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WATCH: SWAT Team Breaks Up Massive College Party With Teargas

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 04.24.2012

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Have you ever attended a party so wild a SWAT team had to break it up? On April 21, 33 people were arrested after an annual block party to celebra...

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Repress U, Class of 2012: 7 Steps to a Homeland Security Campus

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Cia, University of Puerto Rico, Homeland Security Campus, University of Wisconsin, University of Texas, University of Arizona, City University of New York, Occupy Wall Street, Ice, UC Irvine, Ows, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Civil Liberties, Department of Defense, Nypd, UC Davis, Stratfor, Surveillance, Muslim Students Association, University of North Carolina, Dhs, Homeland Security, UC Berkeley, Twitter, New York Police Department, Department of Homeland Security, University of California, DREAM Act, Private Security Contractors, SWAT Team, Repress U, Fbi, Sevis, College News

Since 9/11, the homeland security state has come to campus just as it has come to America's towns and cities, its places of work and its houses of worship, its public space and its cyberspace.

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The American Military Empire Comes Home

John W. Whitehead | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Operation Shield, Checks and Balances, Black Hawk Helicopter, SWAT Team, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Constitution, Defense Budget, Drones, Politics News

"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are ...

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America's Longest Ongoing War: The War on Drugs

John W. Whitehead | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, SWAT Team, Medical Marijuana, Kofi Annan, War on Drugs, Richard Nixon, Naacp, Politics News

After more than 40 years and at least $1 trillion, America's so-called "war on drugs" ranks as the longest-running, most expensive and least effective war effort by the American government.

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Tanks on Main Street: The Militarization of Local Police

John W. Whitehead | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: 1033 Program, Police, Pepper Spray, SWAT Team, Militarization, Police Militarization, Police Weaponry, Paramilitary Police, Crime News

The American police force is not supposed to be a branch of the military, nor is it a private security force for the reigning political faction.

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Oops! SWAT Team Raids House Of Suspect Already In Jail

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Javier Bravo Jr, SWAT Team, Video, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Swat Team Raids House, Bravo Family, Javier Bravo, Swat Team Raid, Crime News

In 2006, a SWAT team barged into a California home in search of a suspect who was already serving a two-year sentence for receiving stolen property. N...

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Former Marine Killed By SWAT Team Was Trying To Protect His Family, Wife Says

AP | By AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Arizona Crime, Video, Tuscson, Jose Guerana Ortiz, Vanessa Guerena, SWAT Team, Arizona, Pima County Sheriff's Department, Crime News

By AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. -- Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. Hi...

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First Ignored, Then Raided: The Cost Of The Drug War

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 11.25.2011

Read More: Law Enforcement, Police, Crime, Drug War, Violent Crime, War on Drugs, Marijuana Possession, Byrne Grants, Leap, Chicago Pd, Chicago, SWAT Team, Asset Forfeiture, Police Abuse, Politics News

CHICAGO -- As Jessica Shaver and I chat at a coffee shop in Chicago's north-side Andersonville neighborhood, a police car pulls into the parking lot a...

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The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People

John W. Whitehead | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Hemp, Philip Cobbs, Marijuana, Jose Guerena, SWAT Team, War on Drugs, No-Knock Raid, Politics News

Insisting that the "damage done by drugs is felt far beyond the millions of Americans with diagnosable substance abuse or dependence problems," Presid...

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Constitution Day: Is the Constitution on Life Support?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: SWAT Team, Supreme Court, Patriot Act, Bill of Rights, Enemy Combatants, Constitution, Jose Padilla, Habeas Corpus, Education News

For all intents and purposes, the Constitution is on life support and has been for some time now. Those responsible for its demise are none other tha...

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Double-Murder Suspect Captured On Encino Rooftop

Encino, CA Patch | Lauren Rosenblum and Saul Daniels Email the Authors | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Murder, Gary Shanahan, Brend Zubeck, SWAT Team, Patch, Kabc-Tv, Lapd, Encino, Chatsworth, Los Angeles News

Brent D. Zubeck, 43, who is wanted in connection with the murder of a Chatsworth couple, was captured on an Encino rooftop this morning, his gun besid...

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Three Months After Pima County SWAT Team Kills Jose Guerena: No Arrests, No Apologies

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: SWAT Raid, Clarence Dupnik, Police, Police Misconduct, Jose Guerena, Drug Raid, SWAT Team, Brian Miller, Police Abuse, Republican Party, Pima County, Crime News

Jose Guerena, a 26-year-old Marine and Iraq war veteran, was killed May 5 when a SWAT team broke into his home a little after 9:30 a.m. According to G...

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SWAT Team Responds To Prank Call

Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.04.2011

Read More: SWAT Team, Hostage Prank Call, Swat Team Prank Call, San Francisco Hostage, Sf Hostage, Sfpd Prank Call, Sfpd, Prank Call, San Francisco News

At 9:18 p.m. on Wednesday night, the SFPD received a phone call from an unknown man in panic: His family was being held hostage at a home on Blythedal...

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The Plight of Marco Sauceda

John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Texas, American Revolution, Marco Sauceda, Revolutionary War, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SWAT Team, Fourth Amendment, Constitution, Politics News

Too often, we elevate the events of the American Revolution to near-mythic status and forget that the real revolutionaries were people just like you and me.

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SWAT Team Outside Your Door? Make Friends On Facebook

AP | JENNIFER DOBNER | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Man on Facebook With Hostage, SWAT Team, Utah Man Updates Facebook During Standoff, Weird Facebook Updates, Ogden SWAT Team, Utah News, Jason Valdez, Facebook, Jason Valdez Utah, Jason Valdez Facebook, Denver News

SALT LAKE CITY — Jason Valdez is no stranger to Utah police. His latest brush with the law, however, may have been the most public. An armed Va...

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Dept. Of Education: We Did Not Raid Man's Home Over Defaulted Student Loans

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 08.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Department of Education is disputing a local news report that it sent a S.W.A.T. team to knock down the door and search the house of...

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SWAT Team Breaks Down Man's Door Because Of Unpaid Student Loans

news10.net | Posted 08.08.2011

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One Week in the Life of a Police State

John W. Whitehead | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Patriot Act, Adam Kokesh, Martin Luther King, Zero Tolerance, Memorial Day, Jose Guerena, SWAT Team, Overcriminalization, Camreta/Alford v. Greene, Police-Arrest-Dancers-at-Jefferson-Memorial, Police State, Parents Rights, Politics News

One couple was simply holding each other in an affectionate embrace and swaying, only to be forcibly separated and handcuffed. "I'm not shutting up. You cannot shut me up," shouted one of the dancers.

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Arizona Cops Kill Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: Jose Guerea, Arizona Drug Raid, Clarence Dupnik, Jose Guerena, Drug Raid, SWAT Team, Arizona Gun Control, Clarence Dupnik Arizona, No-Knock Drug Raid, Pima County, Politics News

On May 5 at around 9:30 a.m., several teams of Pima County, Ariz., police officers from at least four different police agencies armed with SWAT gear a...

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Drug Warriors Gun Down Young Father

James Peron | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: SWAT Team, War on Drugs, Police, Guerena Shot 71 Times, Jose Guerena, Pima County, Arizona, Guerena Killed, Sheriff's Department, Politics News

The young husband and father, Jose Guerena, an Iraq veteran, was lying in his own blood, shot at 71 times by heavily armed men. There are lots of questions. The Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff's Department is giving few answers.

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Accidental 'Butt Dial' Sends SWAT Team Into Middle School

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Winnetka, Hostage Situation, SWAT Team, Butt Dial, Mark Friedman, School Shooting, Education News

Chicago-area police may be feeling a bit silly after storming a middle school Monday in what they thought was a hostage situation. The real culprit: A...

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Butt-Dial Leads To SWAT Team Response In Winnetka

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Winnetka Hostage Situation, Accidental Phone Call, Butt-Dialing, Winnetka, Butt Dial Winnetka, SWAT Team, Cell Phones, Chicago News, Chicago News

The dreaded back pocket phone dial caused some chaos in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka Monday, when a man accidentally phoned his wife and the backgro...

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SWAT Raids: No One Is Safe

David Borden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aiyana Jones, Jonathan Whitworth, Police, Drug War, Police Killings, SWAT Team, Militarization of Policing, Politics News

Today, SWAT is deployed more than 50,000 times annually. Proliferation of this aggressive, militarized tactic has seen a steady drumbeat of heart attacks, fires, and killings resulting directly from it.

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Grand Central Station Briefly Shut Down, Creates Twitter Fury

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grand Central Station NYPD, Grand Central Station Shutdown, Terror, Police, Subway, Grand Central Station Shut Down, SWAT Team, Grand Central Station, Evactuation, New York News

UPDATE: All is well at Grand Central Station. It appears that all the commotion on Twitter was either a hoax or a big misunderstanding. ******* Unc...

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Naked Pumpkin Run At Risk: Boulder Colorado Police Threaten Crackdown

Wall Street Journal | STEPHANIE SIMON | Posted 05.25.2011

For nearly a decade, naked pumpkin runners did their thing unmolested, stampeding through the frigid dark past crowds of admirers who hooted, hollered...

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