…“The increasing militarization of police forces is funded through property and financial seizures during drug arrests. Continued profit making by private corrections corporations is contingent upon ever-increasing rates of incarceration.”…
…expenditures on police equipment and personnel, the adoption of protest-targeted ordinances, the preconceived police narrative of protester violence, and the evolving use of media technology by protesters and police. https://www.nlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/NLG-Report-Developments-in-the-Policing-of-NSSEs-at-2012-RNC-and-DNC_1.pdf…
…with the antiwar group Port Militarization Resistance (PMR), a group that sought to oppose the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through civil disobedience. The infiltration came to light when public…
…of police surveillance, threats broadcast on the radio, and an unjustified summons to a court hearing. Mr. Joseph has also received multiple anonymous telephone death threats and the BAI office…
…teams that will keep Legal Observers® on the ground to monitor police conduct, staff 24-hour legal help hotlines, and respond to legal emergencies as they arise. In Tampa the NLG…
…lays out a militaristic view of crowd control. Taken together, its provisions set the stage for violent police action against peaceful protesters and bystanders. The NLG’s comments on the ordinance…
…Bahraini democracy activists routinely face—and why the regime is trying to hide it.” Bahraini police arrested Ms. Sainath and Ms. Arraf February 11 near the Pearl Roundabout, the site of…
…class action lawsuit brought against the Chicago Police Department on behalf of hundreds of protesters arrested during a 2003 protest. The arrests came on March 20, 2003 after some 10,000…
…and intended to placate those who have been demanding his execution.” A petition in support of the letter is now circulating. Convicted of the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police…
…city that she would dismiss any case in which there was evidence of police perjury or purposeful misreporting of facts. Given the history of police misconduct in Philadelphia when Abu-Jamal…
