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Blackmail, Witness Tampering, Criminal Misconduct: Routine Business for the Flathead County Gestapo

Sunday, September 28, 2014 Blackmail, Witness Tampering, Criminal Misconduct: Routine Business for the Flathead County Gestapo If Kafka and Dickens collaborated on a character, Ed Corrigan would be the result. “These sort [sic] of things are not unusual,” sniffed Ed Corrigan, District Attorney for Flathead County, Montana, in response to a complaint against him filed […]

One Unjustified Arrest, One Permanent File, and One Corrupt Sheriff: The Ordeal of Mark Patterson

Monday, March 17, 2014 One Unjustified Arrest, One Permanent File, and One Corrupt Sheriff: The Ordeal of Mark Patterson Any day that begins with a visit from police will probably turn out badly. Mark Patterson’s day got off to that kind of inauspicious start, and grew worse in crescendo.  The officers let themselves into Mark’s […]

“We Have Been a Paramilitary Organization”: How the Police Talk When They Think We’re Not Listening

Friday, September 19, 2014 “We Have Been a Paramilitary Organization”: How the Police Talk When They Think We’re Not Listening Chief Hite at September 17 City Council meeting.  “We have historically been a paramilitary organization,” observed Indianapolis Police Chief Rick Hite during a September 17 City Council meeting. “And we serve whoever sits in that […]

Call the Anti-Police: Ending the State’s “Security” Monopoly

Monday, September 15, 2014 Call the Anti-Police: Ending the State’s “Security” Monopoly Dale Brown (center) with Garrett Ean and Pete Eyre. |”How would things be different,” muses Dale Brown of the Detroit-based Threat Management Center, “if police officers were given financial rewards and commendations for resolving dangerous situations peacefully, rather than for using force in […]

Road Pirates and Prohibition Profiteers: Scenes from the Drug War in Treasure Valley

Sunday, June 15, 2014 Road Pirates and Prohibition Profiteers: Scenes from the Drug War in Treasure Valley ISP Trooper Justin Klitch conducts a pretext stop, searching for weed. One of the risks of operating a medical marijuana dispensary is the possibility of attracting unwanted attention from violent, dishonest people willing to defraud and even kill […]

Support Your Local Slave Patrol

Thursday, February 20, 2014 Support Your Local Slave Patrol Phyllis Bear, a convenience store clerk from Arizona, called the police after a customer threatened her. The disgruntled patron, seeking to purchase a money order, handed Bear several bills that were rejected by the store’s automated safe. Suspecting that the cash was counterfeit, Bear told him […]

Retail-Level Tyranny

Thursday, July 17, 2014 Retail-Level Tyranny   Yes, but they’re very good at stringing up the crime scene tape. “The police are worthless. I don’t know what we’re paying them for.” That familiar, despairing lament was voiced by a friend here in Payette after his family had lost $20,000 worth of property a burglary. The […]

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