Tag: law enforcement

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September 26, 2013
09/26/2013
Texas Lawmen Want to Be Stars

Texas Lawmen Want to Be Stars

Texas lawmen broke into a woman’s house without a warrant to arrest her on bogus marijuana charges, and filmed it for a constable’s YouTube reality show, the...
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September 26, 2013
09/26/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.09.25)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.09.25)

We have a doozy of a corruption tale out of West Virginia, a pair of Kentucky deputies get caught peddling pills, and a Georgia deputy gets nailed...
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September 23, 2013
09/23/2013
Marijuana Possession Arrests Outpace Violent Crime Arrests

Marijuana Possession Arrests Outpace Violent Crime Arrests

The good folks over at Think Progress recently put out a very revealing article. In 2012 drug offenses accounted for the majority of total arrests. 82% of...
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September 19, 2013
09/19/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.09.18)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.09.18)

A killer Utah narc gets fired, a New Jersey cop goes around the bend, an Illinois deputy gets caught stealing from the cookie jar, an Arizona Border...
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September 16, 2013
09/16/2013
California Medical Marijuana Regulation Bill Dies

California Medical Marijuana Regulation Bill Dies

California’s AB 604, a bill to tighten medical marijuana regulation in the state, was not approved by the deadline Thursday night. The bill faced serious opposition from...
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September 12, 2013
09/12/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.09.11)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.09.11)

More jail guards in trouble, and a Georgia cop gets nailed for helping meth dealers. As an aside, we occasionally get news of police officers busted for...
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September 10, 2013
09/10/2013
Senate Holds Hearing on Federal Enforcement of Cannabis Laws

Senate Holds Hearing on Federal Enforcement of Cannabis Laws

Following the hearings, patient advocates will host Google Hangout panel at 5pm ET to discuss reaction to testimony Less than two weeks after the Department of Justice...
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September 10, 2013
09/10/2013
Private Plane Pilots Face Warrantless Drug Searches

Private Plane Pilots Face Warrantless Drug Searches

Private plane pilots, especially those traveling to or through states with relaxed marijuana laws, are being subjected to warrantless searches by state and federal law enforcement, the Toledo...
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September 10, 2013
09/10/2013
DEA: Marijuana Plant Seizures Decline to Lowest Levels in Nearly a Decade

DEA: Marijuana Plant Seizures Decline to Lowest Levels in Nearly a Decade

DEA seizures of indoor and outdoor cannabis crops declined dramatically from 2011 to 2012 and are now at their lowest reported levels in nearly a decade, according to statistics released...
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September 9, 2013
09/09/2013
Broad Coalition Seeks Capitol Hill Hearings on DEA

Broad Coalition Seeks Capitol Hill Hearings on DEA

Spurred by recent revelations of the DEA using NSA and CIA programs ostensibly designed to fight terrorism to try to make drug cases, but grounded in decades...
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September 5, 2013
09/05/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.09.04)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.09.04)

Even corrupt cops take the Labor Day weekend off. We’ve only got two this week, and they’re both from before the holiday, but they’re doozies. Let’s get...
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September 4, 2013
09/04/2013
Mexico’s New Drug War Looks Like the Old Drug War

Mexico’s New Drug War Looks Like the Old Drug War

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto came into office in December vowing to break with his predecessor’s reliance on the Mexican military to fight the so-called drug cartels....
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September 4, 2013
09/04/2013
India Police to Spray Maoist Rebels’ Marijuana Crops

India Police to Spray Maoist Rebels’ Marijuana Crops

Police in the eastern Indian state of Orissa said Friday they planned to use aerial spraying to eradicate marijuana crops cultivated by Maoists rebels, the Times of India reported....
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September 3, 2013
09/03/2013
NY Times: Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing NSA’s

NY Times: Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing NSA’s

An article on New York Times details an operation between local and federal drug agents and AT&T, the Hemisphere Project, which grants access to phone data from...
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September 3, 2013
09/03/2013
Police Groups Protest Holder’s Marijuana Policy Memo, Threatens Their Gravy Train

Police Groups Protest Holder’s Marijuana Policy Memo, Threatens Their Gravy Train

Last week, the Huffington Post covered a group of law enforcement officers who slammed Attorney General Eric Holder for releasing a marijuana policy memo stating the federal...
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August 29, 2013
08/29/2013
This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.08.28)

This Week’s Corrupt Cops Stories (2013.08.28)

by Phillip Smith, August 28, 2103 Two Texas cops lose their jobs, a California jail guard gets busted at the playground, a Tennessee sheriff’s lieutenant cops to...
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August 28, 2013
08/28/2013
Denver Police Ask Me Anything About Marijuana Highlights

Denver Police Ask Me Anything About Marijuana Highlights

During the Denver Police Department’s Ask Me Anything session on Reddit about marijuana, several serious and not-so-serious topics were discussed. Questions ranged from “Will it be sold in...
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August 28, 2013
08/28/2013
Cory Booker Opens Stop-And-Frisk Data To The Public

Cory Booker Opens Stop-And-Frisk Data To The Public

Newark Mayor and Senate candidate Cory Booker has just begun testing an innovative solution to the racial problems plaguing law enforcement’s use of stop-and-frisk: hold officers accountable...
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August 27, 2013
08/27/2013
Missouri Lawmaker Busted for Minor Cannabis Possession

Missouri Lawmaker Busted for Minor Cannabis Possession

Missouri Representative Jeremy LaFaver, co-sponsor of a bill this year that would have reduced penalties for minor cannabis possession, was pulled over Sunday and was found to have...
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August 27, 2013
08/27/2013
Mexican Drug Cartels Not in “Over 1,000 US Cities”

Mexican Drug Cartels Not in “Over 1,000 US Cities”

The refrain that Mexican drug cartels “now maintain a presence in over 1,000 cities” has been widely heard ever since the claim was first made in a...
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