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The San Jose Police Department will be the first law enforcement agency in the nation to use new ear-mounted video and audio recorders on the streets.
The goal of the new device is to provide more details into arrests and other situations.
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VIRGINIA BEACH -- Drivers using the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel saw a very public effort to reduce terrorist risks to the nation's surface transportation.
A VIPER operation began early Tuesday and lasted through the afternoon.
VIPER stands for Visible Intermodal Protection and Response and is run by the Tr
The end looks to be drawing near for American Police Force and their plans to boss a $27 million dollar detention facility in Hardin Montana after officials in the town said they were backing away from the deal following revelations that the organization’s front man, Michael Hilton, was a career criminal.
Both the attorney and the economic development official who helped craft the original deal betw
Republican Congressman Paul Broun has once again warned that the US is being slowly transformed into a police state dictatorship.
Broun, R-Athens, Georgia, told over a thousand people at town hall events Wednesday in Madison and Greene County that elites under Obama are “developing a shadow government that (does not) answer to the American people.”
“He has the three things that are necessary to e
Undesirables marked and logged into “hotlist”
Britain is to have a national network of cameras and computers that automatically log and track car license plates, in a move described as “secretive and unregulated” by privacy advocates.
The system will be operational within months, according to the BBC.
BRITAIN appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state. As a sometime teacher of political science and international law, I do not use the term totalitarian loosely.
There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.
Nikolai Bukharin claimed one of the Bolshevik Revolution's principal tasks was "to alter peo
Shami Chakrabarti (l), director of civil liberties group Liberty, has condemned Jacqui Smith's (r) decision to keep DNA of innocent people for up to 12 yearsInnocent people will have to wait up to 12 years to ha
WASHINGTON – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has improperly kept nearly 24,000 people on a terrorist watch list based on outdated or sometimes irrelevant information, while it missed others with legitimate terror ties who should have been on the list, according to a Justice Department report released Wednesday.
The report said the mistakes posed a risk to national security, because of the failure to flag actual suspected terrorists, as well as an unnecessary nuisance f
Teams of 'wheelie bin police' are swooping on residents' rubbish at dawn in a scheme costing a council £60,000 a year, it emerged yesterday.
Families have been woken at 5.30am by the noise of contractors taking rubbish away hours before the regular collection is due.
Inspectors then analyse the waste to establish what is being thrown away.
MI5 target activists who could stoke “summer of discontent”
The Army is on standby to deal with rioting on UK streets as a result of the economic crisis according to a newspaper report, which states that MI5 is targeting political activists who could help create a “summer of discontent”.
“The “double-whammy” of the worst economic crisis in living memory and a motley crew of political ex
The U.S. Army is to invest $6 million in riot equipment, a fact that has furthered fears that troops will be used inside the U.S. in order to quell any civil unrest resulting from the ongoing economic crisis.
CHICAGO — At first glance, Chicago’s latest crime-fighting strategy seems to be plucked from a Hollywood screenplay. Someone sees a thief dipping into a Salvation Army kettle in a crowd of shoppers on State Street and dials 911 from a cellphone. Within seconds, a video image of the caller’s location is be
Nothing says tough love like Velcro handcuffs.
Cops trying to restrain children will have a softer alternative than metal handcuffs under a new program the NYPD is testing in nearly two dozen schools.
Starting next month, officers will use Velcro handcuffs instead of the tougher steel model to subdue disturbed or unruly children in 22 schools in northern Queens, according to a draft NYPD operations order obtained by the Daily News.
"We would prefer never to use restraint
The Government is bringing forward its plans to launch identity cards to the British public.
Eager to stress the benefits of ID cards, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today announced that British nationals will be able to get the cards on a voluntary basis this year.
A website will also be launched in the spring so people can “stay up-to-date with developments and can register to be told if the National Identity Service goes live in their region”.
In a speech at Manchester T
New laws set to be passed in England and Canada would make it illegal to use bad language or take photographs of police officers, moving us further away from the idea of police as public servants and more towards the notion of cops assuming God-like status.
According to the British Journal of Photography, t
After many delays and a full year of backroom dealing, the European Union has officially deployed the largest police mission ever launched under the European Security and Defense Policy.
Consider the following from the International Herald Tribune, written the day before the deployment:
The European Union
U.S. Defense Department plans to deploy as many 20,000 U.S. troops within the U.S. for homeland security and anti-terrorism efforts could result in a significant number being placed or having some kind of presence in Arizona and the Southwest, according to security experts.
There have been threats against the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station west of Phoenix, the Hoover Dam on the Arizona-Nevada border as well as the Las Vegas Strip and Los Angeles International Airpor
US President-elect Barack Obama vowed Monday to ensure the US military remains the strongest force "on the planet" despite the economic challenges facing the country.
"To ensure prosperity here at home and peace abroad, we all share the belief we have to maintain the strongest military on the planet," Obama said as he unveiled a heavyweight national security team to serve when he takes office on January 20.
"We also agree the strength of our military has to be combined wi