Showing posts with label police malpractice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police malpractice. Show all posts

Monday, January 06, 2014

Moving toward a police state?

Police State USA is a blog that publishes allegations of abuse by police. Here is its 2013 Year in Review, which takes a detailed look at Checkpoints, Warrantless Searches,


DoD Program 1033 Militarizing Local Police Departments,


The TSA Continues to Expand Its Reach,


The Surveillance State, Revealed,


Also: Border Security and Customs Searches, DEA's Drug War, Government Schools Zero-Tolerance policies, Supreme Court decisions, the threat to individual rights and privacy from Obamacare, The Dorner Manhunt, and the Boston/Watertown Lockdown.

Sunday, December 08, 2013

Don't make us have to get a warrant, or let's have crow bar control laws

Did you hear about this story?

Eric Crinnian, a lawyer, heard a loud banging at his door Monday night, he was instantly alarmed since a neighbor’s house was robbed a few weeks ago, so he grabbed a crow-bar.

Crinnian said three police officers were outside his house.

“I open the door a little bit wider and he sees that I have something in my hand, so he pulls his gun, tells me to put down whatever I’ve got and then come out with my hands up, so I do,” Crinnian said.

They wanted to know where two guys were, and Crinnian later found out police believed they violated parole.

“I said, ‘I have no idea who you’re talking about I’ve never heard of these people before,’” he said.

To prove it, he said police asked to search his house, Crinnian refused multiple times. He said they needed a warrant.

Then he said one police officer started threatening him saying, “If we have to get a warrant, we’re going to come back when you’re not expecting it, we’re going to park in front of your house, where all your neighbors can see, we’re gonna bust in your door with a battering ram, we’re gonna shoot and kill your dogs, who are my family, and then we’re going to ransack your house looking for these people.”

It took place in Kansas City. I don't know if it is true. We have not heard the policemen's side of the story, and, well, the homeowner is a lawyer. Read more here.