Proposed snitch-law would protect the extra suspicious, racial profilers

Terror watch-lists: guilty even after proven innocent

Police unions have long lobbied successfully to ensure that arrests that do not lead to convictions remain on criminal records, even though the judicial process cleared the accused of charges. That's because police believe that anyone they arrest who isn't convicted somehow gamed the system, or that the system messed up. In other words, the police are never wrong.

60 Minutes interviews NYPD’s Ray Kelly on counterterrorism efforts

Thursday technology link round-up

• The ACLU of PA is representing university professor Karen Piper in a suit against Pittsburgh police for allegedly damaging her hearing after blaring a crowd-dispersal weapon at protestors outside the 2009 G-20 meeting in that city. The weapon, called a "Long Range Acoustic Device," emits a sound that physically hurts people over long distances. Read more about so-called 'non-lethal' weapons.

1,667 Times Square type attacks a year necessary to justify ‘security’ spending in US, researchers say

People’s Justice Coalition NYC accuses NYPD of vandalizing “Know Your Rights” billboards

DHS’ expensive border militarization hurting people and ecosystems?

ATL aims to blanket city in surveillance cameras

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that the city of Atlanta is embarking on an ambitious project to blanket the city in surveillance cameras. The Atlanta police are expanding their fleet of cameras, as well as integrating privately controlled cameras owned by major corporations like Coca-Cola into a network equipped with video analytics and real time monitoring capabilities like those you see on cop shows.

Thursday technology link round-up

• Harding Security Associates of McLean, Va. was awarded a $17,948,020 contract to  "provide for the analysis and forensic service support to the Biometrics Intelligence Program" in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Charlottesville, Va..

Breaking: Brookline votes down ALPR grant!