Follow me It’s a pretty accepted idea that fingerprint evidence is an airtight method of proving that an accused person was at the scene of a crime. However, contrary to what we are told constantly in movies, books, and actual courtrooms; fingerprints are not the judicial bedrock they have been
Follow me A seventy percent rate of false positives is nothing to get alarmed about. Let’s be optimists and think of the glass as thirty percent full. (Originally posted at EYEAM4ANARCHY)
Follow me While searching for images to use on the blog recently I came across a bit of ever-present Government logic. You can read the full case here, but I’ll give a short summary so you don’t have to wade through all that. Back in 1974, a Jehovah’s Witness named
Follow me The post below was shared with the CopBlock Network anonymously by a reader using the pseudonym “Accountability,” via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. Robert Seagrave filed a federal lawsuit against three Meriden police officers stating that on the night of July 15, 2010 one thuggish police officer purposely slammed
Follow me There are many ways you can join Nevada Cop Block and help contribute to our mission to ensure accountability for police crimes and violence. Among many other things, you can submit your own personal story or video involving the police, share a link to a story or video
Follow me The article was shared with the CopBlock Network by a reader named Joe, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. The article was originally posted on the blog of the ACLU. It details the growth of the surveillance state under the guise of stemming the movement of substances some people
Follow me The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by someone using the psuedonym “Clark County Criminal Cops,” via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. Clark County Criminal Cops is a website that monitors police abuses within the Southern Nevada area. This particular post was originally published on their site
Follow me The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network anonymously, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. It was originally published at the Gothamist by Ben Yakas under the title, “Drug-Planting Cop Cries At Sentencing, Avoids Jail.“ The post details the court appearance of Jason Arbeeny, an NYPD cop who
Follow me The following post was shared with the CopBlock Network by Zeke, via the CopBlock.org Submissions Page. Coming back from Texas I had a flat on Hwy 69 just outside of Durant OK. My son had apparently taken my jack, so I could not change my tire. I was
Follow me Update 11/16/18: Partial footage from Derek Colling’s dash cam and body camera videos has been released. However, the footage was released selectively to media outlets, who in turn chose not to publicly broadcast the full videos, citing their “graphic nature.” As a result, local residents have formed an
