Joey Scott - Joey Scott

Do you feel safe, yet?

Not crime, but retribution

Of Note: August 11, 2025

The Trump Olympics and saying no to TROs.

A ladder stands next to a pole with a camera spray painted over and a solar panel on top.

FOIA Friday

FOIA FRIDAY: The case of the missing and destroyed Flock Cameras.

The license plate readers keep disappearing and the costs to replace them are adding up.

Little Sheriff's Corvette

A car as copaganda

People, including journalists, flee as police officers in riot gear point guns at them.

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Passive Restraints

A judge tells the Los Angeles Police Department to knock it off and stop hurting journalists at protests.

A federal law enforcement officer in military gear stands outside the Metropolitan Detention Center at an anti-ICE rally in downtown LA

Status Update

Flag and Pony Show

Over 30 Days of Occupation in LA

Mely Corado

Erasing Tragedy.

Trader Joe's in Silver Lake painted over a mural dedicated to Mely Corado, who was mistakenly shot and killed by the LAPD.

The LAPD is (still) using Surveillance Software That Can Track Your Phone and Social Media.

Cobwebs Technologies, now Penlink Tangles, developed the software utilizing AI to track, surveil, and create profiles of individuals based on online and phone data.

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The LA Heat Can Melt ICE

A brief summary of the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles.

Two police officers stand next to each other pulling a name out of a clear box. Above them is a Hemet Police Department badge. Behind them are four guns and fliers for a raffle.

Police Shooting

Like His Life Meant Nothing

$30 could've gotten you a new gun from the Hemet Police Department

A police officer smashes the window of a car with a metal pick to remove an undocumented person from their car.

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ICE agents needed; no empathy required.

Skip the job fair and join a fascist police force instead.

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College Students Rise Up.

The attack on UCLA's student Palestinian solidarity encampment a year later.

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