#stop-and-search

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Australian police weigh special powers ahead of pro-Palestinian protest - Times of India

SYDNEY Australian police are considering applying special stop-and-search powers for the first time in almost two decades for people attending a pro-Palestinian rally on Sunday, as tensions rise after the bloody Hamas incursion into Israel. New South Wales (NSW) state police said they had sought legal advice about special powers not used since race riots in 2005 that allow police to search and…

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Firearm Discharged up to Every Six Hours in Gun-Free London

A gun is shot in London up to every six hours -- despite the UK having some of the strictest personal firearms ownership laws in the world.

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Shocking police overreach haunts Southern city: Racial profiling, quotas and secret “conviction bonuses”

Shocking police overreach haunts Southern city: Racial profiling, quotas and secret “conviction bonuses”

Shocking police overreach haunts Southern city: Racial profiling, quotas and secret “conviction bonuses”

  How a federal grant incentivized a police department to go nuts on drug arrests — and terrorize its community

Spencer Woodman

This article originally appeared at Salon.com on April 10, 2014.

In the late afternoon of Jan. 3, Robin Dean, a 50-year-old county employee, pulled into a Durham,…

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Go kick some ass, Ms. Lawrence.

Onlookers described their shock at the operations, with one member of the public saying it was akin to "Nazi Germany". The Labour MP Barry Gardiner has now written to the Home Secretary, Theresa May, demanding an investigation into the checks which he said violated "fundamental freedoms". The raids come just a few months after Ms May took direct responsibility for immigration from the disbanded UK Border Agency.

"We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Mr Gardiner wrote. "The actions of your department would however appear to be hastening us in that direction."

British people, at the very least, make calling someone out look badass in a Mr. Belvedere kind of way.