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The “lol” Effect: The Awkward Signs of Cop Apologists Juvenile Psychology

December 27, 2016February 17, 2017 Alia Atreides 1211 Views apologists, Arrested Development, conditioning, Dunning-Kruger Effect, Idiocracy, Joshua H, Lol, maturity, programming, rhetoric, sarcasm, scoffing, stunted maturity, supporters, teenagers

Does the use of “lol” and emoticons, as well as other rhetorical behavior, point to a fundamental lack of maturity

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Video of Massachusetts Detective Threatening to Kill; Plant Drugs on Teens Released (Update)

November 11, 2016November 13, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1236 Views Accountability, Bad apples, car theft, Civil rights, civil service appeal, cocaine, cop block, cop kicks handcuffed man, copblock.org, Corruption, crushed skull, day shift, defenseless person, Detective Gregg Bigda, Dishonesty, double-standards, good cops, Harassment, history of misconduct, interrogation, Justice System, Justin Hurst, kelly patterson, ma, Massachusetts, Mayor Domenic Sarno, murder, narcotics unit, pizza shop, planting drugs, police, police abuse, police accountability, police commissioner, protecting and serving, public radio, retraining, rights, Springfield, Springfield City Councilor, springfield police department, Suspension, teenagers, The Republican, threats, uniform duty, unmarked police car, unpaid suspension, Update, WAMC.org

Last month, I blogged about the case of a Springfield, MA detective who threatened to beat and murder two teens.

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Milwaukee Police Must Consider Alternatives To Handle Under-Reported Opioid Crisis

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1030 Views alderman report, America 2016, ARTICLE, Bernie Sanders, cop block, Corruption, documentary, drug abuse, drug addiction, Drug war, drug war ending, Film, gloucester police, heroin angel program, heroin crisis, independent media, journalism, marijuana, marijuana reform, milwaukee, milwaukee opioid overodoses, milwaukee police, news, no victim no crime, opioid crisis, police, Police brutality, police misconduct, police reform, pontiac tribune, racial drug lines, rehab, revolution, safe space facilitiy, suburban drugs, teenagers, teens and drugs, The Fifth Column, transparancy, Wauwatosa police, wauwatosa police shooting, weed wars, wisconsin wisconsin cops, writing

This article was originally published by The Pontiac Tribune by the same author. The drug war’s casualties reach far beyond

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Massachusetts Detective Caught on Video Threatening to Kill Teens & Plant Drugs on Them (Just) Suspended 60 Days

October 6, 2016October 6, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2001 Views Accountability, Bad apples, car theft, Civil rights, civil service appeal, cocaine, cop block, cop kicks handcuffed man, copblock.org, Corruption, crushed skull, day shift, defenseless person, Detective Gregg Bigda, Dishonesty, double-standards, good cops, Harassment, history of misconduct, interrogation, Justice System, Justin Hurst, kelly patterson, ma, Massachusetts, Mayor Domenic Sarno, murder, narcotics unit, pizza shop, planting drugs, police, police abuse, police accountability, police commissioner, protecting and serving, public radio, retraining, rights, Springfield, Springfield City Councilor, springfield police department, Suspension, teenagers, The Republican, threats, uniform duty, unmarked police car, unpaid suspension, WAMC.org

Detective Gregg Bigda, of the Springfield (MA) Police Department’s narcotics unit, threatened to murder two teens and then plant drugs

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Los Angeles Teen Activists Push To Disarm School Police Of Military Weapons, And Win!

June 7, 2016June 7, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1266 Views Accountability, Activism, ARTICLE, black lives matter, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, DOD, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, film the police, Filming police, freedom, grassroots movement, Harassment, high school, Illegal search/entry, journalism, Justice System, lapd, LASPD, Los Angeles, militarized police, military equippment, military weapons and police, no victim no crime, police accountability, police are not soldiers, police shooting, Police State, prison industrial complex, school and the cops, school board, School Officer, school to prison pipeline, successful activism, teenagers, teens and the cops, Transparency, writing

If you’re one of those citizens who feels as though activism and protest is irrelevantly ineffective, check this out. Recently,

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Statutory Rape Laws and the Oakland PD Underage Sex Scandal

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 Alia Atreides 1107 Views bodily autonomy, California, Celeste Guap, consent, cop block, copblock.org, Hypocrisy, Joshua H, oakland, sex scandal, statutory rape, teenagers, Underage

Last week the story of a sex scandal involving a teenage girl and an unknown number of Oakland, California police officers

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What We Learned From Wauwatosa PD’s Previously Unreleased Annual Reports

May 9, 2016May 9, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1779 Views Accountability, America 2015, ARTICLE, Censorship, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, data, Dishonesty, documentary, double-standards, drug crackdown, drug use, Drug war, foia request, freedom, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, journalism, Justice System, marijuana, milwaukee, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police misconduct, police reports, Police State, report redaction, research, SOG, Statistics, Stingray, Surveillance, teen drug use, teenagers, Transparency, Update, video, Wauwatosa police, wisconsin police, withheld reports, writing

From 2004-2011, the Wauwatosa Police Department released yearly annual reports on its activities. The protocol wasn’t unusual, police normally provide

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Butthurt Sheriff Complains His Deputies Are The Real Victims, Not The 3 Dead Kids

April 25, 2016April 26, 2016 Steven Thomas 1348 Views Accountability, assault, Brutality, chase, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, double-standards, drowned, excessive force, Gualtieri, high, Justice System, police abuse, police accountability, Police State, rights, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, Sheriff Gualtieri, speed, teenagers, video

On March 31, three teenagers in Florida died after a high-speed chase when their vehicle crashed into a pond.  Many

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Open Records Win: Wauwatosa Police Re-Release Annual Reports Following FOIA Requests

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1619 Views Accountability, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, court ruling, Dishonesty, documentary, double-standards, drug crackdown, Drug war, excessive force, Featured, Film, film the police, Filming police, freedom, Freedom of information, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, milwaukee, open records request, police abuse, police accountability, police redaction policy, police reports, Police State, public police reports, re-release, rights, strike the root, teenagers, Transparency, transparency win, transprency, victory, Wauwatosa PD, win, Wisconsin, wisconsin police

The Wauwatosa Police Department recently re-released their yearly annual online reports following a series of open records requests. Their return

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Wisconsin Goveronor Scott Walker: This Is Why Milwaukee Needs Marijuana Reform Now!

March 9, 2016March 9, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1479 Views Accountability, America 2016, ARTICLE, black incarceration, blog, call to action, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, DEA, Dishonesty, double-standards, drug crimes, drug health, drug incarceration, Drug war, drugs, Featured, freedom, funding schools, Harassment, human health, Illegal search/entry, improving poverty, journalism, Justice System, marijuana, marijuana prohibition, marijuana reform, marijuana taxes, Medical marijuana, milwaukee, news, no victim no crime, police accountability, police and weed, police orders, police reform, Police State, politics, poverty, rights, share, social media, sources, strike the root, tax and regulate weed, teenagers, Transparency, Wisconsin, writing

Marijuana legalization is sometimes treated as a topic to be easily dismissed, laughed off, or delegitimize. Sure journalists, writers and

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The P.R. SNAFU’s: DOJ forced to investigate it’s own after agent holds Madison teens at gunpoint

March 8, 2016March 9, 2016 Isiah Holmes 1197 Views Accountability, America 2016, ARTICLE, assault, blog, Brutality, Civil rights, cop block, cop holding people at gunpoint, copblock.org, Corruption, DCI agent, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, DoJ, doj investigation, double-standards, email, excessive force, fake cop, film the police, freedom, gunpoint, Harassment, hidden information, Illegal search/entry, journalism, Justice System, madison police, madison police chief, news, open records request, police, police abuse, police accountability, police brutality 2016, Police Chief, police privilage, protecting police, punishment, red and blue, rights, share, sources, strike the root, Surveillance, teen drivers, teenagers, thin blue line, Traffic stop, Transparency, traumatic experience, Undercover, undercover car, writing

A Department Of Justice (DOJ) agent caught their employer a ridiculous case of the P.R. SNAFU’s following a renegade traffic

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Undercover Wisconsin Cops Targeted Teen “Forts” in the Woods

February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 Isiah Holmes 2023 Views Accountability, ARTICLE, assault, blog, Brutality, Civil rights, classified, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, coverup, crackdown, department, Dishonesty, documentary, Double Standard, Drug war, drugs, excessive force, Featured, Film, film the police, forts, freedom, Freedom of information, Harassment, Illegal search/entry, journalism, no victim no crime, Photography, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, redaction policy, rights, strike the root, Surveillance, teenagers, Transparency, truth, Update, video, Wauwatosa police, Wisconsin, woods, writing, Youtube

The human tendency to hoard knowledge for a few has never been more transparent than in the modern digital age.

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