Study: Crime in surrounding area increased after closure of LA medical marijuana dispensaries

By Associated Press, Published: September 21

LOS ANGELES ? A new study released Tuesday showed that when hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries were closed last year in Los Angeles crime rates rose in surrounding neighborhoods, challenging claims made by law enforcement agencies that the storefronts are magnets for crime.

The report by the nonprofit RAND Corp. reviewed crime reports for the 10 days prior to and the 10 days after city officials shuttered the clinics last summer after a new ordinance went into effect. The analysis revealed that crime increased about 60 percent within three blocks of a closed dispensary compared to the same parameters for those that remained open.

?If medical marijuana dispensaries are causing crime, then there should be a drop in crime when they close,? said Mireille Jacobson, a RAND senior economist and the study?s lead author. ?Individual dispensaries may attract crime or create a neighborhood nuisance, but we found no evidence that medical marijuana dispensaries in general cause crime to rise.?

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Owners Angry After Cops Shoot Dog in Backyard

A mother and daughter are livid after a Miami-Dade police officer shot and killed their pet dog despite warnings not to go on the property.

Police were responding to a burglar alarm at the home near Hialeah when the incident occurred, Det. Edna Del Castillo said.[...]

"'Be careful. It?s a big dog,' I told them. They told me to go back to my house," said Perez, who repeated the warning several more times. "Before I get to my driveway, I hear the two shots. They walked into the backyard with the guns in their hand. Then they ran from the backyard like they were scared or something."

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if there is any law good enforcement left in this country, hey, your brothers are making you look really bad here. dont fucking shoot our pets! we know that is how you demoralize people by first taking away our pets, then us next? no, really. if there are any good cops left at all, NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE A STATEMENT TO SAVE YOUR ASS in the future. man up coppers. your NWO will eat you alive as well. what lowlifes.

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15-Year-Old Schoolboy On Trial After Head Teacher Tells Police About File-Sharing

by Enigmax, TorrentFreak

A 15 year-old schoolboy with a taste for BitTorrent went to trial yesterday after downloading and sharing 24 Hollywood movies. The case, however, has a worrying twist. Rather than being hunted down online by an anti-piracy company, the teenager was turned over to the police by the head teacher at his school. The prosecutor says he had no choice but to take action.

In March 2011 the IT department of a Gothenburg school investigated the issue of a virus which apparently came from a student?s computer.

During a closer examination IT staff found that the student had 24 Hollywood movies stored on his hard drive. The 15-year-old boy in question had obtained them from two Swedish torrent sites ? tankafetast.se and tankaner.se.

Ultimately the school?s head teacher learned of the IT technicians? discovery but rather than deal with the issue in-house, she chose to drastically escalate the matter ? by calling in the police. Now, five months after the alleged offenses, the boy is on trial in Sweden.

?Our policy is to always notify the police if we have suspicion of a crime,? the head teacher told GP.se. ?It is not our job to investigate, it?s a matter for the police.?

The investigation was led by the International Public Prosecution Office in Stockholm and the trial began in the Gothenburg District Court yesterday. Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad, a veteran of such cases, says this trial is a record-breaker ? no-one this young has ever been prosecuted for file-sharing violations.

?If I find that I can prove a crime, I have to prosecute. I do not consider the person?s age or whether file sharing has occurred on a small or large scale,? Ingblad says. ?By contrast, his young age, of course, is important in terms of what punishment he will be sentenced to.?

Although Ingblad says he will press for the teenager to be sentenced as a juvenile, the punishment for copyright infringements still run from fines to two years in jail.

?Politicians and copyright monopolists alike have been promising solemnly to never send the police after the entire younger generation,? Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge told TorrentFreak. ?Here, we can see for ourselves how much those promises were worth. The politicians who let this happen need to be kicked out of office.?

During the hearing the boy admitted downloading movies such as The Fighter, The Mechanic, The Social Network and Scary Movie 4, but said that he had no idea he was uploading them to others at the same time.

?It?s paradoxical,? says Inglblad. ?The thousands of small users who are online to download a single movie is a prerequisite for the entire system to work.?

?To prosecute one of them is of course just scratching the surface. But if you want the legal download services to work there must be at least a small chance you will get caught if you download illegally, even if you are young,? he says.

Rick Falkvinge sees the situation somewhat differently, in that sharers should not be subjected to criminal trials but rewarded, and that hopefully attitudes in the future will change.

?If the government should interfere at all with people sharing culture, it should be in the form of medals to those who share the most,? he told us.

?It is of poor comfort for a 15-year-old in a criminal court that the laws will have changed to prove him right and dignified several years later. In the meantime, he has the full moral support of pirates all over the world, from San Francisco to Sydney,? he concludes.

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Cops increasingly under siege after homeless death

By GILLIAN FLACCUS, GREG RISLING - Associated Press

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) ? Until last month, the most pressing issues in this quiet Southern California suburb were whether to build homes on rolling hills north of the city, how best to preserve a historic movie theater and a downtown bar scene that got a little too popular for its own good.

Now, the historic city that's home to five colleges and a vibrant nightlife is the target of international outrage after a mentally ill homeless man died following a violent fight with six police officers that was captured on camera. In the video, 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, who suffered from schizophrenia, can be heard crying out for his father over the zapping sound of a stun gun.

The incident last month has ensnared Fullerton in an ever-widening array of state and federal investigations, resignations and rowdy protests ? and things promise to get worse for the city before they get better. The acting police chief last week ordered an internal investigation into an unrelated, but volatile confrontation last year after reviewing cell phone footage that appears to contradict sworn testimony given by police officers in court.

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Israeli spy cell exposed in New Zealand (again) after earthquake crushed their van

THE powerful earthquake that rocked New Zealand's South Island unearthed an Israeli spy ring, security experts claim.

Israeli secret service Mossad has been accused of conducting an intelligence gathering operation in the country, which was allegedly interrupted when a van used by the cell was crushed by masonry falling from a building.

It is claimed that a man, who died inside the wreckage, had five passports in his possession, and three surviving Israelis who were in the vehicle fled the country within 12 hours.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key confirmed last week that the government's Security Intelligence Service had launched a full investigation into the discovery.

But during a visit to the US, Mr Key dismissed the concerns saying no evidence was found that the people involved were anything other than backpackers.

He said his advice was that the man was found with only two passports, one of European origin.

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SOURCE

'Spy ring' unearthed by quake (The Sun, 20 July 2011)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3705336/Spy-ring-unearthed-by-quake.html

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TSA stands by officers after pat-down of elderly woman in Florida

(CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security. [...]

The TSA released a statement Sunday defending its agents' actions at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport.

"While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," the federal agency said. "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure."

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What a bunch of brainwashed robotic State automatons. Common sense is dead to them in favor of the Luciferian hive mentality that they live by. I can't wait until Jesus Christ comes back and pours out His FURY on these serpents and scorpions. And as far as the American people are concerned, they have allowed these things to happen to them as a result of turning their backs on the Truth (Jesus Christ) allowing the Devil and his political minions (both "left" and "right") and their culturual mind control stooges in "Hollywood" , organized sports, organized "religion" and the music industry to take over in favor of obeying Jesus Christ and His perfect laws and statutes.

"Men of high degree are a lie." Psalm 62:9

"The wicked prowl on every side, when vileness is exalted among the sons of men." Psalm 12:8

"Her (USA) foundations have fallen, Her walls (borders) are thrown down; For it is the vengeance of the Lord." Jeremiah 50:15

"Behold, I (the Lord) am against you, O most haughty one! (USA); For your day has come, The time that I will punish you. The most proud shall stumble and fall, And no one will raise him up; I will kindle a fire in his cities, And it will devour all around him." Jeremiah 50:31-32

"For it is the land of carved images (false religion, military worship, hollywood idolatry, materialism)....And they are insane with their idols." Jeremiah 50:38

"For His plan is against Babylon (USA) to destroy it, Because it is the vengeance of the Lord, The vengeance for His temple." Jeremiah 51:11

All based on the 911 lie. When the Nazi soldiers in Germany were ordered to round up the jews no doubt many done so willingly as their conditioning by the State had been very succesfull...but there were probably a number that felt that it was not the right thing to do..but they had a simple choice ... do it or be shot. Nowdays our "nazis" seem to revel in their immoral actions and even take pride in defending their transgressions. The paralles are quite disturbing.

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