police
News and articles about work, policy and mutinies in armed forces and police services around the world.
Two students wounded during police raid in Athens
Two students wounded during punitive pogrom by riot police on Colonels' coup anniversary.
Two students were seriously wounded on Tuesday 21/4 night and are in hospital with broken limbs after riot-police forces surrounded and invaded the liberated parking lot turned park in Exarcheia, downtown Athens, only ten meters away from Alexandros Grifgoropoulos murder site.
Acpo chief, you're one low-expectation-having motherf*cker.
A quote piece by the Times from Sir Ken Jones, head of the Association of Chief Police Officers reminded me of Chris Rock's most famous, and funny skit.
Sir Ken was responding to a lightweight rebuke over protest policing tactics from the under-fire "Independent" Police Complaints Commission when he remarked: "I saw some of the footage last week of whole groups of officers being hemmed in. Nobody wants to talk about that now. Those officers behaved really well, they acted with restraint.”
Popular justice: community policing in Guerrero, Mexico
A year old article about an indigenous initiative in the Costa Chica, Guerrero, Mexico in which police(wo)men are elected by assembly and security duties are shared around the entire villages, with each individual only policing for a handful of days a year.
Popular Justice: Guerrero's Community Police
By Puaz, Regeneracion Radio
Published on: March 10, 2008
"The freedoms that were conquered by the human species are always the work of the "illegals," those who took the law into their own hands and tore it to pieces."
-Ricardo Flores Magon, Regeneracion, September 8, 1910
The Community Police
Police state rehearsed in Athens
New repressive and legislative measures aim to create state of siege for the Greek capital.
After holding meetings with the Scotland Yard as well as American security advisers, the frail Greek government with only one MP majority has announced the imposition of draconian measures aimed to halt the rising social antagonistic movement across the country.
1985: Battle of the beanfield
A short account of the brutal police attack on a convoy of travellers and others on their way to the annual the Stonehenge Free Festival.
[I] "All of us were shocked by what we saw: police tactics which seemed to break new grounds in the scale and intensity of its violence.
Greece unrest: the story so far - TPTG
A detailed updated summary of the recent events in Athens, from the perspective of some proletarian participants. (Updated 2 Jan 2009)
A shooting by police on Saturday 6th of December has triggered off in cities all over Greece the fiercest riots in decades. What follows is a first –and incomplete– presentation of the recent riots in Athens based on our own experiences and on what we have heard of.
Chronology of the Greece unrest - Blaumachen
An updated summary of events of the Greek riots in Thessaloniki from 6 December-31 December 2008 by communist group Blaumachen. (Updated 2nd Jan 2009.)
We present below a rough chronology of events that took place in Greece’s second largest city from Saturday 6th of December up until Wednesday 31st of December. During the first five days, when thousands of enraged proletarians got to the streets and set these cities of commodity on fire, we lived the peak of the recent upheaval, at least in Thessaloniki and other provincial cities and towns.
Bosses' propaganda met with continuing struggle across Greece
Despite escalating psychological warfare waged against the insurgency, protesters are keeping the struggle warm across Greece during the season holidays
The week following the 15 day insurrection in Greece saw the development of psychological warfare counterinsurgency techniques by state that began with the shooting of a school pupil in Peristeri (West Athens) on the 18/12.
Eyewitness statement on the killing of Alexandros Grigoropoulos - 06 December 2008
Translation of the statement of Nikos R., which describes what happened on the night of December 6 and how the police shot his friend Alexandros Grigoropoulos.
I go to the first year of high school at Psychiko Public High School. I knew Alexandros, or Gregory (the pet name we used for him, from his last name) since 4th grade in elementary school. We used to go to the same school. Until the first year of middle school we didn't keep close company. From the first year of middle school however, until yesterday when they killed him, we were close friends.
Greece riots: Interview with a libertarian syndicalist
An interview by the CNT-F with the International Secretary of the ESE (union of libertarian syndicalists), discussing the death of Alexis Grigoropoulos and the events that have followed.
Interview with Yannis, international secretary of the ESE (Eleftheriaki Sindikalistiki Enosi)
Can you describe the events surrounding the death of Alexis again?
For the last three years the Greek police's strategy in Exârcheia, a district famous for popular struglle and home to many students., young people and libertarians, has been one of provocation.
