6 Reasons I Tell My Kids Not to Talk to Police

Let me say up front that I know this will be unpopular. But I can't help the uneasiness that I feel toward law enforcement lately...and I have some good reasons. Gone are the days of Officer Friendly, the neighborhood cop who knows everyone and is looking out for the community's best interest. It seems that lately, police officers end up terrorizing those they are supposed to be serving and protecting. Clearly, not all police are acting this way, but it sure seems the police state is ramping up.
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‘Don’t Talk to the Police!’: Law Professor’s Lecture About the 5th Amendment Is Going Viral in the Wake of ‘Making a Murderer’ — Here’s Why

When Regent University law professor James Duane first delivered his ”Don’t Talk to the Police!” lecture back in 2008, he likely had no idea that it would go viral again nearly a decade later.
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Burger King manager: Chicago cops erased shooting video

A Burger King manager who accuses Chicago police of erasing surveillance video in the case of a black teenager shot last year by a white officer says he has testified before a federal grand jury investigating the shooting.
It's not clear what that video might have shown, but the accusation of tampering has fueled the anger of protesters who say the city, the police and local prosecutors have mishandled the case.


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Lessons Learned from the Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a historical record of the Soviet era work camps, police state and subtle oppressions and outright torture under the Russian government between the First World War and 1956. What are some of the lessons we can draw from this book? What have too many forgotten of the death camps of the Soviet Union?


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Christian preachers on Oregon sidewalk attacked by man with 'police protection'

Christians preaching the Gospel outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday were doused with scouring powder by a man who apparently had police protection since a police officer on duty just stood by and did not stop, much less arrest him.
The Portland Police Department later said it would not press charges against the assailant as the incident was deemed "a private criminal complaint."


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Six Christians Attacked with Cleansing Agent, Called ‘Scum’ Outside Oregon Planned Parenthood

At least six Christians were attacked with a cleansing agent on Wednesday while preaching the gospel and standing for life outside of a Planned Parenthood facility in Portland, Oregon, but the man who committed with the act was not arrested and was let go without charges.


The pro-life outreach was part of the Biblical Church Evangelism Conference hosted by Beaverton Grace Bible Church and organized by its pastor, Chuck O’Neal.


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Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘He Could Have Been Shot. Over Politics’

It was still dark outside when “Jonah” (not his real name) heard the pounding on his front door. As luck would have it, he was awake — or mostly awake. He’d gotten up at 4:00 a.m. on October 3, 2013, to see his parents off to the airport. They were leaving on a quick trip to raise money for the children’s charity his father runs. Jonah was 16 at the time, old enough to stay home alone for a short time, but not old enough to deal with what awaited him on the other side of the door.
The pounding continued, and Jonah peered out the window to discover its source. To his horror, he saw uniformed officers, their guns drawn. “Police,” they yelled. “We have a warrant.” An officer shined a flashlight on a document Jonah couldn’t read. Unsure what to do, but unwilling to defy the authorities, he let them in.


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ADAM-12 SHRUGGED: Let Them Reap Their Cloward-Piven Chaos In Baltimore

The majority-minority denizens of the urban hellhole I call Baltimogadishu are getting exactly what they demanded (and deserve) for electing a 100% Afro-Marxist cabal; a cabal which viciously joins the Obama administration and media in demonizing local cops, while excusing and even sanctifying mobs of unfettered black terrorist thugs roaming and ruling the streets.
Rates of mayhem and murder in Baltimore are skyrocketing through the roof, with police often surrounded and attacked by seething crowds of terrorists when they respond to calls.


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Wisconsin’s Shame: ‘Every Aspect of My Life Is in Their Hands — and They Hate Me’

‘They came with a battering ram.”
Cindy Archer, one of the lead architects of Wisconsin’s Act 10 — also called the “Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill,” it limited public-employee benefits and altered collective-bargaining rules for public-employee unions — was jolted awake by yelling, loud pounding at the door, and her dogs’ frantic barking. The entire house — the windows and walls — was shaking. She looked outside to see up to a dozen police officers, yelling to open the door. They were carrying a battering ram. She wasn’t dressed, but she started to run toward the door, her body in full view of the police. Some yelled at her to grab some clothes, others yelled for her to open the door.

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Annals of the Security State: More Airplane Stories

"My dad fought a war so this can never happen in America. I will not dishonor my father's memory by giving up what he fought for. No, sir. With all due respect, I will not consent to a search without a proper warrant."

Over the weekend I related the story of Gabriel Silverstein, a businessman and pilot who for no apparent reason was subjected to a two-hour detention and invasive search by Homeland Security officials as he traveled across the country in his small plane. The picture above is not from that episode; it's an official DHS photo of its emergency-response agents being trained.

Below and after the jump are two additional stories of the same sort. The first is a long account from Larry Gaines, a small-plane pilot from California who had a similar episode last year. The story is long and detailed, and will be riveting for those in the aviation world. The summary for general readers is this.

• A private pilot set out from an airport in the Sierra foothills of California, headed to Oklahoma; 
• He made the trip "VFR" -- under visual flight rules, choosing his own path and knowing that he did not need to check in with air-traffic controllers as long as he stayed out of certain kinds of airspace (around big airports, in military zones, or subject to other restrictions).
• He eventually landed at a tiny little airport in rural Oklahoma, where a friend met him and took him home for dinner. 
• The pilot realized that he had dropped his eyeglass case at the airport and went back to retrieve it.
• At which point all hell broke loose, as he describes in detail. In short, local, county, and federal enforcement agents were there to inspect him and his plane -- and when he asked why, they said that his "suspicious" profile was "flight west to east, from California."

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LETTER: Despite costs, hiring four new Corvallis officers is important

Corvallis Gazette-Times LETTERS, February 10, 2009 by John H. Detweiler

How valuable are three minutes? Someone is trying to break into your house and you have just called the cops. If the cops can get to your house three minutes faster, it might save your life.

The Corvallis Budget Commission has $600,000 available to spend in the next fiscal year. Choices are going to have to be made because there is insufficient money for everything. One of the choices is to hire four patrol officers.

Hiring these officers absorbs almost one-half of the funds available. However, a very important — if not the most important — function of government is to protect its citizens; a function surely more important than hiring an administrative specialist for the senior center or subsidizing the aquatic center.

The Corvallis Police Department funded a study that collected the data required to analyze the time a citizen waits for service. However, the contractor did not actually compute the waiting time as a function of the number of patrol officers. Therefore, I did. I found that with 29 officers — the current staffing — the mean time a citizen waits for service is 6.6 minutes. If we hire four more officers, the mean time a citizen waits for service of 3.5 minutes — a reduction of 3.1 minutes.

My analysis can be found at www.peak.org/~detweij.

Readers who have had to call, or think they may have to call, the cops need to contact their city councilors and ask them to fund the four officers.

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