Feb 2, 2010
Police Harassment in NYC
From Bob Herbert at the NYT Editorial Desk: “Statistics will be out shortly about the total number of people who were stopped and frisked...
Feb 2, 2010
Privatizing Incarceration and Policing
This is a piece from the Center for International Policy at the America’s Program. It focuses primarily on listing the major players and...
Dec 21, 2009
Solution to Police Murder and Harrassment: More COPS??!!??
From the Chronicle’s Matier and Ross: “Hundreds of extra cops – including BART officers, Oakland police, and sheriff’s deputies from San...
Dec 19, 2009
ICE Running a Secret Detention Network
From the Nation: “”If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we can make him disappear.”...
Dec 16, 2009
Copenhagen Beat Down
Here’s CNN coverage of yesterday’s police rampage in Copenhagen. Apologies for the CNN (with [crappy] commercials), but the footage is...
Dec 13, 2009
Denmark = Police State
From the people at It’s Getting Hot In Here: “Yesterday, a massive, peaceful protest of 100,000 people – the largest demonstration for...
Dec 7, 2009
Police Repression in Copenhagen
From the Agence-France Presse courtesy of InfoShop: “Six thousand police — more than half of all the police in Denmark — are being...
Dec 7, 2009
Sprint Needs Some Stitches!
From Ars Technica: “Christopher Soghoian, a graduate student at Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing, has made public...
Dec 2, 2009
Court Says Long Haul Can Sue
According to the Chronicle: “The activist group Long Haul Inc. can try to prove that the search of its Berkeley offices exceeded legal...
Nov 25, 2009
Berkeley to Ban Protest?!?
From Larry at IndyBay: “For the first time, amplified sound permits will be required for all amplification, including bullhorn use by...
