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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 1993 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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Secret Service Agents Illegally Accessed Congressman’s Private Info in Attempt to Retaliate For Criticism

June 15, 2016June 15, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 822 Views Accountability, Assistant Director Ed Lowery, background checks, bandwagon jumping, Civil rights, clickwrap, Congressman, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, crashing cars in the White House gate, DHS, Dishonesty, double-standards, drunk driving, dui, dwi, forced to apologize, Harassment, high school locker room, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, illegal background check, Illegal search/entry, Inspector General's report, Justice System, kelly patterson, misconduct, not paying for their hookers, peer pressure, police, police accountability, privacy act of 1974, quick to respond, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Republican, retaliation, rights, secret service, Senior Executive Service level, SES, some level of discipline, string of high-profile failures, suspended discipline, Things are being Done, tighter processes, unpaid suspension, Utah, washington post

One Secret Service agent resigned and forty others have received “some level” of discipline after they illegally accessed background information

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Washington Post Unveils Interactive Police Shooting Database

June 14, 2016 Brian Sumner 706 Views assault, Brutality, California, Civil rights, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, Dishonesty, document interactions with police, Double Standard, double-standards, film the police, Filming police, Interactive Database, Justice System, no victim no crime, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, rights, strike the root, washington post

The Washington Post has unveiled an investigatory tool that tracks police shootings. All sorts of information and statistics are available

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Las Vegas Judge Has Defense Attorney Handcuffed During Trial to “Teach Her a Lesson”

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1861 Views Accountability, Civil rights, clark county, Clark County Defender's Union, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, court decorum, D.C. public defender, D.C. Superior Court, denied right to council, Deputy Public Defender Zohra Bakhtary, Dishonesty, Double Standard, federal public defender, freedom, Handcuffed, Harassment, Huffungton Post, Judge Hafen, Justice of the Peace, Justice System, kelly patterson, las vegas, Las Vegas Justice Court, Las Vegas Review Journal, lead public defender, LVRJ, men silencing women, Nevada, NV, Phil Kohn, phone interview, Police State, public defender, Regional Injustice Center, Regional Justice Center, rights, Stephen Cooper, Surveillance, transcript, Transparency, unreasonable and unprecedented, washington post

On Monday, Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Conrad Hafen ordered Deputy Public Defender Zohra Bakhtary to be handcuffed and

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Cop Block Radio: 113: “Remembering Our Lost Brothers”

April 7, 2016April 8, 2016 CopBlock 893 Views 5555 Powers Blvd, Accountability, Ademo Freeman, Allentown Cop Block, arrested for filming, assault, Beware Program, Brutality, CA, California, Carbon County Cop Block, Civil rights, come and gone, Cop Blast Podcast, cop block, Cop Block groups, Cop Block Radio, cop block radio show, copblock, CopBlock Radio, CopBlock Radio Show, copblock.org, Corruption, deo odolecki, Deo's Mailing Address, deputy Robert Davis, Dishonesty, District Attorney Lorrin Freeman, DWI Task Force, ethan glover, Featured, fighting syndicate, film the police, Filming police, freedom, Fresno, Harassment, JP Freeman, Judge Jacqueline Brewer, Justice System, lehigh valley copblock, Mace, matthew taylor, NC, New Hampshire, nh regional copblock, North Carolina, Oath Accountability Project, OH, Ohio, parma, parma detention center, Pete Eyre, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, Police State, political prisoner, prison guards, Remembering Our Lost Brothers, Ricardo Gonzalez, rights, San Francisco, scott marshall, Severin Freeman, social media, tazer, threat score, Transparency, Update, video, Wake County, washington post, Youtube

The episode this week, labeled Cop Block Radio: 113: “Remembering Our Lost Brothers,” has come and gone. We dedicated the show

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Video Shows South Carolina Cops Perform Roadside Cavity Search

April 2, 2016April 2, 2016 Asa J 2397 Views Accountability, Aiken Department of Public Safety, anal probe, assault, Capt. David Turno, cavity search, Chris Medlin, Civil rights, contraband, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, courtesy warning, dash-cam footage, department of public safety, Dishonesty, Elijah Pontoon, federal lawsuit, film the police, Filming police, fourth amendment, Harassment, hemorrhoids, illegal search, John Wesley Hall, k-9, K-9 officer, Lakeye Hicks, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, no victim no crime, officer Chris Medlin, police, police abuse, Police State, rights, roadside cavity search, SC case law, south carolina, strip search, Surveillance, temporary tags, Traffic stop, video, washington post

Dash-cam footage has emerged depicting South Carolina police officers performing a roadside cavity search on a man during a traffic stop. According

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Articles Original Content Police Abuse 

Fun with FOIA — John Geer, Natasha McKenna, and Why Can’t FCPD Cops Drive?

March 18, 2016March 18, 2016 Lorelei McFly 1599 Views Accountability, Adam Torres, Ashley McIntosh, assault, Brutality, car accidents, Civil rights, cop block, copblock.org, Corruption, David Bulova, Dishonesty, Ed Long Jr, Fairfax Ad Hoc Commission, Fairfax County, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, Fairfax County Police Department, Fairfax County Sheriff's Office, foia, foia requests, Freedom of Information Act, John Geer, Justice System, Ken Plum, lawsuits, Marcus Simon, NATASHA MCKENNA, Nicholas Beltrante, NORTHERN VIRGINIA COPBLOCK, police, police accountability, Police brutality, rights, Scott Surovell, Sharon Bulova, Sheriff Stacey Kincaid, sunshine week, Surveillance, Tim Hugo, Transparency, Update, video, Virginia, washington post

This is the first of two articles for Sunshine Week, an annual event which promotes open government and freedom of

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2015 Was a Record Year For Exonerations of Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners

March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 1300 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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Where The Hell Are We?

February 6, 2016February 8, 2016 Scott Gregory 1215 Views Accountability, assault, Brutality, CA, California, child sexual assault, citizen journalists, citizen run database, Civil asset forfeiture, convential wisdom, cop block, copblock.org, cops, Corruption, CSI, decentralized, Department of Justice, Dishonesty, DoJ, double-standards, Drug war, excessive force, film the police, Filming police, free thought project, Glick decision, good cops, Harassment, Hoover Institution, impunity, internal investigation, iraq war, jingoism, Joseph McNamara, Jury nullification, just laws, Kansas City, killed by cops, land of the free, militarization of police, Missouri, MO, Murdered by police, National Drug Strategy Network, paint balls, police, police abuse, police accountability, Police brutality, police militarization, Police State, prisonpolicy.org, pro police, prohibitions, san jose, simmunition, special operations soldier, Stanford University, swat, SWATing, war on drugs, war on terror, warrior games, washington post

I’m not the only one looking around in wonder. Not long ago I was a very pro police jingoist. Then

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Articles CopBlock Submission 

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

February 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2587 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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Gloucester Police Department’s “Angel Program” Sends Drug Addicts To Rehab, Not Prison

February 2, 2016February 3, 2016 Kelly W. Patterson 2426 Views Accountability, albert einstein, amnesty, Angel Program, antimedia, breaking operational standards, Campanello model, Chief of Police Leonard Campanello, Civil rights, Claire Bernish, contingent of volunteers, cop block, copblock, copblock.org, counter current news, CVS, decriminalization, Deo, detox, door to door Narcon delivery, drug addiction, drug crimes, drug policy, drug rehab, Drug war, dying addicts, Dylan Donnelly, empathy fueled leap of faith, facebook, film the police, Filming police, freedom, Gary Langis, get on board with the revolution, Gilbert Hospital, Gloucester, Gloucester Chief of Police Leonard Campanello, Gloucester Initiative Angel Program, Gloucester Police Department, Gloucester Times, Glouceter PD, Harassment, harm reduction activist, heroin, heroin ravaged community, isiah holmes, Justice System, kelly patterson, legalizing marijuana, ma, marginalized and demonized, mass, Massachusetts, narcotics, narcotics policy, nasal narcan, no victim no crime, opiates, opioid, opioid addiction epidemic, opioid blocking drugs, overdose, overdose antidote, pharmacies, police, police accountability, Police State, prescription drugs, recovery, rehab center, repost, requesting help, rights, rigid behavioral or ideological loop, severe overdose, the war on drugs is over, the war on some drugs, trailblazing initiative, vice, video, war on drugs, washington post, world anew, WWLP-22News

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 1651 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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