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August 31, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

Secretive Police 0

Move along now. Nothing to see here.

At least, not anymore.

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August 29, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

TSA Security Theatre 0

TSA can’t spot a weapon, but they can take milk from a baby.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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August 29, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

“The Past . . . Is Not Even Past” 0

Via The Guardian.

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August 26, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

A Cavity in the Fourth Amendment. 4

Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Just read it.

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August 19, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

Words Fail Me 0

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

And police resent it when persons call them pig–oh, never mind.

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August 12, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

Impunity, Reprise 0

It’s as simple as A, B, C.

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August 11, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

Impunity 0

It’s a thing.

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August 11, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

TSA Security Theatre: The Police State Rocky Horror Picture Show 0

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August 10, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

Killing Fields 0

Tombstones in graveyard with legends such as

Via Job’s Anger.

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August 4, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

“Get on the Ground! Get on the Ground Now!” 0

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August 3, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

“Get on the Ground!” 0

Tweet from Lisa Bloom: If we are telling people don't assert you Constitutional rights at a traffice stop and just do whatever cops say we live in a police state.

Invisiblelad adds:

It’s the unsaid there that’s truly chilling though. It’s the “do whatever cops say because they’re allowed to kill you otherwise” implication that genuinely shatters any notion of liberty this country claims to have.

Stolen in its entirety from PoliticalProf.

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August 2, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

The Barney Fife and Dumb Corps 0

Historiann, an academician who is necessarily on campuses (campi?), recounts her experiences with campus cops. Here’s one (emphasis added); the rest aren’t pretty either.

My second encounter with campus “police” was in the late 1990s when I was teaching at the University of Dayton. Arriving at campus early one morning, I was confused by the maze of parking lots where my parking permit now allowed me to park. I drove the wrong way for 15 feet, into an exit-only lane for one parking lot–that was wrong, but there were no other cars moving in the lot at the time, so there was no danger to anyone because I missed the “exit only” sign. I was immediately pulled over (lights flashing and siren blaring!) by a campus “police” officer. When I (naively) moved to get out of my car to have a conversation with the “police” officer, I was screamed at “Get back in the car! Get back in the car!” by the overwrought cop. His anger and apparent lack of judgment and personal control scared me, so I got back in the car. Imagine what might have happened if I were in my teens, and/or African American, and/or male, and/or not wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase?

Read the rest.

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August 1, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

How Stuff Works: Body-cams 0

Title: Cinncinati Body-Cam Demonstration. Pictured: Cop with smoking gun labeled

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Video via Raw Story.

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July 31, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

“Sovereign Immunity,” Reprise 0

As I heard persons say back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un growing up white under Jim Crow, “What’s the big deal? It was only a [insert slur of choice here].”

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July 30, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

“Sovereign Immunity” 0

Wear blue. Get a license to kill.

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July 30, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

Prowling for Pretexts: Barney Fife with Real Bullets 0

An ex-cop, now a law professor, weighs in at TPM (emphasis in the original):

As a former police officer, and now as a legal scholar who studies policing, I know the law is not a moral compass. An officer’s actions can be entirely lawful, and yet fail to meet the high standards that we should expect from our law enforcement professionals, our community guardians. When we focus on whether the police acted lawfully, we are missing the chance to ask whether they acted appropriately. As I watch the dash camera video of the traffic stop, I can’t help but think of the distinction between lawful policing and rightful policing.

Read the rest and understand why Sheriff Andy would not have given this Barney Fife the bullet.

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July 26, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

Prowling for Pretext 0

Via Raw Story.

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July 25, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

“Licensed To Kill” 0

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July 23, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |

“What the Good Guys Do” 0

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July 18, 2015 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Enforcers |
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