Berke cops reject constitutional rule to Mirandize all arrestees

David Roddy gives one of many interviews as Chattanooga’s chief of police. (Photo Newschannel9.com) Chattanooga police department in its policy for traffic stops omits a significant element of public protection against arbitrary state power and poisons relations between the Mayor Andy Berke administration and members of the public, especially those traveling on the public right-of-way. […]

Agency ‘entrenched in fraud’ of fuzzled inmate job data, grievances

This letter to the Tennessee commissioner of corrections says CoreCivic puts 100 percenters into social skills classes who can’t take them, and keeps other men out who can so that the latter group can be kept longer in prison. CoreCivic, the for-profit prison company, tells Grenda Harmer he is out of the life skills class […]

Hixson Utility District admits putting fertilizer, aluminum factory ‘discharge’ into tap

In this graphic, Hixson Utility District makes a worrisome admission about an intentional contaminant it puts into drinking water — one it is being asked to remove. Fluoride is approved by the federal government. (Images Hixsonutility.com) Hixson Utility District faces renewed questions about its use of a contaminant, hydrofluorosilicic acid, which it puts deliberately as […]

Police reform’s hidden goad: Chattanooga v. Davis case

State DAs such as Neal Pinkston have accepted continued violation of the state legal system, a violation that involves the overlooking of cities’ enforcement of state law. It’s been going on 16 years, despite a powerful high court ruling inviting DAs to act and overturn the city police concept. With police, city corporations overturn state […]

Q&A: Guards abusive in prison system that enriches corporations

Tennessee prisoner Grenda Harmer complains of abuse at several state slavery installations, the most recent one in which he is confined run by CoreCivic, a for-profit company trading as CXW at about F$26 a share. (Photo David Tulis) The following is my interview by correspondence with Grenda Harmer, a whistleblowing inmate  consigned to Morgan County […]