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Dash cam video appears to show officer planting evidence

By David Edwards Tuesday, January 3, 2012 An officer in Utica, New York is being... more

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Charlton Library Sends Police To Collect Overdue Books From 5-Year-Old

CHARLTON LIBRARY SENDS POLICE TO COLLECT OVERDUE BOOKS FROM 5-YEAR-OLD: Watch The... more

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Epic Police FAIL!

These UK law enforcers really should learn the law.

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NYPD Threatens To Shut Down Times Square On New Year's Eve

Police in New York have announced a plan to block the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration, contending that its crowd control responsibilities in Times Square interfere with a more essential duty.

“The public forgets that New York is one of the world’s leading drug trafficking centers, creating an industry here worth billions of dollars,” a department spokesman said. “The NYPD provides the open playing field on which this industry can thrive.

“Due to recent staffing cuts, we no longer have the manpower to do that and baby sit an overflow of tourists in Times Square at the same time.”

Jack Clavic, president of the city’s police patrolmen’s union, agreed, pointing out that police corruption has become much more task intensive in recent years.

“Getting your cut of the drug money these days involves more than turning your back and keeping your mouth shut,” he said. “We’ve got to provide security for shipments, run errands for the big drug dealers, and still stage the occasional ‘bust’ for the news media.”

A spokesperson for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is spending the holidays in his Bermuda vacation complex, expressed outrage at the Police Department’s support of the drug trade.

“New York already has Wall Street,” the spokesperson said. “There is no need for a second racket. The mayor urges the NYPD to get off the drugs and get on the tourists. But none of that pepper spray crap, okay?

“And by the way, the Mayor also would like to remind the police commissioner that his envelope has yet to arrive this month.”

The NYPD, meanwhile, plans to take a page from the Occupy Wall Street movement and use its shutdown of Times Square as a publicity opportunity.

“The general public doesn’t realize that tons and tons of narcotics and hallucinogens smoothly pass through New York City and many of its residents every day,” he said. “That doesn’t happen without the assistance and cooperation of a dedicated police force.”

The NYPD’s Times Square protest will publicize that position with the new slogan: “At War With Drugs. At Peace With Corruption.”Police in New York have announced a plan to block the city’s New Year’s... more

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Occupy Wall Street Riot Brigade Lego Set

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Paramilitary Forces Now Rule United States

http://news.yahoo.com/cops-ready-war-094500010.html All protest can now be... more

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Bishop arrested as Occupy Wall Street protesters tear down fences in violent clash with police

A retired bishop was among more than 50 people arrested after the Occupy Wall Street... more

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Joe Rogan & Duncan Trussell on the National Defense Authorization Act

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Kentucky justice...with or without prejudice.

The American Bar Association has announced a study released Wednesday recommending that Kentucky suspend executions due to serious flaws in the legal system. Those flaws include low pay for public defenders, a lack of protections against executing the mentally ill, no rule to preserve evidence for future appeals, confusion amongst the jurors, prosecutorial misconduct and poor police work, especially involving false identifications and false confessions. A recent local case is a perfect example of this flawed and corrupt system.

Pleas Lucian Kavanaugh was charged with two crimes in a short period of time two years ago. Both cases were recently dismissed.

The first case involved the daughter of Detective William Persley, the partner of Detective Elizabeth Adams. Detective Adams had lost several cases in the past where she had charged Kavanaugh with a crime. Kavanaugh was found innocent of these charges after a trial determined many inconsistencies in the testimonies of Persley, Persley's daughter and former Detective Adams. Detective Adams was demoted to officer position after it was determined that she handled this and other cases questionably. Specifically, her procedure for witness identifications in some cases was flawed. It could be argued these flaws were done by choice.

One of the recommendations by the ABA was that videotaping should take place the entire time someone is questioned, not just part of the time. In the Kavanaugh case, Adams claims that the recorder just didn't work this time. The file seemed to be there but she can't get it to play. The defense asked for this file or access to the computer or to talk to the computer tech at the police department. All of these requests were ignored.

The second case was the infamous bus stop kidnapping that made all of the local news. Kavanaugh was announced on all of the local stations as the suspect. The police claimed that he was to be considered armed and dangerous. Kavanaugh turned himself in at a news station and then to the police station to ensure his safety.

After two years, Kavanuagh's defense team was put in contact with the witness or victim in this case. A short interview with her revealed why the prosecution did not want the defense to speak with her. She reveals more improper police work by Detectives Adams and Persley.

Adams, once again, decided in advance that she would pin this crime on Kavanaugh. Immediately while the victim is filing the report Adams tells her that she knows that Kavanaugh is the man they should be looking for. In order to make sure Kavanaugh is arrested she manipulated the eyewitness identification by first showing a drawing of Kavanaugh to her. She then returned with a group of pictures, one of them being Kavanaugh, and asks the victim to pick the assailant. Of course, she picks the one that looks like the drawing she had recently been shown. This was all done at the house of the victim rather than on videotape at the police station.

Days after this interview the prosecutor, Bobby Gullette, surprises everyone just weeks before the trial by dismissing the case at a status hearing with no explanation. No explanation was necessary. Should the case have been allowed to continue, Kavanaugh would surely have beat the charges and claimed his innocence. This would have also allowed the disciplinary file on Detective Persley to become public. Detective Adams' file had already came out in the previous case. Persley's is rumored to be even more damaging.

These two disciplinary files with two recent false arrests, previous false arrests and a witness testimony with damning information combine to set the stage for a costly civil case against the city.

Kavanaugh realized a few days ago that this case was dismissed 'without prejudice'.

Read the rest of the story at the link: http://www.examiner.com/courts-in-lexington/kentucky-justice-with-or-without-prejudice

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Where Are Our Priorities!!!

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Another One Gone: Police 'Evict' #Occupy Boston (VIDEO)

More than 150 people were peacefully removed from their tents in another police raid... more

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US Army Offers Prison Guard Specialty Securing 'Civilian Detainees'

Every soldier that enlists in the Army chooses a Military Occupational Specialty... more

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US set to use army to put down protests + The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US

An analyst informs that the US has its army on standby against the Occupy and student... more

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Occupy Melbourne Protester Stripped by Police

This morning at 8:45am a peaceful Occupy Melbourne Protester was violently stripped of... more

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Occupy Melbourne Tent Monsters

It’s illegal to camp out in the parks in Melbourne, Australia, so protesters... more

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Would you send a letter to save a life?

A great new promo from Amnesty International Each year hundreds of thousands of... more

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Iran 1953. - U.S. Military and CIA. Intervention

The original initiative to oust Mossadegh had come from the British, for the elderly... more

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Police clear Occupy Philadelphia encampment

"Protesters had camped on the plaza since Oct. 6 to protest economic inequality... more

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LAPD traps hundreds of Occupy L.A. protesters in camp

"The protesters were essentially trapped in the park. They linked arms as the... more

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Occupy L.A. protesters remain mostly peaceful in faceoff with police

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