after two deadly shootings in less than a week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will pause non-urgent vehicle stops, and maybe, comply with the federal govt use of deadly force policy? The use of body cams?

ICE agents tried to pull over the car of 26-year-old Joan Durán Guerrero, a Colombian national, and the agent shot and killed him. The agents were not wearing body cameras, 

ICE agents in Houston attempted to pull Salgado Araujo over agents say he tried to use his van as a weapon,

The Department of Homeland Security's policy says deadly force cannot be used solely to prevent someone from fleeing … unless the person poses a significant threat of death or serious physical harm to the agent or others.

DHS accused Salgado Araujo of weaponizing his car against the ICE officer. In Maine, the agency said Durán Guerrero posed a public safety threat.

But in these cases, there hasn't been video evidence to back up those allegations.

None of the federal immigration agents were wearing body cameras, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

After the shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis in January, DHS vowed to quickly deploy body cameras to federal immigration agents nationwide.

But that hasn't happened.

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/14/nx-s1-5893456/ice-vehicle-biddeford-houston

San Diego PD busted by the city’s police oversight commission, for harassing blacks 4 to 1 compared to whites, or hispanics, or asians

Black drivers stopped for low-level traffic violations in San Diego were more than four times as likely as White drivers to be frisked and more than three times as likely to be subjected to force, according to an analysis presented by the city’s police oversight commission, which is recommending broad restrictions on so-called pretext stops. At a community forum last weekend, the San Diego Commission on Police Practices unveiled four draft policy recommendations aimed at limiting officers’ ability to use minor equipment and administrative violations — such as broken tail lights, expired registration tags or objects hanging from rearview mirrors — as a basis for investigating unrelated suspected crimes.

Commission investigator Ethan Waterman presented a review of SDPD’s 2024 stop data, the most recent available.

According to Waterman, the department reported 103,463 stops in 2024, including about 24,000 traffic stops involving equipment violations and other non-moving infractions.

Within the low-level stop category, the commission identified significant racial disparities.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/06/18/low-public-safety-return-police-oversight-commission-calls-for-limits-on-pretext-traffic-stops/

THIS is big brother watching, and too many bullies with badges abusing their access to Flock. Greene County, Georgia, deputy arrested after audit shows she used Flock cameras for personal reasons, sheriff says

 the cowards in Georgia won't even state what she did, when she repeatedly accessed Flocks database without authorization, illegally. 

It's so bad, they had to arrest her, and fire her. 

And they will not let us get upset by learning what cops do with unlimited illegal access to Flock. 

Former Greene County Deputy Quinsha Goss is facing charges of violating her oath of office and violating the prohibition on law enforcement retaining license plate data obtained from automated license plate recognition systems.

Authorities say an audit of the system on June 30 found that Goss had accessed the system for personal reasons multiple times over a three-month period.

Goss' arrest and firing come just a day after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested five police officers in Albany, Georgia, accusing them of misusing their access to that city's Flock Safety System. All five have also been fired.

In June, the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office charged and fired two of its supervisors for allegedly misusing the county's system.

https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/greene-county-deputy-arrested-after-audit-shows-she-used-flock-cameras-for-personal-reasons-sheriff-says/

I regretfully report that a USD student has died, killed by a marked cop car, 130 am, on Linda Vista Road between Goshen and Brunner streets.

In 2016, the city developed a Comprehensive Active Transportation Strategy for Linda Vista that recommended installing a high-visibility ladder-style crosswalk and a pedestrian-activated high-intensity signal beacon near a staircase that serves as a shortcut to and from the University of San Diego campus

The estimated cost of the improvements was $111,000.

In order to save money, the improvement to increase pedestrian safety next to a major university was ignored. 

The damn city should be sued for ignoring it's duty, and responsibility to safety, after it conducted an investigation of how to prevent pedestrian deaths, and was informed that a crosswalk overpass walking bridge would get students off the road

Hell, the university is also liable IMHO for not insisting that the city build the walking bridge

And HOW does a cop in a cop car STRIKE and kill a person? Probably using a cell phone or the unit laptop... which the state decided wasn't "unsafe" for cops, just illegally unsafe for all the rest of us. 

So, yeah, the city of San Diego, the SDPD, and USD, I'd say they all ought to line up across the court room from the plaintiff, and try to weasel out of the jury's focus. 

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/safety-improvements-proposed-years-ago-site-fatal-usd-student-crash/4038453/

related news item, 

a city council committee meeting Wednesday, which highlighted the $116 million cost of settlements and judgements involving SDPD since fiscal year 2017.

In fiscal year 2026 alone, SDPD settlements and judgements reached a record $42 million.

a $10 million settlement for the life of Arabella McCormack, 11, who died of severe abuse in August 2022.
“An SDPD officer was alleged to have visited the home, and contributed to the abuse by directly supplying wooden paddles, not paddle, paddles to the family,”

$30 million went to the family of Konoa Wilson, the 16-year-old shot and killed by a San Diego police officer last year while running from gunfire.

A cop shot Konoa in the back. 

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/san-diego-police-lawsuit-payouts-top-116-million-over-10-years/4038308/

SDPD Annual Budget is 32% of San Diego's total General Fund expenditures.

San Diego's police misconduct settlement payouts are roughly 1/16th the SDPD budget

The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) operates on an annual General Fund budget of $703.5 million,

police-related settlements and judgments have average about $42.5 million annually 

ACLU data indicates that SDPD payouts are roughly 15 million higher than the settlements paid by all other city departments combined.

two brothers under FBI investigation video recorded two Houston police illegally putting a GPS tracking device on their vehicle without a warrant. They got the Texas Rangers on the case

The two brothers who were under FBI investigation captured the incident on video and later provided the footage to the FBI Gang Task Force, and a video of the device, that they removed from their vehicle and attached to a random truck at a nearby gas station (Ha! I love that!) 

This was not the first time they had found a tracking device on their vehicle. They said they discovered one on May 4, 2025, and shared photographs it, a device made by LandAirSea Systems, Inc.

https://abc13.com/post/2-houston-police-officers-criminal-investigation-texas-rangers-secret-tracking-device-warrant-shows/19195960/

So, what can we make of that?  The FBI has people under investigation and Houston PD are illegally putting trackers on their vehicle. 

I like that they got the Texas Rangers to deal with it. There's a right way to do things, and evidently, the Houston police repeatedly did it the illegal way. Lazy? Corrupt? 

And why the hell is Houston PD messing with anyone that the FBI is already investigating? 

the city of Chicago systematically overcharged residents for city stickers and other parking violations for more than a decade.

This class action lawsuit involves more than 1 million tickets issued between 2012 and 2022, most of which involved city stickers.

The lawsuit stems from an Illinois law that prohibits the city from assessing more than $250 in fines and penalties for standing, parking or compliance violations. According to the suit, the city assessed as much as $400 for city sticker violations.

"The problem with the city of Chicago is... it can't help itself when it comes to ticketing revenue," said the plaintiffs' attorney, Jacie Zolna.

Zolna says it has been an eight-year battle in court, and at no point did the city of Chicago try to settle or compromise on this lawsuit.

Zolna pointed to a November 2022 City Council Finance Committee meeting when a city attorney appears to admit that its ticketing practices were found to be in violation of the state imposed $250 limit.

"It would be illegal for us to fine... to issue these fines under the court's ruling. So, if we did issue them, we would expose ourselves to litigation," said City Attorney Mark Siegel.

The city of Chicago's Law Department says it's evaluating all legal options, including an appeal. However, as attorneys for the plaintiffs point out, an appeal would just go up to the appellate court that ruled against the city three years ago.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/city-overcharged-residents-sticker-chicago-parking-ticket-years-judge-rules/18645632/

the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously last week to add increased oversight to the sheriff’s budget, including mandatory monthly reporting on overtime allocations.

The Santa Barbara County sheriff’s office paid out $21 million in overtime last year — with the top overtime earner making $170,000 in overtime on top of a base salary that was $103,000,

In some cases, they attempted to justify how they continue to run over budget. A recent audit “suggests that employees are taking advantage of the contract their unions negotiated to maximize the number of hours qualifying for overtime, by substituting paid sick or vacation leave hours for regular work hours and then making up the rest of their work week with hours that can be billed at time-and-a-half overtime rates,” the Independent reported.

“It’s a very common practice,” Santa Barbara Sheriff Bill Brown told supervisors. 

Brown also acknowledged the overtime problem is rampant but not with just his office. “This is common throughout government — throughout the state and throughout the country,” he said. 

https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/santa-barbara-sheriff-overtime-21358937.php

One Oakland police officer made $490,000 in overtime. The city can’t find records detailing much of what he did

Lieutenant Timothy Dolan, a 26-year veteran who leads the traffic unit and serves as vice president of the OPOA police union, was paid $493,247 in overtime in 2024. Combined with his salary and other pay, this netted him a $711,000 paycheck, making him OPD’s highest-paid employee — a title he’s held for several years now. His pay was almost double that of the chief of police and nearly three times the mayor’s paycheck.

In Dolan’s case, he earned at least $100,000 in overtime — and possibly far more — solely by reviewing paperwork for traffic collisions, records reveal.

The paperwork for Dolan’s overtime also reveals that OPD failed to document almost half of the overtime hours he worked, making it impossible to determine what he was doing much of the time.

Dolan spent over 800 hours of overtime in 2024 reviewing collision reports — the equivalent of about five months of work in a normal full-time job.

In 2024, Dolan logged an eye-popping amount of overtime — 3,304 hours, records reveal. This was on top of the 1,938 hours he worked as part of his normal shifts, for a total of 5,242 hours. That’s the equivalent of more than two and a half full-time jobs.

Some work stretches were seemingly superhuman, according to the records OPD provided us.

On July 9, Dolan reported he worked 23 hours. The next day, he worked 16 hours, and for the following three days, he worked 15 hours each.

Dolan’s overtime records raise concerns about how he, or any officer, can safely and effectively do their job without taking time to rest; he didn’t respond to questions about that.

“Truck drivers are only allowed to drive so many hours in a day for safety reasons,” said Julian Ware, vice president for IFPTE Local 21, a union that represents civilian city employees and which has been critical of OPD’s use of overtime. “I don’t think it should be any different for sworn officers who are carrying guns, tasers, and pepper spray, and driving vehicles. It’s a tremendous amount of responsibility that they have.”

“There’s so much research and data just in general about sleep deprivation and safety,” said Brooks. “It also impacts your irritability, your mood, mood swings.… How are you treating Oaklanders that you come in contact with? There’s no way that you’re having capable or competent judgment.”

according to his Overtime Worked Forms, he worked at least 19 days in a row — and Dolan worked 15 hours or more on all but two of these days. The department didn’t respond to questions about whether Dolan was authorized to do this.

For five years now, Oakland has struggled with immense budget deficits.

One major source of overspending in the city is the police department. By far the most expensive city service, the Oakland Police Department’s $386 million budget this year is about 19% of Oakland’s total spending. And each year, OPD has come under scrutiny for its runaway overtime spending, routinely blowing past its approved levels by millions of dollars. Last fiscal year, the Department spent over $55 million on overtime. Thirty-one million of this was over budget.

But historical data throws into question whether increasing staffing will rectify OPD’s chronic overtime overspending. A recent report by several civilian city unions found that over the past 15 years, even when department staffing increased, overtime continued to go up. From 2011 to 2024, staffing increased by nearly 9%. Over the same period, overtime went up by almost 200%.

Recent financial pressures have caused the city to lay off scores of civilian employees and freeze spending across a range of programs. Meanwhile, the number of police officers bringing in six-figure overtime packages rose dramatically.

In 2021, 58 officers were paid over $100,000 in overtime. By the end of 2024, the number of officers paid this much for overtime nearly tripled to 169.

And the number of officers making over $200,000 in overtime more than quadrupled from six to a total of 27 over the same period.

https://oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/oakland-police-overtime

a off-duty detail coordinator in the Sanford PD’s Professional Standards unit, was charged with 79 counts of official misconduct, as well as organized fraud, for faking 79 off-duty shifts for which he was paid more than $12K

A 23-year veteran, off-duty detail coordinator, former spokesperson for the Sanford Police Department, and investigator in SPD’s Professional Standards unit, was charged with 79 counts of official misconduct, and organized fraud, after swindling taxpayers of $12,640 for fake off-duty work shifts between October 2023 and July 2024, for off-duty work at Lofts at Eden apartments.

In the course of the investigation it was determined that Lofts at Eden never had a contract with the police.

“He also was … our lie detector guy,” 

He had resigned Dec. 10, but the Chief reversed it and instead fired him from the agency once a warrant was issued for his arrest.

https://www.police1.com/officer-misconduct-internal-affairs/fla-officer-charged-after-allegedly-faking-79-off-duty-shifts-for-which-he-was-paid-more-than-12k

https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-police-officer-charged-fraud-79-counts-misconduct/69791019

is a corrupt cop breaking the law, one bad apple? Inept? Unable to comprehend how to write a parking ticket, and NOT LIE about it (when the event was video recorded??) Or a result of what's going on in the city, where they're trying to make up this $250 million budget.

A viral video is shining the spotlight on what some drivers worry could be a troubling problem with the city of San Diego’s Parking Enforcement tactics.

A San Diego-area couple says a parking enforcement officer gave them what they’re calling a fraudulent ticket before their meter expired.

In a statement to NBC 7, a San Diego police spokesperson said the officer has worked in that capacity for two months, an internal investigation has been launched and the citation dismissed. (Truth, or plausible diniability/excuse that makes the issue go away in the fast paced news cycle?)

NBC 7 asked the Pearces if they think it's one bad apple or if they think this is a result of what's going on in the city, where they're trying to make up this $250 million budget.

“I’ve been wondering, and what I would like to uncover is what sort of pressures would the city or the department be placing on these individuals to where they would feel the need to falsify evidence like that to generate these citations," Donald Pearce said.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/video-shows-couples-car-ticketed-before-meter-expired/3943481/

A Marshall Project - Cleveland investigation has prompted city officials to stop issuing parking citations that, for years, led to license suspensions

For years, hundreds of car owners had their driver’s licenses suspended in Lorain Ohio for minor tickets like parking too far from a curb.

Now, Lorain Mayor Jack Bradley has paused the ticket-writing practice, and a municipal court judge began dismissing cases on Tuesday.

In Lorain, the city allowed auxiliary officers — who don’t hold police powers — to target parking violators with criminal summonses for minor infractions such as parking more than a foot from a curb or on a lawn.

The news outlet "Marshall Project - Cleveland" reviewed thousands of parking cases, spent hours in court, and talked to more than 25 people about their citations and suspensions.

In some cases, people were ordered to appear in Lorain Municipal Court within days of being cited for receiving a parking violation. For those who didn’t come to court, suspension orders soon followed, records show.

While most large Ohio cities issue only token fines, in recent years, Lorain Municipal Court judges ordered almost 600 license suspensions from parking tickets, according to court records. That’s on top of the fines that can range from $50 to $100.

The citations also often required car owners to stand before a judge in a packed courtroom as if they had committed theft, disorderly conduct or driving while intoxicated. 

Attorneys with The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland said The Marshall Project - Cleveland’s reporting shines a light on what it calls “unlawful license suspensions” that can impact housing eligibility, employment opportunities and financial stability for some people.

Lorain is one of the 10 biggest cities in Ohio. But The Marshall Project - Cleveland found the city is the only one that suspends driver’s licenses for a single unpaid parking violation.

None of the other large cities require violators to appear for criminal arraignments in court. Each city classifies the tickets as civil infractions. 

Lorain Police Chief Michael Failing said individuals should not have a license suspension over a parking ticket.

A 2019 ordinance update raised parking fines to $50 if paid within 72 hours, and $100 if paid after 72 hours. The legislation also stated that people who did not pay within 72 hours should be notified by certified mail and ordered to appear in court. But that practice was not happening, and vehicle owners were not notified, court records show.

The Lorain ordinance was tweaked again in November 2024 when the City Council gave the auxiliary unit the expanded power to write citations for all parking violations. Since that time, 1,155 citations were issued, and judges ordered 303 license suspensions, court records show.

Judge Mark Mihok said he did not know the ordinance required letters to be sent to violators. He said the Lorain Clerk of Courts should have sent the letters, but a clerk’s employee said they were never instructed to send letters.

Judge Mihok said he has felt pressure from the Lorain City Council and the mayor’s office to get money, especially after the state legislature passed a new law aimed at helping people with debt-related suspensions. He called traffic and parking tickets “a moneymaker, so we enforce tickets.” Judge Mihok said state lawmakers never lumped parking tickets into the new law.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/25/lorain-parking-tickets-suspensions

what's the difference between New York State Police rank and file troopers and the high ranking ones? What they were doing at the Ryder Cup (golf event on Long Island)

The high-ranking State Police officials at the exclusive competition were getting access to exclusive VIP areas of the event, posing with Rory McIlroy

The rank-and-file troopers were cautioned not to accept any free meals and were not provided a comfortable area where they could rest while on a break.

The high-ranking members had flown to Long Island on state aircraft and allegedly stayed in hotels with family members.

Uniformed troopers questioned whether many of the high-ranking State Police officials were performing duties necessary to the agency’s security detail.

The police agency’s third in command and head of the State Police field command have both indicated they will retire from the agency as a result of the internal review

https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/state-police-leadership-shakeup-alleged-abuses-21206509.php

just another cop arresting someone in clear violation of their constitutional rights... another day ending in Y. But this time? The donut eater, arrested another cop. Badly. And it's all on video, and the news! Once again, I ask.... why aren't officers TRAINED on the LAW, especially CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS?

and the donut eater? Arrested for drunk driving in 2019, but somehow? Kept his job in law enforcement.  Try and wrap your mind around how a cop is busted, and pleads guilty to, drunk driving, but keeps his job, and not because he knows how to do his job when it comes to constitutional rights. 

Not just any rights, the important ones that get all the headlines, the court cases won by the victims, and the payouts by the govt

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/adams-county-deputy-complaint-settlement-payout/73-be931a4a-3d75-4352-b705-892222c613dd

the Marion County Record newspaper... do you remember that 2023 constitutional rights violation? When the local cops raided, seized, and tried to silence the small town newspaper? The county was found responsible for the behavior of it's police dept and will apologize and pay a 3 million dollar settlement

“The sheriff’s office wishes to express its sincere regrets to Eric and Joan Meyer and Ruth and Ronald Herbel for its participation in the drafting and execution of the Marion county police department’s search warrants on their homes and the Marion County Record,” the sheriff’s statement this week said.

The raid triggered a fresh chapter in a national debate about press freedom, focused on Marion, a town of about 1,900 people approximately 150 miles south-west of Kansas City at a time of a disturbing rise in threats, intimidation and violence towards journalists in the US.

It began when a confidential source leaked evidence that a local restaurant proprietor, Kari Newell, had been convicted of drunk driving but continued using her car without a license. The Record never published anything related to the information because its staff reportedly suspected the source was relaying information from Newell’s husband during their divorce.

Nonetheless, after police notified Newell that the information was going around, she alleged at a local city council meeting that the newspaper had illegally obtained and disseminated sensitive documents, which was not true. Newell, who later acknowledged the drunk-driving arrest as well as driving with a suspended license, insinuated that the leak was meant to jeopardize her license to serve alcohol and harm her business, and had police remove reporters for the Record from the meeting.

The newspaper responded with a story to set the record straight. Then came the police raids, authorized by a search warrant alleging identity theft as well as unlawful use of a computer. Items seized by police included computers, cellphones and reporting materials found at the newspaper’s offices as well as the homes of its reporters and co-owners.

Joan Meyer collapsed and died of a heart attack aged 98 the day after the raid of her home, which had left her unable to eat or sleep and “stressed beyond her limits”.

Marion’s police chief at the time, Gideon Cody, is scheduled to go to trial in February in Marion county on a felony charge of interfering with a judicial process, accused by the two special prosecutors of persuading a potential witness to withhold information from authorities when they later investigated his conduct.

https://marionrecord.com/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/11/kansas-marion-newspaper-police-raid-payment

police, it doesn't seem to matter what country, seem to do criminal things as often (crimes vs size of group) as any other group. New Zealand might have a solution, they created a criminal investigator of the police themselves - the Police Conduct Authority

New Zealand’s government will take the unprecedented move of appointing an inspector general of police after a damning report found “significant failings” in the way senior police officers handled serious sexual complaints against a former high-ranking officer.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority released a 135-page report on Tuesday detailing allegations made against the former deputy police commissioner Jevon McSkimming and the police’s response to them. 

McSkimming pleaded guilty to possessing child sexual exploitation and bestiality material last week.

Instead of  investigating allegations made against McSkimming, the police used accusatory emails sent by the complainant, to charge her with sending harmful digital communications.

The police response to the complaints was “an unquestioning acceptance of Mr McSkimming’s narrative of events”.

The allegations arose from a sexual relationship that began in 2016 between McSkimming, who was then 40, and Ms Z, an unsworn police staffer who was then 21, the report said.

After the relationship ended in 2018, McSkimming told his supervisor Ms Z was threatening and blackmailing him.

From 2018, Ms Z allegedly sent hundreds of emails to McSkimming and other police staff, made various posts to social media and lodged complaints with the police hotline, detailing allegations against McSkimming, including of sexual interaction without consent and threats to use intimate video recordings, the report noted.

In January 2024, Ms Z’s emails were used to charge her with harmful digital communication towards McSkimming.

The current police commissioner, Richard Chambers, described the actions and attitudes laid out in the report as “inexcusable” and apologized to Ms Z, who he said was ignored and badly let down.

“The ambitions of a senior police officer were put above the interests of a vulnerable woman.”...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/12/new-zealand-police-sex-case-findings-ntwnfb

.... to say nothing of falsely accusing her of a crime when she was reporting a criminal sexual assault against her

A Washington state trial court has shot down local municipalities’ effort to keep automated license plate reader (ALPR) data secret.

"The Flock images generated by the Flock cameras...are public records," the court wrote in its ruling. "Flock camera images are created and used to further a governmental purpose. The Flock images created by the cameras located in Stanwood and Sedro-Woolley were paid for by Stanwood and Sedro Wooley [sic] and were generated for the benefit of Stanwood and Sedro-Woolley."

The contract language notwithstanding, officials in Washington attempted to restrict public access by claiming that video footage stored on Flock’s servers and requests for that information would constitute the generation of a new record. This part of the argument claimed that any information that was gathered but not otherwise accessed by law enforcement, including thousands of images taken every day by the agency’s 14 Flock ALPR cameras, had nothing to do with government business, would generate a new record, and should not be subject to records requests. The cities shut off their Flock cameras while the litigation was ongoing.

If the court had ruled in favor of the cities’ claim, police could move to store all their data — from their surveillance equipment and otherwise — on private company servers and claim that it's no longer accessible to the public.

In 2017, the California Supreme Court sided with EFF and ACLU in a case arguing that “the license plate data of millions of law-abiding drivers, collected indiscriminately by police across the state, are not ‘investigative records’ that law enforcement can keep secret.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules-data-captured-flock-safety-cameras-are-public-records

Big Brother IS watching, and put in the surveillance cameras, but they are known as license plate readers. Flock Safety is the company that built out a mass surveillance network that ended with the company having to retrain thousands of officers in Illinois on how not to break state law

Two recent statements from the surveillance company—one addressing Illinois privacy violations and another defending the company's national surveillance network—reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock Safety has blamed users, downplayed harms, and doubled down on the very systems that enabled the violations in the first place.

a sheriff's office in Texas searched data from more than 83,000 automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras to track down a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion. The officer used a nationwide surveillance dragnet (again: over 83,000 cameras) to track someone down, and used her suspected healthcare decisions as a reason to do so.

ALPR surveillance systems are inherently vulnerable to both technical exploitation and human manipulation. These vulnerabilities are not theoretical—they represent real pathways for bad actors to access vast databases containing millions of Americans' location data. When surveillance databases are breached, the consequences extend far beyond typical data theft—this information can be used to harass, stalk, or even extort.

Flock's insistence that what's happening with abortion criminalization and immigration enforcement has nothing to do with them—that these are just red-state problems or the fault of rogue officers—is concerning. Flock designed the network that is being used, and the public should hold them accountable for failing to build in protections from abuse that cannot be easily circumvented.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/flock-safetys-feature-updates-cannot-make-automated-license-plate-readers-safe 

https://laist.com/news/california-police-license-plate-data-ice-border-patrol-illegal 

https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-police-license-plate-reader-doj-dept-violated-state-law/509-ae2cbbb0-aaa2-4e10-a476-faadfe47b818 

If the lawyers and lawsuits find the cigarette makers, and gun makers, guilty of the end results, then Flock is guilty for anything done with it's system. Clearly, making an easy way to commit crimes, is being an accessory, and being complicit, in those criminal acts

If police actively tried to find stolen cars, that would alter the balance of good/evil the license plate reader system is responsible for... but they don't. As far as I know, the only thing cops actively look forward to doing, is raising money by issuing tickets for speeding, and criminally abusing anyone without a judge in their back pocket. 

HA! The police are finally going to get their asses handed to them for acting like racist assholes at every chance they get, and this time, they don't get to hide behind the immunity rule, because this time, they screwed with a federal officer! On camera!

A San Diego police officer is accused of using excessive force, wrongful detention and false arrest after a confrontation over parking at Costco. 

The incident happened at the Carmel Mountain Road Costco on July 2, 2024, and was caught on security cameras. 

The man now suing the officer and other members of the police department is a Homeland Security agent.

In a matter of minutes, frustration often found in a crowded Costco parking lot accelerated to 53-year-old Chu Ding being rendered unconscious.

“He was knocked cold after his head struck the pavement,” attorney Eugene Iredale said.

Iredale is representing Ding in a lawsuit against the city, San Diego police Officer Jonathan Ferraro and other members of the department.

"Two days before the Fourth of July 2024, off duty police officer Jonathan Ferraro stopped his truck, blocking 53-year-old Chu Ding in a Costco parking lot. 

After Mr. Ding tapped on the trunk of the truck to let Ferraro know that he was leaving from his parking place, Ferraro jumped out of his truck, enraged, calling Mr. Ding a “Chinese piece of shit.” 

Ferraro shoved Mr. Ding. When Mr. Ding refused to back down, Ferraro who is two decades younger, picked Mr. Ding up and slammed him into the ground, causing Mr. Ding to suffer a concussion, loss of consciousness and a dislocated shoulder. 

Six of Ferraro’s fellow officers then arrived in three marked patrol cars and handcuffed the injured Mr. Ding and placed him in the back of a patrol car for several hours. One of them, defendant Richards, refused to loosen Mr. Ding’s handcuffs had been placed so tight that they caused excruciating pain for hours. 

They did not ask Mr. Ding a single question. 

Later, two detectives arrived and after reviewing the footage from Costco which showed Ferraro as the aggressor, transported Mr. Ding to their station to interrogate him. They did so because they knew the District Attorney’s Office would not prosecute Mr. Ding given the evidence. 

For five hours, defendants denied Mr. Ding food, water and medical care, pressuring him to sign an apology letter to Ferraro. Mr. Ding, who had been placed in custody at 3 PM, was finally given pain medication at the emergency room after 8 PM"

Any questions from anyone that automatically defends police, or thinks I make up this outrageous racist and abusive agro bullshit? 

I hope that Ferraro gets prison for attempted murder AND that police across the country lose the bullshit immunity that prevents everyone from getting them in court, on the defense side, losing their cases, and their jobs, and going to prison

Oh, and insult added to injury? Ding was charged with a felony: obstructing a police officer while doing their duty.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdpd-officer-accused-of-excessive-force-costco/3863552/

What was it NWA said about cops? Oh, yeah, ... fuck the police. Racist assholes with govt immunity to their illegal, and civil rights violating, actions

(and no one is surprised to learn that) 3 Sheriff's Deputies and a tow truck company owner were busted for bribes, running a scam, collusion, conspiracy, unlawful use of a government computer network, and fraud

According to previous Patch reporting, the brief, Carpenter had been assigned to the Temecula Sheriff's station's Traffic Bureau "years" before Flores and Christolon arrived, and he had developed a reputation for "devoting his time on duty to impounding parked vehicles, as well as for failing to properly enter those impounds into the sheriff's computer system, or complete the paperwork needed to let the vehicle owners know where their vehicles had been towed."

When he came under the supervision of Flores, who became Traffic Bureau director in September 2017, and Christolon, who was the Sheiff's lieutenant's right-hand man, the conspiracy began to take shape.

Court papers said Flores and Close, owner of TJ's Towing in Temecula, developed a relationship after the lieutenant received a favor from his co-defendant in acquiring a classic International pickup truck in early 2018. Soon after, there were lunches and dinners between the men.

Prosecutors said Carpenter was abruptly granted permission to add his name to overtime shifts at the Traffic Bureau whenever he pleased.

"Flores personally informed Carpenter of when overtime was available," the brief said.

The Sheriff's deputy began claiming so many OT shifts "that other deputies started to complain and even scribble over his name on the sign-in sheets," according to the brief.

When the aggrieved deputies took their complaints to Christolon, "he never did anything in response," documents stated.

Prosecutors said Carpenter aggressively sought out street-parked vehicles to impound for little or no reason, and TJ's Towing received virtually all of his calls for service. This occurred even though TJ's Towing wasn't always the company on the sheriff's "rotation list," which is maintained to ensure impound business is equitably distributed, on a weekly basis, to multiple companies, according to the prosecution.

"Towing for the sheriff's department is a lucrative business," the brief said, outlining how there's not only a charge for the tow, but a base charge for the impound and then daily storage fees imposed on owners.

DJ's Towing received dozens of impound calls from Carpenter, and Flores "personally approved" the deputy's OT requests, the brief said.

The lieutenant "exchanged hundreds of text messages" with Close, occasionally telling him, "make that money, homie," the narrative stated.

There was an arrangement for the then-lawman to receive a free stay at Close's mother's $4 million Oceanside home by the sea, which she periodically rented out.

Flores also received free towing services for his personal vehicles, complimentary tickets for him and his family to the Temecula Balloon & Wine Festival, limousine rides and other gratuities, according to the brief.

https://patch.com/california/murrieta/temecula-tow-truck-company-owner-former-cops-sentenced-bribery-case

What? Another corrupt California Sheriff's dept? No! I'm aghast! It can't be! It's unheard of! 

JFCA, is it just another day of the week ending in y? Are there any honest cops? Or just none that raise the flag and get the corrupt ones arrested? Do they EVEN HAVE an internal affairs dept? or are they on the getting paid to look the other way while everyone gets rich and gets kick backs?

Who was it who first said Fuck the Police? They nailed it. Truth to power

After an 18-year-old was arrested for street racing last week, the Sheriff put out a press release statement about the sheriff’s abhorrence for racing cars on public roads.

“I have zero tolerance for street racing in Lee County,” Sheriff Carmine Marceno stated. “Driving an [sic] excessive speed and putting yourself, your passengers, and others on the road at risk is an incredibly selfish decision. My deputies will continue to patrol the roads of Lee County, ensuring drivers make smart choices or they will face the consequences.”

The video, which can be seen here, shows Marceno driving south on six-lane South Tamiami Trail in a black Lamborghini Huracan. Marceno then guns the engine and surges ahead down the highway. As the video ends, a glimpse of his speedometer shows 74 mph while still well behind the sheriff in the Lamborghini. The speed limit on that stretch of road is 50 mph.

https://floridatrident.org/sheriff-marceno-says-he-has-zero-tolerance-for-street-racing-heres-a-video-of-sheriff-marceno-street-racing/

Just another piece of shit asshole rich cop talking shit and power tripping on the public like a bully on school kids.