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Police director sues for critical bloggers names : Local News : Memphis Commerci…: Jul 28, 4:54am 6 reviews politics, police, constitution, free-speech
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/jul/22/police-director-sues-find-id...; Police director sues for critical bloggers' names From the page: "Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department. The lawsuit asks AOL to produce all information related to the identity of an e-mail address linked to MPD Enforcer 2.0, a blog popular with police officers that has been extremely critical of police leadership at 201 Poplar. "In what could be a landmark case of privacy and the 1st Amendment," the anonymous bloggers write on the site, "Godwin has illegally used his position and the City of Memphis as a ram to ruin the Constitution of the United States..... " It isn't, in my opinion, that the police chief is filing a lawsuit, it's that the police chief perceives the lawsuit is worth the effort given the judicial culture that sees the Constitution with continually diminutive importance. .

Breitbart.tv & SWAT Tech: New Radar/Antenna Combo Lets LA Cops 'See Through…: Jun 2, 3:31pm 1 review video, technology, police, see-through-walls
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=105983; New Radar/Antenna Combo Lets LA Cops `See Through Walls'

Woman with brain disorder arrested and locked up because police thought she was …: May 26, 2:44pm 1 review uk, law, bizarre, police, stupidity
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1021950/Woman-brain-disorder-arrested...; Another marvelous story on the ever vigilant tax payer supported UK constabulary. Woman with brain disorder arrested and locked up because police thought she was drunk | Mail Online From the page: "Lorraine Parkin, 37, who suffers from a rare illness, was arrested and put in cells by police - because they mistakenly assumed she was drunk A mother-of-three who suffers from a disease which causes balance problems was thrown into cells - because police mistakenly thought she was drunk. Lorraine Parkin, 37, who is teetotal, was just leaving a supermarket when an officer ordered her to stop her car. Mrs Parkin was approached by a female officer who asked her whether she had been drinking. The officer asked her to step out of her car and several police officers who had been nearby arrived an confiscated her car keys. Despite explaining she suffered from Huntington's Disease, showing her medication and even offering to take a breath test, Mrs Parkin had her car keys confiscated. She claims that at one stage up to 10 police officers surrounded her as they waited for a breathalyser kit to arrive. When none was available Mrs Parkin says officers bundled her into the back of a van and took her to the station where she was placed in a cell. The distraught mother accused police of discriminating against people with disabilities. "I have never felt so humiliated and small," she said."

War veteran, 96, has rubbish uncollected for two weeks for crime of putting two …: May 14, 3:10pm 1 review uk, law, news, police, courts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=5...; It is impossible to exhaust news on lunacy. The poor half-blind bloke makes a mistake and the persnickety bats in the bellfry go crazy. There is ever increasing evidence that socialized countries - those governments that supposedly care so well for their own people - are simply shills for the vicious to behave nasty - with impunity - to those of their own species. War veteran, 96, has rubbish uncollected for two weeks for 'crime' of putting two jars in wrong bin A council refused to collect rubbish from a 95-year-old war veteran who is nearly blind - because he put a ketchup bottle in the wrong bin. Lenny Woodward, a former Desert Rat who has lived in the same house for 58 years, was confused by a new regime of fortnightly collections and rigid recycling rules. Residents have a blue wheelie bin for cans and cardboard, a green box for glass and a black bin for other waste. Mr Woodward made the mistake of putting the ketchup bottle and a coffee jar in the blue bin when they should have gone in the green box. Great-grandfather Lenny Woodward was snubbed by binmen who refused to empty his recycling wheelie bin When binmen inspected the blue bin, they refused to empty it and attached a tag to it warning him not to break the rules again. And when his daughter rang Norwich City Council to explain that he was baffled by the new regime, she was told that "rules have to be obeyed". Mr Woodward, who lives alone following the death of his wife Hilda three years ago, said: "I'm very sorry it happened. It's just I'm confused. I don't know which bin is which so I put the wrong things in the wrong bin. "They could have knocked on my door and spoken to me about it instead of putting a note on the bin saying they would not empty it.

Commuter who cant get a seat is fined for standing in luggage space near first c…: May 11, 9:18am 5 reviews uk, law, news, police, courts
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23481167-details/Commuter+who+...; Commuter who can't get a seat is fined for standing in luggage space near first class Intimidated: inspectors told Nichola Myhill she could be arrested for squeezing into a space by a lavatory From the page: "A commuter who could not find a seat on her train but managed to squeeze into a tiny luggage space by a lavatory was fined because she was too close to first class. Nichola Myhill's hour-long journey ended with the threat of arrest and a £69 fine because she had strayed out of a second-class compartment. Now the 27-year-old magazine graphic designer is waiting to hear of her appeal against what she described as "the appalling way I was treated". Ms Myhill caught the 6.30pm service from Liverpool Street station on her way to her home in Fingringhoe, near Colchester, but there were no seats available. She said: "I pay just over £4,000 a year for a season ticket yet I usually end up sitting outside a toilet on the dirty floor because everywhere is full up. "People were standing in every available space between carriages - it was not possible to stand in the aisle because it would have caused huge disruption. Together with another young couple I stepped into the space at the end of a first-class carriage. A guard saw us and we explained that there was nowhere else to go, which he accepted. "But 10 minutes later a pair of ticket inspectors came through and having seen our tickets told us we were all going to be fined on the spot. "I felt intimidated by their aggressive attitude - they demanded my details including my National Insurance number and where I worked. "I was not at all happy about giving them so much information but they said I would be arrested if I refused to co-operate. "They called up two men who showed me their warrant cards and they told us that we had to comply with the inspectors or we would be committing an arrestable offence. "I was made to feel like a criminal and I was terrified that I would be taken off the train in handcuffs. Several passengers in the first-class compartment protested at the way I was being treated. "They were astounded by what was happening - one man told the inspectors to leave me alone because I was not causing any problems and should be allowed to stay." Upset and scared, Ms Myhill said she had no choice but to accept the £69 onthe-spot fine - calculated as double the cost of a single first class fare from London to Colchester - but has refused to pay and is appealing. "Ironically they told me afterwards that I could have paid a £12 upgrade and sat in first class anyway. To add insult to injury as they left they said I could sit in the compartment because I had now paid the fine - but we had almost reached my destination."' "They were astounded by what was happening - one man told the inspectors to leave me alone because I was not causing any problems and should be allowed to stay." Upset and scared, Ms Myhill said she had no choice but to accept the £69 onthe-spot fine - calculated as double the cost of a single first class fare from London to Colchester - but has refused to pay and is appealing. "Ironically they told me afterwards that I could have paid a £12 upgrade and sat in first class anyway. To add insult to injury as they left they said I could sit in the compartment because I had now paid the fine - but we had almost reached my destination."" There is something extraordinarily nasty about the public servants in the UK. Or perhaps the understanding of the concept of public servant shoud be changed to Anal Retentive Gestapo. Where does the government find these people, anyway? Or are they specially bred at genetic re-engineering farms?

FOXNews.com - Connecticut Man Says Cops Broke Into His Home and Ripped Out His C…: May 10, 8:42pm 1 review crime, law, police, stupidity, innocent
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354837,00.html; Connecticut Man Says Cops Broke Into His Home and Ripped Out His Catheter From the page: "A man alleges that police entered his home illegally and ripped a catheter from his body during a child pornography investigation that led to the arrest of two neighbors. Andrew Glover, 60, of New Britain filed a notice with the city Thursday that he intends to pursue a federal civil rights lawsuit. He accused the officers of inflicting severe injuries as he was recovering from intestinal surgery in February. Glover's lawyer, Paul Spinella, said police entered Glover's apartment Jan. 30 and Feb. 28. Glover wasn't involved in child pornography, has not been charged and has no criminal record, Spinella said. "The poor guy," Spinella said. "They ripped the catheter off his person. They assaulted the guy. He's got major problems as a result of this. He's a mess now." Lt. James Wardwell, a police spokesman, said Friday that the department had not received the intent-to-sue notice and would not comment. A message was left for the city's corporation counsel. Glover has two years to file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court. Spinella said officers "tossed" Glover's apartment during a search Jan. 30. In February, he said, Glover returned home from the hospital after his surgery to find officers searching his apartment again. That's when they assaulted Glover and left him alone in the apartment without calling for medical help, Spinella said. The police didn't have search warrants, Spinella said."

Man spends 18 hours in police cell and has his DNA taken for dropping an apple c…: May 10, 8:15pm 5 reviews uk, law, police, stupidity
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=5...; Keith Hirst, who has a heart condition, was locked up for 18 hours From the page: "Mr Hirst, 54, said yesterday he would fight to clear his name in a case which could leave him with a criminal record and cost taxpayers thousands of pounds. "The way I was treated you would have thought I had robbed a bank," he said. "My family are law-abiding people and I would help if I saw a gang of yobs attacking a police officer. "This kind of incident does not help in improving relations between the community and police." Mr Hirst had just come out of a post office near his home in Swinton, Greater Manchester, and was heading for the chemists to collect his wife's prescription when a community support officer accused him of littering. He said the officer wanted to issue him with a £50 on-the-spot fine for littering. "There was a chap there in a fluorescent jacket, big sunglasses, and a baseball cap, on a bike, with a wad of tickets and a pen. He said, 'Why did you drop that apple core?' and I told him I didn't drop an apple core. "He then said he wanted my name and address. He was an over-zealous young lad, baying to give me a ticket. "I told him I was on my way to the shops but would be walking back that way if he wanted to speak to me later." Mr Hirst says that when he emerged from the chemists he claimed he was surrounded by five uniformed officers. "I said I had done nothing wrong and so was not telling them who I was," he said. He was taken to the police station, where his belongings were taken and his DNA and finger-prints recorded before being locked in the cells overnight. He twice had to be seen by a doctor after complaining of dizziness and chest pains. After being charged with littering and obstructing a police officer, the following morning he was handcuffed to a security guard to appear before local magistrates."

Epoch Times | Machines Switch Numbers for Speeding Chinese Drivers: May 8, 8:18am 4 reviews police, license-plates, speeding
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/8-5-6/70268.html; Interesting electronic apparatus - a speedster's dream come true. Machines Switch Numbers for Speeding Chinese Drivers From the page: "Speeding drivers in south China are getting clear away thanks to machines which switch the numbers on their licence plates in seconds, state media said on Tuesday. "More than 50 percent of cars caught on camera for speeding and other offences either cover up their plates or use a fake licence plate," a traffic policeman in the Guangdong city of Yangjiang was quoted by the Beijing Youth Daily as saying. "Our chances of capturing them is next to nil." The price of the remote-control device starts at around 800 yuan ($115), while a more advanced apparatus with the ability to flip over the numbers in less than three seconds costs more than double. "The era of covering up the licence plate by hand has passed," a driver surnamed Zheng told the newspaper. "It's really convenient and economical too," a salesman who specialises in such devices in the provincial capital of Guangzhou was quoted as saying. In April, the state news agency Xinhua, reported that China had confiscated thousands of fake military vehicles and number plates in a move to crack down on citizens masquerading as privileged members of the People's Liberation Army. In years past, Chinese counterfeiters have used fake military vehicles to ship bootleg cigarettes and other goods, previous reports have said."

Colorado woman may be caller who sparked CPS sweep, officials say | Dallas Morni…: Apr 19, 8:11pm 1 review police, texas, polygamy, police-investigation
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-ca...; Texas Rangers are pursuing the possibility that the pleas of a 16-year-old girl named Sarah, which triggered the massive child protection raid in West Texas, actually came from a Colorado woman with a history of filing false reports, officials said Friday. Rangers accompanied Colorado Springs, Colo., police on Wednesday as they arrested Rozita Swinton, 33, on an unrelated misdemeanor charge of false reporting to authorities there. Ms. Swinton was already serving a one-year deferred judgment after pleading guilty in a 2005 false-reporting case near Denver. Texas authorities view Ms. Swinton "as a 'person of interest' regarding telephone calls placed to a crisis center hotline in San Angelo, Texas, in late March," said a statement issued by Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tela Mange. Calls from "Sarah," a teenager who said she'd been forced to marry an older man and bear his child, led Texas Child Protective Services officials to remove 416 children from the polygamist compound run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Eldorado two weeks ago. CPS officials have said they assumed, but have not confirmed, that "Sarah" was among the children now in state custody. State officials said they continued Friday to pursue possible criminal charges of child sex abuse on the compound as a judge heard testimony to determine whether the children should remain away from their parents. The issue did not come up during court proceedings. The polygamist parents, who deny all allegations of sexual abuse, have said they didn't believe the allegations from "Sarah" and suggested the phone calls were faked. Stephanie Goodman, chief spokeswoman for all of Texas' social services agencies, said she doesn't know if the calls that prompted CPS' sweep were a hoax. "It doesn't matter," Ms. Goodman said. She said that while the calls "got us to the gates, it's not what caused us to remove the children." "The decision to remove children was based on the findings at the ranch," she said. "That environment represented a significant risk for sexual abuse for all of those children." On Thursday, CPS supervisor Angie Voss testified at a hearing about the Texas child removals that though state workers couldn't find the girl who purportedly called the San Angelo shelter, their description of her as Sarah, 16, sparked seeming recognition during initial interviews with girls at the ranch on April 3 and April 4. Ms. Voss said that after CPS workers described what they knew of the original caller, some girls at the ranch said they knew of the girl and had seen her in the previous week. Former state District Judge Scott McCown, who handled hundreds of CPS cases while on the bench in Travis County and now heads the Center for Public Policy Priorities, agreed that, legally, it probably doesn't matter whether "Sarah" is a fiction. He said it's not the same as a drug case being thrown out, for example, because a police officer conducted an illegal search, the so-called poison tree analogy. "First, in a criminal case, if you act in good faith upon information that you don't have any reason to know it's false, then it might not be the fruit of the poison tree," Mr. McCown said. "If you go get a search warrant and you got it in good faith and there was no misconduct by the state, but somebody hoodwinked you, what you found in the search warrant doesn't necessarily get excluded." When it comes to the civil case involving the protection of children, "it probably doesn't matter ... because the whole question is the ongoing protection of the children," Mr. McCown said. In Colorado Springs, a search of Ms. Swinton's home yielded "several items" that might link her to calls made about polygamist compounds in Eldorado and Arizona, the DPS statement said. The items, which weren't described, have been shipped to crime labs for analysis. The Rangers won an order by a Colorado judge sealing an affidavit for the search warrant used at Ms. Swinton's residence. The Denver Post reported Friday that an anti-polygamy activist told Texas Rangers that Ms. Swinton was impersonating a child sexual abuse victim at the polygamist compounds and could be the same person who triggered the Texas raid. Flora Jessop, an Arizona woman who grew up in the sect and now helps teen girls trying to escape it, said she had grown suspicious of a caller who turned out to be Ms. Swinton.