Anonymous Retaliates, Leaks Texas Police Emails

An anonymous reader sends word that hacking group Anonymous has breached servers and accounts belonging to "dozens" of Texas police departments, leaking emails, documents and personal information. They say the attacks are in retaliation for "the arrests of dozens of alleged Anonymous suspects," and were done in solidarity with "the 'Anonymous 16' PayPal LOIC defendants, accused LulzSec member Jake Davis 'Topiary,' protesters arrested during #OpBart actions, Bradley Manning, Stephen Watt, and other hackers and leakers worldwide." Predictably, some of the leaked emails paint an unflattering picture of internal operations at the police departments.

The cops who wrote those emails should be fired

[elrous0]

Not for racism, bigotry, their general unprofessionalism, etc. I mean, that's kind of a given for local-level Texas cops. No, they should be for the epic level of stupidity they showed in actually *writing all that down* and *sending it in emails*.

Anyone *that* stupid probably shouldn't be trusted to operate the fry machine at McDonalds, much less be in charge of investigating crimes.

I've had some pretty dumb friends over the years who ended up becoming cops (we're talking 2+2=5 dumb), but even they knew better than to BROADCAST their incompetence for the record. I just wonder how some of these departments are supposed to collect DNA evidence when half their force thinks DNA is a rap group from the 80's. Not that every Texas cop can be Sam Deeds from Lonestar [wikipedia.org], but geez.

Re:Put an end to the crime and criminal supporters

[Attila Dimedici]

Well, then I guess you just have to live with the world that other people are willing to put in the effort to create. BTW, William Wilberforce died just after his efforts were fully successful and he had already changed the world for the better by getting the slave trade outlawed years earlier. The thing is, if you are working for change because it benefits you, you are no better than the people who "bought and paid for" the politicians. On the other hand, if you are working to make the world a better place, what does it matter if you live long enough to actually experience the new world you worked to help create?
There is no other solution. Either you are willing to work as hard and long as it takes to make the change, or you have to live with the world created by those who are.

Re:Oh yeah... sure... call a cop

[boristdog]

And when they do get there, they're actually pretty likely to arrest the victim.

THIS.

In the 1990's I worked for IT at a state agency. It was a large state agency and occasionally valuable IT supplies (memory, HDDs, etc. - stuff that cost real money in the 1990's) would disappear. My boss ALWAYS had me report the thefts/missing items instead of her. Why? I'm white, she was black. I don't blame her at all for doing this.

EVERY time I reported missing equipment I was escorted into a locked room and interrogated by state police for at least half an hour. Twice I was fingerprinted. Once they were going to fucking CUFF ME TO THE CHAIR, but I talked them out of it. Because I REPORTED the theft. Later I would be interrogated again and ANY tiny difference between my answers would be pounced on like they were Perry Mason and I was an accused murderer. For a few thousand bucks in missing equipment each time.

The worst part was I was pretty sure I KNEW who was behind most of the thefts. I told the cops to check the badge-in records from the affected areas at the affected times. I mentioned that this person would show up at work when it wasn't his shift. I mentioned his elaborate spending habits (on a $25K salary) and how he would suddenly have lots of money after we would lose $5000 worth of memory. And yes, they ASKED if I or anyone I knew had large debts or seemed to spend more than they earned. Did he even get questioned? Nope. Who always got the 3rd degree? Me. The person reporting the crime.

Law enforcement is fairly broken if these are the super geniuses running things.