In the streets of his native Harlem, Joseph Hayden is a familiar presence, patrolling the neighborhood with his video camera, ready to document interactions between the police and the residents they stop — and doing so at an age when most people have retired. “Like I tell them,” Mr. Hayden, 71, said recently of the police, “I’m on your side to make sure there is courtesy, professionalism and respect. Isn’t that what you advertise on the side of your car?” “Seems like you’d want me to do it,” he added, “unless what you’re providing is not courtesy, professionalism and respect.”

Chris of InformationLiberation.com wrote: "I don't know about you, but if I accidentally hit someone's dog with my car, I wouldn't think beating the dog to death with a baton and stomping its brains out would make the situation better."

As a dog lover myself, I realize this would be a horrifying and stressful situation. But a police officer should be able to deal with it a hell of a lot better than this.

The Anaheim police officers who killed two men in back-to-back shootings in July have returned to their jobs and are no longer on paid administrative leave, a police spokesman confirmed Thursday. Anaheim Police Sgt. Bob Dunn said he did not know exactly when the two officers returned but said it had been "a couple of weeks." He declined to provide their names but described both as veteran police officers.

Judge says "If you wouldn't have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you,"

the South African police shoot dead 34 striking miners protesting & the striking miners who were also protesting which the South African didn’t manage to kill are to be charged with murder, despite the fact that it was the South African who opened fire & thus who technically were the ones who committed murder

A new patent, granted to Apple, could prevent academic cheating, cinema interruptions, but also see areas of political protest activity 'ring-fenced' disabling phone and tablet cameras.

The victim, Mark Eric Henderson, 19, of St. Paul, was a hostage in the motel room commandeered by Demetrius S. Ballinger, authorities said. In an interview underway late Saturday afternoon, his family told the Star Tribune that Henderson was trying to escape when he was shot.

Burning Man fans say cops too heavy-handed

Burned at Burning Man? Revelers say heavy hand of law a downer at Nevada desert festival

David Levin represents entrepreneurs, investors and developers in his legal practice.

The cops' version of the events just gets more contradictory. I think I can shed some light on this case that you won’t see anywhere else.

...In 1785, a resolution authorized the secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs to open and inspect any mail that related to the safety and interests of the United States. The ensuing inspections caused prominent men, like George Washington, to complain of mail tampering. According to various historians, it also led James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe to correspond in code. That is, they encrypted their letters to preserve the privacy of their political discussions.