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Ongoing coverage of such things http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/

Oh, this here is an interesting site to go along with the others you have there.

This is a pretty good start.

http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/

"Some police officer are awesome people who risk their lives to protect others."

And the rest can be found on Injustice Everywhere. I visit that blog daily and I'm shocked by the number of daily police misconduct incidents.

"...protecting all their buddies no matter what they have done."

Not always, some cops harass other cops

I'm sure it happens in the U.S. once in a while, but not to a thousand people in a year.

Maybe you should start reading Injustice Everywhere. It is thousands every year.

The government will be unlikely to fine itself (the school).

You should start reading Injustice Everywhere. It's an eye-opener. The number of government retards that get off the hook, or get fined but the gov steps in to take the fine.

"Freedom of speech" applies only to political action and only when such action is peaceful and doesn't constitute or promote violence.

The First Amendment says nothing about Freedom of Speech only applying to political speech, but it does specifically state no law shall not be passed abridging it. And OneLook Dictionary Search defines "abridge' as "verb: reduce in scope while retaining essential elements". Limiting free speech to only political speech is abridging it.

Her actions hinder the police's ability to do their job (obstruction of justice)

If so then she could have been charged with obstruction of justice, which the Post article states she was not charged with. She was instead charged with "identifying a police officer with intent to harass".

Cops are not allowed to publish information on who they have under surveillance

Cops are not allowed to beat people either but they do. Police lobbyist are even trying to have a second bill of rights citizens won't enjoy. Like the lady who was beat by the police.

Civil servant or not, it crosses the line when you place them or their families at risk

They placed themselves and their families in danger. Nobody held a gun to their heads and ordered them to go into law enforcement. I enlisted in the US Army, did you spend tyme military? The specialty I willingly went into was infantry, where I knew if a war broke out I would be on the first lines. My nephew is now a Marine stationed in Iraq, after having served before there he even re-enlisted, and got a $250,000 bonus for it. Now he expecting to be sent to Afghanistan.

Falcon

They also get to be around guns and bullets a large portion of their day, especially when they're undercover infiltrating any sort of crime ring. Their job is definitely dangerous, and it can't be forgotten. They need some protection in their personal lives, unless you want them to not have one.

And what of the rights of the citizens who are paying their salaries? Don't they have the right to not be beat up? As senator now VP Biden, who also backs up the MP/RI-AA mafia, tried to give law enforcement more rights than citizens enjoy.

Falcon

Off duty police officers also retain protections against their own violations of law and lawsuits to which an ordinary citizen doesn't.

Right, partly by police union contract, and partly by dint of the Blue Code of Silence. Also, in many jurisdictions, off-duty officers retain their powers of arrest and weapon-carry privileges, wherein mistakes made have the same immunity as on-duty officers.

But when it comes to non-duty-related violations of law, officers still have far more protection against interrogation and prosecution than the average citizen. Check out Injustice Everywhere, a site which tracks crimes committed by on-and-off duty cops.

Current example up on their home page, a Shreveport LA cop beats the living shit out of an unruly (but controllable) DUI suspect, ending with her on the floor in a pool of her own blood.

The cop turned off the state-mandated video evidence system several times, to prevent having his beatings of the suspect, Angela Garbarino, captured.

He was fired for falsifying the report (not for beating the suspect), only to be reinstated with full back-pay - because, his lawyers claimed, *his* rights as a cop had been violated. The point being that cops have a completely different set of rights than ordinary citizens.

Off duty police officers also retain protections against their own violations of law and lawsuits to which an ordinary citizen doesn't.

Right, partly by police union contract, and partly by dint of the Blue Code of Silence. Also, in many jurisdictions, off-duty officers retain their powers of arrest and weapon-carry privileges, wherein mistakes made have the same immunity as on-duty officers.

But when it comes to non-duty-related violations of law, officers still have far more protection against interrogation and prosecution than the average citizen. Check out Injustice Everywhere, a site which tracks crimes committed by on-and-off duty cops.

Current example up on their home page, a Shreveport LA cop beats the living shit out of an unruly (but controllable) DUI suspect, ending with her on the floor in a pool of her own blood.

The cop turned off the state-mandated video evidence system several times, to prevent having his beatings of the suspect, Angela Garbarino, captured.

He was fired for falsifying the report (not for beating the suspect), only to be reinstated with full back-pay - because, his lawyers claimed, *his* rights as a cop had been violated. The point being that cops have a completely different set of rights than ordinary citizens.