SEATTLE - A plan by Seattle police to send aloft miniature robot drones equipped with stealth spy cameras has been grounded, following heated criticism of the project by residents concerned about privacy rights, the mayor ...
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Hmmmm....cheap drones or expensive choppers....?
Christopher Bedel's comment,
February 19, 2:28 PM
I really see no use for drones in relation to public privacy other than for spying on people to see what they are doing. If they want to use it for a 3-D view of a crime scene after the fact and for evidence purposes, I can understand that. But how much crime would these really prevent? Or how much could they help look for a missing person with a short flight time? It would also be more costly if more than one person has to operate it. With that kind of cost, is the department really saving money? In my opinion, I believe that it is better to have a real body out on the street working the scene. Also, a real body out there patrolling is a bigger deterrent to crime and a bigger help than a drone flying around.
Albert Svensson's comment,
February 21, 12:14 AM
I can understand the frustrations of the residents of Seattle and why they would not want these drones flying around their city. But I feel like it is step that needs to be taken to protect the people. Even though the technology may not be perfect and the flight time of only 15 min makes them unrealistic for long police chases but they would give the police and advantage when it comes to mapping crime scenes. I understand that we know have Google earth for situations like this but it would give a updated view of the area. As for privacy I doubt that the police are going to launch these things just to spy on the public. The drones could also be used to get a live feed of visual information if there was a hostage situation.
Rob Duke's comment,
February 28, 1:31 AM
One of my old partners works for an optics company that installs drone style optics on fixed wing airplanes to replace expensive choppers that require a pilot and an observer with only a pilot/observer. It may be that we need some experience with widespread use of these vehicles for some time before people get used to the idea of fixed wings versus choppers.
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The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight. Delete the scoop?
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BAKERSFIELD — The FBI launched an investigation Tuesday into the death of a man who was beaten by authorities amid questions over whether officials tampered with cellphone videos confiscated from witnesses. Delete the scoop?
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Deciding which police officers killed in the line of duty belong on a national memorial usually is driven by facts and presents few obstacles. But this year, two cases show that it isn't always ... Delete the scoop?
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I received a citizen report for a suspicious vehicle. I contacted the citizen who told me "it was a black guy in a white jeep and he was opening everyone's mailboxes"...yup, next block over I found the suspect who was a U.S. Mail employee driving his marked USPS Jeep. Now who caused that b.s.? It certainly wasn't the cop that responded.... Delete the scoop?
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SAN BERNARDINO -- Two suspects in a Yucca Valley homicide led authorities on a high-speed chase Thursday that ended with a gun battle, one suspect dead, another wounded and a California Highway Patrol officer wounded.
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Col. Keith Mallard, head of the Alaska State Troopers, learned about the viral video of his officers when someone sent a private message to the official trooper Facebook account. Delete the scoop?
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A police officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car while off-duty has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city of Gresham, the police chief and others, alleging his rights were violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Koty Emery's comment,
April 28, 4:40 PM
I understand that Alcoholism is under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but an officer convicted of a DUI seems to violate the police department's need to accommodation for the disability. "The ADA has provisions in it, across the board, to not require employers to subject other people to unreasonable risk to accommodate a disability," Then again, I guess the real question is if he should lose his job because he was off duty.
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April 28, 5:36 PM
I guess he has a right to have a chaufer drive him around in his undercover car because his alcoholism makes him disabled. He would be the cop verion of Arthur...
Mandy Burris's comment,
April 29, 9:59 PM
If an officer can be fired for stealing off duty because it is behavior unbecoming of a law enforcement officer then being convicted of a DUI is also grounds for dismissal. His alcoholism did not force him to get into the vehicle and drive home when he had been out drinking. If the decision was made to drink then a plan should have been in place for a designated driver or a hotel within walking distance, etc. These are the things that he should have been teaching the public about drinking and he ignores them when it comes to himself? Any other crime and the officer would be seen as hypocritical and the department would have caught no end of grief if they would have kept him on. Blaming the job for why he was drinking in the first place? Fine. Not taking responsibility when your personal choices endangered lives and cost your department money is not acceptable. If he had come forward about wanting to seek treatment and had not been convicted of a DUI then he would have more of a right to sue, but as it stands he is abusing the classification of his circumstances as a disability. In addition, if Oregon is like Alaska, his refusal to provide a breath sample (assuming he made it to the actual official stage and refused, not just the PBT) is a felony charge and if he is now a convicted felon he cannot have firearms, therefore he cannot legally continue to do his job.
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Interim Seattle Police Chief Jim Pugel has issued an apology for his role in a 1986 department-sponsored video that mocks the homeless. 
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April 26, 5:19 PM
The Seattle Police were indeed insensitive. Now, if there are people who are homeless and "reside" under the named viaduct, they are easy targets for those criminals who choose to bully and torment. No matter the position, from McDonald's fry person to owner of software, there has to be professionalism exuding from the entities.
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The Boston Marathon bomber was read his rights and given a lawyer. Other countries have different policies for terrorism suspects.
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April 26, 5:21 PM
For me this sends a strong message that terrorism will not be tolerated and you will be under scrutiny if discovered you "might" be party to the act.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee will examine the FBI's handling of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
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April 26, 5:28 PM
Come on for real. How do you not take extra precaution to the severity of another's country's charge on a person. If another country felt it was vital for us to look into and called us, there has to be reason. This was pure negligence on our part. Now, we are trying to play catch up.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI's announcement that it needs a new home has touched off a virtual real estate beauty contest, with communities around the region jockeying for the opportunity to attract the law enforcement agency — and attendant economic... Delete the scoop?
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The sharp cracks echoing from the East Bakersfield street were loud enough to jolt Ruben Ceballos from a midnight slumber. Then he heard screams. Delete the scoop?
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The overhaul Friday included a demotion to captain of the acting chief, Anthony Toribio, who had held the position for just two days after Police Chief Howard Jordan shocked city leadership when he stepped down, citing health problems. Delete the scoop?
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In a bid to curb rampant corruption, the Mexico state has mandated that only women are allowed to issue traffic citations. Delete the scoop?
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SAN FRANCISCO -- As he shivered on a narrow iron bar 220 feet above San Francisco Bay, 22-year-old Kevin Berthia heard a voice. It did not belong to the old wounds, crushing worries and inner demons that had driven him to the Golden Gate Bridge. Delete the scoop?
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Privacy groups are denouncing a federal government move to force Internet companies like Facebook and Google to build backdoors that would let the FBI and other agencies snoop in on real time online communications. Delete the scoop?
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Atlantic readers offer ideas including a tricameral legislature, a ban on incarcerating nonviolent criminals, and declassifying all information after 20 years.
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One Pasadena police officer was killed and another lost his leg in an accident last night in Kerrville
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if he'd been working on his own car, I see this as non-line of duty death, but stopping to help someone with this major type of incident; then, I think both officers are "on-duty".
Mandy Burris's comment,
April 29, 9:44 PM
Rob, I agree. It is not easy to "turn off" the policeman side at the end of the day and so stopping to help someone stranded on the road is second nature in addition to kind and generous. It's terrible to think that two officers have been lost in different ways to a kind act and a driver attempting to prevent an accident. I think that both officers should be considered "on-duty" in this situation and the incident should be treated with the same support and reverence had they been wearing their uniforms and badges.
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PHOTO SOURCE: CBS Dallas Forth-Worth. Then officer Kelly Helleson caught on a dashboard camera preparing to perform a cavity search on a woman under the suspicion of marijuana possession.
Koty Emery's comment,
April 28, 4:54 PM
From my understanding, smelling marijuana from the suspect's vehicle is enough probable cause to warrant a search. However, I believe the cavity search was completely unwarranted (not to mention the S.O.P. was completely butchered by the female officer) as if no marijuana is found in the car, then they should be handed a citation for littering and then everyone continues on there way. Now, there is always the chance that the suspects may have acted suspiciously, or given the officer some provocation to perform the test, but even then I don't believe the cavity search should have been conducted.
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Racketeering, Smuggling, Sex with Guards: 25 Indicted in Massive Baltimore Prison Scandal | TIME.com
Twenty-five people, including 13 guards, have been busted in a scandal featuring everything from racketeering to smuggling to an inmate impregnating female prison officers.
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April 26, 5:32 PM
Taking bribes from anyone incarcerated sends a message and further solidifies why our criminal justice system is so corrupt. It shows preferential treatment and can lead to the "blind eye" syndrome allowing inmates to have an advantage over other inmates while negating the sole purposes of why they were their in the first place, punishment/correction.
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Senior officials will have to explain to a Senate panel their actions before and after Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s six-month trip last year to Chechnya and Dagestan.
La Justicia's comment,
April 26, 5:36 PM
Before I read this article, I thought "how do you not have the authority to protect the citizens you are sworn to protect?" Terrorism doesn't take into consideration jurisdiction and those who are in position should take on that same attitude. The fact that there is a cooperative between Washington and Moscow makes it all the way legal and within jurisdiction.
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The fact that alcohol dissipates from the bloodstream over time does not by itself allow the police to take blood over objections, the Supreme Court ruled.
Rob Duke's comment,
April 21, 5:48 AM
Either DUI arrests are going to go way down; or judges should be prepared for many many 2 a.m. calls for warrants. I imagine MADD is going to have something to say about this, too.
La Justicia's comment,
April 26, 5:40 PM
I guess Washington doesn't have or uphold the implied consent that Alaska does. If you have a driver's license, it means that you are giving away your right to refuse an alcohol test. We all know that the breathalizers are not admissible as some may not be calibrated correctly. A blood test should be administered and if you have a medical issue with given blood, then there should be an on-call doctor available to witness and or administer the test.
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