccountabilitytour, Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop, Salt Lake City, west chester

Radley Balko, who many of us know and love (unless you’re a corrupt or heavy-handed police employee), may be coming to

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One in 25 Americans Was Arrested in 2011

August 8, 2013January 1, 2014 CopBlock 849 Views 2011, Americans, arrests, Drug Laws, FBI, Featured, huffington post, mass incarceration, over-criminalization, Radley Balko, stop and frisk, violent crimes

This post by Radley Balko was originally published at www.HuffingtonPost.com. We’ve heard a lot of talk lately about mass incarceration,

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