Earlier this week, after an inquest jury essentially vindicated London police officers in the 2011 killing of 29 year old Mark Duggan, authorities announced that, henceforth, some number of London’s 2,300 firearms-carrying officers would begin wearing vest-mounted video cameras. And, as much as I consider myself a privacy advocate, and despise our ever expanding surveillance […]
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Every cop with a gun should also be outfitted with a video camera
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged Bernard Hogan-Howe, California, David Ware, excessive force, Gary Schiff, London, Mark Duggan, Minneapolis, police, police brutality, Police Foundation, privacy, recording the police, Rialto, surveillance, surveillance culture, Surveillance State, the militarization of the police, Tony Farrar, video, video surveillance 17 Comments
Happy Mothers Day
After all, there’s no reason that victims of rape and incest shouldn’t be able to share this special day with everyone else… [Tonight’s post is brought to you by the phrase, “rape audit,” which was just introduced into the American lexicon thanks to our our friends in the Republican Party, who are apparently all for […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Observations, Other, Politics, Rants Also tagged abortion, holidays, incest, motherhood, Mothers' Day, national holidays, pregnancy, privacy, rape, rape audits, small government, The Handmaid's Tale 12 Comments
Policing by video in Ypsilanti Township
As we’ve established here in the past, folks in Ypsi Township are reluctant at best to pay for police services, in spite of their soaring violent crime rate. Sure, they may pass an occasional millage when the murder rate reaches a particularly terrifying level, but, for the most part, they’ve shown, like good Tea Partiers, […]
Posted in Observations, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Brenda Stumbo, Community Policing, crime, EOS, murder, police, privacy, race, Robocop, taxes, video surveillance, West WIllow, Wiard Road, Ypsilanti Township 30 Comments