NBC Philadelphia | Couple were hauled away by police and charged with theft for not paying the mandatory 18 percent gratuity.

Toronto Star | The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed.

William Grigg | A paramilitary police unit equipped with Pentagon-issued toys arrived in their nifty “Peacekeeper” armored vehicle.

Jared Feuer | Since 2001, about 400 people have died — 39 this year — after being Tasered by law enforcement personnel.

Corruption American Style | A blueprint for what can and will go wrong when local law enforcement, SWAT teams, and paramilitary stage a dramatic multi-county SWAT task force raid in a dramatic show of force and police power.

Orange County Register | As part of a training exercise for SWAT personnel, about 70 students joined police officers from the North County SWAT Team at Yorba Linda High School Sunday.

Ottawa Citizen | Designs are to be based on the “unique requirements” of the urban settings of Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.

This Is Surrey Today | A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for “doing his duty”.

Anti-war protesters and train spotters arrested under anti-terror laws could have their DNA kept for life under Home Office plans.

Toronto Sun | In what he called “an unprecedented move,” police have assigned 60 officers to conduct the intense door-to-door search.

Daily Mail | Cards will be affixed to windows and doors urging carol singers to ply their joyful hymns elsewhere.

Post-Dispatch | Steven Bierfeldt’s grilling results in revised rules requiring TSA agents to stick to matters related to flight security rather than policing airports for other crimes.

Intelligencer | Two cops hold down boy so he can get his toxic soft kill bioweapon injection.

CBC News | Vancouver police have a new crowd control device capable of emitting painfully loud blasts of sound, just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics

Los Angeles Times | Los Angeles police said the Black Hawk helicopters will be part of a flight training mission taking place after 5 p.m. Sunday and Monday in central and west Valley areas.

VicNews | People who protest the Winter Olympics are nothing more than “terrorists” with “limited intellect,” Liberal Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy said in the legislature.

WCCO | No struggle can be seen before the officer used his Taser.

Daily News-Miner | Why is the Eielson Air Force Base’s 354th Security Forces Squadron patrolling a civilian highway?

Mail Online | Two officers later turned up at the frightened grandmother’s home and lectured her about her choice of words before telling her she would not be prosecuted.

News-Journal | The city currently allows just two such sales in a year, and city officials said Liles had already met her limit.

Click2Houston | Some people could mistake him for a vagrant, but on closer inspection, they will see that the sign is reminding people to wear their seat belts.

Times Online | The right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property will be given to town hall officials and civilian investigators.

NBC | The New York Police Department has installed ground-shaking sound devices on their cars to make sure that even those who can’t see or hear an approaching police car will now be able to feel it, up to 200 feet away.

Mail Online | The locations included three of Britain’s largest and most well-established safety-deposit box depositories.

As many as 60 people with the TSA, the tunnel police, Coast Guard, NCIS, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Norfolk Police and Virginia Beach Police are part of the security checkpoint.

James Corbett | Japan is leading the western world in implementing an electronic grid for tracking and tracing its own foreign residents.

Mark Thomas | The very phrase “domestic extremist” defines protesters in the eyes of the police as the problem, the enemy.

The idea is to keep off guard terrorists and others who mean harm, thereby improving safety for passengers and workers, according to the TSA.

James Hibberd | The civilian program was launched earlier this month and is endorsed by 63 police chiefs around the country.

Mail Online | An astonishing £380 a minute will be spent on surveillance in a massive expansion of the Big Brother state.

MyFox | A Fairfax County Police spokesman said officers arrested Williamson for indecent exposure because they believe he wanted to be seen naked by the public.

Infowars | Florida cop attempts to tase Victor Steen from squad car, knocks him down, runs him over and kills him.

Infowars | Officials say the exercise will be based on a simulated outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and will be held on October 22.

Technique | The Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) will add an eight man SWAT team to its force in the coming months.

News.com.au | Subscribers will watch live footage over the internet on their home computers.

KULR 8 | A statement released by Montana’s Attorney General Steve Bullock said the goal was to guarantee that, “No Montanans were taken advantage of or conned by this company.”

Karen De Coster | Militarized Flu Police are on the move in airports around the country.

Washington Times | Astronomical numbers of federal criminal laws lack specifics, can apply to almost anyone and fail to protect innocents by requiring substantial proof that an accused person acted with actual criminal intent.

Infowars | Funk the War, a demonstration to demand an end to the war in Afghanistan and for increased education funding, was violently attacked by police.

Radley Balko | The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has its very own SWAT team.

Radley Balko | A number of disturbing images, videos, and witness accounts have come out of Pittsburgh revealing the disquieting ease with which authorities are willing to crush dissent.

NewsOK | Rogue Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper who was suspended after being involved in a scuffle with an EMT in May was put on paid administrative leave Sunday in connection with an unrelated incident.

Pittsburgh Police Brutality @ G20 | Considering that students were gassed in residence halls, blocked from getting to their dorms, beaten, maced, and chased down the patio with unmuzzled dogs, I can only assume that the University does not plan on pretending nothing happened.

Billings Gazette | American Police Force plans to construct a “military-style training facility northeast of the jail.”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Activists threatened lawsuits against the city and placed responsibility for the confrontation with Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and top public safety officials.

Infowars | Three undercover officers attempt to infiltrate a March Against Police Brutality at the University of Pittsburgh.

Infowars | It is first time its LRAD series device has been used on civilians in the U.S.

iReport | Hundreds of police ringed the nonviolent group in the plaza.

Federal Jack | A mom says her special needs son was was stripped down to his underwear and locked in a tiny dark room at school.

Kentucky News Network | 2,300 Marines are converging on this region for two weeks of intensive training in preparation for an upcoming deployment.