https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... ice-state/Donald Trump Will Need a Police State to Implement His Agenda
It’s going to get very ugly.
DAVID CORNJANUARY+FEBRUARY. 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... undraisingCynical cash grab’: FBI chief nominee Kash Patel’s profitable links in the non-profit world . Patel’s non-profit Kash Foundation is linked to Maga-merchandise firms and spends much more on fundraising than it does on charitable giving
Jason Wilson Thu 12 Dec 2024
https://nwlc.org/sexual-assault-by-poli ... ic-remedy/October 15, 2021 Issues: Litigation
Sexual Assault by Police Is a Systemic Problem That Demands a Systemic Remedy
https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law- ... l-violenceTaking Action to Stop Police Sexual Violence
This systemic problem can and must be rectified and repaired. Here’s how
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9365085/The Situational Context of Police Sexual Violence: Data and Policy Implications
Philip Matthew Stinson 1, Robert W Taylor 1, John Liederbach 1
Abstract
The horrors of sexual crimes perpetrated by law enforcement officers are laid bare in this study of 669 cases of police sexual violence. Here, authors Philip Matthew Stinson, Robert W. Taylor, and John Liederbach identify three scenarios in which law enforcement officers inflict sexual violence upon their mostly-female victims: 1) “driving while female,” 2) child predation, and 3) involvement in the sex worker industry. Especially sobering is the fact that, as opposed to law enforcement doing its solemn duty to report criminality on the part of fellow police officers, “citizens rather than police initiated the detection of the crimes in almost all the cases, whether the context involved child predation (94.8%), driving while female (94.7%), or the sex worker industry (90.8%).” Rather than an anomaly, sexual predation on the part of police, along with the routine cover-ups that perpetuate these crimes, appears to be just one component of the “rotten barrel” that depicts a culture of police corruption.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local ... eea3f16828St. Louis County PD hope new docuseries will help with recruiting, community relationships
New episodes are released every Monday on the St. Louis County Police Department's YouTube channel, and the series highlights the journey of recruits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investig ... n-america/Abused by the badge A Washington Post investigation found hundreds of law enforcement officers in the United States have sexually exploited kids. Many avoid prison time.
By Jessica Contrera, Jenn Abelson, John D. Harden, Hayden Godfrey and Nate Jones June 12, 2024
https://www.californialawreview.org/pri ... culinitiesvisMelissa Blanco
A woman alleges that she was raped by a police officer while in police custody. The police officer acknowledges that he had sexual intercourse with the woman but argues that she consented to the interaction. Despite the clear power imbalance and troubling context of the sexual activity, in a majority of U.S. states, if the police officer convinces even one member of a jury that their activity was consensual, then the officer cannot be convicted. Consent is a defense to allegations of sexual assault—even when the alleged assault occurs while the victim is in the custody of the perpetrator.
Allegations that police officers have committed sexual assault while on duty are shockingly prevalent and surprisingly underanalyzed. Police sexual violence (PSV) is situated at the intersection of two vital national conversations about police brutality and sexual violence and harassment. This Article addresses PSV as the product of both issues and recommends systemic solutions sounding in both debates.
The immediate problem PSV presents is that it is not made clearly illegal by state law and police department regulation. The deeper problem is that PSV is a symptom of broader cultural problems within police departments that can be helpfully parsed through the lens of masculinities theories. PSV springs from issues both with how police officers relate to the communities they patrol, especially men in those communities, and with how police officers and police culture treat women. The famous “blue wall of silence,” ensuring loyalty even among police officers who commit misconduct, magnifies these issues. Any attempt to meaningfully address PSV must take all of these factors into account to work both a legal and a cultural change. This Article offers such solutions, addressing substantive and procedural prohibitions of PSV and broader cultural changes to police departments to combat PSV at its roots.
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Introduction
In October 2017, two New York City police officers, Eddie Martins and Richard Hall, were charged with kidnapping and raping Anna Chambers,
an eighteen-year-old woman whom the officers had taken into custody. Chambers was sitting in a parked car around 7:30 to 8:00 at night with two male friends when the two police officers pulled up in a van. The two police officers flashed their badges as they approached Chambers and her two friends. The police officers handcuffed Chambers, but told her friends that they were “free to go.” Chambers recounted that the police officers took her into the van and each raped her while she was handcuffed and crying. About an hour later, the police officers dropped Chambers off near the area where they picked her up. Shortly after, Chambers and her mother went to a hospital where a nurse conducted a rape kit. The rape kit matched Martins’s and Hall’s DNA.
In January 2016, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison for raping and assaulting eight women of color who reported that Holtzclaw sexually assaulted them between December 2013 and June 2014.
Another five women also reported similar assaults for which Holtzclaw was not convicted. One characteristic offense took place on June 17, 2014, when Holtzclaw stopped and questioned a seventeen-year-old Black woman for unknown reasons.After questioning her, Holtzclaw learned that the teenager had an outstanding
https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/nypd-p ... nder-wrapsJul 31, 2018
NYPD Police Officers Union Wants to Keep Sexual Misconduct Under Wraps
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/ ... hp_primaryJustice Department investigation finds Worcester police officers sexually assaulted suspected sex workers
The DOJ also reported that department uses excessive force and disproportionately polices Black and Hispanic people.
By Molly Farrar December 10, 2024
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-gover ... -lame-duck* Michigan lawmakers are racing to finalize police reform legislation before year’s end
* Advancing bills would establish a ‘duty to intervene,’ restrict no-knock warrants and more
* Past proposals inspired by 2020 police killing of George Floyd have repeatedly stalled in the state Legislature
LANSING — Michigan lawmakers are attempting to finalize a sweeping police reform plan in the final days of Democratic control over state government, despite resistance from some Republicans and law enforcement groups.
The proposed laws would require police departments to check whether prospective hires had previously been fired for misconduct — which has happened numerous times in Michigan — and give police a duty to intervene if they witness a fellow officer using excessive force in the field.
The package also would make it a felony to tamper with body cameras, restrict the use of no-knock warrants and require law enforcement agencies to create policies governing the use of force.
https://www.cpr.org/2024/12/11/clear-cr ... epartment/Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office steps in for empty Georgetown Police Department
By Tony Gorman Dec. 11, 2024
https://www.fbicover-up.com/brett-kavanaugh.htmlThis is the only time in history that
an Independent Counsel was ordered to include
evidence of a cover-up by his own investigators in his own Report
https://theintercept.com/2024/12/11/tru ... -congress/DOJ Spying on Journalists
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/loca ... h/3789810/Prince George's Community College police chief arrested in DUI crash
Another driver suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash in Fairfax County, Virginia, police say
By Gina Cook • Published December 11,2024
https://www.cpr.org/2024/12/11/more-dis ... t-officer/Colorado hopes to tighten requirements to be a law enforcement officer
By Allison Sherry Dec. 11, 2024
https://www.wbtv.com/2024/12/11/former- ... -carolina/Police officer indicted, accused of using excessive force during arrest in South Carolina
Officer worked for North Charleston Police Department
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By Luke Tucker Published: Dec. 11, 2024
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 921670007/Detroit landlord, a former police sergeant, arrested in tenant's fatal shooting
Marnie Muñoz The Detroit News
https://eurasianet.org/georgia-governme ... lice-stateGeorgia: Government set to pass laws bolstering police state
Efforts to contain opposition protests shifting from street to legislature.
Irakli Machaidze Dec 11, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/global-deve ... cartel-warMother of all battles’: terror for Mexicans as war rages inside Sinaloa cartel
Violence shows few signs of ending after three months of war between rival factions that have left more than a thousand dead or disappeared
Thomas Grahamin Culiacán Thu 12 Dec 2024
https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comm ... ance_arms/"For decades, the CIA, the Pentagon, and secret organizations like Oliver North's Enterprise have been supporting and protecting the world's biggest drug dealers.... The Contras and some of their Central Americanallies ... have been documented by DEA as supplying ... at least 50 percent of our national cocaine consumption. They were the main conduit to the United States for Colombian cocaine during the 1980's. The rest of the drug supply ... came from other CIA-supported groups, such as DFS (the Mexican CIA) ... other groups and/or individuals like Manual Noriega."-- Michael Levine (DEA Ret.) , The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1 ... 453#post66"I have put thousands of Americans away for tens of thousands of years with less evidence for conspiracy than is available against Ollie North and CIA people...I personally was involved in a deep-cover case that went to the top of the drug world in three countries. The CIA killed it."-Former DEA Agent Michael Levine - CNBC-TV, October 8, 1996
“After five witnesses testified before the U.S. Senate, confirming that John Hull—a C.I.A. operative and the lynch-pin of North's contra resupply operation—had been actively running drugs from Costa Rica to the U.S."under the direction of the C.I.A.," Costa Rican authorities arrested him. Hull then quickly jumped bail and fled to the U.S.—according to my sources—with the help of DEA, putting the drug fighting agency in the schizoid business of both kidnapping accused drug dealers and helping them escape…. The then-President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias was stunned when he received letters from nineteen U.S. Congressman—including Lee Hamilton of Indiana, the Democrat who headed the Iran-contra committee—warning him "to avoid situations . . .that could adversely affect our relations."-Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, September, 1998 from the article “I Volunteer to Kidnap Oliver North”
“I sat gape-mouthed as I heard the CIA Inspector General, testify that there has existed a secret agreement between CIA and the Justice Department, wherein "during the years 1982 to 1995, CIA did not have to report the drug trafficking its assets did to the Justice Department. To a trained DEA agent this literally means that the CIA had been granted a license to obstruct justice in our so-called war on drugs; a license that lasted - so CIA claims -from 1982 to 1995, a time during which Americans paid almost $150 billion in taxes to "fight" drugs.God, with friends like these, who needs enemies?”
- Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, March 23, 1998.
CIA ADMITS TO DEAL WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE.“The CIA finally admitted, yesterday, in the New York Times no less, that they, in fact, did "work with" the Nicaraguan Contras while they had information that they were involved in cocaine trafficking to the United States. An action known to us court qualified experts and federal agents as Conspiracy to Import and Distribute Cocaine—a federal felony punishable by up to life in prison. To illustrate how us regular walking around, non CIA types are treated when we violate this law, while I was serving as a DEA supervisor in New York City, I put two New York City police officers in a federal prison for Conspiracy to distribute Cocaine when they looked the other way at their friend's drug dealing. We could not prove they earned a nickel nor that they helped their friend in any way, they merely did not do their duty by reporting him. They were sentenced to 10 and 12 years respectively, and one of them, I was recently told, had committed suicide.”
- Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, September, 1998 from the article “IS ANYONE APOLOGIZING TO GARY WEBB?”
“There is secret communication between CIA and members of the Congressional staff - one must keep in mind that Porter Goss, the chairman, is an ex CIA official- indicating that the whole hearing is just a smoke and mirror show so that the American people - particularly the Black community - can "blow off some steam"without doing any damage to CIA. The CIA has been assured that nothing real will be done, other than some embarrassing questions being asked.”
- Former DEA Agent Michael Levine, March 23, 1998. CIA ADMITS TO DEAL WITH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE.
"My god," "when I was serving as a DEA agent, you gave me a page from someone in thePentagon with notes like that, I would've been on his back investigating everything he did from the minute his eyes opened, every diary notebook, every phone would have been tapped, every trip he made."
--Michael Levine (DEA retired) read Oliver North's diary entries, finding hundreds of drug references. Former Drug Enforcement Administration head John Lawn testified that Mr. North himself had prematurely leaked a DEA undercover operation, jeopardizing agents’ lives, for political advantage in an upcoming Congressional vote on aid to the contras (p.121).
"In my book, Big White Lie, I [wrote] that the CIA stopped us from indicting the Bolivian government at the same time contra assets were going down there to pick up drugs. When you put it all together, you have much more evidence to convict Ollie North, [former senior CIA official] Dewey Clarridge and all the way up the line, than they had in any John Gotti [Mafia] case." -MIKE LEVINE, (DEA RETIRED)
"Imagine this, here you have Oliver North, a high-level official in the National Security Council running a covert action in collaboration with a drug cartel,"
"That's what I call treason [and] we'll never know how many kids died because these so-called patriots were so hot to support the contras that they risked several generations of our young people to do it."
--MICHEAL LEVINE, (DEA RETIRED)
Testimony of Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst, National Security Archive October 19, 1996 (Includes declassified documents)“..I can and will address the central premise of the story: that the U.S. government tolerated the trafficking of narcotics into this country by individuals involved in the contra war. To summarize: there is concrete evidence that U.S. officials-- White House, NSCand CIA--not only knew about and condoned drug smuggling in and around the contra war, but in some cases collaborated with, protected, and even paid known drug smugglers”
“..Mr. North called a press conference where he was joined by Duane Clarridge, the CIA official who ran the contra operations from 1981 through mid 1984, and the former attorney general of the United States, Edwin Meese III. Mr. North called it a "cheap political trick...to even suggest that I or anyone in the Reagan administration, in any way, shape or form, ever tolerated the trafficking of illegal substances."
Mr. Clarridge claimed that it was a "moral outrage" to suggest that a Reagan Administration official "would have countenanced" drug trafficking. And Mr. Meese stated that no "Reagan administration official would have ever looked the other way at such activity."
The documentation, in which Mr. North, Mr. Clarridge and Mr. Meese all appear, suggests the opposite. Let me review it here briefly:http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/pktstmny.htm
US customs admitted that pilots in North's Network were protected from LEA
https://fair.org/home/american-made-a-l ... -fun-lies/Celerino Castillo III one hour interview with Webster Tarpley- Exposing the Contras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DmUFmm8c4http://michaellevinebooks.com/art/ollie-north.htmlI Volunteer to Kidnap Oliver North
by Michael Levine
Undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena was tortured to death slowly by professionals. Every known maximum-pain technique, from electric shocks to his testicles to white hot rods inserted in his rectum, was applied. A doctor stood by to keep him alive. The heart of the thirty-seven year old father of two boys refused to quit for more than twenty-four hours. His cries, along with the soft-spoken, calm voices of the men who were slowly and meticulously savaging his body, were tape-recorded. Kiki, one of only three hundred of us in the world (DEA agents on foreign assignment), had been kidnapped in broad daylight from in front of the U.S. Consular office in Guadalajara, Mexico by Mexican cops working for drug traffickers and, apparently, high level Mexican government people whose identities we would never know. They would be protected by people in our own government to whom Kiki's life meant less than nothing.
When teams of DEA agents were sent to Mexico, first, to find the missing Kiki, then to hunt for his murderers, they were met by a the stone wall of a corrupt Mexican government that refused to cooperate. To the horror and disgust of many of us, our government backed down from the Mexicans; other interests, like NAFTA, banking agreements and the covert support of Ollie North's Contras, were more important than the life of an American undercover agent. DEA agents were ordered by the Justice Department, to keep our mouths shut about Mexico; an order that was backed up by threats from the office of Attorney General Edwin Meese himself. Instead of tightening restrictions on the Mexican debt, our Treasury Department moved to loosen them as if to reward them for their filthy deed. As an added insult Mexico was granted cooperating nation in the drug war status, giving them access to additional millions in American drug war funds and loans.
Somehow a CIA — unaware that their own chief of Soviet counter intelligence, Aldrich Ames, was selling all America's biggest secrets to the KGB for fourteen years with all the finesse of a Jersey City garage sale — was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DhjGaYkSvAElectric car sales skyrocket by 58% in the UK
https://www.latimes.com/environment/sto ... ct-listingMonarch butterflies proposed for threatened species status
tier. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)
By Lila Seidman Dec. 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_3C4PqRLOwSignificant Head-Spinning Climate Change Stories Hitting us Fast and Furious:
