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Oklahoma City school resource officer charged after punching student over hall pass: cops
Thursday, October 29, 2015, 7:41 PM
MSgt. Thomas Jaha punched a 16-year-old student in the face at US Grant High School after the teen didn't show a hall pass, according to police reports. Oklahoma City Police Department
MSgt. Thomas Jaha punched a 16-year-old student in the face at US Grant High School after the teen didn't show a hall pass, according to police reports.
An Oklahoma City school resource officer is charged with assault on Wednesday after allegedly punching a student in the face over a hall pass.
MSgt. Thomas Jaha had a violent encounter with a 16-year-old student at the U.S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City after the teen refused to show his hall pass.
JAMES BLAKE SAYS POLICE REFORMS STILL NEEDED
In the Oct. 9 surveillance footage shown, the officer confronts the teen at a water fountain in a hallway. As the student walks away, the school resource officer started chasing him, leading up to the confrontation.
The teen took "an aggressive stance"
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Police unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
by William Boardman / November 1st, 2015
Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
The current round of police union intimidation tactics started October 24, after filmmaker Quentin Tarantino spoke briefly to the “Rise Up October” protest, a “Call for a Major National Manifestation Against Police Terror.” The crowd of thousands marched peacefully up Sixth Avenue for two miles and included some 100 families impacted by police violence and killing. Police unions have reacted with violent rhetoric to Tarantino’s brief “speech,” which offered a non-specific truism (here in its entirety):
Hey, everybody. I got something to say, but actually I would like to give my time to the families that want to talk. I want to give my time to the families. However, I just do also want to say: What am I doing here? I’m doing here because I am a human being with a conscience. And when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers. Now I’m going to give my time to the families. [emphasis added]
The event centered on victims of police violence. There is no doubt that police have killed unarmed, innocent people. There is no doubt that a few cops have been convicted of murder. The reality of police violence is beyond dispute and longstanding. It goes with the territory, and responsible police leaders everywhere know perfectly well that part of their job is not only to keep their officers safe, but also, and arguably more important, to keep the public safe from their officers. The question is why they do so little about police violence.
In the aftermath of the Rise Up October rally, there were a reported 11 arrests, two of which on video show gangs of police roughing up single, unresisting men. Even though the demonstration was peaceful and had a lawful parade permit, police turned out in force. No police officers were reported hurt, except for their feelings.
Police union goes ad hominem with attack on First Amendment
The day after the rally, Patrick Lynch, president of the New York police union (Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association) went on the offensive, as he often does. He ignore the vast substance of the Rise Up October group and chose instead to make an ad hominem personal attack on Hollywood director Tarantino and his right to free speech. Lynch’s press release in its entirety:
It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too. The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big screen fantasies — they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem. New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous ‘Cop Fiction.’ It’s time for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s films.
Actually the police officers that Tarantino calls “murderers” are in fact murderers, which is why Tarantino called them murderers – because, although they are but a small percentage of the total police cohort, they have murdered people, mostly without significant consequence to themselves. On October 30, Lynch sent another press release featuring Tarantino’s father saying, “Cops are not murderers, they are heroes,” which is the police union party line. In reality, it should go without saying, most cops are neither murderers nor heroes. Like the first press release, this one also ignored the complaints of police brutality, but it omitted the proposed boycott, too.
Whistling much the same tune, Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid, the New York Post, covered the protest with open hostility. The paper made the editorial choice to run a picture of a demonstrator giving a cop the finger. And its story suggested that years of police violence were somehow beyond objection because a police officer was recently killed in the line of duty, even though there was no connection between the recent murder and the years of police abuse:
Just four days after the on-duty murder of a hero NYPD street cop, a rally in Washington Square Park against ‘police terror’ devolved Saturday into a raucous, law-enforcement gripe-fest.
Los Angeles police claim victimhood, too, and backs boycott
Craig Lally, president of the LA police union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, jumped on the boycott Tarantino bandwagon on October 27 in a somewhat more nuanced press release [in its entirety]:
We fully support constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens. But there is no place for inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets than we already are. Film director Quentin Tarantino took irresponsibility to a new and completely unacceptable level this past weekend by referring to police as murderers during an anti-police march in New York. He made this statement just four days after a New York police officer was gunned down in the line of duty. New York police and union leaders immediately called out Tarantino for his unconscionable comments, with union head Patrick Lynch advocating a boycott of his films. We fully support this boycott of Quentin Tarantino films. Hateful rhetoric dehumanizes police and encourages attacks on us. And questioning everything we do threatens public safety by discouraging officers from putting themselves in positions where their legitimate actions could be falsely portrayed as thuggery.
While this statement begins with support for “constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens,” that very formulation betrays an imagined dichotomy between “police” and “citizens.” Police need to think of themselves as our fellow citizens. Worse, Lally immediately moves into his own unconstructive dialogue, mischaracterizing what Tarantino said, launching another ad hominem attack on Tarantino, and completely evading the substance of the Rise Up October protest.
Worst of all, Lally reinforces the police-as-victim trope, which is a form of psychological denial. It’s not “inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets,” its inflammatory behavior by police officers. Given the spate of police horrors since 1999, when NY police shot unarmed Amadou Diallo 41 times, it’s fair to wonder why police departments everywhere aren’t showing a whole lot more humility. Instead, the NY chief of police has given one of the four killers his gun back (after all four were found not guilty by a jury).
Amadou Diallo’s mother, Katiatoo Diallo, was a speaker in the Rise Up October protest. What she said was in stark and humane contrast to the whining victimhood of the police unions:
We are not bitter. I told the world then, the day when they stood up and told me that the four cops who shot my son had done nothing wrong, that it was the fault of my son, I said to you, I say to you now, I said it then: We need change. Amadou has died. It’s too late for him. But we have to prevent this from happening again. When you have tragedies like that, you need to learn what went wrong and correct it….
Law enforcement community should know that we are not against them. We even feel for those who were shot just recently in Harlem. We are not against them. We are anti-police brutality. We are not anti-cop, because we know some of them are doing good job. But we need to root out those who are brutalizing our children for no reason.
What should a police union be doing, anyway?
The core issue with police unions, teacher unions, and all other public employee unions is how to manage the inherent tension between the good of union members and the good of the public that pays their salaries. Police unions, because their members are empowered to use lethal force, should be especially sensitive to the public perception of what is in the public good. That is almost never going to include killing innocent, unarmed civilians.
In December 2014, NY police un
Police unions Sustain Police Violence Epidemic
Since when did we decide that police officers should be above the law?
by William Boardman / November 1st, 2015
Two of the biggest police unions in the country are now on record in opposition to free speech. They are on record against constitutionally protected free speech that opposes the epidemic of police violence across America (more than 900 killed by police so far in 2015).
The current round of police union intimidation tactics started October 24, after filmmaker Quentin Tarantino spoke briefly to the “Rise Up October” protest, a “Call for a Major National Manifestation Against Police Terror.” The crowd of thousands marched peacefully up Sixth Avenue for two miles and included some 100 families impacted by police violence and killing. Police unions have reacted with violent rhetoric to Tarantino’s brief “speech,” which offered a non-specific truism (here in its entirety):
Hey, everybody. I got something to say, but actually I would like to give my time to the families that want to talk. I want to give my time to the families. However, I just do also want to say: What am I doing here? I’m doing here because I am a human being with a conscience. And when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers. Now I’m going to give my time to the families. [emphasis added]
The event centered on victims of police violence. There is no doubt that police have killed unarmed, innocent people. There is no doubt that a few cops have been convicted of murder. The reality of police violence is beyond dispute and longstanding. It goes with the territory, and responsible police leaders everywhere know perfectly well that part of their job is not only to keep their officers safe, but also, and arguably more important, to keep the public safe from their officers. The question is why they do so little about police violence.
In the aftermath of the Rise Up October rally, there were a reported 11 arrests, two of which on video show gangs of police roughing up single, unresisting men. Even though the demonstration was peaceful and had a lawful parade permit, police turned out in force. No police officers were reported hurt, except for their feelings.
Police union goes ad hominem with attack on First Amendment
The day after the rally, Patrick Lynch, president of the New York police union (Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association) went on the offensive, as he often does. He ignore the vast substance of the Rise Up October group and chose instead to make an ad hominem personal attack on Hollywood director Tarantino and his right to free speech. Lynch’s press release in its entirety:
It’s no surprise that someone who makes a living glorifying crime and violence is a cop-hater, too. The police officers that Quentin Tarantino calls ‘murderers’ aren’t living in one of his depraved big screen fantasies — they’re risking and sometimes sacrificing their lives to protect communities from real crime and mayhem. New Yorkers need to send a message to this purveyor of degeneracy that he has no business coming to our city to peddle his slanderous ‘Cop Fiction.’ It’s time for a boycott of Quentin Tarantino’s films.
Actually the police officers that Tarantino calls “murderers” are in fact murderers, which is why Tarantino called them murderers – because, although they are but a small percentage of the total police cohort, they have murdered people, mostly without significant consequence to themselves. On October 30, Lynch sent another press release featuring Tarantino’s father saying, “Cops are not murderers, they are heroes,” which is the police union party line. In reality, it should go without saying, most cops are neither murderers nor heroes. Like the first press release, this one also ignored the complaints of police brutality, but it omitted the proposed boycott, too.
Whistling much the same tune, Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid, the New York Post, covered the protest with open hostility. The paper made the editorial choice to run a picture of a demonstrator giving a cop the finger. And its story suggested that years of police violence were somehow beyond objection because a police officer was recently killed in the line of duty, even though there was no connection between the recent murder and the years of police abuse:
Just four days after the on-duty murder of a hero NYPD street cop, a rally in Washington Square Park against ‘police terror’ devolved Saturday into a raucous, law-enforcement gripe-fest.
Los Angeles police claim victimhood, too, and backs boycott
Craig Lally, president of the LA police union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League, jumped on the boycott Tarantino bandwagon on October 27 in a somewhat more nuanced press release [in its entirety]:
We fully support constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens. But there is no place for inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets than we already are. Film director Quentin Tarantino took irresponsibility to a new and completely unacceptable level this past weekend by referring to police as murderers during an anti-police march in New York. He made this statement just four days after a New York police officer was gunned down in the line of duty. New York police and union leaders immediately called out Tarantino for his unconscionable comments, with union head Patrick Lynch advocating a boycott of his films. We fully support this boycott of Quentin Tarantino films. Hateful rhetoric dehumanizes police and encourages attacks on us. And questioning everything we do threatens public safety by discouraging officers from putting themselves in positions where their legitimate actions could be falsely portrayed as thuggery.
While this statement begins with support for “constructive dialogue about how police interact with citizens,” that very formulation betrays an imagined dichotomy between “police” and “citizens.” Police need to think of themselves as our fellow citizens. Worse, Lally immediately moves into his own unconstructive dialogue, mischaracterizing what Tarantino said, launching another ad hominem attack on Tarantino, and completely evading the substance of the Rise Up October protest.
Worst of all, Lally reinforces the police-as-victim trope, which is a form of psychological denial. It’s not “inflammatory rhetoric that makes police officers even bigger targets,” its inflammatory behavior by police officers. Given the spate of police horrors since 1999, when NY police shot unarmed Amadou Diallo 41 times, it’s fair to wonder why police departments everywhere aren’t showing a whole lot more humility. Instead, the NY chief of police has given one of the four killers his gun back (after all four were found not guilty by a jury).
Amadou Diallo’s mother, Katiatoo Diallo, was a speaker in the Rise Up October protest. What she said was in stark and humane contrast to the whining victimhood of the police unions:
We are not bitter. I told the world then, the day when they stood up and told me that the four cops who shot my son had done nothing wrong, that it was the fault of my son, I said to you, I say to you now, I said it then: We need change. Amadou has died. It’s too late for him. But we have to prevent this from happening again. When you have tragedies like that, you need to learn what went wrong and correct it….
Law enforcement community should know that we are not against them. We even feel for those who were shot just recently in Harlem. We are not against them. We are anti-police brutality. We are not anti-cop, because we know some of them are doing good job. But we need to root out those who are brutalizing our children for no reason.
What should a police union be doing, anyway?
The core issue with police unions, teacher unions, and all other public employee unions is how to manage the inherent tension between the good of union members and the good of the public that pays their salaries. Police unions, because their members are empowered to use lethal force, should be especially sensitive to the public perception of what is in the public good. That is almost never going to include killing innocent, unarmed civilians.
In December 2014, NY police un
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Detroit-area officer in 'RoboCop' case confirms racially charged text messages
Partner of officer charged with beating African American man replied affirmatively to text using racial epithet and encouraging violence, trial reveals
Floyd Dent takes part in a protest against police brutality outside the Inkster police department.
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A Detroit-area police officer who attempted to handcuff an unarmed man while his partner beat him sent racially charged text messages following the incident, it emerged this week.
Pressed during a trial over the incident Thursday, auxiliary police officer John Zieleniewski confirmed his response to a text exchange in March in which he was asked: “At least give me the satisfaction of knowing you’re out there beating up niggers right now.”
Zieleniewski responded: “lol, just got done with one.”
The text messages came out in the trial of William Melendez, known as “RoboCop”, who faces three felony charges and up to 10 years in prison for beating Floyd Dent during a traffic stop.
Melendez, a former police officer in the town of Inkster, repeatedly punched Dent in the head and placed him in a chokehold during the arrest on 28 January – a move captured on video that was later released to the media and sparked a criminal investigation.
Inkster has a population that is 73% black and a police force that is estimated to be 80-90% white.
Dent testified on Thursday that a former officer in the town of Inkster, William Melendez, approached his vehicle with his firearm drawn and said: “Get out the car or I’ll blow your motherfucking head off.” The 58-year-old said he didn’t resist officers who attempted to arrest him, despite earlier testimony that contradicted his remarks.
“I didn’t resist in any way,” Dent said on the witness stand in Wayne County circuit court Thursday.
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Dent said Melendez choked him so tight he struggled to breathe.
“After he choked me for so long, I gave up,” Dent, a quiet 58-year old with a round jaw and dolorous eyes, said.
The Wayne County circuit court judge overseeing the case, Vonda Evans, agreed to allow into evidence a s
Partner of officer charged with beating African American man replied affirmatively to text using racial epithet and encouraging violence, trial reveals
Floyd Dent takes part in a protest against police brutality outside the Inkster police department.
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A Detroit-area police officer who attempted to handcuff an unarmed man while his partner beat him sent racially charged text messages following the incident, it emerged this week.
Pressed during a trial over the incident Thursday, auxiliary police officer John Zieleniewski confirmed his response to a text exchange in March in which he was asked: “At least give me the satisfaction of knowing you’re out there beating up niggers right now.”
Zieleniewski responded: “lol, just got done with one.”
The text messages came out in the trial of William Melendez, known as “RoboCop”, who faces three felony charges and up to 10 years in prison for beating Floyd Dent during a traffic stop.
Melendez, a former police officer in the town of Inkster, repeatedly punched Dent in the head and placed him in a chokehold during the arrest on 28 January – a move captured on video that was later released to the media and sparked a criminal investigation.
Inkster has a population that is 73% black and a police force that is estimated to be 80-90% white.
Dent testified on Thursday that a former officer in the town of Inkster, William Melendez, approached his vehicle with his firearm drawn and said: “Get out the car or I’ll blow your motherfucking head off.” The 58-year-old said he didn’t resist officers who attempted to arrest him, despite earlier testimony that contradicted his remarks.
“I didn’t resist in any way,” Dent said on the witness stand in Wayne County circuit court Thursday.
The Counted: people killed by police in the United States in 2015 – interactive
The Guardian is counting the people killed by US law enforcement agencies this year. Read their stories and contribute to our ongoing, crowdsourced project
Read more
Dent said Melendez choked him so tight he struggled to breathe.
“After he choked me for so long, I gave up,” Dent, a quiet 58-year old with a round jaw and dolorous eyes, said.
The Wayne County circuit court judge overseeing the case, Vonda Evans, agreed to allow into evidence a s
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents near Ruby Ridge in 1992.
Do federal agents need a license to kill in order to protect us? Unfortunately, federal judges are giving law enforcement agents blanket immunity when they shoot Americans while the agents are on the job. It would be difficult to imagine a greater violation of equal rights under the law or a bigger mockery of due process.
After Larry Jackson, Jr., of Austin, Texas, was killed by a policeman in 2013, a local prosecutor indicted the policeman on manslaughter charges. Jackson’s family claimed that he had been executed by the policeman but a federal judge granted immunity from prosecution because the policeman “was acting in his capacity as a federal officer.” The ruling in the Austin case could extend federal immunity from prosecution for shootings to “hundreds, if not thousands, of state and local police officers who participate in federal task forces,” the Washington Post noted.
Federal officers have been involved in 33 killings so far this year. The Justice Department almost never prosecutes federal agents for shootings in the line of duty, and the feds have invoked the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution to block state and local prosecutions of federal agents in recent decades. The ruling in the Austin case “raises the question of when, if ever, a federal law enforcement officer can be charged with a crime for killing someone in the line of duty,” the Post noted.
The best-known case of immunity for federal officers involves Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who in 1992 gunned down 42-year-old Vicki Weaver as she stood in a cabin doorway in Ruby Ridge, Idaho holding her 10 month-old-baby. Horiuchi previously shot her husband, Randy Weaver, who was outside the cabin and under indictment on a federal firearms charge. A confidential Justice Department report condemned Horiuchi for taking a shot with a high-powered rifle through a cabin door when he believed someone was standing behind it. But other Justice Department and FBI officials warned that permitting Horiuchi to be prosecuted would have “an enormously chilling effect on federal operations, especially law enforcement.” A local prosecutor indicted Horiuchi on manslaughter charges anyhow.
But federal judge Edward Lodge ruled in 1998 that Horiuchi could not be tried for killing Vicki Weaver because he was a federal agent on duty, and thus effectively exempt from any jurisdiction of state courts. Lodge focused on Horiuchi's "subjective beliefs": as long as Horiuchi supposedly did not believe he was violating anyone's rights or acting wrongfully, then he could not be guilty. The judge even blamed Vicki Weaver for her own death. Lodge decreed that "it would be objectively reasonable for Mr. Horiuchi to believe that one would not expect a mother to place herself and her baby behind an open door outside the cabin after a shot had been fired and her husband had called out that he had been hit." Thus, if an FBI agent unjustifiably shoots one family member, the government apparently receives a presumptive right to shoot any other family member who fails to hide.
POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media
The U.S. Marshals Service has been involved in 18 killings this year — more than any other law enforcement agency in the nation. But U.S. marshals enjoy de facto immunity for any use of force in the line of duty. Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade told the Washington Post that “he could not recall a case that led to criminal charges.”
Prior to Horiuchi killing Vicki Weaver, 14-year-old Sammy Weaver and a family friend encountered a team of three undercover U.S. marshals who had taken up a "defensive position" not far from the Weaver's residence; one of the marshals fatally shot Sammy. According to the friend, Sammy was leaving the scene when he was shot.
Even though the marshals’ statements and testimony on the conflict were riddled with contradictions, the Marshals Service gave its highest valor award to the marshal who killed the young boy and the other undercover marshals who provoked a firefight (in which one marshal was killed).
Judges tend to presume that killings by federal agents are immune from prosecution even though agencies are notorious for covering up the confrontations. As the Post noted, “details about shootings involving federal officers tend to be particularly closely held.” It took the Post almost two months to simply learn the name of a man killed during a recent FBI pornography raid in Chester, Penn.
It is absurd to presume that police are guilty any time they shoot a private citizen during a confrontation. But it is equally absurd to presume that all law enforcement agents are sacrosanct and all their killings justified. America is at risk of becoming a two-tiered society: those whom
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents near Ruby Ridge in 1992.
Do federal agents need a license to kill in order to protect us? Unfortunately, federal judges are giving law enforcement agents blanket immunity when they shoot Americans while the agents are on the job. It would be difficult to imagine a greater violation of equal rights under the law or a bigger mockery of due process.
After Larry Jackson, Jr., of Austin, Texas, was killed by a policeman in 2013, a local prosecutor indicted the policeman on manslaughter charges. Jackson’s family claimed that he had been executed by the policeman but a federal judge granted immunity from prosecution because the policeman “was acting in his capacity as a federal officer.” The ruling in the Austin case could extend federal immunity from prosecution for shootings to “hundreds, if not thousands, of state and local police officers who participate in federal task forces,” the Washington Post noted.
Federal officers have been involved in 33 killings so far this year. The Justice Department almost never prosecutes federal agents for shootings in the line of duty, and the feds have invoked the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution to block state and local prosecutions of federal agents in recent decades. The ruling in the Austin case “raises the question of when, if ever, a federal law enforcement officer can be charged with a crime for killing someone in the line of duty,” the Post noted.
The best-known case of immunity for federal officers involves Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who in 1992 gunned down 42-year-old Vicki Weaver as she stood in a cabin doorway in Ruby Ridge, Idaho holding her 10 month-old-baby. Horiuchi previously shot her husband, Randy Weaver, who was outside the cabin and under indictment on a federal firearms charge. A confidential Justice Department report condemned Horiuchi for taking a shot with a high-powered rifle through a cabin door when he believed someone was standing behind it. But other Justice Department and FBI officials warned that permitting Horiuchi to be prosecuted would have “an enormously chilling effect on federal operations, especially law enforcement.” A local prosecutor indicted Horiuchi on manslaughter charges anyhow.
But federal judge Edward Lodge ruled in 1998 that Horiuchi could not be tried for killing Vicki Weaver because he was a federal agent on duty, and thus effectively exempt from any jurisdiction of state courts. Lodge focused on Horiuchi's "subjective beliefs": as long as Horiuchi supposedly did not believe he was violating anyone's rights or acting wrongfully, then he could not be guilty. The judge even blamed Vicki Weaver for her own death. Lodge decreed that "it would be objectively reasonable for Mr. Horiuchi to believe that one would not expect a mother to place herself and her baby behind an open door outside the cabin after a shot had been fired and her husband had called out that he had been hit." Thus, if an FBI agent unjustifiably shoots one family member, the government apparently receives a presumptive right to shoot any other family member who fails to hide.
POLICING THE USA: A look at race, justice, media
The U.S. Marshals Service has been involved in 18 killings this year — more than any other law enforcement agency in the nation. But U.S. marshals enjoy de facto immunity for any use of force in the line of duty. Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade told the Washington Post that “he could not recall a case that led to criminal charges.”
Prior to Horiuchi killing Vicki Weaver, 14-year-old Sammy Weaver and a family friend encountered a team of three undercover U.S. marshals who had taken up a "defensive position" not far from the Weaver's residence; one of the marshals fatally shot Sammy. According to the friend, Sammy was leaving the scene when he was shot.
Even though the marshals’ statements and testimony on the conflict were riddled with contradictions, the Marshals Service gave its highest valor award to the marshal who killed the young boy and the other undercover marshals who provoked a firefight (in which one marshal was killed).
Judges tend to presume that killings by federal agents are immune from prosecution even though agencies are notorious for covering up the confrontations. As the Post noted, “details about shootings involving federal officers tend to be particularly closely held.” It took the Post almost two months to simply learn the name of a man killed during a recent FBI pornography raid in Chester, Penn.
It is absurd to presume that police are guilty any time they shoot a private citizen during a confrontation. But it is equally absurd to presume that all law enforcement agents are sacrosanct and all their killings justified. America is at risk of becoming a two-tiered society: those whom
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Cops Working With Anti-Muslim Activists
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Imagine a white supremacist being paid with taxpayer dollars to teach police officers about Black Lives Matter. Or a person with a long history of demonizing the LGBT community being hired by your local police department to warn officers about the “homosexual agenda.”
The response to either of these scenarios would be an explosion of outrage. And rightfully so. However, a scenario very similar is repeatedly happening across our country with law enforcement agencies teaming up with two anti-Muslim activists, John Guandolo and Walid Shoebat, to teach them about Muslims.
Typically these anti-Muslim indoctrinations happen with police departments in red states (shocking, I know.) But surprisingly the Ocean County Police Academy in Southern New Jersey sponsored a lecture given by Shoebat just this past weekend. Shoebat’s seminar was intended for police officers in the South Jersey area and was titled “Know your enemy.” (One guess who the enemy is.)
So who is Shoebat? Well that’s a great question. The problem is that no one—except Shoebat—truly knows. As CNN reported, Shoebat’s claimed life story is simply not true. Shoebat boasts that he’s a former radicalized Muslim who joined the PLO in the 1970s, carried out a terrorist attack, and was imprisoned by the Israeli military. But then Shoebat saw the error of his ways
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11.11.151:00 AM ET
Imagine a white supremacist being paid with taxpayer dollars to teach police officers about Black Lives Matter. Or a person with a long history of demonizing the LGBT community being hired by your local police department to warn officers about the “homosexual agenda.”
The response to either of these scenarios would be an explosion of outrage. And rightfully so. However, a scenario very similar is repeatedly happening across our country with law enforcement agencies teaming up with two anti-Muslim activists, John Guandolo and Walid Shoebat, to teach them about Muslims.
Typically these anti-Muslim indoctrinations happen with police departments in red states (shocking, I know.) But surprisingly the Ocean County Police Academy in Southern New Jersey sponsored a lecture given by Shoebat just this past weekend. Shoebat’s seminar was intended for police officers in the South Jersey area and was titled “Know your enemy.” (One guess who the enemy is.)
So who is Shoebat? Well that’s a great question. The problem is that no one—except Shoebat—truly knows. As CNN reported, Shoebat’s claimed life story is simply not true. Shoebat boasts that he’s a former radicalized Muslim who joined the PLO in the 1970s, carried out a terrorist attack, and was imprisoned by the Israeli military. But then Shoebat saw the error of his ways
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On-duty Secret Service officer thinks he’s sexting a teen, but it’s the cops
He sexted from break room before he had "to go relieve someone else to go on break."
by David Kravets - Nov 13, 2015 1:21pm EST
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He sexted from break room before he had "to go relieve someone else to go on break."
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Letter from the US: Black Lives Matter facing growing smear campaign
Monday, November 16, 2015
By Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
Film director Quentin Tarantino at #BlackLivesMatter protest in New York City on October 24.
Ever since the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement emerged on the streets to protest repeated police killings of African Americans, there has been a backlash, spearheaded by the police mutual benefit societies mislabelled labour unions.
The movement exploded across the country in the aftermath of the police killing of unarmed 18-year-old Black man Michael Brown in Ferguson last year, and has grown in strength in response to fresh examples of often lethal racist police violence.
The rallying cry of the anti-BLM backlash has been that protests of police murders of Black people leads to people killing police and a general rise in crime.
This has been expressed directly, such as in New York City early this year after a huge march of 30,000 people demanded justice over the police murder of Black man Eric Garner. Garner was strangled to death last year by a group of cops. The was scene caught on video, yet the “justice” system let Garner's killers off scot-free.
After this huge outpouring of support for justice for Garner, a deranged Black man killed two cops. He had nothing to do with the demonstration or BLM, but the police “union” held the demonstrators responsible.
Now the charge against BLM has been championed in mainstream politics, including among the Republican presidential candidates.
One such candidate is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. On the widely watched news show Face the Nation on October 25, Christie said: “The problem is this. There's lawlessness in this country. The President encourages this lawlessness. He encourages it.”
Christie was referring to mild comments President Barack Obama made to the effect that BLM has raised important questions.
When asked how Obama “encourages lawlessness”, Christie said: “Oh, by his own rhetoric. He does not support the police. He doesn't back up the police. He justifies Black Lives Matter ...”
The interviewer interrupted: “But Black Lives Matter shouldn't be justified at all?”
To which Christie said, “Listen, I don't believe that that movement should be justified when they're calling for the murder of police officers, no.”
Christie repeated his assertions during a televised debate among the Republican candidates, watched by millions. None of the other candidates repudiated Christie. The reason is that all of them are appealing to the Republican base among hardened racists.
Christie quoted comments by FBI director James Comey, who charged that the protests against police murders has fuelled a rise in violent crime because police feel under scrutiny. Comey said in a speech at the Chicago Law School that, “a chill wind has blown through American law enforcement over the last year”.
That the head of the FBI, appointed by Obama, could make such comments has emboldened the racist backlash. This is regardless of the lack of statistics or cogent arguments to back up his ridiculous and racist claims.
Now another member of Obama's administration, acting director of the Drug Enforcement Agency Chuck Rosenberg, has publicly supported Comey and the police “unions”. The New York Times said on November 5 that a “rift has widened within the Obama administration” over the issue.
The underlying message of this campaign plays into a very deep prejudice among many whites, not only open racists, that conflates Blacks, especially Black males, with crime. This justifies police murders in the minds of many whites.
Another episode in this campaign emerged after a march of thousands against police brutality in New York City on October 24. One speaker at the largely Black march was famous film director Quentin Tarantino.
In his brief remarks, Tarantino said: “If you believe there's murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered.”
The cops went berserk. The police mutual benefit societies across the country accused Tarantino of fomenting murder against police. They called for a boycott of Tarantino's new film, The Hateful Eight, to be released next month. They said they would provide no traffic directions or other normal police functions near theatres that show the movie.
Jamie Foxx, the Black star of another Tarantino film, Django Unchained, about slave resistance to slave owner brutality, came to Tarantino's defence at the Hollywood Film Awards on October 31.
Presenting an award for The Hateful Eight, Foxx addressed Tarantino, saying: “Keep telling the truth, keep speaking the truth and don't worry about none of the haters.”
It is possible that the police campaign will backfire, and increase attendance at the movie. I know I will go — which I probably would not have done before the police campaign.
The shooting of a police officer in a rural town in Illinois on September 1 was seized upon by right-wing radio as proof that BLM protests were inciting murders of police. But in a surprising turn of events, the truth demonstrated something entirely different.
The local police department discovered that the officer involved had been stealing from the police — and was on the verge of being caught. He contemplated hiring a hit man to kill the town auditor, who, he thought, was closing in on him.
Rather than face the music, the officer staged an elaborate suicide to make it look like assailants — assumed to be Black — had shot him after a traffic stop.
Local police announced the truth on November 5 — in the midst of the Tarantino affair. This was one case where the local police did their job well, to the chagrin of those blaming BLM.
Meanwhile, on October 10, officials in Cleveland released the findings of two “independent” investigations into the police murder of a 12-year-old Black boy, Tamir Rice, in November last year.
The murder was caught on video by a witness. The video showed a police car pulling up next to the boy, who was playing with a toy gun in a park. Officer Timothy Loehman got out of the car and shot the boy dead two seconds later.
The video showed the cop made no attempt to investigate the toy gun. He made no attempt to ask the boy what he was doing — there was no time. The video was
Letter from the US: Black Lives Matter facing growing smear campaign
Monday, November 16, 2015
By Barry Sheppard, San Francisco
Film director Quentin Tarantino at #BlackLivesMatter protest in New York City on October 24.
Ever since the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement emerged on the streets to protest repeated police killings of African Americans, there has been a backlash, spearheaded by the police mutual benefit societies mislabelled labour unions.
The movement exploded across the country in the aftermath of the police killing of unarmed 18-year-old Black man Michael Brown in Ferguson last year, and has grown in strength in response to fresh examples of often lethal racist police violence.
The rallying cry of the anti-BLM backlash has been that protests of police murders of Black people leads to people killing police and a general rise in crime.
This has been expressed directly, such as in New York City early this year after a huge march of 30,000 people demanded justice over the police murder of Black man Eric Garner. Garner was strangled to death last year by a group of cops. The was scene caught on video, yet the “justice” system let Garner's killers off scot-free.
After this huge outpouring of support for justice for Garner, a deranged Black man killed two cops. He had nothing to do with the demonstration or BLM, but the police “union” held the demonstrators responsible.
Now the charge against BLM has been championed in mainstream politics, including among the Republican presidential candidates.
One such candidate is New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. On the widely watched news show Face the Nation on October 25, Christie said: “The problem is this. There's lawlessness in this country. The President encourages this lawlessness. He encourages it.”
Christie was referring to mild comments President Barack Obama made to the effect that BLM has raised important questions.
When asked how Obama “encourages lawlessness”, Christie said: “Oh, by his own rhetoric. He does not support the police. He doesn't back up the police. He justifies Black Lives Matter ...”
The interviewer interrupted: “But Black Lives Matter shouldn't be justified at all?”
To which Christie said, “Listen, I don't believe that that movement should be justified when they're calling for the murder of police officers, no.”
Christie repeated his assertions during a televised debate among the Republican candidates, watched by millions. None of the other candidates repudiated Christie. The reason is that all of them are appealing to the Republican base among hardened racists.
Christie quoted comments by FBI director James Comey, who charged that the protests against police murders has fuelled a rise in violent crime because police feel under scrutiny. Comey said in a speech at the Chicago Law School that, “a chill wind has blown through American law enforcement over the last year”.
That the head of the FBI, appointed by Obama, could make such comments has emboldened the racist backlash. This is regardless of the lack of statistics or cogent arguments to back up his ridiculous and racist claims.
Now another member of Obama's administration, acting director of the Drug Enforcement Agency Chuck Rosenberg, has publicly supported Comey and the police “unions”. The New York Times said on November 5 that a “rift has widened within the Obama administration” over the issue.
The underlying message of this campaign plays into a very deep prejudice among many whites, not only open racists, that conflates Blacks, especially Black males, with crime. This justifies police murders in the minds of many whites.
Another episode in this campaign emerged after a march of thousands against police brutality in New York City on October 24. One speaker at the largely Black march was famous film director Quentin Tarantino.
In his brief remarks, Tarantino said: “If you believe there's murder going on then you need to rise up and stand up against it. I'm here to say I'm on the side of the murdered.”
The cops went berserk. The police mutual benefit societies across the country accused Tarantino of fomenting murder against police. They called for a boycott of Tarantino's new film, The Hateful Eight, to be released next month. They said they would provide no traffic directions or other normal police functions near theatres that show the movie.
Jamie Foxx, the Black star of another Tarantino film, Django Unchained, about slave resistance to slave owner brutality, came to Tarantino's defence at the Hollywood Film Awards on October 31.
Presenting an award for The Hateful Eight, Foxx addressed Tarantino, saying: “Keep telling the truth, keep speaking the truth and don't worry about none of the haters.”
It is possible that the police campaign will backfire, and increase attendance at the movie. I know I will go — which I probably would not have done before the police campaign.
The shooting of a police officer in a rural town in Illinois on September 1 was seized upon by right-wing radio as proof that BLM protests were inciting murders of police. But in a surprising turn of events, the truth demonstrated something entirely different.
The local police department discovered that the officer involved had been stealing from the police — and was on the verge of being caught. He contemplated hiring a hit man to kill the town auditor, who, he thought, was closing in on him.
Rather than face the music, the officer staged an elaborate suicide to make it look like assailants — assumed to be Black — had shot him after a traffic stop.
Local police announced the truth on November 5 — in the midst of the Tarantino affair. This was one case where the local police did their job well, to the chagrin of those blaming BLM.
Meanwhile, on October 10, officials in Cleveland released the findings of two “independent” investigations into the police murder of a 12-year-old Black boy, Tamir Rice, in November last year.
The murder was caught on video by a witness. The video showed a police car pulling up next to the boy, who was playing with a toy gun in a park. Officer Timothy Loehman got out of the car and shot the boy dead two seconds later.
The video showed the cop made no attempt to investigate the toy gun. He made no attempt to ask the boy what he was doing — there was no time. The video was
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The release also stated that Miles stole approximately 16 pounds of marijuana from an evidence room, and later sold it to a known drug dealer for $4,000.
Tallassee's ex-assistant police chief pleads guilty to multiple charges
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Conrad was originally charged with more than 100 counts of sexual assault, but after Miles’ coercive tactics came to light, the case unraveled and local authorities had to relaunch the investigation.
Miles faces up to 10 years in prison for the deprivation of rights charge, up to five years for each of the obstruction of justice charges and up to five years for the possession charge. A sentencing date has not been set.
He will remain out on an undisclosed bond until sentencing.
State charges are still pending against Miles. He was charged in Elmore County Circuit Court with theft, after an Alabama Bureau of Investigation probe showed he allegedly stole a 9-mm. Beretta handgun from the Tallassee Police Department evidence locker when he was serving as assistant chief, courthouse records show.
Tallassee's ex-assistant police chief pleads guilty to multiple charges
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Conrad was originally charged with more than 100 counts of sexual assault, but after Miles’ coercive tactics came to light, the case unraveled and local authorities had to relaunch the investigation.
Miles faces up to 10 years in prison for the deprivation of rights charge, up to five years for each of the obstruction of justice charges and up to five years for the possession charge. A sentencing date has not been set.
He will remain out on an undisclosed bond until sentencing.
State charges are still pending against Miles. He was charged in Elmore County Circuit Court with theft, after an Alabama Bureau of Investigation probe showed he allegedly stole a 9-mm. Beretta handgun from the Tallassee Police Department evidence locker when he was serving as assistant chief, courthouse records show.
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-Boston Police officer gets one year probation for lying to the FBI
Boston.com Staff | 11.20.15 | 12:02 PM
A former Boston Police officer was sentenced to one year of probation and a fine of $1,000 on Thursday for making a false statement to the FBI about loaning money to a drug dealer, the US Attorney’s office said.
David Michael Fitzgerald, 49, had been an officer since 1996 and was the treasurer of the B
-Boston Police officer gets one year probation for lying to the FBI
Boston.com Staff | 11.20.15 | 12:02 PM
A former Boston Police officer was sentenced to one year of probation and a fine of $1,000 on Thursday for making a false statement to the FBI about loaning money to a drug dealer, the US Attorney’s office said.
David Michael Fitzgerald, 49, had been an officer since 1996 and was the treasurer of the B
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Cops took more stuff from people than burglars did last year
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Here's an interesting factoid about contemporary policing: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did. Martin Armstrong pointed this out at his blog, Armstrong Economics, last week.
Cops can take cash and property from people without convicting or even charging them with a crime -- yes, really! -- through the highly controversial practice known as civil asset forfeiture. Last year, according to the Institute for Justice, the Treasury and Justice departments deposited more than $5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds. That same year, the FBI reports that burglary losses topped out at $3.5 billion.
Armstrong claims that "the police are now taking more assets than the criminals," but this isn't exactly right: the
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November 23 at 6:00 AM
Here's an interesting factoid about contemporary policing: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did. Martin Armstrong pointed this out at his blog, Armstrong Economics, last week.
Cops can take cash and property from people without convicting or even charging them with a crime -- yes, really! -- through the highly controversial practice known as civil asset forfeiture. Last year, according to the Institute for Justice, the Treasury and Justice departments deposited more than $5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds. That same year, the FBI reports that burglary losses topped out at $3.5 billion.
Armstrong claims that "the police are now taking more assets than the criminals," but this isn't exactly right: the
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Town waiting for an eruption found it after firing its first black police officer
Gerry Pickens was Orting’s first black policeman, but he wasn’t on the force long. He says he was set up to fail.
, Wash. — They were so preoccupied with the volcano shadowing their town, with forecasts and evacuation drills, that few people here noticed the other disaster taking shape around them. Life for Orting’s 8,000 residents depended on predicting what would one day come roaring down the slopes of Mount Rainier, 30 miles away. They had sirens for lava, sensors for earthquakes and alarms for the volcanic mudflow that geologists believed would one day bury the town. Tension was always building inside the volcano, considered the country’s most dangerous, a pressur
Town waiting for an eruption found it after firing its first black police officer
Gerry Pickens was Orting’s first black policeman, but he wasn’t on the force long. He says he was set up to fail.
, Wash. — They were so preoccupied with the volcano shadowing their town, with forecasts and evacuation drills, that few people here noticed the other disaster taking shape around them. Life for Orting’s 8,000 residents depended on predicting what would one day come roaring down the slopes of Mount Rainier, 30 miles away. They had sirens for lava, sensors for earthquakes and alarms for the volcanic mudflow that geologists believed would one day bury the town. Tension was always building inside the volcano, considered the country’s most dangerous, a pressur
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Journo Says Feds Haven't Given Him Emails
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- A reporter claims that the government hasn't fulfilled his requests for emails to U.S. Supreme Court justices and those sent and received by the drafters of a controversial drone memo.
Jason Leopold, formerly with Al-Jazeera America and now with Vice News, claims the U.S. Department of Justice has stonewalled his various requests for emails involving the Supreme Court and the Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC.
One New Year's Day lawsuit filed by the reporter challenges the government's lack of response to his Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request for emails between the current or any former U.S. Solicitor General and any Supreme Court justices.
"Little is known publicly about communications between the Solicitor General's office and individual Supreme Court justices," the complaint states. "The nature and existence of communications, or lack thereof, between the Solicitor General and Supreme Court justices is a matter of great public importance."
The reporter says he filed the FOIA request for Supreme Court emails on Jan. 11, 2015, and has not received a substantive response.
Leopold's other Jan. 1 lawsuit involves David Barron and Martin "Marty" Lederman, former assistant attorney generals for OLC.
Barron and Lederman drafted a controversial memo "which justified the use of lethal drone strikes against American citizens without judicial process," according to Leopold's lawsuit.
The reporter requested all emails sent and received by Lederman and Barron between May 1, 2010, and July 1, 2010.
Leopold says he was told that his request for Lederman's emails may not be completed until Dec. 31, 2016.
He was asked to narrow his request for Barron's emails because of 22,000 possible responsive documents, according to his lawsuit. After he narrowed his request to emails containing keywords like "Awlaki memo
Journo Says Feds Haven't Given Him Emails
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- A reporter claims that the government hasn't fulfilled his requests for emails to U.S. Supreme Court justices and those sent and received by the drafters of a controversial drone memo.
Jason Leopold, formerly with Al-Jazeera America and now with Vice News, claims the U.S. Department of Justice has stonewalled his various requests for emails involving the Supreme Court and the Office of Legal Counsel, or OLC.
One New Year's Day lawsuit filed by the reporter challenges the government's lack of response to his Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request for emails between the current or any former U.S. Solicitor General and any Supreme Court justices.
"Little is known publicly about communications between the Solicitor General's office and individual Supreme Court justices," the complaint states. "The nature and existence of communications, or lack thereof, between the Solicitor General and Supreme Court justices is a matter of great public importance."
The reporter says he filed the FOIA request for Supreme Court emails on Jan. 11, 2015, and has not received a substantive response.
Leopold's other Jan. 1 lawsuit involves David Barron and Martin "Marty" Lederman, former assistant attorney generals for OLC.
Barron and Lederman drafted a controversial memo "which justified the use of lethal drone strikes against American citizens without judicial process," according to Leopold's lawsuit.
The reporter requested all emails sent and received by Lederman and Barron between May 1, 2010, and July 1, 2010.
Leopold says he was told that his request for Lederman's emails may not be completed until Dec. 31, 2016.
He was asked to narrow his request for Barron's emails because of 22,000 possible responsive documents, according to his lawsuit. After he narrowed his request to emails containing keywords like "Awlaki memo
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January 8 2016
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Police chief in Cologne, Germany, is fired amid criticism tied to assaults on women
Germany assaults
Ralf Jaeger, interior minister of Germany's North-Rhine-Westphalia, announces the firing of Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers on Friday.
The Cologne police chief was fired Friday following reports that authorities in Germany’s fourth-largest city may have covered up information that refugees had been connected to sexual attacks against women outside the central rail station on New Year’s Eve.
Wolfgang Albers, head of the police department, was sent into "early retirement" by the North-Rhine Westphalia state government.
State Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger's move came after Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker complained that Albers had not given her all relevant information about the molesting, groping and robbing of more than 100 women at the central square near the Cologne Cathedral.
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"People rightly want to know what happened on New Year's Eve, they want to know who the assailants were, and they want to know how such attacks can be prevented in the future," said Jaeger, sending the 60-year-old into "early retirement" as Germans usually treat such dismissa
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Police chief in Cologne, Germany, is fired amid criticism tied to assaults on women
Germany assaults
Ralf Jaeger, interior minister of Germany's North-Rhine-Westphalia, announces the firing of Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers on Friday.
The Cologne police chief was fired Friday following reports that authorities in Germany’s fourth-largest city may have covered up information that refugees had been connected to sexual attacks against women outside the central rail station on New Year’s Eve.
Wolfgang Albers, head of the police department, was sent into "early retirement" by the North-Rhine Westphalia state government.
State Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger's move came after Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker complained that Albers had not given her all relevant information about the molesting, groping and robbing of more than 100 women at the central square near the Cologne Cathedral.
See the most-read stories this hour >>
"People rightly want to know what happened on New Year's Eve, they want to know who the assailants were, and they want to know how such attacks can be prevented in the future," said Jaeger, sending the 60-year-old into "early retirement" as Germans usually treat such dismissa
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don't underestimate the importance of pushups for
a FBI agent
couple of reads
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To get this FBI job, men do more push-ups than women. A court says that’s okay.
January 12 at 11:03 AM
2.
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also see
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FBI agent Sentenced In Underage Sex Case
Posted: Fri 12:18 PM, Feb 23, 2007
February 23, 2007
A former FBI analyst has been sentenced for having sex with a young Spotsylvania County girl.
Forty four year old Anthony Lesko entered an Alford Plea to the charges in a Spotsylvania County Circuit to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child.
The plea means that Lesko does not admit guilt but believes that there is enough evidence to convict him. Lesko was sentenced to seven years in prison with 15 years suspended under a plea agreement.
Lesko was also ordered to pay 10 thousand dollars in restitution to cover the girl's mental health counseling. According to police Lesko was engaged in nine sexual encounters with the girl, starting when she was nine years old.
According to the plea Lesko says he was the victim in the case and that the girl initiated the contact.
a FBI agent
couple of reads
1.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/pu ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
To get this FBI job, men do more push-ups than women. A court says that’s okay.
January 12 at 11:03 AM
2.
http://www.policeprostitutionandpolitics.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
also see
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FBI agent Sentenced In Underage Sex Case
Posted: Fri 12:18 PM, Feb 23, 2007
February 23, 2007
A former FBI analyst has been sentenced for having sex with a young Spotsylvania County girl.
Forty four year old Anthony Lesko entered an Alford Plea to the charges in a Spotsylvania County Circuit to nine counts of felony indecent liberties upon a child.
The plea means that Lesko does not admit guilt but believes that there is enough evidence to convict him. Lesko was sentenced to seven years in prison with 15 years suspended under a plea agreement.
Lesko was also ordered to pay 10 thousand dollars in restitution to cover the girl's mental health counseling. According to police Lesko was engaged in nine sexual encounters with the girl, starting when she was nine years old.
According to the plea Lesko says he was the victim in the case and that the girl initiated the contact.
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Cops who kill unarmed victims — like Cedrick Chatman or Eric ...
New York Daily News January 17 2016
It wasn't until an FBI agent, who was in the area with a detective, arrived on the scene that Rice was given any first aid. It must be noted that Rice fought to live all ...
Cops who kill unarmed victims — like Cedrick Chatman or Eric ...
New York Daily News January 17 2016
It wasn't until an FBI agent, who was in the area with a detective, arrived on the scene that Rice was given any first aid. It must be noted that Rice fought to live all ...
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Ex-LAPD officer Henry Solis laughs at murder hearing
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 1, 2015, 11:29 AM A A A
Former Los angeles police officer Henry Solis, 27, is seen after being detained in Juarez in May.
A former Los Angeles police officer accused of killing a man in a bar fight laughed in court Tuesday, upsetting the victim's grieving family, they said.
Henry Solis, 27, appeared in court for his arraignment in the murder of 23-year-old Salome Rodgriuez Jr. and smiled briefly while talking with his attorneys, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"We don't know what he was laughing about, but this is not funny," the Rodriguez family's attorney, Gloria Allred, told reporters. "At the end of this case, we're hoping
Ex-LAPD officer Henry Solis laughs at murder hearing
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, July 1, 2015, 11:29 AM A A A
Former Los angeles police officer Henry Solis, 27, is seen after being detained in Juarez in May.
A former Los Angeles police officer accused of killing a man in a bar fight laughed in court Tuesday, upsetting the victim's grieving family, they said.
Henry Solis, 27, appeared in court for his arraignment in the murder of 23-year-old Salome Rodgriuez Jr. and smiled briefly while talking with his attorneys, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"We don't know what he was laughing about, but this is not funny," the Rodriguez family's attorney, Gloria Allred, told reporters. "At the end of this case, we're hoping
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BOSTON COP GETS 1-YEAR PROBATION FOR TIPPING OFF GANG TO FBI
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Documents detail deputy's ammo sales
The theft charge against Johnson – who was released after a hearing in U.S. District Court – alleges he “sold $8,580 in ammunition owned by the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office” between January 2012 and last August.
Federal, rather than state, prosecution is being pursued because the sheriff’s department receives federal funding, documents reflect.
Freeman’s affidavit suggests the sale of the ammunition – after it had been purchased at county expense from Matre Arms & Ammunition of Seven Mile, Ohio – came during a period when the longtime sheriff’s lieutenant was experiencing financial problems.
Records at Hoosier Park Casino in Anderson showed Johnson had $104,724 in gambling losses there between January 2013 and last September. The deputy filed for bankruptcy in 2013, and a bank foreclosed on his home in 2014.
Documents detail deputy's ammo sales
The theft charge against Johnson – who was released after a hearing in U.S. District Court – alleges he “sold $8,580 in ammunition owned by the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office” between January 2012 and last August.
Federal, rather than state, prosecution is being pursued because the sheriff’s department receives federal funding, documents reflect.
Freeman’s affidavit suggests the sale of the ammunition – after it had been purchased at county expense from Matre Arms & Ammunition of Seven Mile, Ohio – came during a period when the longtime sheriff’s lieutenant was experiencing financial problems.
Records at Hoosier Park Casino in Anderson showed Johnson had $104,724 in gambling losses there between January 2013 and last September. The deputy filed for bankruptcy in 2013, and a bank foreclosed on his home in 2014.
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for the uneducated and the uneducable
high school dropout can't find work so he joins the Marines to Semper Fi
and collect some money.
High school dropout is sent to Paris Island to be all he can be. He is trained to kill women and children and a occasional freedom fighter trying to protect his wife from being raped by Mr Semper Fi.
High school dropout ships out to invade Iraq for USEmpire and US oil companies.
American oil companies are struggling with the problem of Peak Oil.
Peak oil means we no longer have a infinite supply of oil.Maybe you saw the documentary film
see Collapse on youtube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ll1mzLulc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
high school drop out didn't because his high school teachers were too busy DUMBING him down
see
https://www.johntaylorgatto.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
High School dropout manges to kill a couple hundred women and children while throwing in a occasional rape. Mr Sempi Fi has now been transformed into Mr serial killer.
Mr high school dropout/serial killer now begins to experience extreme depression from his actions. Mental Wealth workers call it Post Traumatic
Stress Syndrome. But the only people who experience traumatic stress in Iraq are the Iraqi women being raped by Semper Fi's before they shot and killed them.
Good thing serial killer/high school dropout has never read the research
of Ian Stevenson MD whose groundbreaking study of 3,000 children who remember previous lives provides the science for the existence of reincarnation. see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01393.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What this means for high school dropout and now a bona fide serial killer
is that he will be coming back again for another life . Of course so will the people he murdered , so for practical purposes he has another couple hundred lives he has to live getting "wacked" by the life forms he semper fi'd.
The difference this time is the raped and murdered have had some time to ponder while they wait for him to pass over, how they will "do" Mr Semper Fi- the high school drop out serial killer.
Mr high school dropout comes back from Iraq out of work unless he re-enlists. There are not to many job openings for serial killers until he lands a job working with his be all you can be buddies at the PBS department ' local police or the FBI.
high school dropout can't find work so he joins the Marines to Semper Fi
and collect some money.
High school dropout is sent to Paris Island to be all he can be. He is trained to kill women and children and a occasional freedom fighter trying to protect his wife from being raped by Mr Semper Fi.
High school dropout ships out to invade Iraq for USEmpire and US oil companies.
American oil companies are struggling with the problem of Peak Oil.
Peak oil means we no longer have a infinite supply of oil.Maybe you saw the documentary film
see Collapse on youtube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ll1mzLulc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
high school drop out didn't because his high school teachers were too busy DUMBING him down
see
https://www.johntaylorgatto.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
High School dropout manges to kill a couple hundred women and children while throwing in a occasional rape. Mr Sempi Fi has now been transformed into Mr serial killer.
Mr high school dropout/serial killer now begins to experience extreme depression from his actions. Mental Wealth workers call it Post Traumatic
Stress Syndrome. But the only people who experience traumatic stress in Iraq are the Iraqi women being raped by Semper Fi's before they shot and killed them.
Good thing serial killer/high school dropout has never read the research
of Ian Stevenson MD whose groundbreaking study of 3,000 children who remember previous lives provides the science for the existence of reincarnation. see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 01393.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What this means for high school dropout and now a bona fide serial killer
is that he will be coming back again for another life . Of course so will the people he murdered , so for practical purposes he has another couple hundred lives he has to live getting "wacked" by the life forms he semper fi'd.
The difference this time is the raped and murdered have had some time to ponder while they wait for him to pass over, how they will "do" Mr Semper Fi- the high school drop out serial killer.
Mr high school dropout comes back from Iraq out of work unless he re-enlists. There are not to many job openings for serial killers until he lands a job working with his be all you can be buddies at the PBS department ' local police or the FBI.
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Denver mayor, police chief meet with student behind KKK cop portrayal
The controversial artwork was removed from a display in the city's Webb Building
Posted: 03/25/2016 10:02:49 AM MDT | Updated: about 3 hours ago
This painting, which has since been taken down, was part of a public school art show in the lobby of Denver’s Webb Building.
This painting, which has since been taken down, was part of a public school art show in the lobby of Denver's Webb Building. (Courtesy of Denver7)
Denver's police chief and mayor said they had a productive and educational conversation Friday with a student who created a piece of art showing an officer wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood while pointing a gun at a minority child.
"This was one of the more teachable moments that I've ever had as the mayor of this city," Mayor Michael Hancock told reporters after the meeting at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy. "Not just for the student, but for us as well."
Chief of Police Robert White flanked by Principle Peter Castillo (left) and Mayor Michael Hancock, listen to Acting Superintendent Susana Cordova speak
Chief of Police Robert White flanked by Principle Peter Castillo (left) and Mayor Michael Hancock, listen to Acting Superintendent Susana Cordova speak after a private meeting with the student artist, her parents and community leaders at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy to discuss concerns from the community and police regarding a public art work by one of the students that was displayed in a city building. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
The controversial artwork by the Kunsmiller 10th-grader was on display in the lobby of the city's Webb Building as part of a public school art show. It was removed Wednesday — at the girl's request, officials say — after drawing outrage from the city's law enforcement community.
MORE: Is student art free speech or a teaching moment?
Hancock said while the student intended to comment on the current tumult between police and minorities across the nation, she was also evoking images of Denver's past and the KKK's historic presence in the city.
"She has been profoundly impacted by the issues of today," Hancock said, adding that the girl "taught us all something."
The student's piece was one of dozens of pieces of student art, including photography, sculpture, video and drawings, hung in the Webb Building. Her work was chosen by a panel of Denver Public Schools' jurors from students' submissions across the city.
Hancock and Chief Robert White called a meeting with the student and her parents to discuss the piece and better understand her intentions as part of their ongoing attempts to create a dialogue with students.
Acting Denver Public Sch
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Denver mayor, police chief meet with student behind KKK cop portrayal
The controversial artwork was removed from a display in the city's Webb Building
Posted: 03/25/2016 10:02:49 AM MDT | Updated: about 3 hours ago
This painting, which has since been taken down, was part of a public school art show in the lobby of Denver’s Webb Building.
This painting, which has since been taken down, was part of a public school art show in the lobby of Denver's Webb Building. (Courtesy of Denver7)
Denver's police chief and mayor said they had a productive and educational conversation Friday with a student who created a piece of art showing an officer wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood while pointing a gun at a minority child.
"This was one of the more teachable moments that I've ever had as the mayor of this city," Mayor Michael Hancock told reporters after the meeting at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy. "Not just for the student, but for us as well."
Chief of Police Robert White flanked by Principle Peter Castillo (left) and Mayor Michael Hancock, listen to Acting Superintendent Susana Cordova speak
Chief of Police Robert White flanked by Principle Peter Castillo (left) and Mayor Michael Hancock, listen to Acting Superintendent Susana Cordova speak after a private meeting with the student artist, her parents and community leaders at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy to discuss concerns from the community and police regarding a public art work by one of the students that was displayed in a city building. (Joe Amon, The Denver Post)
The controversial artwork by the Kunsmiller 10th-grader was on display in the lobby of the city's Webb Building as part of a public school art show. It was removed Wednesday — at the girl's request, officials say — after drawing outrage from the city's law enforcement community.
MORE: Is student art free speech or a teaching moment?
Hancock said while the student intended to comment on the current tumult between police and minorities across the nation, she was also evoking images of Denver's past and the KKK's historic presence in the city.
"She has been profoundly impacted by the issues of today," Hancock said, adding that the girl "taught us all something."
The student's piece was one of dozens of pieces of student art, including photography, sculpture, video and drawings, hung in the Webb Building. Her work was chosen by a panel of Denver Public Schools' jurors from students' submissions across the city.
Hancock and Chief Robert White called a meeting with the student and her parents to discuss the piece and better understand her intentions as part of their ongoing attempts to create a dialogue with students.
Acting Denver Public Sch
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Three Oakland cops probed for allegedly having sex with girl
Friday, May 13, 2016
Oakland Officers Under Investigation In Underage Sex Scandal
CBS San Francisco
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00:00 / 02:32
Three Oakland police officers are being investigated for allegedly having sex with an underage girl — and another cop who killed himself may have also been involved.
The teenage victim was identified by several news outlets as Celeste Guap, now 18 or 19 years old, who may have been victimized by dozens of cops starting when she was 16.
Guap made several references to the scandal on Facebook before taking the page down entirely on Friday. She denied having any improper connections to the cops, writing that she had "harmless relationships," within the department, according to CBS in San Francisco.
Last month, she posted a photo of Oakland cops letting her off near her home, according to the station. "Took me back to Richmond in style," she said.
Statute of limitations denied these victims from se
Friday, May 13, 2016
Oakland Officers Under Investigation In Underage Sex Scandal
CBS San Francisco
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00:00 / 02:32
Three Oakland police officers are being investigated for allegedly having sex with an underage girl — and another cop who killed himself may have also been involved.
The teenage victim was identified by several news outlets as Celeste Guap, now 18 or 19 years old, who may have been victimized by dozens of cops starting when she was 16.
Guap made several references to the scandal on Facebook before taking the page down entirely on Friday. She denied having any improper connections to the cops, writing that she had "harmless relationships," within the department, according to CBS in San Francisco.
Last month, she posted a photo of Oakland cops letting her off near her home, according to the station. "Took me back to Richmond in style," she said.
Statute of limitations denied these victims from se
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Freedom of information
Justice department 'uses aged computer system to frustrate Foia requests'
Lawsuit accuses DoJ of ‘failure by design’ through use of decades-old system
DoJ refuses to use new $425m software on freedom of information requests
A new lawsuit alleges that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) intentionally conducts inadequate searches of its records using a decades-old computer system when queried by citizens looking for records that should be available to the public.
Freedom of Information Act (Foia) researcher Ryan Shapiro alleges “failure by design” in the DoJ’s protocols for responding to public requests. The Foia law states that agencies must “make reasonable efforts to search for the records in electronic form or format”.
In an effort to demonstrate that the DoJ does not comply with this provision, Shapiro requested records of his own requests and ran up against the same roadblocks that stymied his progress in previous inquiries. A judge ruled in January that the FBI had acted in a manner “fundamentally at odds with the statute”.
Now, armed with that ruling, Shapiro hopes to change policy across the entire department. Shapiro filed his suit on the 50th anniversary of Foia’s passage this month.
Foia requests to the FBI are processed by searching the Automated Case Support system (ACS), a software program that celebrates its 21st birthday this year.
Not only are the records indexed by ACS allegedly inadequate, Shapiro told the Guardian, but the FBI refuses to search the full text of those records as a matter of policy. When few or no records are returned, Shapiro said, the FBI effectively responds “sorry, we tried” without making use of the much more sophisticated search tools at the disposal of internal requestors.
Judge rules FBI unlawfully refused to comply with information act requests
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“The FBI’s assertion is akin to suggesting that a search of a limited and arbitrarily produced card catalogue at a vast library is as likely to locate book pages containing a specified search term as a full text search of database containing digitized versions of all the books in that library,” Shapiro said.
The DoJ has contended to Shapiro and others that only one of ACS’s three search functions, the Universal Name Index (Uni), is necessary to fulfill the law. The Uni search does not include the text of the files in the ACS, merely search terms entered – or not – by the FBI agent handling the case in question.
Shapiro told the Guardian that the reason the DoJ gave for refusing to use its $425m Sentinel software to process Foia requests after ACS had failed to recover records was that a Sentinel search “would be needlessly duplicative of the FBI’s default ACS UNI index-based searches and wasteful of Bureau resources”.
To Shapiro, this is both disingenuous and evidence of the well-documented resistance to this law at the DoJ. A PhD candidate at MIT, Shapiro is at work on a dissertation dealing with the conflict between perceived national security concerns and animal rights.
The Department of Justice has chafed under Foia requirements for even longer than it has used ACS. In 1981, the then FBI director, William H Webster, told the American Bar Association that the DoJ was “working with Congress to determine what corrective measures will be taken” regarding what it saw as a danger to the security of its investigations from Foia. The department never got its Foia exemption.
The FBI’s chief technology officer during the second George W Bush administration, Jack Israel, said he was unimpressed with the system in a Q&A cited in Shapiro’s complaint with the now-defunct site FierceGovernmentIT. “ACS – the Automated Case Support system – is based on old technology,” Israel said four years ago. “It’s based on an IBM mainframe with legacy database and programming technology, and I would say one of the main things that strikes you as a user of ACS is that you’re dealing with the old IBM green screens. You’re not dealing with a web-based environment, which everyone is used to from the internet.”
Not only is the interface archaic, but the way that you search data, the way you input data, all of those are archaic, wrote Shapiro in his complaint. Indeed, in 2012 a DoJ commission headed by Webster himself investigating the 2009 Fort Hood shooting called ACS “the FBI’s most outdated system”, noting that “t is being phased out in favor of an impressive Web-based successor, Sentinel”.
More recently, the FBI’s own investigation into the September 11 attacks found that “[o]n September 11, 2001,
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July 15 2016
Eighteen arrested in Portland as group protesting police shootings blocks Commercial Street
Members of a group called the Portland Racial Justice Congress, calling for the city's police department to make changes, occupy a busy intersection in the heart of the Old Port for hours.
Shadiyo Hussain chants “hands up, don’t shoot!” with about 150 people as they march from Lincoln Park down Pearl Street to Commercial Street for a protest. Jill Brady/Staff Photographer
Portland police arrested 18 protesters late Friday who had blocked Commercial Street for most of the night.
They were among a group of demonstrators – decrying the recent police shootings of black men – who had marched from Lincoln Park to the heart of the Old Port on Friday evening, tying up traffic after they occupied a busy intersection on Commercial Street.
After the arrests for blocking a public way, all of the police officers who had been on the scene for hours pulled out by 10:50 p.m.
Police Chief Michael Sauschuck said at a news conference early Saturday that officers targeted “ringleaders” for arrest.
“There were people who, it is obviously from Day 1, they wanted to be arrested,” he said.
But immediately after the police left, a group of about 30 protesters chanting and carrying a banner about 20 feet wide returned to Commercial Street and then moved up Market Street. Supporters of theirs accompanied them along the sidewalks.
The group, about 50 or 60 strong, turned down Middle Street and gathered in front of the police station, where they shouted, “No justice, no peace!”
They were watched over by three officers on the steps of the police station. Those officers
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Crime U.S. World Politics
Drunk off-duty NYPD cop plows onto Brooklyn sidewalk, killing one
Saturday, July 16, 2016, 5:45 PM
Raw: Alleged drunk driver crashes, hits several pedestrians
A drunken off-duty cop plowed his SUV into a group of friends on a Brooklyn sidewalk early Saturday, killing one and seriously injuring three others, police said.
Witnesses said Officer Nicholas Batka, whose vehicle was speeding and swerving in the seconds before impact, flashed his badge and tried to flee the scene after the 3 a.m. crash.
One victim had a leg torn off in the gruesome wreck, and another was impaled on a railing in the deadly pile-up just four hours before rookie cop Batka was due on the job, police
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July 15 2016
Federal judge: Possible misconduct by FBI in LaVoy Finicum ...
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The investigation into alleged misconduct by FBI Hostage Rescue Team officers at the scene of Robert "LaVoy" Finicum's shooting in Harney County isn't ...
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Coping with rejection: a guide to federal FOIA exemptions
by JPat Brown
July 15, 2016
At the federal level, nine FOIA exemptions stand between you and records you want. Here’s what they are, what they mean, and what you can do about them.
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We’re building an open guide to every state’s public records law
by Michael Morisy
July 14, 2016
With agencies increasingly using an array of exemptions to deny access to information, we want to help requesters fight back. We’re launching a project to track every public records exemption in all 50 states - and provide the information needed to successfully overcome times when information is improperly denied.
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FBI Failed to Communicate Saudi Financial Connections with 9/11 ...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) San Diego Field Office failed to communicate information in a Central Intelligence Agency ...
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The FBI Says Its Malware Isn't Malware Because the FBI Is Good
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The FBI is facing accusations that malware it deployed while running Operation Playpen, a sting that infiltrated and maintained a dark web
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Crime U.S. World Politics
Georgia man mistaken for suspect, hit with stun gun and arrested
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Thursday, July 15 2016
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McALLEN — A former Drug Enforcement Administration task force officer was found guilty Thursday for his role in a drug conspiracy, federal prosecutors
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The unclassified 28 pages of the 9/11 report reveal that the FBI and CIA had evidence connecting Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, nicknamed Bandar Bush, ...
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Learn about major partnerships with the private sector, how to do business with us, the threats we investigate, and more.
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Doing Business with the FBI
The FBI’s Small Business Programs Office (SBPO) advocates for small, minority, service-disabled veteran, Historically Underutilized Business Zone, and women-owned small businesses. The SBPO promotes the use of small businesses throughout the Bureau, to include its 56 field offices. As the FBI is a Department of Justice (DOJ) agency, the SBPO receives policy direction and guidance from the director of DOJ’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.
The Finance Division is responsible for the centralized procurement activities of the Bureau. The division is organized into six buying units and the Acquisition Strategy and Planning Unit (ASAPU). The SBPO is a part of the ASAPU, which is responsible for providing strategic planning support and guidance to internal FBI customers. The buying units are organized to purchase supplies and services to meet the requirements of specific customers. The SBPO interacts with each of the six buying units to promote the use of small businesses and provide assistance in locating appropriate small businesses—ensuring that the Bureau complies with congressionally mandated procurement goals, federal acquisition regulations, and Department of Justice regulations.
The SBPO is committed to ensuring that small business consideration is given priority in each procurement and encourages small businesses to pursue FBI procurements. The FBI’s procurement forecast is a part of the consolidated DOJ forecast, which can be found at http://www.justice.gov/jmd/osdbu/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Those interested may also attend DOJ vendor outreach sessions.
Finance Division Personnel
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Washington, D.C. 20535
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Washington, D.C. 20535
[email protected]
Outreach Events
The director of the Department of Justice’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) hosts vendor outreach sessions each fiscal year. Each of the Department of Justice agencies is represented at the sessions, to include the FBI’s small business program staff. You can register to attend a session by calling the OSDBU staff at (202) 616-0521 or 1-800-345-3712. Appointments will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. Scheduling begins at noon EST/EDT on the first work day of each month. Complete information about the sessions may be found at: http://www.justice.gov/osdbu/meet-small ... specialist" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The sessions are held at:
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Washington, D.C. 20530
9:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m.
Products and Services Purchased by the FBI
North American Industry Classification System/Description
541519: Other computer-related services
541512: Computer systems design services
541613: Marketing consulting services
541511: Custom computer programming services
453998: All other miscellaneous store retailers (except tobacco stores)
541611: Administrative management and general management consulting services
518210: Data processing, hosting, and related services
423430: Computer and computer peripheral equipment and software merchant wholesalers
334111: Electronic computer manufacturing
531210: Office of real estate agents and brokers
236220: Commercial and institutional building construction
334119: Other computer peripheral equipment
51720: Wireless telecommunications carriers (except satellite)
443120: Computer and software stores
541618: Engineering services
541690: Other management consulting services
561110: Office administrative services
334516: Analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing
811212: Computer and office machine repair and maintenance
334220: Radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing
337214: Office furniture (except wood manufacturing)
316999: All other leather goods manufacturing
511210: Software publishers
541199: All other legal services
561210: Facilities support services
611420: Computer training
Justice department 'uses aged computer system to frustrate Foia requests'
Lawsuit accuses DoJ of ‘failure by design’ through use of decades-old system
DoJ refuses to use new $425m software on freedom of information requests
A new lawsuit alleges that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) intentionally conducts inadequate searches of its records using a decades-old computer system when queried by citizens looking for records that should be available to the public.
Freedom of Information Act (Foia) researcher Ryan Shapiro alleges “failure by design” in the DoJ’s protocols for responding to public requests. The Foia law states that agencies must “make reasonable efforts to search for the records in electronic form or format”.
In an effort to demonstrate that the DoJ does not comply with this provision, Shapiro requested records of his own requests and ran up against the same roadblocks that stymied his progress in previous inquiries. A judge ruled in January that the FBI had acted in a manner “fundamentally at odds with the statute”.
Now, armed with that ruling, Shapiro hopes to change policy across the entire department. Shapiro filed his suit on the 50th anniversary of Foia’s passage this month.
Foia requests to the FBI are processed by searching the Automated Case Support system (ACS), a software program that celebrates its 21st birthday this year.
Not only are the records indexed by ACS allegedly inadequate, Shapiro told the Guardian, but the FBI refuses to search the full text of those records as a matter of policy. When few or no records are returned, Shapiro said, the FBI effectively responds “sorry, we tried” without making use of the much more sophisticated search tools at the disposal of internal requestors.
Judge rules FBI unlawfully refused to comply with information act requests
Read more
“The FBI’s assertion is akin to suggesting that a search of a limited and arbitrarily produced card catalogue at a vast library is as likely to locate book pages containing a specified search term as a full text search of database containing digitized versions of all the books in that library,” Shapiro said.
The DoJ has contended to Shapiro and others that only one of ACS’s three search functions, the Universal Name Index (Uni), is necessary to fulfill the law. The Uni search does not include the text of the files in the ACS, merely search terms entered – or not – by the FBI agent handling the case in question.
Shapiro told the Guardian that the reason the DoJ gave for refusing to use its $425m Sentinel software to process Foia requests after ACS had failed to recover records was that a Sentinel search “would be needlessly duplicative of the FBI’s default ACS UNI index-based searches and wasteful of Bureau resources”.
To Shapiro, this is both disingenuous and evidence of the well-documented resistance to this law at the DoJ. A PhD candidate at MIT, Shapiro is at work on a dissertation dealing with the conflict between perceived national security concerns and animal rights.
The Department of Justice has chafed under Foia requirements for even longer than it has used ACS. In 1981, the then FBI director, William H Webster, told the American Bar Association that the DoJ was “working with Congress to determine what corrective measures will be taken” regarding what it saw as a danger to the security of its investigations from Foia. The department never got its Foia exemption.
The FBI’s chief technology officer during the second George W Bush administration, Jack Israel, said he was unimpressed with the system in a Q&A cited in Shapiro’s complaint with the now-defunct site FierceGovernmentIT. “ACS – the Automated Case Support system – is based on old technology,” Israel said four years ago. “It’s based on an IBM mainframe with legacy database and programming technology, and I would say one of the main things that strikes you as a user of ACS is that you’re dealing with the old IBM green screens. You’re not dealing with a web-based environment, which everyone is used to from the internet.”
Not only is the interface archaic, but the way that you search data, the way you input data, all of those are archaic, wrote Shapiro in his complaint. Indeed, in 2012 a DoJ commission headed by Webster himself investigating the 2009 Fort Hood shooting called ACS “the FBI’s most outdated system”, noting that “t is being phased out in favor of an impressive Web-based successor, Sentinel”.
More recently, the FBI’s own investigation into the September 11 attacks found that “[o]n September 11, 2001,
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July 15 2016
Eighteen arrested in Portland as group protesting police shootings blocks Commercial Street
Members of a group called the Portland Racial Justice Congress, calling for the city's police department to make changes, occupy a busy intersection in the heart of the Old Port for hours.
Shadiyo Hussain chants “hands up, don’t shoot!” with about 150 people as they march from Lincoln Park down Pearl Street to Commercial Street for a protest. Jill Brady/Staff Photographer
Portland police arrested 18 protesters late Friday who had blocked Commercial Street for most of the night.
They were among a group of demonstrators – decrying the recent police shootings of black men – who had marched from Lincoln Park to the heart of the Old Port on Friday evening, tying up traffic after they occupied a busy intersection on Commercial Street.
After the arrests for blocking a public way, all of the police officers who had been on the scene for hours pulled out by 10:50 p.m.
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But immediately after the police left, a group of about 30 protesters chanting and carrying a banner about 20 feet wide returned to Commercial Street and then moved up Market Street. Supporters of theirs accompanied them along the sidewalks.
The group, about 50 or 60 strong, turned down Middle Street and gathered in front of the police station, where they shouted, “No justice, no peace!”
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Protecting business is our business. Our investigations make a difference to your bottom line and the overall economy—whether it’s keeping the competitive playing field level through our antitrust cases, protecting trade secrets and intellectual property, patrolling cyberspace, or preventing financially-crippling terrorist attacks. We work with business professionals across the country every day—not just to request support for our investigations, but to provide a range of services and to join together to protect vital infrastructure.
Learn about major partnerships with the private sector, how to do business with us, the threats we investigate, and more.
Key Information-Sharing Partnerships
Learn more about these four partnerships, what they offer to the private sector, and how to join by visiting the links below.
Domestic Security Alliance Council
The Domestic Security Alliance Council, or DSAC, is a security and intelligence-sharing initiative between the FBI, the Department…
Counterintelligence Strategic Partnerships
Our Counterintelligence Strategic Partnerships work to determine and safeguard those technologies which, if compromised…
InfraGard
InfraGard brings together representatives from the private and public sectors to help protect our nation’s critical infrastructure…
iGuardian
With cyber threats continuing to emerge at the forefront of the FBI’s criminal and national security challenges…
Learn About Key Threats to Businesses
These are among the key threats and security risks facing businesses today. The pages and sections below include some information on protections and mitigations. More details can be found by joining one or several of the information-sharing partnerships listed above.
Terrorism
Combating terrorism is the FBI’s top investigative priority. Working closely with a range of partners, we use…
Counterintelligence
Spies might seem like a throwback to earlier days of world wars and cold wars, but they are…
Cyber Crime
The FBI is the lead federal agency for investigating cyber attacks by criminals, overseas adversaries, and terrorists. The…
Intellectual Property Theft/Piracy
Preventing intellectual property theft is a priority of the FBI’s criminal investigative program. It specifically focuses on…
Business E-Mail Compromise
Business e-mail compromise (BEC) is a growing financial fraud that is more sophisticated than any similar scam the…
Health Care Fraud
The FBI is the primary investigative agency involved in the fight against health care fraud, with jurisdiction over…
Active Shooter Incidents
An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated…
Workplace Violence
This booklet is aimed at prevention, intervention, threat assessment and management, crisis management and critical incident response, and…
Financial Institution/Mortgage Fraud
The FBI is committed to aggressively pursuing those who endanger the stability of our banking system and the…
Doing Business with the FBI
The FBI’s Small Business Programs Office (SBPO) advocates for small, minority, service-disabled veteran, Historically Underutilized Business Zone, and women-owned small businesses. The SBPO promotes the use of small businesses throughout the Bureau, to include its 56 field offices. As the FBI is a Department of Justice (DOJ) agency, the SBPO receives policy direction and guidance from the director of DOJ’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.
The Finance Division is responsible for the centralized procurement activities of the Bureau. The division is organized into six buying units and the Acquisition Strategy and Planning Unit (ASAPU). The SBPO is a part of the ASAPU, which is responsible for providing strategic planning support and guidance to internal FBI customers. The buying units are organized to purchase supplies and services to meet the requirements of specific customers. The SBPO interacts with each of the six buying units to promote the use of small businesses and provide assistance in locating appropriate small businesses—ensuring that the Bureau complies with congressionally mandated procurement goals, federal acquisition regulations, and Department of Justice regulations.
The SBPO is committed to ensuring that small business consideration is given priority in each procurement and encourages small businesses to pursue FBI procurements. The FBI’s procurement forecast is a part of the consolidated DOJ forecast, which can be found at http://www.justice.gov/jmd/osdbu/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Those interested may also attend DOJ vendor outreach sessions.
Finance Division Personnel
Section Chief
Procurement Section
Finance Division
935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20535
Small Business Representative
Small Business Competition Coordination Unit
Room 6863
935 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20535
[email protected]
Outreach Events
The director of the Department of Justice’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) hosts vendor outreach sessions each fiscal year. Each of the Department of Justice agencies is represented at the sessions, to include the FBI’s small business program staff. You can register to attend a session by calling the OSDBU staff at (202) 616-0521 or 1-800-345-3712. Appointments will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. Scheduling begins at noon EST/EDT on the first work day of each month. Complete information about the sessions may be found at: http://www.justice.gov/osdbu/meet-small ... specialist" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The sessions are held at:
OSDBU
Two Constitution Square
145 N Street NE, Room 1W.1001
Washington, D.C. 20530
9:00 a.m to 12:00 p.m.
Products and Services Purchased by the FBI
North American Industry Classification System/Description
541519: Other computer-related services
541512: Computer systems design services
541613: Marketing consulting services
541511: Custom computer programming services
453998: All other miscellaneous store retailers (except tobacco stores)
541611: Administrative management and general management consulting services
518210: Data processing, hosting, and related services
423430: Computer and computer peripheral equipment and software merchant wholesalers
334111: Electronic computer manufacturing
531210: Office of real estate agents and brokers
236220: Commercial and institutional building construction
334119: Other computer peripheral equipment
51720: Wireless telecommunications carriers (except satellite)
443120: Computer and software stores
541618: Engineering services
541690: Other management consulting services
561110: Office administrative services
334516: Analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing
811212: Computer and office machine repair and maintenance
334220: Radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing
337214: Office furniture (except wood manufacturing)
316999: All other leather goods manufacturing
511210: Software publishers
541199: All other legal services
561210: Facilities support services
611420: Computer training
