Communications Regulator to Fine People Who Link to Blacklisted Sites
Posted in Big Brother, Government, Law Enforcement, Politics, Technology on Mar 18th, 2009
Category Archive for 'Law Enforcement'
Secret Bush Memos Made Public By Obama
Posted in Barack Obama, Big Brother, George W Bush, Government, Law Enforcement, Legal, Military, Politics, Presidential on Mar 3rd, 2009
The Justice Department on Monday released a long-secret legal document from 2001 in which the Bush administration claimed the military could search and seize terror suspects in the United States without warrants.
The legal memo was written about a month after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. It says constitutional protections against unlawful search and seizure would [...]
NYPD Stopped, Frisked Record Number In ‘08
Posted in Big Brother, Government, Law Enforcement, Legal on Feb 11th, 2009
Newly released figures show New York City police stopped, questioned and frisked a record-high 531,159 people last year.
The New York Civil Liberties Union released the NYPD data Wednesday. The number was more than 13 percent higher than in 2007.
An earlier study by a separate group projected the 2008 figure would be slightly higher than the [...]
Interactive Map of Botched Police Raids
Posted in Big Brother, Government, Law Enforcement, Legal, Military, New World Order, Politics, Prohibition, Surveillance on Feb 7th, 2009
The proliferation of SWAT teams, police militarization, and the Drug War have given rise to a dramatic increase in the number of “no-knock” or “quick-knock” raids on suspected drug offenders. Because these raids are often conducted based on tips from notoriously unreliable confidential informants, police sometimes conduct SWAT-style raids on the wrong home, or on [...]