New York City cops claim they can't tell anyone how much cash they have seized from people under civil asset forfeiture laws – because its database is not up to snuff.
The US city's police department is being sued for snubbing a Freedom of Information request from the Bronx Defenders advocacy group, which had asked for figures on dosh seized by officers. America's asset forfeiture laws are highly controversial: cops can snatch goods, cash and gift cards simply on the suspicion the gear may be associated with crime.
Sensitive documents leaked after a data exposure at an upstate New York airport have revealed several major security lapses in recent years.
Dozens of files seen by ZDNet list a catalog of security failings over the past few years at Stewart International Airport, about 60 miles north of Manhattan, which serves hundreds of thousands of passengers each year, including high-profile guests and private charter flights.
The cache build up a unique picture of insider threats, breaches, and lapses that acknowledge the difficulty in keeping airside security to a high standard, even at smaller airports.
Spokane police will add suppressors to their 181 services rifles in a move intended to protect officers’ hearing.
According to the Spokesman-Review, the department received approval for the $115,000 contract last month.
The PD says the suppressors will protect the city from the costs of worker’s compensation claims and potential lawsuits from civilians who suffer hearing damage from the sound of police long gun fire.
A civil rights class action claim filed by over 100 Seattle police officers was dismissed by a lower federal district court in 2014, and has now, finally, had that dismissal affirmed by the Ninth Circuit. The officers were challenging whether new policies regarding the use of force were constitutional under the Second Amendment. Though arguments were held in May, the decision has just issued.
Take a look at http://www.handgunlaw.us/LicMaps/ccwmap.php and select the state(s) where you are licensed (or permitted, depending on how the state terms it) and then "Build CCW map" to show where your permit is honored by reciprocal agreement.
Thanks to www.handgunlaw.us -- a very interesting and detailed site for anyone who will be traveling in the US, and wants to know the local law about handguns, and more.
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Employees at a Cleveland Taco Bell shot a suspect during an attempted robbery, according to Cleveland police.
Officers responded to the restaurant on W. 117th street at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday morning for a report of a robbery with shots fired.
When police arrived, they found a suspect with multiple gunshot wounds. Officers administered first aid until EMS arrived. The suspect later died at MetroHealth Medical Center.
On Thursday, the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office identified the deceased suspect as De'Carlo Jackson, 24, of Cleveland.
US telecoms giant Verizon says police are increasingly asking it to cough up massive dumps of cellphone data rather than individual records.
This according to the latest Verizon US transparency report for the first half of the 2017 calendar year. The dossier tracks government requests for phone records both of individual customers and large groups.
From Ammoland.com, who reports that attorney and author David T. Hardy has completed a book, which is devoted to "great and fatal government-caused disasters."
The title is …. ‘I’m From the Government, and I’m Here to Kill You: The Human Cost of Official Negligence,’” attorney and author David T. Hardy informed AmmoLand Shooting Sports News Thursday. “Texas City, the Tuskegee Syphilis study, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Fast and Furious, the VA hospital scandal – time after time, government employees kill Americans by negligence, stupidity, or agency corruption, and time after time they escape all legal accountability.”
Americans shouldn't have to be screened by the government to exercise a constitutionally-protected right.
Not only are background checks (the National Instant Check System and universal background checks) unconstitutional, they epically fail at stopping criminals and crazies from getting guns.
Gun Owners of America has documented how background checks for gun buyers are ineffective, unconstitutional and dangerous.
Guns.com ran several articles within just one week showing how criminals are easily arming themselves without submitting NICS checks.
Spokane police will add suppressors to their 181 services rifles in a move intended to protect officers’ hearing.
US telecoms giant Verizon says police are increasingly asking it to cough up massive dumps of cellphone data rather than individual records.