Police officers and federal agents who commit crimes on the job don't like people recording them. They have been known to confiscate or destroy people's phones in an attempt to destroy evidence of their criminal behavior. Mobile Justice CA is an iPhone and Android app that streams video straight to the ACLU servers as it's being recorded, so that the recorded evidence can't be destroyed along with your phone. It also has a Witness feature that "allows you to know if people around you are getting stopped by the law enforcement ... This feature is especially useful for community groups who monitor law enforcement activity."
Anchorage AK voters trounce Koch-backed homophobe, elect Democratic mayor, by Old Redneck Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Break Up the Big Banks, by ericlewis0 Kaua'i official to Syngenta: Don't spray our schools with pesticides banned in your country, by Karen from Maui
Bernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Break Up the Big Banks, by ericlewis0
Kaua'i official to Syngenta: Don't spray our schools with pesticides banned in your country, by Karen from Maui
Ask any leader in the criminal justice reform movement if they consider Hillary Clinton to be an ally. After a bout of laughter, they’ll likely point out that she criticized Barack Obama in 2008 for his support to reform mandatory minimum laws and to change the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity. They’ll then point out that she not only supported her husband’s tough-on-crime policies that exacerbated the mass incarceration problem, she fought for them. So far, Hillary Clinton has offered up some milquetoast pronouncements about criminal justice reform. She has offered few specific policies, and even the pronouncements have been couched in ways that provide political cover. (For example, she has said that with the money we save by reducing the prison population, we could hire more police officers.) That pundits writing for prominent media outlets would characterize such middling, non-committal rhetoric as some sort of radical soft-on-crime agenda is more than anything a demonstration of the warped reality in which the political and chattering classes operate. (I suspect age is also a factor. There’s a marked generational split on many of these issues.)
That pundits writing for prominent media outlets would characterize such middling, non-committal rhetoric as some sort of radical soft-on-crime agenda is more than anything a demonstration of the warped reality in which the political and chattering classes operate. (I suspect age is also a factor. There’s a marked generational split on many of these issues.)
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder will not run for president in 2016, according to two sources familiar with his planning. [...] The decision came one day after a Snyder-backed ballot initiative went down to defeat by an overwhelming margin on Tuesday. The initiative would have raised sales taxes to pay for roads funding.
The decision came one day after a Snyder-backed ballot initiative went down to defeat by an overwhelming margin on Tuesday. The initiative would have raised sales taxes to pay for roads funding.