From 2/05 to 1/09 I saw some of the most vile things humans can inflict on others as a police officer in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the streets of LA. It was in the confounds of LAPD police stations and shops (cruisers). The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it’s the police officers.
Ex-LAPD Officer Chris Dorner, who is wanted after shooting 3 police officers today. This quote is from the manifesto he released before that, detailing the many injustices and counts of police brutality he witnessed as an LAPD officer, how he was fired for reporting what he witnessed, and how he intends to punish the police for their actions.
Meanwhile, today the LAPD has already shot 2 innocent women they thought could have been Dorner. The 2 victims were delivery women, delivering newspapers in a vehicle similar to the suspect’s.
(via sumney)
Anyone familiar with the LAPD knows that this portion of Chris Dorner’s manifesto is largely true, regardless of what little else we know about the shootings and the massive manhunt currently underway.
Dorner says things have gotten worse since the Rampart scandal; I can easily believe that. Why would they be better? Rampart scratched the surface and quickly vanished from the papers; how much more shit goes down every single day? Murder, rape, gun dealing, drug dealing, pimping, framing, cover ups, these are the LAPD’s stock in trade. Yeah yeah there are some good cops whatever, my personal experience is that the LAPD makes the NYPD look like saints — and I’ve had both of those forces draw guns on me and taunt me with explicitly racist murder threats.
Dorner was recently at the US Naval base in San Diego, so who knows what kind of artillery he was able to access, and Mexican border police have been instructed be on the lookout for him and to shoot him in the head on sight. It’s hard to imagine this story ending well.
(via zuky)
people who are making Chris Dorner sound like some vigilante hero... that's just sick.
at this point i could give a rat’s ass if the man was framed or not. what he is doing is so far beyond the realm of okay. i have many friends who were close to Monica and Keith and their deaths are tragic. the death of the cop is tragic.
I’m further away from this situation than to know who Keith Quan was. Just like I’d tell you the sun rises in the east, I’ll tell you that there is no justification in the killing of the dependents of LAPD officers or their family. We’re only looking for an explanation for why someone would do that. One explanation is Dorner’s manifesto and it makes a lot of sense to a lot of people.
Most lily white girls from Orange County don’t have to worry about crooked cops. But there are plenty of people who have heard about all kinds of abuse at the hands of law enforcement and find it absolutely unacceptable. Most lily white girls from San Diego County don’t have to worry about being shot by law enforcement, but Latinas do because cops in San Diego get away with it. Did you ever see the tape of Rodney King beaten by LAPD officers?…I’ve got other things to do, so I’m done compiling examples of why Dorner feels justified in killing people.
Don’t confuse people who say they understand why a crime was committed with those who say no crime was committed or who say it was wrong to characterize an act as criminal .
Don’t honor these fallen officers/dirtbags. When your family members die, they just see you as extra overtime at a crime scene and at a perimeter. Why would you value their lives when they clearly don’t value yours or your family members lives? I’ve heard many officers who state they see dead victims as ATV’s, Waverunners, RV’s and new clothes for their kids. Why would you shed a tear for them when they in return crack a smile for your loss because of the impending extra money they will receive in their next paycheck for sitting at your loved ones crime scene of 6 hours because of the overtime they will accrue. They take photos of your loved ones recently deceased bodies with their cellphones and play a game of who has the most graphic dead body of the night with officers from other divisions. This isn’t just the 20 something year old officers, this is the 50 year old officers with significant time on the job as well who participate.
Since its debut for Android users last June, the NYCLU says they’ve received over 1,000 written reports documenting police officers being verbally abusive or drawing weapons during stops, and one instance in Washington Heights in which an officer refused to give his name and badge number, then used his car’s floodlights to prevent a bystander from recording the police stop. Of the more than 5,000 videos submitted, around 200 document police incidents.
“While we’ve yet to see a ‘Rodney King’ moment, Stop and Frisk Watch submissions have confirmed a number of concerns the NYCLU has about stop and frisk abuse and has provided New Yorkers with a powerful tool to document police abuse,” NYCLU executive director Donna Lieberman says in a release.
Though it’s created “a lot of needless video review for our attorneys…it’s a good problem to have,” NYCLU spokeswoman Jennifer Carnig says of the glut of unusable footage. “It’s wonderful that thousands of people were so excited about the app that they couldn’t wait to try it out. We’re hopeful this test function will eliminate many of those submissions and leave us with the police accountability videos instead.”
Farmers are never going to get cheap access to these genetically engineered varieties,” Charles Benbrook, a research professor at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, tells Bloomberg. “The biotech industry has trumped the legitimate economic interests of the farmer again by raising the ante on intellectual property.”
DuPont competitors Monsanto have been known to relentlessly sue small-time farmers who have been caught abusing their own patented GMO products, but the latest maneuver is being considered by some a form of intimidation. DuPont has cut a deal with Saskatchewan-based Agro Protection International, a company that contracts mostly retired police officers to patrol potential violations of IP law.
In July, MuckRock’s Brandon Weiber filed a Freedom of Information Act request through California’s so-called Sunshine Amendment to try and find out about any plans the San Diego Sheriff’s Department has to acquire a drone. Requests for proposals, policies, departmental records and a bevy of other information was petitioned for in a plea sent July 12, but just a week later he was told, “The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department has no records that are responsive to your request.”
Weiber, on the other hand, begs to differ.
In September, Weiber sent a follow-up letter directing the Sheriff’s Department to a sales quotation from Datron World Communications, Inc. detailing a drone that was being pitched to Sgt. Richard Williams of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Dept., Special Investigations Division.
A U.S. Border Patrol agent who fatally shot a woman in Chula Vista last month was suspended four times for misconduct during a nearly four-year stint as an Imperial County sheriff’s deputy and quit before being fired, court documents show.
The attorney for the woman’s family filed a wrongful death claim Friday with the Border Patrol seeking damages and raised questions about agent Justin Tackett’s departure from his sheriff’s job.
The name of the Border Patrol agent alleged to have shot Valeria Munique Tachiquin-Alvarado is Justin Tackett.
Do you know if the Border Patrol has rules for deadly force? Customs & Border Protection’s web site doesn’t have any.
In June of last year, we reported on an unsettling patent filed by Apple that would allow certain infrared signals to remotely disable the camera on iPhones. It showed the potential downsides of bringing cameras into the world of wireless connectivity, which appears to be the next big thing in the camera industry. Now, a newly published patent is rekindling the fears of those who don’t want “Big Brother” controlling their devices.
Apple Moves One Step Closer Toward Location-Based Camera Disabling
Orwellian might be over used, but it’s fitting in this case
- Sarah Coursey, a Tavares cop makes Facebook post threating (sic) Obama.
- Ask Robert Wolfe, Mayor of Tavares, FL when she will be terminated.
Suitcase-sized and portable, StingRays are used by law enforcement to track mobile phones in real time. The device electronically impersonates a cellphone tower and dupes the mobile phone into connecting through its own antennae.
Documents obtained by L.A. Weekly through the Freedom of Information Act show that the Los Angeles Police Department is quietly using the StingRay. (Police in Miami, Fort Worth and Gilbert, Ariz., also are known to have the devices.)
LAPD refuses to discuss how it uses the powerful tool, perhaps copying the FBI’s playbook, which argued in the Rigmaiden case that revealing too many details would cause serious harm to future investigations.
The department, through a spokesperson, refused to comment on the device, despite repeated requests from the Weekly. Through the department’s Discovery Unit, which handles requests from the public and media under the California Public Records Act, LAPD also declined to reveal any information on how the devices are used.
LAPD even refuses to say whether its detectives are required by police chief Charlie Beck and the Los Angeles Police Commission — all of whom are appointed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa — to obtain a search warrant before the StingRay is deployed against unsuspecting L.A. residents’ cellphones.
The FBI has argued that a search warrant is not required, a question at issue in the Rigmaiden case, and one that Beck’s people refused to address.
But LAPD is using the devices.
