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by  N.Morgan France has been on fire with the Yellow Vest protests, but another disturbing trend has surfaced, the number of police suicides in France this year has risen to 25 after two officers were confirmed dead over the weekend after apparently taking their own lives. “[We] have learned with alarm, sadness, but also great anger that yet another two officers have killed themselves,”  the French police union, ALTERNATIVE Police CFDT, said in  a statement  on Sunday, April 7. Few details have emerged so far about the victims. The first was identified as a 37-year-old woman who worked the night shift for a police station in the northwestern Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, according to Le Parisien newspaper. After failing to report for duty on Saturday evening, her colleagues launched a search. They tracked her phone near to her home in the town of Guainville, where she was found dead in her car from a self-inflicted gun wound. More w...

by  N.Morgan  Last Thursday  the New York Times published  a blockbuster piece revealing how US law enforcement has access to a system that can geo-locate nearly any phone in the country without an officer necessarily having a court order. The website  Motherboard  has published the letters that Senator Ron Wyden sent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and telecommunications companies demanding answers on the controversial surveillance system. “ I am writing to insist that AT&T take proactive steps to prevent the unrestricted disclosure and potential abuse of private customer data, including real-time location information, by at least one other company to the government,”   a May 8 letter sent from Wyden  to the President and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T reads . As reported by the New York Times, a former sheriff of Mississippi County, Mo., used an obscure service called Securus to surveil targets’ ...

How To Pull Over A Law-Breaking Cop  Did you ever see a cop doing something illegal that would get the rest of us mere mortals a citation? Maybe he turned on his lights and siren to avoid a line-up of traffic and drive on the shoulder. Perhaps he parked illegally in a fire zone when he stopped to get his coffee and ubiquitous donuts. Should the situation arise again, here’s how you can handle it like a boss. Video http://bit.ly/1Dh8Ycr 'via Blog this'