War on Drugs

June 22, 2014 In a disgusting show of obstinate idiocy, the Philadelphia Police Department says they won’t stop arresting people for possession of small amounts of marijuana, even if Mayor Michael Nutter signs a bill allowing it. Commissioner Charles Ramsey says the crime is still on the state’s law books, …

Rave party raided by SWAT team, helicopter, police dogs A chopper hovered overhead as soldier-wannabes violently shut down the “illegal mass gathering.” June 21, 2014 Eric Peters Auto   SPANISH FORK, UT — Music lovers enjoying a rave party went from dancing and having fun to being tackled by masked, …

Is this what police departments nationwide have been reduced to? June 21, 2014 The war on drugs has become a literal joke. Two young men who had just gotten off of work decided to stop and get some gas. One of the young men said the band name “Nickelback” and …

William Norman Grigg LewRockwell.com June 18, 2014 Jerad and Amanda Miller, who were banished from Bunkerville by supporters of Cliven Bundy, had worked as informants for Nevada law enforcement agencies. After the Millers murdered three people — Las Vegas Metro Officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, and Joseph Wilcox, an …

June 16, 2014 A rather disheartening facebook page has popped up in the last couple of weeks coming out of Habersham County. Habersham County happens to be the place where a SWAT team raided a house in the middle of the night, looking for a man who’d sold $50 worth of …

Police use the number of low-level drug arrests to sustain critical law enforcement funding from the federal government. Alternet.org Aaron Cantú June 14, 2014 Activists have long claimed that cops have quotas for ticketing and arresting people, but evidence to support those claims varies from state to state. However, newly …

Within the past week we have seen two separate instances of police shootings carried out by people alleged to be ‘fighting for freedom.’ The information that we have so far does not show that these killings were acts of self-defense, which makes them murders. These apparently unprovoked attacks on individuals …

Police Militarization meets Hacker Culture: Swatting VICE News June 7, 2014 In recent years, a small amount of hackers and gamers have been anonymously reporting fake hostage situations, shootings, and other violent crimes designed to send elite police units, like SWAT teams, to unsuspecting people at their residences. Swatting is …

“You think if anyone is going to break into your vehicle in Ybor, the last person you think, it’s going to be the cops.”   The Free Thought Project Matt Agorist June 6, 2014 When Matthew Heller was walking back to his vehicle after leaving a concert in Tampa, FL …

Police in Seattle, Washington, have seized what’s being described as an “unprecedented number of illegally-grown marijuana plants.” In a twist on the typical raid story, though, not a single person was arrested.   RT.com June 6, 2014 Although well over 2,000 plants were discovered, police decided to leave behind more …