tyme
March 19, 2003, 12:11 AM
Democrats, Republicans, who knows what these police were. I kindof doubt anyone in the SFPD is very far to the right of left.
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/1581748.php
SFPD Breaks Rules by Spying on Political Dissidents
A confidential police memo, part of a dossier obtained under the Sunshine Ordinance, acknowledges the SF Police Department has been monitoring this web site, using undercover officers to spy on antiwar protesters, and apparently collecting personal information about political dissidents, the Bay Guardian has learned. The internal SFPD documents and a new audit performed by the city's police watchdog agency, the Office of Citizen Complaints, indicate the department has been gathering intelligence on the militant wing of the antiwar movement since last fall. The documents suggest some SFPD commanders may have orchestrated a secret spying program without the knowledge of top police officials, which violates the department's own rules.
Indymedia was mentioned in the "we support troops who shoot their officers" thread, but this wasn't mentioned and I thought it deserved it's own thread.
http://www.sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/1581748.php
SFPD Breaks Rules by Spying on Political Dissidents
A confidential police memo, part of a dossier obtained under the Sunshine Ordinance, acknowledges the SF Police Department has been monitoring this web site, using undercover officers to spy on antiwar protesters, and apparently collecting personal information about political dissidents, the Bay Guardian has learned. The internal SFPD documents and a new audit performed by the city's police watchdog agency, the Office of Citizen Complaints, indicate the department has been gathering intelligence on the militant wing of the antiwar movement since last fall. The documents suggest some SFPD commanders may have orchestrated a secret spying program without the knowledge of top police officials, which violates the department's own rules.
Indymedia was mentioned in the "we support troops who shoot their officers" thread, but this wasn't mentioned and I thought it deserved it's own thread.