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NYPD caught on tape

Posted by patriot on April 29th, 2008

This would make great material for a “COPS”-like TV show, where the Cops are the real bad guys.

Good grief!

NYPD gets automatic assault rifles

Posted by patriot on April 26th, 2008

Police state, here we come.

The NYPD is pulling out all the stops to beef up safety of the subways. On Thursday it launched a new anti-terror effort called “Operation Torch,” but the cost of the program is raising some eyebrows.

The NYPD’s new firepower consists of cops with Mp5 submachine guns, rifles, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Starting Thursday, five or six teams a day will patrol the major transit hubs in the city in the new program, all thanks to a 50 percent increase in a Homeland Security grant.

New York City attempts “overly broad’ subpoena in text messaging case

Posted by Charlie Kilo on March 30th, 2008

From Valleywag:

In representing the New York Police Department, which is facing charges that officers improperly detained hundreds protestors during the 2004 Republican convention, the New York City Law Department has subpoenaed MIT doctoral candidate Tad Hirsch, creator of TxtMob, demanding he turn over the time, content, and identity of people who sent and received SMS messages through the service. Hirsch says most of the data is gone, and his lawyer argues the subpoena is overly broad.

Text messages have become a favorite tool of direct action organizers worldwide, because they make it easy to quickly disseminate information to large groups and can be read and written even while sirens wail or helicopters make low passes. The NYPD was aware of the service at least a month before the convention, according to secret internal documents revealed last year by the court. Why not just ask the NSA to turn over their archives from the event? That seems easier.

Here’s detailed coverage from the New York Times.

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