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- Terror Laws Used Against Common Crimes (CBS News)
"In the two years since law enforcement agencies gained fresh powers to help them track down and punish terrorists, police and prosecutors have increasingly turned the force of the new laws not on al Qaeda cells but on people charged with common crimes."
"A North Carolina county prosecutor charged a man accused of running a methamphetamine lab with breaking a new state law barring the manufacture of chemical weapons. If convicted, Martin Dwayne Miller could get 12 years to life in prison for a crime that usually brings about six months."
"Civil liberties and legal defense groups are bothered by the string of cases, and say the government soon will be routinely using harsh anti-terrorism laws against run-of-the-mill lawbreakers."
"The law, passed two months after the Sept. 11 attacks, erased many restrictions that had barred the government from spying on its citizens, granting agents new powers to use wiretaps, conduct electronic and computer eavesdropping and access private financial data."
"More than 150 local governments have passed resolutions opposing the law as an overly broad threat to constitutional rights." 9-03
- -03-15-09 Policeman Arrests Priest for Filming Him (CBS News)
"A Roman Catholic priest who monitors law enforcement treatment of minorities with a video camera released footage that appears to contradict the police account of his own arrest." 03-09
- -07-23-09 Police Sergeant Refuses to Apologize (CNN News)
"The commissioner of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police department said Thursday he 'deeply regrets' the arrest of prominent black Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., but stands by the procedures followed by his department."
"Obama defended Gates Wednesday night, while acknowledging that he may be 'a little biased,' because Gates is a friend."
" 'But I think it's fair to say, No. 1, any of us would be pretty angry; No. 2, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home; and, No. 3 ... that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately.' "
"The incident, Obama said, shows 'how race remains a factor in this society.' " 07-09
- -11-26-14 Police and Body Cameras (Time.com)
"For police, cameras have the potential to offer visual evidence of confrontations, which could provide a level of public transparency and potentially save law enforcement agencies millions of dollars in legal fees spent fighting and settling suits brought by citizens."
"But only a few studies have been conducted on the effects body-worn cameras. The most frequently cited came out of the police department in Rialto, Calif., which found an 88% drop in the number of complaints filed against officers and a 60% decline in use of force incidents compared with the year before officers adopted cameras." 11-14
- Move Over Laws (GAHighwaySafety.org)
"According to FBI statistics, traffic crashes claim the lives of more police personnel than any other cause of death in the line of duty, including shootings. The FBI says last year, forty-nine officers died in crashes across the country. Thirteen of those law enforcement officers were struck and killed by passing vehicles while they worked outside their patrol cars." 02-06
- Injury Statistics for a Police Officer in Queensland, Australia (Queensland Government)
Provides an image of a human profile indicating where on the person the injuries occur. 11-09
- -10-04-08 Army Combat Unit Deployed Inside the USA (CNN News)
"The United States military's Northern Command, formed in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, is dedicating a combat infantry team to deal with catastrophes in the U.S., including terrorist attacks and natural disasters."
"The plan is drawing skepticism from some observers who are concerned that the unit has been training with equipment generally used in law enforcement, including beanbag bullets, Tasers, spike strips and roadblocks."
"Use of active-duty military as a domestic police force has been severely limited since passage of the Posse Comitatus Act following the Civil War." 10-08
- Stolen Car Prevention Program (LoJack.com)
"LoJack is the only recovery system operated by local and state law enforcement agencies. LoJack even supplies the mobile tracking computers that police departments use in recovering LoJack-equipped vehicles." 8-04
- The Truth About Lie Detection (Newsweek.com)
"Outside the ideal setting of a laboratory, lie detection is even more difficult. Part of the problem is the myths out there on lie-telling."
"Liars do not look down or look to the left. They do not shift from side to side. They don't fidget. Actually, liars often hold themselves still, restraining their movements so that they appear truthful. And liars don't get nervous, because they're sure you believe them. (In comparison, shy, truth-telling introverts often get anxious during a confrontation and thus mistakenly get accused of lying.)"
"The University of Portsmouth's Dr. Alvert Vrij has studied videotapes of police interrogations of murder and rape suspects. His team found scant differences between truth tellers and liars. The liars blinked a little less; they moved their arms a little less; and they paused a little more before answering. That was about it." 12-09
- The Rise of Privatized Policing (Truth-Out)
"Detroit's desperate, increased reliance on private security and a private-public surveillance partnership in monitoring dissenters provides a model backdrop to the kind of crisis capitalism at work not just in Detroit, but across the United States, as the ranks of privatized police forces continue to surge since the September 11, 2001, attacks, now dwarfing the public sector as budgets for police departments experience cuts throughout the nation." 04-15
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