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Appeals Court Rules It Is Not Illegal To Film Police...
“The filming of government officials engaged in their duties in a public place, including police officers performing their responsibilities, fits comfortably within these principles [of protected First Amendment activity].,” said the Court.
Despite the ruling, state authorities in Illinois are still trying to prosecute 41-year old mechanic Michael Allison for recording police officers in public.
Allison faces a life sentence on five separate counts of “eavesdropping” that add up to 75 years.

You have a right to record the police

All over America, police have been arresting people for taking video or making sound recordings of them, even though such arrests are pretty clearly illegal. Usually, the charges are dropped once the case becomes public, and usually that’s the end of it.

But sometimes things go farther, and in two recent cases, they’ve gone far enough to bite back at the police and prosecutors involved. We need more such biting.

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Who will watch the watchers? WE WILL!

Those who feel otherwise -- mostly police officers and those connected with them -- need to rethink the relationship of government to the citizenry, and perhaps reread the Constitution’s prohibition on “titles of nobility.” In an era when government feels free to record citizens whenever they’re out in public, government officials need to recognize that this recording business works both ways. Want a surveillance society? Be prepared to live in it.

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Man Ticketed For Directing Traffic At Backed Up Intersection During Outage...

Before Ehrlich stepped in, traffic was backed up for more than a mile and it took more than 30 minutes to get through the busy intersection.
Ehrlich said the Sept. 8 incident wasn’t the first and that the light goes out regularly.
Ehrlich cleared up the mess in 10 minutes.

Police responded to the scene and told Ehrlich to stop and issued him a ticket, but never stepped into direct traffic themselves.
South Pasadena Police Chief Joe Payne said he did not have the man power needed to staff officers at Fair Oaks and Huntington Thursday and that is safer to allow traffic to back up. “We have limited resources . . . we need to prioritize them."

"One of the major intersections out at rush hour in our city should be a priority.” Ehrlich said.

There is no money to be made in directing traffic, only in issuing tickets.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 10 September 2011 - 09:56 PM.

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If you were a key witness in a police corruption trial and your court testimony helped put a police officer in prison, would you feel safe the next time you saw a police officer approach you? Especially if his gun accidentally discharged? OOPS!

Welcome to Tulsa!
(Disclaimer: My son-in-law is a police officer, not involved in the cases below.)

Key witness in Tulsa police trial arrested on traffic misdemeanors

Five Tulsa police officers - including one who "accidentally" fired his weapon - served misdemeanor traffic warrants and arrested a key witness Thursday in a police corruption lawsuit against the city.
Several warrants were issued Aug. 22, about two weeks after Barnes testified as a witness for prosecutors during a police corruption trial. Other warrants were issued Sept. 15, records show.
Barnes was at the home of her father, Larry Wayne Barnes Sr., who is suing the city and police alleging wrongful imprisonment, records show.

In arresting Kelie Barnes, police officers forced open the door after the residents failed to open the door.
"The gun was not pointed at anyone and it was discharged into the ground."
"It is not common to force entry, but it is also not prohibited,"
Ryan Logsdon, and former ATF agent Brandon McFadden testified in a recent police trial that they framed the Barneses with the help of Officer Jeff Henderson.

Logsdon testified he lied when he said he bought drugs from the Barneses or that he saw Kelie Barnes in the home on the day of the alleged, fabricated drug buy in 2007. McFadden also testified the drug buy was fabricated.

The reader replies sum up my opinion:

...I guess the police couldn't find her during the trial!

...Does it take five police officers to serve an arrest warrant on one scofflaw--and then for traffic charges--from several years back? Police brutality is alive and well! I USED TO BE supporter of the police, not much anymore.

...If the Barnes family has a lick of sense (debatable), they should leave town. TPD will harass them, make fake cases against them and make their lives miserable. Look for TPD to plant some drugs on them soon . . .

...If the Tulsa law enforcement would be so good as serve all the felony and murder warrants they have rather than expired tag and no insurance, wouldn't we be better off? Instead they continue to serve up justice for misdemeanors on people who testified against their corrupt blue brothers. It is so obvious this is just harassment for her testimony.

Key witness in Tulsa police trial arrested on traffic misdemeanors

Edited by Rogerdodger, 17 September 2011 - 10:02 AM.

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Cop not charged after admitting perjury, ticket fixing scandal
A cop who threw cases in Traffic Court and got caught on a wiretap getting a ticket fixed admitted on the stand Friday to committing perjury.
But he still won't be charged with a crime, Bronx prosecutors said.

Police Charged For Tossing Football With 7-Year Old
"It was the Fourth of July, it was 96 degrees out and we were interacting with the community," said Officer Catherine Guzman, a 17-year veteran of the force. "I don't think throwing a football to a 7-year-old boy is misconduct."
But that's what the football four were charged with, as they received command disciplines. Two of the four also accepted a penalty of two vacation days.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 21 September 2011 - 08:14 AM.

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D.A. Offers Deal to NYPD Officer in Ticket-Fixing Case
Prosecutors have offered to trim decades off the possible prison sentence for a New York City police officer if he pleads guilty to charges that he dealt in stolen goods and counterfeit DVDs, fixed tickets and conspired to transport heroin in his squad car.
The investigation prompted a wider probe that revealed that a number of officers had been fixing tickets for friends.
Fifteen people have been charged so far.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 10 December 2011 - 04:42 PM.

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Three Tulsa police officers, former ATF agent sentenced


Wells was sentenced to the minimum ten years in prison for stealing and dealing drugs and money in an FBI sting.

Retired TPD Officer JJ Gray received four months in prison and four years probation. He pleaded guilty to stealing money an FBI sting. His attorney expected only probation.

Judge Black told Henderson in sentencing he was staying with the guidelines, “I am convinced that there was substantial evidence on the convicted charges as well as some of the other counts."
A jury convicted Henderson in August on eight of 53 counts, including two counts of civil rights violations and six counts of perjury.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 10 December 2011 - 04:50 PM.

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NOTE: for those of you from another country or for any who were educated in the government school system, the word "Supreme" used as an adjective identifying which court we are adressing does not mean that the this court is the Supreme ruler of the United States. It is only Supreme over other courts and the weakest of the 3 branches of the US government, ie., Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.
It is the weakest because it has no power to act on its own. Second it has no power to enforce what it does.

Read more: http://wiki.answers....t#ixzz1kJWFuAxn

It's purpose was originally only the judge existing law as passed by the Legislative branch (Congress and Senate), not to legislate new laws.

Supreme Court says search warrants needed when police use GPS devices to track suspects...
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that police must obtain a search warrant before using a GPS device to track criminal suspects. But the justices left for another day larger questions about how technology has altered a person’s expectation of privacy.
Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the government needed a valid warrant before attaching a GPS device to the Jeep used by D.C. drug kingpin Antoine Jones, who was convicted in part because police tracked his movements on public roads for 28 days.
“We hold that the government’s installation of a GPS device on a target’s vehicle, and its use of that device to monitor the vehicle’s movements, constitutes a ‘search’ ” under the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, Scalia wrote.

In an intense hour-long oral argument last November, the Big Brother of George Orwell’s novel “1984” was referenced six times.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 23 January 2012 - 03:08 PM.

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Come here Sparky!

Park ranger zaps man with stun gun for walking dogs off-leash...
In December, the area became part of the national park system, which requires that all dogs be on a leash, Levitt said.
The ranger was trying to educate residents of the rule, Levitt said.

Edited by Rogerdodger, 01 February 2012 - 01:41 AM.

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OOPS. SORRY.

FBI Uses Chainsaw To Tear Door Down In Terrifying Raid -- On Wrong Apartment...

Edited by Rogerdodger, 02 February 2012 - 10:11 AM.