1. Security Expert Says, "Confidence In Local Police Depts. Reaches A 20yr. Low": http://tinyurl.com/j3cxq4j

Ronald Reagan famously stated, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” But should we apply such thinking to the police? The answer depends on whom we ask. Many liberals who otherwise defend every government program and unionized job believe that the police are increasingly abusing their power.

2. Hundreds of Police Killings Go Undocumented By Law Enforcement And FBI: http://tinyurl.com/n79uys4

“When cops are killed, there is a very careful account and there’s a national database,” said Jeffrey Fagan, a law professor at Columbia University. “Why not the other side of the ledger?”

Three sources of information about deaths caused by police—the FBI numbers, figures from the Centers for Disease Control and data at the Bureau of Justice Statistics—differ from one another widely in any given year or state, according to a 2012 report by David Klinger, a criminologist with the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a onetime police officer.

3. SpotCrime.com: Provides Crime Maps At The Neighborhood Level And Sends Alerts To Facebook,Twitter, Etc: http://tinyurl.com/zh8t7z4


SpotCrime.com is a Baltimore-based company founded in October 2007 and privately owned by ReportSee, Inc. It provides nationwide crime information about arrests, arsons, assaults, burglaries, robberies, shootings, thefts and vandalisms, on a Google map. SpotCrime will map data for any police agency who supplies open and unrestricted access to crime data.

4. The Murder Accountability Project’s (http://murderdata.org) Board of Directors has voted unanimously to urge law enforcement agencies in the United States to fully report homicide information to the Justice Department’s Uniform Crime Report and Supplementary Homicide Report. Police participation in the Uniform Crimes Report has been voluntary since its enactment by Congress in 1930.

The Board further urged all 50 State Legislatures to make such reporting mandatory. The nonprofit group’s directors also asked Congress and the President to enact federal legislation requiring reporting of the case-level details to the FBI of all unsolved homicides not cleared through arrest after one year.

5. Police Departments Use Planes With Spy Cameras: http://tinyurl.com/jkl74y3

The program, the existence of which was revealed Tuesday has set off intense criticism from civil liberties advocates and the Maryland public defender’s office. “This is a pretty radical step towards constructing a surveillance society,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union.

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