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Oct 4, 2024 · The “blue curtain” is a metaphorical concept that refers to the secrecy and loyalty shared among police officers. It symbolizes the divide between the police force and the communities they serve. Just like the curtain, it separates what happens on the inside from the public eye.
The ‘Mutiny Act’ effectively severed soldiers and sailors from any civilian justice by revoking what rights they have had in a conventional jury system where the prosecution and judge were separate and where some forms of appeal was permissible.
Nov 28, 2020 · A typical response to disobedience by law enforcement is to increase police resources and manpower directed at these prohibited spaces in an effort to curb these mechanisms of avoidance.
- Matthew Valasik, Jose Torres
- 2020
In criminal law. The unlawful resistance to a superior oflicer, or the raising of commotions and disturbances on board of a ship against the authority of its commander, or in the army in opposition to the authority of the officers; a sedition; a revolt.
- Vietnam: ‘Soldiers in Revolt’
- Pilots’ Mutiny
- Racial Tensions
- Rebels at Sea
- Unruly Continentals
During the latter years of American involvement in Vietnam, opposition to the war within the armed forces had become a crippling problem for the Pentagon. Soldiers deserted in huge numbers while others circulated petitions demanding an end to hostilities. In some cases, sailors sabotaged their own vessels to prevent deployments. According to histor...
It wasn’t just grunts to who balked at fighting. During the Christmas bombings of North Vietnam in late 1972, B-52 crews flying from bases in Guam and Thailand destroyed their own officers’ clubs and refused to participate in further missions. While some pilots reportedly opposed taking part in the raids on moral grounds, more protested the appalli...
A number of American military mutinies have stemmed from racial unrest. For example, an armed rebellion by 156 black soldiers in Houston erupted in November of 1917 after civilian police viciously beat an African American infantryman in the streets of the city. According to eyewitnesses, the soldier was attacked while trying to prevent the officers...
An alleged mutiny on another U.S. Navy vessel wasn’t motivated by racial injustice, but rather greed. While returning to New York from Africa in November of 1842, the skipper of the ten-gun brig USS Somers got wind of a plot by 20 crewmen to take the ship and go a-pirating. The captain, an officer by the name of Mackenzie, launched an investigation...
Mutiny is almost as old as the U.S. military itself. Case in point: On New Years Day in 1781, much of Pennsylvania’s 2,400-man army stationed at Jockey Hollow, New Jersey staged a mass walk outafter serving without pay in unbearable conditions for more than three years. Commanders tried to rein in the dissidents with threats of violence, but troops...
A 1968-era Chicago Police helmet and billy club. A baton (also truncheon, nightstick, billy club, billystick, cosh, lathi, or simply stick) is a roughly cylindrical club made of wood, rubber, plastic, or metal. It is carried as a compliance tool and defensive weapon [ 1 ] by law-enforcement officers, correctional staff, security guards and ...
Mutiny, any overt act of defiance or attack upon military authority by two or more persons subject to such authority. Mutiny should be distinguished from revolt or rebellion, which involve a more widespread defiance and which generally have a political objective.
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