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Still clearing the archives..pulled this one from the trash bin....guess it finally caught My fancy.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Field Operations Unit. Sumas, Washington. Check out the homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2011.
Flying down Robinson Avenue with lights and siren. Would have missed this one had I not had the camera laying in the seat next to me.
Didn't ever hear what the big emergency was.
Oklahoma City, OK
Federal Protective Service
Chevrolet Tahoe
Picture Date: 05/14/2017
A Federal Protective Service Chevrolet Tahoe passes by after escorting a group of runners during Police Week 2017.
Op-ed pieces by New York newspaper reporters Paul Sperry, Charles Krauthammer, and Haim Watzman endorsed the practice of using ethnicity, national origin and religion as primary factors in deciding whom police should regard as possible terrorists - in other words - racial profiling.
Krauthammer blasted the random-bag-checks program adopted in the New York subway in response to the London bombings, calling it absurd and a waste of effort and resources. His answer: Security officials should concentrate on "young Muslim men of North African, Middle Eastern and South Asian origin." He argued that authorities should work backward and "eliminate classes of people who are obviously not suspects." In the category of the innocent, Krauthammer would place children younger than 13, people older than 60 and "whole ethnic populations" starting with "Hispanics, Scandinavians and East Asians . . . and women," except "perhaps the most fidgety, sweaty, suspicious-looking, overcoat-wearing, knapsack-bearing young women."
Sperry has his own proxy for suspicious characters. He warned security and subway commuters to be on the lookout for "young men praying to Allah and smelling of flower water." Keep your eyes open, he said, for "a shaved head or short haircut" or a recently shaved beard or moustache. Men who look like that, in his book, are "the most suspicious train passengers."
Watzman argued that the London police officer who chased down and put seven bullets into the head of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes without asking him any questions or giving him any warning "did the right thing." In their heightened state of anxiety, witnesses reported that Menezes was dressed in a heavy coat and acting suspiciously - jumping over the ticket gate before bolting from armed officers toward a train. Police also said that he failed to obey their instructions. British ITV news, citing closed circuit footage, said that Menezes was dressed in a denim jacket and walked casually into Stockwell subway station, stopping to pick up a newspaper before riding the escalator down and running to board his train.
So while advocates of racial profiling would have authorities subject men and women of black and brown hues to close scrutiny for criminal suspicion, the following would pass the Krauthammer/Sperry eyeball test for terrorists with ease:
• White male Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people, including 19 children, and damaged 220 buildings
• White male Dennis Rader, the "bind, torture, kill" (BTK) serial killer who terrorized Wichita for 31 years
• Washington D.C. born-and-raised white male John Walker Lindh, who converted to Islam and was captured in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban
• Those "non-Arab, non-South Asians without black or brown skins" Muslims from Chechnya who've taken down passenger jets, hijacked schools and used female suicide bombers to kill hundreds and wound thousands in Russia
• The IRA bombers who killed and wounded hundreds; the neo-fascist bombers who killed 80 people and injured nearly 300 in Bologna, Italy; and the truck bombings in Colombia by Pedro Escobar's gang.
As Colbert I. King wrote in the Washington Post last month:
"What the racial profilers are proposing is insulting, offensive and - by thought, word and deed, whether intentional or not - racist. You want estrangement? Start down that road of using ethnicity, national origin and religion as a basis for police action and there's going to be a push-back unlike any seen in this country in many years."
- Info compiled from various internet and print news sources
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Everett, Washington. Check out the new homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association. Visit the Northwest Law Enforcement Association Homepage. 2011.
This is Part of an art exhibit called Homeland Security located at the former headquarters to a Nike missile base as well as some historic military bunkers at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge.
This particular installation was created by artist Tirtzah Bassel. Made entirely of different colored duct tape, it explores the journey through a modern airport in an age of heightened security and the intimate intrusions that go along with it. The details and emotions she elicits from the tape are striking.
It will only be here for two more days so if you have time, check it out ~ it's free.
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A modular microscale rendition of the Wolverines/Body Count/Homeland Security level from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Designed in LDraw, and inspired by -=Steebles=-.
Photograph (C) copyright 2009 and 2015 Ivan Safyan Abrams. All rights reserved.
N/S Savannah was intended to demonstrate that nuclear power could be used for peaceful purposes. She was built in the mid-1950s, though her appearance is thoroughly modern even in 2009. With one reactor located amidships, forward of the bridge and below the main deck, Savannah's range was basically unlimited. She operated as a general cargo ship from 1957 until 1972.
Most ships that were retired in 1972 aren't seen docked in the middle of a busy port, flying signal flags and bearing a new paint job. Savannah's powerplant is the reason she's still around. Unlike a diesel or fossil-fuel steam plant which can be shut down and dismantled, nuclear reactors stay "hot", or radioactive, even when they're not operating. In fact, the reactor remains radioactive even after the nuclear fuel has been removed. Savannah's reactor was de-fueled in 1975. The reactor remains in place. The ship will be monitored until at least 2031, as radiation levels continue to drop (they're said to be very low, in 2015)
That isn't to say the ship is unsafe. Whatever parts might still be radioactive are shielded, and the ship is crewed and radioactivity levels are monitored. It's safe enough that the public is occasionally permitted to tour the ship, through special arrangements or on occasions when an open house is held. We missed such an occasion by only a couple of days.
N/S Savannah was expensive to operate, and in the days of cheap petroleum, was more costly than a comparably-sized ship powered by a fossil-fuel powerplant. When oil was vastly more expensive in the early 21st century than it was in the middle of the 20th century, Savannah would probably have been cost-competitive with a fossil-fuel ship. But Savannah isn't going to return to sea.
She's periodically dry-docked, and her new paint is the latest of a number of similar refurbishments over the years. Eventually, Savannah may become a museum, but for now, the US Maritime Administration keeps her docked under a long-term contract at one of Baltimore's piers. She's relatively accessible for photography, though a request for permission to the security guard is suggested.
I had no idea that N/S Savannah was docked in Baltimore. I've known of the ship's existence since I was a child, and was very familiar with the Revell model kit of Savannah that was produced for years. I happened to spot her while Terry and I were looking around the port of Baltimore, and though very surprised--it was as if I were seeing a ghost--her lines were immediately recognizable.
There's a great deal of information about N/S Savannah available online. I think that her story, and her continued existence, are very significant, and it's good to see that the US Maritime Commission is taking good care of her.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Cook County, Illinois
September 2017
Photo by Asher Heimermann/Incident Response
Warning
Riverside Park
Detroit, MI
And then Homeland Security did come up and spy on us for a few minutes before they joined 6 other cars and 3 boats and DPD in arresting someone a quarter mile away.
Modular microscale rendition of the Wolverines/Body Count/Homeland Security level from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Designed in LDraw, and inspired by -=Steebles=-.
Remember, if you don't let TSA sexually assault you in the name of Homeland Security, then the terrorists win!!!!
The American flag was hung proudly in Grand Central Terminal after the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Available as a fine laser poster print.
A modular microscale rendition of the Wolverines/Body Count/Homeland Security level from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Designed in LDraw, and inspired by -=Steebles=-.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A large-scale gang enforcement operation, dubbed “Operation Triple Beam Colorado,” in which a number of Colorado law enforcement agencies partnered with the U.S. Marshals Service from May 15 through August 10, led to the arrest of 156 people.
In addition to the 156 arrests during OTB Colorado, authorities also seized 26 firearms, including 10 fully automatic rifles , 1.3 kilograms of methamphetamine, 739 grams of cocaine. Additionally six stolen vehicles were recovered, and $89,087 in illicit funds were recovered. The intent of Operation Triple Beam is to make a noticeable dip in violent crimes during and following the enforcement phase of the operation.
OTB Colorado saw the participation of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, Colorado Springs Police Department, Colorado Department of Corrections, Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office, Pueblo Police Department, Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Department of Homeland Security, all working on the U.S. Marshals Service-led operation aimed at providing communities with immediate relief from gang-related violence by targeting fugitive gang members and the organizations responsible for committing violent crimes.
Since its inception in 2010, Operation Triple Beam has been conducted 50 times nationwide, resulting in more than 8,000 arrests and the seizure of more than 1,800 illegal firearms.
Photo by Shane T. McCoy / US Marshals
A modular microscale rendition of the Wolverines/Body Count/Homeland Security level from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Designed in LDraw, and inspired by -=Steebles=-.
Alexia Webster is a South African freelance photographer born in Johannesburg. She has traveled widely through the African continent as a documentary photographer. Alexia worked as a photojournalist for almost ten years and grew tired of so often taking photos but so rarely giving them. In an effort to change this, she conceived of the Street Studios. She visited refugee camps around the world where she offered families uprooted by violence the chance to reclaim their heritage, dignity, and sense of belonging through professional photographs. Using a portable printer on site she made a print for each sitter, thus restoring an important possession that most were forced to leave behind when they fled.
The vibrant patterns and colors in her subjects' clothing and the studio backdrop enliven otherwise stark and somber settings---both the camps where the sitters live in limbo and the long-vacant exhibition space where the photographs now reside---and they hint at the indomitable spirit that shines behind each pair of eyes.
Alexia Webster's portrait photographs were originally taken in 2014 at the Bulengo IDP (Internally Displaced People) camp, Democratic Republic of The Congo. This photograph was seen on display at an exhibit of Webster's work entitled "Home Land Security" at the Presidio in San Francisco, California.
A UH-72A Lakota helicopter equipped with visual and infrared cameras and a high-powered searchlight provides an “eye in the sky,” returns from a nighttime flight in Harlingen, Texas, Nov. 12. Maryland National Guard aviators, deployed to participate in Operation Task Force Liberty, provide aerial support for the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol in Operation Phalanx/River Watch II, which conducts aerial detection and monitoring to protect the U.S. from drug trafficking and illegal immigrant organizations crossing the border. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Aimee Fujikawa)
Really? Just who the heck wants to be thrown from this abode by Homer's bald cyclops! If this guy had a goggle he'd be a Despicable Him. Not for me, I would never opt for taking a chance like trespassing! I'm outta here; I can take a hint! He's clearly very possessive. Everyone gets warned by this artwork to steer clear. Maybe this is U.P. Company policy. Maybe baldy wants to prevent anyone from using his bathroom like Sheldon Cooper, stinky pooper. The artist really has a flair for spray can portraiture. I wonder how he intends to enforce his warning and if it would really hurt. It's time to move on... and to think that this is one of the better houses at the tunnel. I further wonder if eDDie is still asleep in the Blazer while I track prizes like this? This is why I always pack the monopod and do the best I can, especially at 1/10th second exposures.
From Golden Gate State Park, our eDDie trek continued north and then from Rollinsville on the Peak-to-Peak Highway, west to the housing at the Moffat Tunnel's East Portal. I found this shot inside one of the most accessible deteriorating company houses. I really had no idea that the Moffat Tunnel crew was so very territorial. It's always possible that alcohol had a hand in this warning sign.
Maybe the mountain pack rats got in here while the cyclops was sleeping. One stab and he won't find me as I bail. Have you seen the size of the pack rats up here at the divide? A military retinue posted atop Pikes Peak once noted the size of the rats that carried pieces of concrete contructions away! Sheesh! I've been shooting beside the railroad; Just to pass the time away. All, while a'waiting for the horns to blow.
This is in a company house near the Moffat Tunnel. eDDie and I rifled through some of the old D&RGW housing. The work force that operated the station - agents, telegraphers, electricians, tunnel curtain operators and other maintenance workers for the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel had short walks to work. This housing is more tenuous over last winter. Boy, I bet these houses were dandy spots to sleep when the D&RGW Mallets were pounding their way up grade! Have you seen the size of the 3-foot low pressure cylinders on the fronts of those Mallets?
... I got this in an email from my brother-in-law today. It made me remember two things: Nothing changes but the decimal point and an old Central Texas German-Amerian expression, "What goes around comes around."
Alexia Webster is a South African freelance photographer born in Johannesburg. She has traveled widely through the African continent as a documentary photographer. Alicia worked as a photojournalist for almost ten years and grew tired of so often taking photos but so rarely giving them. In an effort to change this, she conceived of the Street Studios. She visits refugee camps around the world where she offers families uprooted by violence the chance to reclaim their heritage, dignity, and sense of belonging through professional photographs. Using a portable printer on site she makes a print for each sitter, thus restoring an important possession that most were forced to leave behind when they fled.
The vibrant patterns and colors in her subjects' clothing and the studio backdrop enliven otherwise stark and somber settings---both the camps where the sitters live in limbo and the long-vacant exhibition space where the photographs now reside---and they hint at the indomitable spirit that shines behind each pair of eyes.
Alexia Webster's portrait photograph was seen on display in an exhibit entitled "Home Land Security" at the Presidio in San Francisco, California.