Two Los Angeles police officers are being investigated for allegedly coercing sex from women under threat of being jailed, court records show. The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday a search warrant it obtained states internal affairs investigators suspect officers Luis Valenzuela and James Nichols forced at least four women they had arrested previously or worked for them as informants to perform sex acts ...

There was a time not so long ago when Lisa Steed’s stock as a corporal in the Utah Highway Patrol was soaring. Passionate about police work, with a wide smile and a notable number of driving-under-the-influence arrests to show for her diligence, Corporal Steed was named trooper of the year by her superiors in 2007, her career seemingly heading toward the inevitable promotions. In November, however, the once ...

In August 2009, the corporate-organized FreedomWorks/Koch “Tea Party” group within the Republican Party bused its adherents to riots they organized against Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives who were trying to hold informational town hall events in order to discuss with constituents emerging healthcare legislation.   However, there was no FBI surveillance of those corporate-organized di ...

A VPD cop thinks he can bully and intimidate me on a "routine" traffic stop. However, when the camera comes on, he starts singing a new tune and does a 180 degree attitude change. Still gives me a completely bullshit ticket, which I am now fighting on my day in court. Power to the people! 
 
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Complaints about the use of Tasers have been increasing as police gear up to put the controversial 50,000-volt devices in the hands of more officers. Among those who have complained are a 14-year-old girl, a ‘good Samaritan’ who was trying to help police, two cyclists and a man who said he refused to take off his underpants in custody. Critics said the complaints, running at the rate of one every three days ...

Authorities Saturday continued to investigate the circumstances surrounding a fight at an “End of the World” party in San Bernardino that turned deadly. A statement by the San Bernardino Police Department says as many as 100 people had attended the party at a home on 7th Street on Friday evening. 
 At some point during the party, a 29-year-old man was stabbed and police were called to the scene to investiga ...

New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has unveiled a precrime plan to find mass shooters before they strike. “The techniques would include cyber-searches of language that mass-casualty shooters have used in e-mails and Internet postings,” Kelly said in a statement, according to the New York Times. “The goal would be to identify the shooter in cyberspace, engage him there and intervene, possibly using an un ...

  “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” – Aldous Huxley – Brave New World The world makes less sense every day. Little children are randomly slaughtered in their schoolrooms. Predator drones roam the skies over ...


 Mayor Mike Gaskill and Police Chief Todd Stovall of Paragould Arkansas announced plans to patrol the streets with AR-15 rifles and stop pedestrians randomly for IDs and questioning. According to the Paragould Daily Press: "[Police are] going to be in SWAT gear and have AR-15s around their neck," [Police Chief Todd] Stovall said. "If you're out walking, we're going to stop you, ask why you're out walking, ...

  Sometimes an invention comes along that makes you excited about the future. For a long time, it seems that handcuffs have been stuck in the movies of old. They restrain you, but, odd for our interactive world, that's all they seem to do. Might I tempt you toward futuristic handcuffs that will offer you a small involuntary judder? 
 I am grateful to Gizmodo for discovering that Patent Bolt has lucked ...