20-09-2012, 12:57 AM
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How police stalking works
The exact techniques used in police stalking may differ from country to country, but some basics recur. Establishing control of the physical movements of the targeted individual is seen as key, and this goal in turn requires hyper-invasive surveillance methods. In addition to traditional surveillance technologies like wiretaps, computer surveillance and hidden video surveillance, the police will frequently place a tracking device on the clothes of the stalking victim. Having achieved that, the police will aim to disturb the stalking victim as much as possible throughout the day and night. Again, the exact methods may vary according to the circumstances of the individual operation. A fleet of marked and unmarked police cars trailing the stalking victim everywhere appears to be a mainstay feature in most countries (this is likely also the origin of the term "conspicuous surveillance"). Using a tracking device enables the police to forecast the movements of the stalking victim so that the people who chase him or her can be given instructions to "meet" rather than pursue the stalking victim on the street. This is a distinctive feature of modern, cell phone assisted police stalking that differentiates it from traditional stalking and undercover pursuit or "tailing". The reason is simply that whereas in traditional undercover work the goal of the police was not to be seen, their aim is the opposite in stalking operations!
A main element in police stalking operations is noise. Typically, the police will try to make noise wherever the stalking victim is, for example by letting unmarked cars run their engines endlessly outside the house of the stalking victim, using their horns excessively etc. When the police have good surveillance, a beep of the horn from an unmarked police car each time the stalking victim enters or exits a building is at the same time subtle vis-a-vis the community at large and intimidating and paranoia-inducing for the stalking victim.
Light is another common ingredient. Participants in police stalking operations will typically use a lot more light than normal: Cars driving with main beams on in broad daylight, cyclists using lights on their bikes in perfect sunshine, or even cars parked in parking lots with their lights constantly blinking are recurrent features of these operations. Again, in isolation, totally unremarkable and innocuous; when encountered every 2 minutes each day the stalking victim is out walking, an obvious trigger for paranoia.
Humiliation can be yet another prominent aspect of police stalking operations an element that shows how police stalking is often as medieval in content as it is twenty-first century in technology. This is also the aspect of these operations that is most frequently met with disbelief when stalking victims report them. A number of stories from different countries are however sufficiently uniform to be convincing. Sometimes plainclothes police use symbolism intended to show that the stalking victim is marginal and unwanted. For example, they may stage "street theatre" with people simulating blind or handicapped people constantly congregating around the stalking victim. Street theatre may also relate to the perceived offense that created the conflict with the police; this is typically done through plainclothes police mimicking the "unwanted" actions of the stalking victim that led to him or her being targeted by police in the first place.
Finally, sleep deprivation is in some countries another important element in police stalking. When it is used, police will employ every conceivable technique to wake up the stalking victims at regular intervals during the night. Obviously, the exact methods depend on where the stalking victim lives, but common methods include the use of cars outside the home of the stalking victim as well as slamming with doors and banging on adjacent walls. Almost all police stalking methods constitute human rights violations, but the invasion of a private home is perhaps the feature of these operations that is most glaringly at variance with modern European interpretations of the right to privacy which tend to define the home as an inviolable precinct where each individual may have the right to be "fully himself or herself", away from the public sphere and shutting the world out entirely (Niemitz versus Germany, 1988). Forced sleep deprivation is described as "inhumane" by a majority of judges and as "torture" by a minority at the European court of human rights.
Police stalking and community policing
The involvement of society at large in police stalking operations may also differ according to context. In some countries, the privacy violation involved in sharing information about fellow citizens is taken seriously by the police; as a consequence the stalking is mainly carried out by a mix of uniformed and plainclothes police. In other countries, limited segments of the local community may be involved for example through the employment of other emergency services in the stalking patrols (fire engines and ambulances), cooperation with shopping mall security guards (these may be asked to behave in an intimidating way towards the stalking victim) or even services providers more broadly (supermarkets, restaurants, and, where applicable, hotels.) An advantage for the police is that people in low-income jobs will often feel gratified when asked to help the police with something and without thinking about the judicial and human-rights aspect will gladly make some extra noise in their office or restaurant "for the good cause" until the stalking victim feels so intimidated that he or she moves somewhere else. The near universal knee-jerk preparedness among large parts of the general population in many countries to do anything the police asks without considering the legal aspects of these actions (i.e being accessory to an act of stalking) is a sad but very prominent feature of many so-called liberal societies today.
In police stalking involving the society at large, each act of intimidation may be much less hurtful than what is commonly seen in a bullying situation. The whole point is to induce paranoia by repeating seemingly commonplace incidents endlessly, in what becomes a familiar pattern, at least to the stalking victim. For example, in addition to making deliberate noise, people at shops may be instructed to greet the stalking victim in particular ways, for example by compulsively using something like a "have a nice day" greeting (which is very common but surely not universal in most languages). There may be bogus emergency calls to places visited by the stalking victim with fire engines or ambulances showing up where the stalking victim is for no good reason. An alarm goes off each time the stalking victim enters a shopping centre (this is caused by interaction between the tracking device hidden on the stalking victim's belongings and the electronic theft protection system of the shop); a clearly arranged succession of cars with blinking lights will line the streets wherever he or she goes. These are plausible incidents, just mildly out of the ordinary. Except that in a police stalking setting, on every corner there is a little oddity greeting the stalking victim. In this way, despite the seemingly innocuous and everyday character of each individual act of intimidation, the cumulative effect is bigger than in traditional bullying given the far greater scale of involvement.
The most depraved variants of police stalking involve large sections of a local community, who may take part in the stalking patrols, assist the police in disturbing the stalking victim with noise in their local neighborhood (such as driving aggressively around the victim) or receive instructions to address the stalking victim in particular ways. At least one EU member country is known to practise this most totalitarian variant of police stalking, which conceptually seems somewhat related to social isolation methods reported from communist East Germany. Another disturbing aspect of many police stalking operations are the crude attempts by the police to signal stigmatisation and marginalisation by deliberately parading disproportionate numbers of physically and mentally handicapped people in "street theatre" designed to humiliate the stalking victim. It makes sense to discuss these particular variants of widespread community-based police stalking as possible crimes against humanity not for what they do towards the stalking victim, but for the deliberate and disproportionate employment by the police of children and other legal minors as well as the handicapped. Not only are stigmas relating to physical handicaps reproduced. Children are socialised into believing bullying of socially marginal targets is acceptable and that the police has the right to administer extrajudicial punishment in the most totalitarian fashion imaginable.
Often these different elements are combined so that the general public may "cooperate with the police" in what they see as comparatively soft bullying during daytime (joining the police in chasing the stalking victim with their cars, for example) whereas the more physical mistreatment chiefly sleep deprivation is carried out by the police themselves at night in more secretive precision hits directed at the private home of the stalking victim. Normally, it is probably these nocturnal disturbances done by police away from the gaze of the public that are instrumental in putting the stalking victim under unbearable pressure and force him or her to move, but the police are happy to keep these dirtiest activities in the dark and let the general public believe it is their noble "cooperation with the police" in their shops and restaurants that pushes the stalking victim around. The use of sleep deprivation by the police in stalking operations is generally consonant with the "leave-no-marks" characteristic of torture in democratic states identified by Darius Rejali.
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How the Norwegian Government Brought an End to My Iraq Research
Posted by Reidar Visser on September 19, 2012
http://policestalking.wordpress.com/2012...-research/
I sometimes wonder why it took me so long to write in the first person about police stalking.
I wanted to exhaust every other possibility first. To make sure that there was no other conceivable road back to the life I once lived. I had been happy as an historian based in Oslo in Norway, working on Iraq and its transition to democracy and the rule of law....
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How police stalking works
The exact techniques used in police stalking may differ from country to country, but some basics recur. Establishing control of the physical movements of the targeted individual is seen as key, and this goal in turn requires hyper-invasive surveillance methods. In addition to traditional surveillance technologies like wiretaps, computer surveillance and hidden video surveillance, the police will frequently place a tracking device on the clothes of the stalking victim. Having achieved that, the police will aim to disturb the stalking victim as much as possible throughout the day and night. Again, the exact methods may vary according to the circumstances of the individual operation. A fleet of marked and unmarked police cars trailing the stalking victim everywhere appears to be a mainstay feature in most countries (this is likely also the origin of the term "conspicuous surveillance"). Using a tracking device enables the police to forecast the movements of the stalking victim so that the people who chase him or her can be given instructions to "meet" rather than pursue the stalking victim on the street. This is a distinctive feature of modern, cell phone assisted police stalking that differentiates it from traditional stalking and undercover pursuit or "tailing". The reason is simply that whereas in traditional undercover work the goal of the police was not to be seen, their aim is the opposite in stalking operations!
A main element in police stalking operations is noise. Typically, the police will try to make noise wherever the stalking victim is, for example by letting unmarked cars run their engines endlessly outside the house of the stalking victim, using their horns excessively etc. When the police have good surveillance, a beep of the horn from an unmarked police car each time the stalking victim enters or exits a building is at the same time subtle vis-a-vis the community at large and intimidating and paranoia-inducing for the stalking victim.
Light is another common ingredient. Participants in police stalking operations will typically use a lot more light than normal: Cars driving with main beams on in broad daylight, cyclists using lights on their bikes in perfect sunshine, or even cars parked in parking lots with their lights constantly blinking are recurrent features of these operations. Again, in isolation, totally unremarkable and innocuous; when encountered every 2 minutes each day the stalking victim is out walking, an obvious trigger for paranoia.
Humiliation can be yet another prominent aspect of police stalking operations an element that shows how police stalking is often as medieval in content as it is twenty-first century in technology. This is also the aspect of these operations that is most frequently met with disbelief when stalking victims report them. A number of stories from different countries are however sufficiently uniform to be convincing. Sometimes plainclothes police use symbolism intended to show that the stalking victim is marginal and unwanted. For example, they may stage "street theatre" with people simulating blind or handicapped people constantly congregating around the stalking victim. Street theatre may also relate to the perceived offense that created the conflict with the police; this is typically done through plainclothes police mimicking the "unwanted" actions of the stalking victim that led to him or her being targeted by police in the first place.
Finally, sleep deprivation is in some countries another important element in police stalking. When it is used, police will employ every conceivable technique to wake up the stalking victims at regular intervals during the night. Obviously, the exact methods depend on where the stalking victim lives, but common methods include the use of cars outside the home of the stalking victim as well as slamming with doors and banging on adjacent walls. Almost all police stalking methods constitute human rights violations, but the invasion of a private home is perhaps the feature of these operations that is most glaringly at variance with modern European interpretations of the right to privacy which tend to define the home as an inviolable precinct where each individual may have the right to be "fully himself or herself", away from the public sphere and shutting the world out entirely (Niemitz versus Germany, 1988). Forced sleep deprivation is described as "inhumane" by a majority of judges and as "torture" by a minority at the European court of human rights.
Police stalking and community policing
The involvement of society at large in police stalking operations may also differ according to context. In some countries, the privacy violation involved in sharing information about fellow citizens is taken seriously by the police; as a consequence the stalking is mainly carried out by a mix of uniformed and plainclothes police. In other countries, limited segments of the local community may be involved for example through the employment of other emergency services in the stalking patrols (fire engines and ambulances), cooperation with shopping mall security guards (these may be asked to behave in an intimidating way towards the stalking victim) or even services providers more broadly (supermarkets, restaurants, and, where applicable, hotels.) An advantage for the police is that people in low-income jobs will often feel gratified when asked to help the police with something and without thinking about the judicial and human-rights aspect will gladly make some extra noise in their office or restaurant "for the good cause" until the stalking victim feels so intimidated that he or she moves somewhere else. The near universal knee-jerk preparedness among large parts of the general population in many countries to do anything the police asks without considering the legal aspects of these actions (i.e being accessory to an act of stalking) is a sad but very prominent feature of many so-called liberal societies today.
In police stalking involving the society at large, each act of intimidation may be much less hurtful than what is commonly seen in a bullying situation. The whole point is to induce paranoia by repeating seemingly commonplace incidents endlessly, in what becomes a familiar pattern, at least to the stalking victim. For example, in addition to making deliberate noise, people at shops may be instructed to greet the stalking victim in particular ways, for example by compulsively using something like a "have a nice day" greeting (which is very common but surely not universal in most languages). There may be bogus emergency calls to places visited by the stalking victim with fire engines or ambulances showing up where the stalking victim is for no good reason. An alarm goes off each time the stalking victim enters a shopping centre (this is caused by interaction between the tracking device hidden on the stalking victim's belongings and the electronic theft protection system of the shop); a clearly arranged succession of cars with blinking lights will line the streets wherever he or she goes. These are plausible incidents, just mildly out of the ordinary. Except that in a police stalking setting, on every corner there is a little oddity greeting the stalking victim. In this way, despite the seemingly innocuous and everyday character of each individual act of intimidation, the cumulative effect is bigger than in traditional bullying given the far greater scale of involvement.
The most depraved variants of police stalking involve large sections of a local community, who may take part in the stalking patrols, assist the police in disturbing the stalking victim with noise in their local neighborhood (such as driving aggressively around the victim) or receive instructions to address the stalking victim in particular ways. At least one EU member country is known to practise this most totalitarian variant of police stalking, which conceptually seems somewhat related to social isolation methods reported from communist East Germany. Another disturbing aspect of many police stalking operations are the crude attempts by the police to signal stigmatisation and marginalisation by deliberately parading disproportionate numbers of physically and mentally handicapped people in "street theatre" designed to humiliate the stalking victim. It makes sense to discuss these particular variants of widespread community-based police stalking as possible crimes against humanity not for what they do towards the stalking victim, but for the deliberate and disproportionate employment by the police of children and other legal minors as well as the handicapped. Not only are stigmas relating to physical handicaps reproduced. Children are socialised into believing bullying of socially marginal targets is acceptable and that the police has the right to administer extrajudicial punishment in the most totalitarian fashion imaginable.
Often these different elements are combined so that the general public may "cooperate with the police" in what they see as comparatively soft bullying during daytime (joining the police in chasing the stalking victim with their cars, for example) whereas the more physical mistreatment chiefly sleep deprivation is carried out by the police themselves at night in more secretive precision hits directed at the private home of the stalking victim. Normally, it is probably these nocturnal disturbances done by police away from the gaze of the public that are instrumental in putting the stalking victim under unbearable pressure and force him or her to move, but the police are happy to keep these dirtiest activities in the dark and let the general public believe it is their noble "cooperation with the police" in their shops and restaurants that pushes the stalking victim around. The use of sleep deprivation by the police in stalking operations is generally consonant with the "leave-no-marks" characteristic of torture in democratic states identified by Darius Rejali.
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How the Norwegian Government Brought an End to My Iraq Research
Posted by Reidar Visser on September 19, 2012
http://policestalking.wordpress.com/2012...-research/
I sometimes wonder why it took me so long to write in the first person about police stalking.
I wanted to exhaust every other possibility first. To make sure that there was no other conceivable road back to the life I once lived. I had been happy as an historian based in Oslo in Norway, working on Iraq and its transition to democracy and the rule of law....
"We'll know our disinformation campaign is complete when everything the American public believes is false." --William J. Casey, D.C.I
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl
"We will lead every revolution against us." --Theodore Herzl