Showing posts with label force. Show all posts
Showing posts with label force. Show all posts
Martin Kaste: Police State America - Why Utah Is The Only State Trying To Track And Limit SWAT-Style Raiding Tactics
It's about fighting the drug war 80 percent of the time. The phrase police militarization conjures up an image of cops wrapped in Kevlar, barging into homes with semi-automatic weapons. But familiar as that image is, we don't know how common it is. There are simply no good statistics on police tactical operations in America. The federal ... MORESWAT Raids, 'No-Knocks' On Rise In Frequency And Profile
By Brad Petrishen. Exploiting the legal monopoly on violence. A 7-year-old girl shot in the head and killed while sleeping in her Detroit home. A 1-year-old boy permanently disfigured in Georgia by a flashbang grenade that landed in his crib. Closer to home, a 68-year-old grandfather of 12 shot and killed inside his house in Framingham while ... MOREChris Edwards: Why The Federal Government Fails
The 5 structural reasons. Most Americans think that the federal government is incompetent and wasteful. Their negative view is not surprising given the steady stream of scandals emanating from Washington. Scholarly studies support the idea that many federal activities are misguided and harmful. A recent book on federal performance ... MOREGeoff Henley: How U.S. Laws Foster Police Brutality
Unreasonable force is sadly not the question. Pervasive police brutality will persist far longer than the public suspects. Why? The answer is simple: the law allows it. Under Graham v. Connor,
the Supreme Court requires that Fourth Amendment excessive force claims
be analyzed from the officer’s perspective during the incident. Judges
are not ... MORE10 Outrageous Excuses Cops Used To Kill Unarmed People
by Justin Gardner. Informed readers are well aware that US police have the dubious reputation of killing lots of civilians, compared to other countries. The War on Drugs provides much of the basis for this abomination. In four days US police killed as many people as Chinese police did in
2014, and more than five European countries’ ... MORE2/3 Of Obamacare Enrollees Unsatisfied With Coverage
by Tom Howell Jr. Discovering the pig in the poke. Obamacare
has offered insurance to millions of people, but they’re unhappy with
the coverage they’re getting and are particularly upset about the costs,
according to a survey released Monday that suggests the health care law
continues to struggle to win over Americans. Just 30 percent of ... MOREJeff Sharlet: An L.A. Cop Pressed His Gun Into The Chest Of An Unarmed Man And Shot Him Through The Heart
Will it matter to the LA district attorney? Five months after the March 1 Los Angeles police killing of an unarmed
black man named Charly "Africa" Keunang—a story I reported in-depth for
the July issue of GQ—the
Los Angeles coroner has finally released the results of its autopsy.
They are profoundly disturbing. Two of the six bullets that killed
Charly ... MOREChris Edwards: Coercion Is Bad Economics
Free markets spur better ways of doing things. A common feature of Obama administration economic policies is the use of government coercion. The Obamacare health law mandated that individuals buy insurance. The administration's tax increases grabbed more earnings from millions of people. And federal agencies are ... MOREHope And Change Update: 6.6 Million Americans Had To Pay ObamaCare's Individual Mandate Tax For 2014
The one promise kept. More Americans paid ObamaCare's individual mandate tax for 2014 than previously estimated, according to a new report from the Internal Revenue Service's National Taxpayer Advocate. In January, the Treasury Department projected that up to 6 million households would be subject to the tax because they did not ... MOREVideo Shows Cop Slamming Handcuffed Teenage Girl Onto Floor, Knocking Her Teeth Out And Causing Head Injuries
Cop defends self from sassy young girl's verbal abuse. Police brutality allegations were prompted when a police officer slammed a teen’s face onto a hospital floor. The young woman suffered significant injuries, including trauma to the head, face, jaw, and teeth. She also sustained concussion, migraine headaches, cognitive and ... MOREPolice Violence Activist Found Dead In Jail Cell After Being Pulled Over For Not Signaling A Lane Change in Texas
by Ed Krayewski. Earlier this month, 28-year-old Sandra Bland was pulled over
for allegedly failing to signal a lane change by a Texas Department of
Public Safety trooper near the Prairie View A&M campus. She had
driven there from her home in Naperville, Illinois, for a new job at her
alma mater. Police accused her of being combative during ... MOREBrad Schrade: Cops Shot Unarmed Georgia Woman In Head, Admired Their Marksmanship & Prevented First Aid After
After all, she was suspected of drug use. At high noon on June 18, 2010, Caroline Small, a petite 35-year-old woman and mother of two, sat behind the wheel of her beat-up Buick Century with nowhere to turn. Police vehicles flanked her on two sides, a shallow ditch was on another and a utility pole blocked her rear bumper. Unarmed but ... MOREProgress Through State Violence Or Smaller Government?
by John Stossel. Obamacare! The War on Drugs! A War on Poverty! Prohibition! The idea that government will bring social progress isn't new. Europe's monarchs believed in big government long before there was a Soviet Union or a welfare state. Eighteenth-century philosopher Voltaire praised "enlightened" monarchs like Prussia's Frederick the ... MORE
John W. Whitehead: Emergence Of Orwellian Newspeak
And the death of free speech. In totalitarian regimes—a.k.a. police states—where conformity and compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun, the government dictates what words can and cannot be used. In countries where the police state hides behind a benevolent mask and disguises itself as tolerance, the citizens censor themselves, ... MOREPublic Servants At Work: 2 Parents Weren't Sure How Their Little Girl Fractured Her Leg, So CPS Took Their Children
by Lenore Skenazy. Yet another heart-wrenching state-sanctioned kidnapping. Here’s another horrifying case from the Family Defense Center in Chicago. A baby’s fractured leg convinced the Department of Child and Family Services that she had been abused, despite the fact that fractures like hers are common in kids, and there was absolutely no other ... MORESheriff’s Office Stoops To New Low: Claims Infant At Fault For SWAT Team Blowing His Face Apart With A Grenade
by Mike Sawyer. “Merely by being in that room, Bou-Bou had assumed the risk of coming under attack by a SWAT team. By impeding the trajectory of that grenade, rather than fleeing from his crib, Bou-Bou failed to “avoid the consequences” of that attack.” Habersham County Sheriff, Joey Terrell, has allegedly given the most asinine ... MORE
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