Negative Space: police
- America’s Crusade
- Subtitled “What is behind the latest war on drugs”, from Time, September 15, 1986, pp. 60-66, 86. The insane rhetoric of the war on drugs ranges from fears of bullet-proof blacks among turn-of-the-century Southern sheriffs to a comparison with foreign invasion by Charles Rangel, still a member of the House as I write this in 2006.
- At least I got to see the officer squirm
- Traffic court has a very high opinion of humans’ ability to violate the laws of physics.
- Control—Miscellaneous Suggestions
- As above, it may have been their consensus, but I’ll bet it was also their consensus that they needed to receive and apply more resources to combat this crime, rather than back off and end the spiral of violence around it.
- Don’t fuck with us shit bird
- International Law Enforcement: The Futile Quest for Control
- Eradication of cocaine means, in some countries, the destruction of profitable farms for no benefit to the farmers.
- The Joy of Publishing
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Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. A computer is a press, and the Internet is a delivery truck going straight to twenty million doors, and, in the future, every door.
- Law Enforcement & Self-Defense
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Data/Polls/Law Enforcement/
- Los Angeles police try to shut down newspaper
- We should be more than worried when the state tries to shut down free speech by laundering money through a third party.
- The Pathology of the War on Drugs: Corruption and Violence in the Black Market
- Prohibition isn’t just lucrative for organized crime, but also for law enforcement. Whereever prohibition is stepped up, corruption among law enforcement and the criminal justice system increases.
- The Pathology of the War on Drugs: The Assault on Justice and Civil Liberties
- The drug war begins to resemble the witch-hunts of centuries past, where lawyers are discouraged from representing the accused. And the tactics of drug warriors resemble the tactics of criminals so much that when criminals put on the uniform and masquerade as law enforcement, their victims can’t tell the difference.
- Political Police
- Diane Feinstein’s list of bureaucrats who oppose self defense.
- Postal workers are human, too
- But are San Diego Union-Tribune employees? I hope not!
- San Diego’s Finest Elite
- For police officers, the laws are merely guidelines.
- Sources of the Impasse
- Richard Nixon drastically ramped up the powers of federal law enforcement in the name of the war on drugs, using trumped-up data and claiming a national emergency.
- The War Is On (119.6 KB)
- “This us versus them attitude is reflected in their choices of art for their homes and offices and in the t-shirts they choose to wear.”
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- The Agitator
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“I’m a former policy analyst with the Cato Institute, now a senior editor for Reason magazine. I’m also a biweekly columnist with FoxNews.com. I’ve been published in lots of places, from Playboy to the Wall Street Journal, and have done lots of TV and radio interviews. My work has also been cited in a Supreme Court opinion, helped get a guy off death row, and I’ve testified before Congress a few times.”
- Here’s A List Of The Police Killed Or Injured In The Last Week’s Violence
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“Police have been shot, stabbed, run over, and hit with objects across the country since the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis Police. These injuries and deaths have been unreported by the national media.”
- A View From A Black Police Officer [MUST READ]
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“From a Facebook Post by Police Officer Jay Stalien.”
- The War on Cops
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“No one should imagine that any of this is helping the black community. The surge in murder rates across the country, in the wake of the anarchy unleashed after the Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore riots, has taken a wholly disproportionate number of black lives.”
