Foreign Policing News
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Before posting news stories...Rules!
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This section of the forum is for you to post any foreign police stories that warrant serious discussion. Please note that due to copyright restrictions you must only include the title, the first line of the article and a link to the original article. Articles from the BBC can be posted in full, but must also include a link to the original article. So before posting an article from a newspaper please check to see if it is available from the BBC instead. We are allowed to post a limited number of Police Oracle articles, in full, each month. Therefore, if you want to share a Police Oracle story, please only include the first line of the article and a link to t…
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/revealed-los-angeles-police-officers-gathering-social-media The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime, according to records shared with the Guardian. Would that be allowed here, or would there be issues with GDPR or RIPA?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58407794
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https://www.wired.com/story/geofence-warrants-google/ New figures from Google show a tenfold increase in the requests from law enforcement, which target anyone who happened to be in a given location at a specified time. Very opposed to this. Warrants for data should be very specific and limited only to individuals the police have grounds to suspect of a crime. Warrants to identify "everybody in a specific location" crosses the line and makes it a fishing trip, the exact thing warrants are supposed to prevent.
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British Embassy Security
by Radman +- 4 replies
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[quote] Guards at Kabul embassy told they are ineligible for UK protection Exclusive: 125-strong team hired through outsourced contractor given informal notice they no longer have jobs More than 100 guards at the British embassy in Kabul have been told they are not eligible for UK government protection because they were hired through an outsourced contractor, the Guardian has learned. Most of the 125-strong team of security personnel, employed by the global security firm GardaWorld, have been given informal notice that they no longer have jobs guarding the embassy, several said. The guards, some of whom had…
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"Law enforcement agencies across Europe, the US, and Oceania revealed Anom’s origins earlier today, saying they had arrested 800 criminal suspects based on intercepted communications." Interesting piece. The police have taken down encrypted messaging apps in the past, seized servers etc, but this seems to be the first time they have actually set up their own specific app from the beginning with this intention. It functioned as most encrypted messaging apps do, except hidden away in the code was a secret master key that allowed the police to decrypt any of the messages. This shows the dangers in trusting any encryption software that doesn't let you inspect the …
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https://apnews.com/article/race-and-ethnicity-health-coronavirus-pandemic-business-technology-e4266250f7e2d691d4d664735c2c6bc0 COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about its accuracy and the growing pervasiveness of video surveillance is leading some state lawmakers to hit the pause button.
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https://www.thewashingtongazette.com/2021/04/data-driven-2-california-dragnetnew.html
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Black girl shot dead by Police minutes before Derek Chauvin verdicts are read https://news.sky.com/story/black-girl-shot-dead-by-police-minutes-before-derek-chauvin-verdicts-are-read-12282201 That’s the Headline, which is very click-bait. Followed by the line (smaller text): ”Footage reportedly shows an officer shooting the teenager as she attempts to stab two people with a knife” And the media insist they aren’t bias, selling stories by stirring the pot and playing dangerous games. The entire article is, yet again, slanted negatively towards Police - despite the fact the person had a knife and was stabbing people. What would the reporters of suc…
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Daily mail. Wild moment man, 28, shoots three Georgia police officers with AK-47 before cops return fire and kill him
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New dashcam footage shows the shocking moment a gunman with an AK-47 walked up to a patrol car and opened fire on the cops after a high speed chase. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9480745/Shocking-moment-suspect-28-shoots-Georgia-police-officers-AK-47.html
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This is the moment a violent drug dealer jumped out of his truck and shot a father-of-three cop dead during a routine traffic stop before dying in a hail of bullets after a 40-mile chase. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9458851/Shocking-moment-drug-dealer-39-jumps-truck-shoots-dead-New-Mexico-cop.html
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Minneapolis descended into chaos as protests erupted and looting broke out on Sunday night after police in a suburb killed a black man during a traffic https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9460619/Police-fire-tear-gas-protesters-officer-fatally-shoots-man-near-Minneapolis.html
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Of course the contrast between Bristol here and Burma over there is vast. There, a bullet in the head, here arrest, court and decent treatment for breaking the law. Poor people. https://apnews.com/article/aung-san-suu-kyi-min-aung-hlaing-myanmar-5bd5fd1e20adc5c5e16a0bb2a3db3102 (I've put this in foreign policing news as the Security Forces are heavily implicated).
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Police have smashed an international sex gang who forced Romanian women to become prostitutes in Britain. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9385537/Police-smash-sex-gang-coerced-17-Romanian-women-one-girl-prostitutes-UK.html
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LIVE Pro-Trump protesters storm US Capitol amid debate 1 2
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-us-2020-55558355 The stark difference in police response to last summer's protests of racial injustice compared to the mob attempting a coup at the US Capitol today leaves me sick and despondant. A truly sad day ...
