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you just don't get it do you?

But these people do!

Policing by the consent of the voters and taxpayers
who just now discover, 200 years later, they need to develop and enforce standards for a criminal justice system they own...

no problem Salt Lake City only has. ....
I won't look it up for you

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Community leaders want urgency, solutions to unsolved murders

Boston civic and religious leaders say they will hold Hub homicide investigators accountable as they grapple with an alarming 336 unsolved murders still on police books from the past decade.

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Frank Serpico is one of the good guys



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Frank Serpico joins forces with whistleblower suing NYPD for $50 million
EXCLUSIVE: Officer Adrian Schoolcraft is suing the NYPD after police allegedly dragged him off to a mental hospital after he accused them of fudging crime stats. Serpico, 76, was credited with exposing corruption inside the NYPD in the 1970s.

Published: Monday, February 4, 2013, 7:04 PM
Updated: Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 2:00 AM

Serpico, 76, who was credited with exposing corruption inside the NYPD in the 1970s, is joining forces with a whistleblower suing the police department for $50 million. David Handschuh/New York Daily News Serpico, 76, who was credited with exposing corruption inside the NYPD in the 1970s, is joining forces with a whistleblower suing the police department for $50 million.

Two whistleblowers are better than one.

Frank Serpico has joined the legal team of Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, a cop suing the NYPD for $50 million after police allegedly dragged him off to a mental hospital after he accused them of fudging crime stats.

“This is the way they do it,” Serpico told The News. “They make you a psycho and everything you do gets discounted. But I told Adrian just to tell the truth as he knows it and to be himself. When you tell the truth, they can't do a damn thing to you.”

Serpico, 76, was credited with exposing corruption inside the NYPD. He testified in front of the Knapp Commission in 1971 and retired the following year. His career was captured on the big screen in the 1973 movie “Serpico,” starring Al Pacino as the Brooklyn-born cop.

Though decades apart, both Serpico and Schoolcraft worked at one point at the 81st Precinct in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Schoolcraft accused supervisors there of downgrading felonies to misdemeanors, enforcing arrest quotas and refusing to log crime complaints from the public.

He secretly recorded his superiors talking about cooking the books and arresting people for doing nothing more than standing on the street.

Schoolcraft said that on Halloween night 2009, police pulled him from his Queens apartment under the guise that he was a danger to himself — then took him to the psychiatric ward at Jamaica Hospital, where he remained for six days.

Serpico said news stories about the case brought back bad memories.

“It was like I was reading something back in 1960,” he said.

Schoolcraft, 37, joined the NYPD in 2002. He has been under suspension for more than two years and is living upstate. Serpico said he will advise Schoolcraft in any way he can and plans to attend the trial. No date has been set.

A police source said Schoolcraft was taken to the hospital because of concerns for his mental well-being. Police officials have also said cops took Schoolcraft’s allegations seriously. An internal report backed Schoolcraft’s allegations, finding problems with about three dozen crime reports, including 11 he gave investigators, sources said.

The precinct supervisor, Deputy Inspector Steven Mauriello, was transferred in July 2010. He was later slapped with departmental charges, accusing him of tampering with police reports and misleading investigators.

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Everybody in Congress knew the Director of the FBI had assassinated President Kennedy for LBJ.
Why else seal the assassination records until. 2017
jfk: 50 years later
Troves of files on JFK assassination remain secret
By Bryan Bender
| Globe Staff November 25, 2013

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LBJ Killed JFK

by Dan Eden for Viewzone

The Del Charro -- a melting pot of evil
Clint Murchison [above] was an oil millionaire whose wealth was made in the wildcat oil business, nurtured and preserved by the Oil Depletion Allowance. He owned about 500 different companies and controlled just about everything and anything in Texas. He extended his influence to Washington DC and other powerful venues through a very special hotel that he ran -- the El Charro Hotel -- in La Jolla, California.

As you probably guessed, the Del Charro was no ordinary hotel. In the 1950's the room rate officially started at $150 per night. Murchison, a multi-millionaire, certainly didn't run it to make a profit. No. If you stayed at the Del Charro your food and lodging were usually pro bono.

The frequent guests were all power figures like J. Edgar Hoover (Director of the FBI), Carlos Mossello (New Orleans Mafia head), Richard Nixon (who lost the 1960 presidential election to Kennedy), Bobby Baker (Johnson's right hand man and secretary of the US Senate) and a wealthy man named D.H. Byrd (the owner of the Texas Book Depository).

With a partner named Sid Richardson, Murchison also owned the Del Mar Race Track. Since Hoover was fond of gambling, Murchison set him up with a box seat at the finish line. He also let Hoover invest in his oil ventures and would give him his money back if a well didn't strike oil.

The Del Charro was quid pro quo and provided a social atmosphere where organized crime, the FBI chief, big oil money and political power could mingle.

Behind the scenes there was an "understanding." The mob had obtained photographs of J. Edgar Hoover engaging in oral sex with his male partner, Clyde Tolson. Mafia boss, Mossello, "controlled" these photographs and blackmailed Hoover into avoiding any action against the "mob." In fact, until the early 1960's, the FBI had no formal training or divisions that addressed organized crime. From the top down it was known that this was "hands off."

All of this was about to change in the fateful year of 1963. JFK's brother and now Attorney General Robert Kennedy, as Hoover's new boss, had declared war on the mob. This put Hoover in an extremely anxious predicament. Gradually, organized crime, Hoover and big oil were becoming frustrated with JFK. Nixon also had his axe to grind, having been defeated by Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election.

Kennedy not only talked about change -- he made it happen. The Oil Depletion Allowance was to be slashed, organized crime had begun to be prosecuted by a zealous Justice Department, even the CIA was upset with Kennedy.

Kennedy had made it clear that the CIA was to gather intelligence, as described in their charter, but were not to propose or promote policies. He was so angry with their performance in Vietnam and Cuba that he openly talked about dissolving the organization.

"If the United States ever experiences an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government, it will come from the CIA. The agency represents a tremendous power and total unaccountability to anyone."
--JFK

Yes, a storm was brewing. Guests of the Del Charro were ready to do so

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Seattle police chief during WTO unrest appalled by Ferguson violence

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Investigators suspected cover-up, more crimes by King City police
More search warrants unsealed


Posted: 08/16/2014

KING CITY >> A King City police sergeant conspired to cover up crimes, hide evidence and intimidate a witness after he and five current and former officers learned they were under investigation, a recently unsealed search warrant alleges.

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Ambush Interview with FBI Agent Investigating NH Libertarians
April 16, 2013 by Free Concord




Today outside of day one of the historic trial of Rich Paul for cannabis distribution, myself, Pete Eyre, and Ademo Freeman had the opportunity to interview FBI Special Agent Phil Christiana. Earlier in the day, on the witness stand, Phil admitted to working for the joint terrorism task force, and was very reluctant to reveal any information about his asking Rich Paul to wear a wire. When asked directly why he was investigating the Keene Activist Center, he stated that he could not speak about the KAC. Coincidentally (or not) two weeks after Rich’s arrest, city bureaucrats obtained a search warrant to inspect for smoke detectors and evidence of a ‘lodging house’.


As he exited the courthouse following his testimony today, the three of us asked Phil about his investigations into peaceful people in the Keene area. According to him, Rich’s case is the only time he has worked with the NH Drug Task Force, receiving approximately six calls for service from local and state agencies per year. His responses were brief and slick. When Kim Kossick, Rich’s public defender, inquired why Christiana offered to drop charges if Rich would wiretap others at the Keene Activist Center, the agent responded that he was not at liberty to discuss an investigation relative to the KAC. Christiana has had an interest in finding informants within the New Hampshire liberty movement for a few years. He approached Dave Ridley in 2005 but ceased interacting with him once informed that everything he relayed to Ridley would be shared publicly. According to Dave:

My experience with him was that he was more or less polite and professional…but creepy. He came to the same Keene house when I lived there, to learn more about Russell Kanning’s plans for civil disobedience at Manchester Airport’s TSA checkpoint.

He also requested to have lunch with me and indicated, not in so many words, that he wanted me to be an informant. I told him I would be interested in having that lunch but would report everything we said to the public. He decline to interact with me after that.

Shortly after Rich was released on bail for the charges he’s currently on trial for, he spread the word that the FBI was looking to make him into a confidential informant. When Pete Eyre, who was at the time living at the KAC, tried to contact Phil about why he wanted to wiretap his home, the federal agent declined to discuss anything on the record, and insisted on an undocumented conversation with Pete.

During the trial, Christiana stated that it is FBI policy not to record interrogations. For this reason, no record exists of himself trying to convince Rich to covertly record others. What does it say about an individual whose job is to record others without their consent, for the purpose of collecting incriminating evidence against them, that does not feel comfortable discussing the nature of their work on the record?

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Woman beaten by CHP officer in L.A.: 'I just want justice done'


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Why an accused Phila. officer is still on the force



Surveillance video of Philadelphia Police Narcotics Field Unit officers raiding a West Oak Lane grocery store on September 11, 2007. Video still shows Officer Thomas Tolstoy (in foreground) checking out a surveillance camera. The video camera was positioned behind the front counter. Officer Jeffrey Cujdik is directly behind Tolstoy.
Surveillance video of Philadelphia Police Narcotics Field Unit officers raiding a West Oak Lane grocery store on September 11, 2007. Video still shows Officer Thomas Tolstoy (in foreground) checking out a surveillance camera. The video camera was positioned behind the front counter. Officer Jeffrey Cujdik is directly behind Tolstoy.
Surveillance video of Philadelphia Police Narcotics Field Unit officers raiding a West Oak Lane grocery store on September 11, 2007. Video still shows Officer Thomas Tolstoy (in foreground) checking out a surveillance camera. The video camera was positioned behind the front counter. Officer Jeffrey Cujdik is directly behind Tolstoy. Gallery: Why an accused Phila. officer is still on the force
Mike Newall and Aubrey Whelan, Inquirer Staff Writers
Last updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 1:08 AM

The woman in the emergency room at Frankford Hospital told the detective that the police officer who sexually assaulted her was named Tom. After the attack, she said, the officer scrawled his cellphone number on a torn piece of paper and handed it to her.

Through personnel records, police traced the number to a 10-year veteran of the force, Thomas Tolstoy. Within hours of the alleged assault on Oct. 16, 2008, the officer was pulled off the street.

Three women who did not know one another would eventually accuse Tolstoy of assaulting them under strikingly similar circumstances. Of the three cases, only the one involving the woman from Frankford Hospital led to a full-blown inquiry.

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This is how many times British cops fired guns all of last year: 3


August 18, 2014 · 8:15 PM EDT


Police officers take pictures of giant puppets as they move through the streets of Liverpool, northern England July 25, 2014.

In 2012, 409 people were shot and killed by American police in what were termed justifiable shootings. In that same year, British police officers fired their weapons just once. No one was killed.

In 2013, British police officers fired their weapons all of three times. No one died. According to The Economist, "British citizens are around 100 times less likely to be shot by a police officer than Americans. Between 2010 and 2014, the police force of one small American city — Albuquerque in New Mexico — shot and killed 23 civilians; seven times more than the number of Brits killed by all of England and Wales’s 43 forces during the same period.

The Economist argues that the reason for this disparity is actually quite simple: guns are comparatively rare in the UK. Most cops don't carry them and criminals rarely have access to them. The last time a British officer was killed by a gun was in 2012. In the US last year, 30 police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty.

In December, PRI's The World reported on Icelanders grieving after their police force killed a man — for the first time in the country's history as a republic.

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August 25. 2014


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Police shootings
Police using deadly force are rarely convicted

Tramaine Miller, who was shot in the face by off-duty Atlanta police Officer Reginald Fisher, leaves Grady Memorial Hospital in May 2009. The bullet remains lodged in Miller’s neck today.


The APD bullet is still in Tramaine Miller’s neck, a legacy of what at best was a bad decision by a hard-pressed police officer or at worst the reflexive act of a trigger-happy cop.

Former Atlanta Police Officer Reginald Fisher testified at his 2011 trial that he mistook the cellphone in Miller’s hand for a gun. Miller, a fast-food worker, was leaving a Mechanicsville apartment after helping his quadriplegic aunt. He refused to unlock his car door when confronted by Fisher, who was working an off-duty security job and had deemed Miller suspicious.

Fisher smashed out Miller’s car window with his baton, saw something in Miller’s hand and shot him.

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August 27 2014
Police: Henry sheriff’s captain arrested for arranging tryst with child


A Henry County sheriff’s deputy was arrested in DeKalb County and stands accused of attempting to arrange a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old.

Capt. David McCart of the Henry County Sheriff’s Office was arrested Tuesday after a two-month investigation, according to Channel 2 Action News.

DeKalb investigators told Channel 2 that McCart met the boy online through social media. The two allegedly talked about different sexual activities and agreed to meet, according to the television report.

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couple of reads


1st read


FBI taking over investigation into agent firing weapon at militia member

Posted: 08.30.2014


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Surfside Beach administrator, former FBI agent indicted



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FLORENCE, S.C. - Retired FBI agent Clyde William Merryman was indicted Wednesday on charges of concealing a sexual relationship he was having with a woman his office was investigating.

Merryman retired in 2003 after more than 30 years with the FBI and is now town administrator of Surfside Beach.

Merryman faces seven criminal counts including mail fraud, obstruction of justice and falsifying records.

According to the indictment, Merryman opened a federal investigation in 2002 into Myrtle Beach spas suspected of hiring Korean women, who were in the country illegally, to work as prostitutes.

Merryman is accused of having and concealing a sexual relationship with Hye Yung Kang, identified in the indictment as one of the "top managers" of the Myrtle Beach spas.

The indictment also accuses Merryman of exaggerating the woman's unique value to the investigation and downplaying her criminal involvement.

Neither Merryman nor Surfside Beach Mayor Ron Hyman, Jr., immediately returned calls from the Associated Press. Prosecutors did not know whether Merryman had an attorney.

Merryman will have an initial court appearance May 5 at the U.S. Courthouse in Florence.

The charges against Merryman and the potential penalties are:

_Three counts of mail fraud-theft of honest services, 20 years in prison

_One count of concealment of material fact from a U.S. agency, five years in prison

_Two counts of falsification of records in a federal investigation, 20 years in prison

_One count of obstruction of justice, 10 years in prison.

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Villanova professor's quest reveals LBJ vendetta against George Hamilton



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The president directed the FBI and Justice Abe Fortas to investigate Hamilton, newly revealed documents show.


At Easter services in Texas in April 1966: (from left) President Johnson, with daughter Luci Baines Johnson; her fiancé, Patrick Nugent; and actor George Hamilton. The president directed the FBI and Justice Abe Fortas to investigate Hamilton, newly revealed documents show.




Last updated: Sunday, August 31, 2014, 1:09 AM

For a few months in 1966, the budding romance between film star George Hamilton and Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of the 36th president, was the talk of Washington.

Gossip columnists followed their every move as Hamilton squired her around town. The couple vacationed in Acapulco and made camera-ready appearances at the Sugar Bowl, Mardi Gras, and the Oscars. The actor spent Easter at the LBJ ranch in Texas and even attended the Washington wedding of Lynda's sister Luci.

President Johnson made no secret of his suspicions about the handsome, patent-leather playboy, perhaps best known now for his perpetual tan, blinding smile, and roles on TV shows ranging from Columbo to Dynasty to Dancing With the Stars.

But a previously confidential FBI file - which a Philadelphia judge last week outlined in an opinion and ordered to be released - shows for the first time how far Johnson went to protect his daughter and his presidency.
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The file indicates Johnson enlisted Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI to investigate every rumor they could find about Hamilton, including claims that he was gay and a draft-dodger, in a bid to dig up dirt on the actor.

In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno called it not only an improper probe but a "potentially illegal use of executive power."

The documents were the focus of a four-year court battle by a Villanova Law School professor, Tuan Samahon, and his students. But they also offer a window into a presidential administration and an FBI that apparently thought little of violating the privacy of American citizens - an accusation that has resonated for modern presidential administrations.

According to Robreno, who reviewed the controversial file, the documents ended up reflecting most poorly on the FBI itself.

"This case is about the ability of the federal government to pry into the private lives of U.S. citizens with virtual impunity," he wrote in his opinion. "The file can be read as an effort by the FBI to uncover embarrassing details about a private citizen as a personal favor to the president."


Agency's excesses

The FBI file burnishes a long-established record of the excesses of Hoover's agency and Johnson's willingness to use it to investigate perceived threats. But that wasn't what Samahon, who teaches courses on constitutional law and federal courts, initially went looking for.

He wanted to know what role the FBI may have played in the 1969 resignation of Fortas from the highest court after only four years. Fortas, a Johnson appointee to the court, had been the president's former attorney and longtime confidant.

Samahon filed a Freedom of Information Act request in 2010 to see a memo that he hoped would give him material for a book on Fortas. At the time, he believed it could indicate the FBI used knowledge of some illicit relationship Fortas had with a man to pressure him into disclosing confidential information about a Supreme Court case.

The Department of Justice released the memo but redacted a single name, saying it could reveal embarrassing details about a private citizen.

Samahon rejected the argument, saying there was no legal reason to keep the name confidential, but the FBI didn't budge. So Samahon put his students to work, and in 2012 sued for the documents' release, as well as for the release of the file containing the memo. Samahon said 19 students and Beth Lyon, another Villanova professor, devoted many hours to the case over two years.

The memo Samahon wanted was a two-page report by Cartha DeLoach, deputy director of the FBI and Hoover's right-hand man.

DeLoach, then the third-highest-ranking official in the FBI, had investigated some of the nation's most notorious crimes, including the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was a Hoover loyalist with close ties to Johnson, and many believed he regularly leaked information to the White House about the most salacious FBI investigations.

As the romance blossomed between Hamilton and the president's daughter in early 1966, DeLoach and Fortas were given the uncommon task of sabotaging the relationship. The president, DeLoach wrote in his memoir, also wanted "a full rundown" on Hamilton.

"As far as the president was concerned, Fortas' seat on the Supreme Court didn't preclude him from doing a little moonlighting for the president," DeLoach wrote.

DeLoach and Fortas had a laugh over it, according to DeLoach, then began what DeLoach called a "discreet background check," reviewing the actor's family, friends, credit history, draft deferment, and more.

DeLoach became anxious as they failed to turn up anything damaging.

"Every few days I would hustle over to Abe's office in the Supreme Court building," he wrote in his 1995 memoir, Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant. "He would sweep in, his robes fluttering, and the two of us would pore over the gossip columns and try to think of ways to break up a young couple in love. . . . Each day we expected the president to call and chew us out."

When it was clear there was no more to be done, Fortas called to thank DeLoach for his help. DeLoach preserved the conversation in a memo to his boss.

"Justice Fortas called at 10:30 this morning to express appreciation for the information the Director had me furnish him concerning the George Hamilton matter," the memo states. "Justice Fortas advised he agreed with the Director that no further action need be taken at this time."

The memo became part of Hamilton's background-check file, which Robreno described in his Aug. 25 opinion as "pages of gossip." Rum

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The police officer must of thought he was still in Iraq fighting ISIS

Man subdued by stun gun sues Tunkhannock Twp. police
By Terrie Morgan-Besecker
Published: September 3, 2014

An elderly man who claims a Tunkhannock Township police officer used a stun gun on him for no reason filed a federal lawsuit against the officer, township and another man.

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FBI agents go to people when nude photos are involved


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FBI Workers Suspected of Secretly Taping Teens in Dressing Room

April 20, 2009

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Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall.

The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy. They were working in an FBI satellite control room at the mall when they positioned a camera on temporary changing rooms and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes on girls dressing for the Cinderella Project fashion show, Marion County Prosecutor Pat Wilson said Monday.
Gary Sutton Jr., 40, of New Milton and Charles Hommema of Buckhannon have been charged with the misdemeanors and face fines and up to a year in jail on each charge if convicted. Sutton has been released on bond, Wilson said, and Hommema is to be arraigned later this week. Wilson did not know Hommema's age.

The workers were described in a complaint as "police officers," but prosecutors did not say whether the men were agents or describe what kind of work they did.

The Cinderella Project at the Middletown Mall in the north-central West Virginia town of Fairmont drew hundreds of girls from 10 high schools in five counties. Organizer Cynthia Woodyard said volunteers, donors and participants are angry.



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Hilary Duff alerts FBI to fake naked photos claiming to be her
A rep for the 26-year-old star said that the photos have been determined to be faked because they do not have her ‘defining birthmarks and tattoos.’
BY Kirthana Ramisetti
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, September 5, 2014, 4:18 PM
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Hilary Duff was targeted in a fake photo leak Friday. Her rep says the photos aren’t her, and that the FBI has been alerted. Paul A. Hebert/Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP Hilary Duff was targeted in a fake photo leak Friday. Her rep says the photos aren’t her, and that the FBI has been alerted.

Hilary Duff has alerted the author

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Shooting by San Jose police: Man alleges cops tried to seize his phone for recording scene

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Posted: 09/05/2014


SAN JOSE -- A San Jose resident who was one of several people recording the aftermath of an officer-involved shooting in South San Jose last month is alleging he was intimidated and threatened with detainment for refusing to surrender his cellphone or delete the images he took.

The allegations are contained in an Aug. 21 internal-affairs complaint filed by Andrew Payne and comes as the issue of recording police performing their duties in public has gained national attention in light of the civil unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.

Earlier this summer, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Riley v. California that warrantless searches and seizures of cellphones and their contents during an arrest were unconstitutional.
A yellow evidence marker sits next to the drill reportedly held by a woman who was shot by a police officer.
A yellow evidence marker sits next to the drill reportedly held by a woman who was shot by a police officer. (Patrick Tehan, Bay Area News Group)

Because Payne was not under arrest at the time he said police demanded his phone, there's little ambiguity in this case, said Margaret Russell, a constitutional law professor at Santa Clara University.

"They can't seize and search cellphones of criminal suspects, so they definitely can't do that to someone in the street," she said.

Police declined to comment on the complaint, citing the ongoing internal-affairs investigation, which can take up to one year to complete. An internal police bulletin was sent out in July on the heels of the Riley decision to inform all sworn staff about the new search-and-seizure rules.

Payne said he was out for a jog the morning of Aug. 14 when he came upon the scene where San Jose police, responding to a 911 call involving a weapons threat, shot and killed a 19-year-old San Jose woman near Blossom Hill Road and Playa del Rey. He said he was one of several people taking pictures and recording video with their cellphones who were approached by officers at the scene asking if anyone had witnessed the police encounter.

But unlike some of the other people, Payne said he refused to hand over his phone for officers to search or give them his personal information. He said he was approached a few minutes later by Sgt. Teresa Jeglum, who is the sole officer named in his complaint. Payne said Jeglum asked him if he was taking pictures, and when he answered affirmatively, told him to clear them from his phone.

"She told me, 'You either need to delete those photos or I'm confiscating your cellphone,' " Payne said. "I told her she couldn't do that, and then she reached to grab my phone."

He said he later relented to officers' requests for his personal information after they asked him if he wanted to go to police headquarters.

"They threatened to detain me if I didn't give them my info," Payne said.

Payne said he spoke with a lieutenant after the encounter and said he just wanted an apology. He said he got a call from Jeglum, but instead of an apology, he got an assertion that she was trying to protect her officers. That didn't hold water with Payne, who said he was singled out.

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Former Florida cop suspected of raping 6-year-old pleads guilty to ID theft, weapons charges

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A former Florida road patrol deputy who fled prosecution for the sexual assault of a 6-year-old girl in the 1970s pleaded guilty on Friday to stealing his dead stepbrother’s identity and using it stockpile weapons in Alaska

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A man who doused himself with gasoline was not clearly "emotionally disturbed," a federal judge ruled, clearing the New Jersey police who fatally shot him.
The police department in Manchester, N.J., dispatched Officers Michael Lynch, Shawn Cavalcante and Brian Collins on May 30, 2010, after receiving a 911 call from the home of Edward and Darlene Nordstrom.
According to the officers' undisputed facts, the Nordstroms' son, Richard - whom Collins had arrested for domestic violence and had seized weapons from in the past - was reportedly assaulting the couple's 22-year-old grandson Andrew.
Once Lynch spotted Richard through a window in a workshop adjoining the home's detached garage, the officer drew his weapon and turned on his flashlight.
Cavalcante and Collins insisted that Richard leave the workshop, but Richard refused and began pouring gasoline on his legs and the ground around his feet while holding a utility lighter.
After the officers ordered Richard to drop the can and lighter, Cavalcante and Collins tried to enter the workshop from an outside door to keep Richard from lighting himself on fire.
Seconds after Cavalcante tried to force the door open by hitting it with a shovel, Richard squatted then stood up and pointed at the door with what appeared to be a sawed-off shotgun.
Lynch then shot Richard once in his torso, and then in the back of his left shoulder.
Sgt. Mark McClellan arrived soon after Richard fell into the doorway. As he kicked the shotgun out of the way, he realized it was a "light plastic item," not a real weapon.
Though Richard was motionless, McClellan cuffed him before letting paramedics enter.

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FBI Director Louis Fresh car crash
no crash reconstruction team called in


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Aug 27, 2014 - BURLINGTON, Vt. — Former FBI Director Louis Freeh remained ... of the single-car crash, the state police accident reconstruction team was not ...

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Ex-PNP official punched FBI man, probe shows
Pasay road rage suspect a retired cop, security agency boss
By Julie M. Aurelio, Maricar B. Brizuela |Philippine Daily Inquirer
4:00 am | Friday, September 12th, 2014

MANILA, Philippines–Not only active members are giving the Philippine National Police a bad rap these days.

A retired PNP official and now owner of a security agency is facing charges after he was identified as one of the persons who punched an agent of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) following a minor vehicular accident Monday night in Pasay City.

According to the Pasay police, FBI special agent Lamont Siler recognized Odelon Ramoneda—owner of V8 Security Agency Corp. and former acting director of the Bataan Police Provincial Office—as one of his attackers, who also included four, shotgun-toting men “in barong.”

This was after the American was shown a photo of Ramoneda, whose name cropped up as investigators traced the owner of the Toyota Fortuner which Siler’s car slightly damaged in the Sept. 8 incident on Roxas Boulevard.

Siler was then driving a car around 7 p.m. near the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex when its side mirror accidentally got into contact with and left scratches on the Fortuner. According to the complaint reaching the police, two other SUVs blocked his path and a group of armed men got out and dragged Siler out of the car at gunpoint.

The American was then punched by the men (not just by one man, as earlier reported), as they demanded payment for the damage. They then asked for his driver’s license and US Embassy badge, but returned these items to him and left in a hurry, saying they would still call him about the payment. The incident was later reported to the Pasay police by US Embassy Manila Special Investigator Voltaire Gomez.

The PNP Supervisory Office for Security and Investigation Agencies (Sosia) confirmed that Ramoneda, a retired senior superintendent, runs V8 Security and Investigation Agency based in Balanga, Bataan.

In an interview, Sosia head Chief Supt. Noel Constantino said the retired official served as acting provincial police director of Bataan, a position he held in 2007. His last position was head of the Regional Headquarters Support Service of the Police Regional Office 3 in Central Luzon.

Ramoneda retired from the police service in 2010, Constantino said. “His security agency was set up in 2012 with a license to operate for two years,” he added.

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LAPD deployed 'ghost cars' to meet staffing standards, report finds



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LAPD officers patrol skid row in downtown L.A. in July; a new report by the LAPD inspector general has found the department falsified records to make it appear that it was meeting staffing standards for officers on street patrol. (
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Los Angeles police deliberately falsified records to make it appear that officers were patrolling city streets when they were not, an investigation by the LAPD's independent watchdog has found.

The deception occurred in at least five of the department's 21 patrol divisions, according to the Police Commission's inspector general, who released a report Friday on the "ghost car" phenomenon. Officers working desk jobs, handing out equipment in stations or performing other duties were logged into squad car computers to make it appear they were on patrol.

The findings bolstered allegations union officials have made in recent months that patrol commanders around the city were using the scheme to mask the fact that they did not have enough officers on patrol to meet staffing levels set by department brass.

There is this intentional misperception being put out there that there are more officers on the street than are actually there.
- Officer Mark Cronin, a director in the Police Protective League
"This has been going on for years," said veteran Officer Mark Cronin, a director in the Police Protective League, which represents rank-and-file cops. "It is more prevalent in some areas, but it's happening throughout the city… There is this intentional misperception being put out there that there are more officers on the street than are actually there."

LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith declined to comment on the findings, citing a meeting Tuesday during which the commission will review the report.

The findings underscore long-running struggles within the department to keep a sufficient portion of the roughly 9,900 officers assigned to traditional patrol duties, while also filling the many specialty units and administrative jobs at the department. With nearly 4 million people in a city that sprawls over more than 500 square miles, the LAPD is widely viewed as significantly undersized.

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Alex Bustamante, the inspector general, wrote in his report that the practice of manipulating patrol statistics "occurred during multiple shifts at different times of day, involved officers of differing ranks, and was carried out differently depending on who was involved and where they were assigned."

The department's Office of Operations, which oversees patrol deployments, relies on a computer program to analyze various factors and to determine the workload in each division at various times during the day. The program calculates how many patrol cars are needed to allow officers to respond to emergency calls within seven minutes — the department's long-established standard, Bustamante wrote.

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To keep tabs on the deployment levels, department officials require station supervisors to document in a computer database what assignment each officer was given on every shift. And twice every day — at noon and 10 p.m. — a snapshot of deployment statistics for each division and the department's four bureaus is sent by email to senior officials.

The patrol staffing levels are closely monitored and captains who run each division are held accountable if they fall short, Bustamante wrote.

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Department officials have always tried to keep secret the number of officers on duty in the city at any given moment and how many of them are assigned to regular patrol work. The Times reviewed one of the department's daily deployment snapshots from October last year that showed that 190 patrol cars, each with two officers, were in use throughout the entire city at the time. In addition, 43 single-officer cars were on the streets, according to the record — indicating that about 420 officers were assigned to patrol at the time of the snapshot. Roughly another 220 officers were working non-patrol assignments such as gang details, the record shows.

Bustamante opened his investigation after hearing reports from officers of how the ghost car scheme was used to make it appear as if divisions were meeting the deployment requirements.

Despite evidence that the problem was more widespread, Bustamante focused on deployments in two divisions, which were not named in the report, during March last year. The report did not specify how often patrol figures were inflated or by how much, but documented several examples of how ghost cars were used.

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In one typical case, an officer assigned to assist detectives logged in to a patrol car's computer but remained at the police station for the entire shift working on investigations, Bustamante found. To make sure dispatchers did not try to send the officer to a help call, the officer radioed in to the dispatch center to make it appear he or she was already on a call, according to the report.

The report did not identify who in each of the divisions' chain of command ordered the numbers to be fabricated.

Cronin described an "intense pressure" that captains feel to meet the staffing requirements and to not run afoul of Assistant Chief Earl Paysinger, who runs the Office of Operations, and other top officials. That pressure, Cronin said, "trickles down" to the sergeants and lieutenants who handle patrol deployments.

Steve Soboroff, president of the Police Commission, acknowledged the pressure to meet the staffing levels, but said it could not excuse efforts to intentionally skew the deployment numbers.

Soboroff praised department leaders responding "strongly, without reservation" to the report's findings. Bustamante, too, noted in his report that senior officials responded swiftly.

The report highlighted an email from Paysinger, in which he instructed his senior staff to "be very clear that employing this type of feigned deployment practice is NOT permissible. If such a strategy is currently being utilized on any watch or in a specialized unit in your bureau, you shall cause it to be terminated immediately."

In July, when Cronin and other union officials first made public allegations about the use of ghost cars, the department opened an internal investigation in an effort to determine where in the department the practice was being used and who wa

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1 in 3 Americans are on file in the organization that assassinated President Kennedy criminal database.

Go figure,eh?

1 in 3 Americans are on file in the FBI's criminal database

The FBI has over 77.7 million Americans in its master database of criminals. And according to the Wall Street Journal, they're adding between 10,000 and 12,000 new names per day. That means that roughly one out of every three American adults has a file with the FBI.

From a new article in the Wall Street Journal about the rise of arrests in America's schools:

Over the past 20 years, prompted by changing police tactics and a zero-tolerance attitude toward small crimes, authorities have made more than a quarter of a billion arrests, the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates. Nearly one out of every three American adults are on file in the FBI's master criminal database.

The WSJ uses this statistic within the context of the police presence in our nation's schools and tells the story of one young woman in Florida who was arrested for conducting an explosive science experiment on school property.

A science experiment that went awry turned into a 17-month battle for Kiera Wilmot and her mother as they tried to clear the honor student's arrest record. According to the police report, she was on school grounds outside the classroom trying out an experiment that hadn't been authorized by her teacher. Ms. Wilmot, now 18, said she put a piece of aluminum inside a bottle with two ounces of toilet cleaner to see what would happen. The teen's mother said she was trying to simulate a volcanic eruption.

"It popped," blowing the top off the bottle, she said. She was handcuffed by the school-resource office, escorted out of the Bartow, Fla., school and taken to a juvenile facility where she was charged with possessing or discharging firearms or weapons at school and making, throwing, possessing, projecting, placing or discharging a destructive device.

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Boston school cops want pepper spray

DEBATE: Among those participating in last night’s forum on the proposal to arm school cops with pepper spray were Sgt. Bill Kelley, chief of school pol
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Boston Public School police officers — armed now with only handcuffs and a radio — say they need pepper spray to deal with violent students, including some carrying knives and even guns.

“Over the last several years we’ve taken 300 knives and several guns,” Sgt. Bill Kelley, chief of school police

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Ray McGovern Brutally Arrested
November 3rd, 2014
by Stephen Lendman


Seventy-five-year-old McGovern is a former CIA analyst (1963 - 1990), turned activist/political critic/social justice advocate.

On October 30, he was brutally and lawlessly arrested in New York. For exercising his constitutional rights.

Attempting to attend an event featuring former CIA head General David Petraeus, former right-wing Center for a New American Security president Lt. Col. John Nagl, and neocon foreign policy commentator Max Boot.

Charged with criminal trespass, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. It bears repeating. For exercising his constitutional rights.

Tickets cost up to $45. McGovern had one. He had every right to attend. Stopping him reflects police state lawlessness. In the so-called land of the free and home of the brave.

Guards blocked his entry. At the 92nd St. Y venue. Calling itself "a world-class cultural and community center."

Connecting people "through culture, arts, entertainment and conversation. For 140 years."

"(H)arness(ing) the power of arts and ideas to enrich, enlighten and change lives, and the power of community to repair the world."

Not on October 30. Principled ideas were absent. Tyranny replaced them. 92nd St. Y officials have lots of explaining to do.

Why McGovern was denied entry. Brutalized for trying. Why neocons were featured.

Militarists. Spokesmen for imperial power. Permanent war. Extremist views demanding open challenge.

Activists from The World Can't Wait, the Granny Peace Brigade, Brooklyn for Peace and Veterans for Peace urged people to protest police state harshness.

McGovern planned challenging Petraeus the way he questioned former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2006.

About false statements on Iraq's WMDs and nonexistent Al-Qaeda ties.

He was arrested. Jailed overnight. Saying he was warned "as soon as (he) got to the ticket-taker. 'Ray, you're not welcome here,' " he was told.

Video footage showed him screaming in pain as police pinned his left wrist behind his back. During arrest, lots of blood was visible on his pants.

Given out-of-control violence and human misery in Iraq, McGovern planned asking Petraeus if he'd "come out of retirement and try to do it better this time to train the Iraqi forces?"

He's "no saint," he said. "(N)o great strategist. (A)n embarrassment to the US Army in which (McGovern) used to be proud to have served."

In April 2011, he wrote about "Petraeus at CIA - Can He Tell the Truth?" Saying Obama's choice "raise(d) troubling questions."

"What if CIA analysts assess(ed)" his Iraq and Afghanistan performance as failure? Would he accept or punish "critical analysis?"

"The Petraeus appointment also suggests that the President places little value on getting the straight scoop on these key war-related issues."

"If he did want the kind of intelligence analysis that, at times, could challenge the military, why is he giving the CIA job to a general with a huge incentive to gild the lily regarding the 'progress' made under his command?"

McGovern compared Petraeus to the "ghost of Westmoreland Past." His Southeast Asia record included "deliberate distortion and dishonesty." Intelligence analysts proved it.

Progress he touted was failure. Petraeus was Westmoreland redux. Lots of evidence confirmed it.

He's gone. Critics debate whether by resignation or sacking. For sure, not for extramarital sex. Unless state secrets were compromised.

He wasn't an Obama favorite. His loyalties were suspect. His departure removed the last Bush administration neocon holdover.

An unnamed administration source said "some key figures close to the President wanted (him) out, and there was no sadness" to see him go.

Media reports said FBI investigations began months ago into a "potential criminal matter." Not specifically focused on Petraeus.

Information surfaced about a potentially compromised computer he used. Security concerns were raised. FBI agents discussed this with him.

An unnamed congressional official briefed on the matter urged him to fall on his sword and leave. Whether he did or was pushed who knows.

John McCain once called him "one of (our) greatest generals." His judgment leaves much to be desired.

He's not Capitol Hill's best and brightest. He graduated near the bottom of his Naval Academy class.

White House and media spin praised Petraeus' performance. As Iraq commander, CENTCOM head, commander US Forces Afghanistan and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) chief.

Falsified hype and then some. Failure defined his performance. Mythology turned it into successes.

Time magazine named him 2007 runner-up Person of the Year. As meaningless a designation as Nobel Peace awards.

Before he fell from grace, he was called aggressive in nature. An innovative thinker on counterinsurgency warfare. A talisman. A white knight. A do-or-die competitive legend. A man able to turn defeat into victory.

His record was polar opposite. Competence didn't earn him four stars. He was more myth than man. His Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria commands failed.

His former commander, Admiral William Fallon, called him "a piece of brown-nosing chicken $#!%."

Former peers accused him of brown-nosing his way to the top. Hoping to get there by manufacturing successes.

Concealing failures. Supporting Washington's imperial agenda. Advancing through super-hawkishness. Brown-nosing superiors.

Lying to Congress. Hyping a fake Iranian threat. Supporting Israel's worst crimes. Even though suggesting the longstanding special relationship at times does more harm than good.

In March 2013, he joined the American Corporate Partners. An NGO "assisting veterans in their transition from the armed services to the civilian workforce."

At the same time, he became honorary OSS (Office of Strategic Services/CIA's predecessor organization) Society chairman.

A City University of New York (CUNY) visiting professor. A University of Southern California Judge Widney professor.

A UK University of Exeter Strategy and Security Institute honorary visiting professor. Students are advised to avoid him.

He chairs investment firm Kiohlberg Kravis Roberts' KKR Global Institute. Harvard's JFK School of Government Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs named him non-resident senior fellow. He belongs to various other organizations.

After arrest, McGovern was transferred to the 100 Center Street police station. Placed in central booking ahead of arraignment.

He's on the State Department's Diplomatic Security "Be on the Look out" (BELO) list. In 2011, he turned his back on then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at George Washington University.

According to former State Department foreign service officer Peter Van Buren:

"University cops grabbed McGovern in a headlock and by his arms and dragged him out of the auditorium by force, their actions directed from the side by a man whose name is redacted from public records."

“Photos of the then-71 year old McGovern taken at the time of his arrest show(ed) multiple bruises and contusions he suffered while being arrested."

"He was secured to a metal chair with two sets of handcuffs. (A)t first refused medical care for the bleeding" they caused.

At the time, disorderly conduct charges were dropped. FOIA documents obtained showed State Department investigations for his "political beliefs, activities, statements and associations."

He sued the State Department for violating his First Amendment rights. Winning an injunction against inclusion on its BELO list.

His treatment now and earlier reflects America's abysmal state. More police state than democracy.

More battleground than homeland. More tyrannical than free. More unfit to live in than ever.

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