Taz Shepherd was up for parole in July 2014 and has yet to be released. We believe he has served sufficient time. Taz is a model prisoner and we feel that he deserves to be given the opportunity to return to the community.

My name is Katherine Kostreva, and I am the first victim of MRDC fraud to go public, as documented by the New York Times. For more than six months, I pleaded for Bank of America to help me. Their refusal lead to a second case of MRDC fraud. To date, I have suffered financial hardship and emotional duress because of Bank of America's negligence. When they issued a gag order, I realized that those before me have been silenced. Please help me close this banking loophole, that will only grow worse in the near future.

The killing of my sister LINDA BROWN!

This petition was started to express grievance for the lack of indictment of the officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner by choke-hold and prevent the occurrence of similar situations.

This is an insidious and egregious type of theft that especially harms the poor. Such a system incentives arresting and criminalizing people for no reason but profit. This is part of a disturbing pattern of a privatized corrections industry and our city and county should have no partnerships with companies that profit from arresting people. http://www.numifinancial.com/ https://securustech.net/ (primary contractor that brought in Numi to Portland)

The whole nation is affected and has been affected for far too long by these inhumane policies and behaviors by police toward men and women of color. If I don't speak up, I am guilty too.

Too many police officers are not held accountable when they kill or mistreat Black males. We need independent prosecutors who will do their job.

Judge James Kilbane called Brown during sentencing "a cold, calculating, violent murderer who is completely devoid of truth, moral integrity or love for anyone but himself, whom I hope never sees the light of day." To date, Brown has never taken responsibility for his crime, never shown an ounce of remorse, or apologized to Robyn's family. The safety and welfare of Robyn's family and friends as well as the general public will be threatened should Brown be released, based on the horrendous nature of his crime. Parole must be denied.

Assistant District Attorney Kathi Alizadeh presented the Grand Jury in the Darren Wilson case with an outdated, unconstitutional statute which stated that police officers could legally shoot and kill a suspect for attempting to evade arrest. Toward the end of the deliberations, the ADA instructed jurors to figure out what the law means, and whether the US Supreme Court can overrule state statutes. The Supreme Court of Missouri should hold hearings to determine whether the entire prosecuting team is guilty of gross prosecutorial misconduct in the handling of grand jury deliberations in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

I live in St. Louis and want every citizen to have no doubt that they will always receive equal treatment under the law. The prosecutor's decision to use a grand jury and the presentation of evidence to the grand jury did nothing to reassure the public's concern about lack of impartiality. On the contrary, many are left to reasonably wonder whether it was Michael Brown or Darren Wilson that was being investigated. A special prosecutor would go a long way toward restoring trust in future cases of alleged police misconduct.

This petition has the sole purpose of making law enforcement officials more accountable. The use of deadly force is drastically being overused. Military personnel have a very strict code for "rules of engagement." The current policies that are in place need to be redone to effect drastic change and accountability. Police officers on the state and local as of late and in history past have been killing unarmed citizens without much if any provocation. Then they are getting a slap on the wrist and allowed to murder again. We need to begin with stricter rules within Internal Affairs to police the police officers, possibly creating community advocates in every city/town who are present and allowed to ask questions at hearings.

In March of 2010, an at the time twenty eight year old man was stopped by Pennsylvania State Police for Bradford County, PA., after it was alleged by them that he 'fit the description' of a hit-and-run driver. Over the course of a three day period Robert Leone endured some of the worst police brutality not seen since Rodney King was beaten, nearly to death, by police in Los Angeles, CA. in the 1990's. Robert Leone was repeatedly punched, kicked, thrown, tossed, tasered, chemically maced and gassed by state police for Bradford County, PA. in the Township of Towanda, PA. while in their custody for crimes that he did not commit! Wrongfully imprisoned for two years, he has since continued to pay a debt to society that he does not owe in the form of pain and suffering because of the torture he suffered so violently through. To that end we are calling upon Federal, State & Local Officialdom to call for a Special Grand Jury Investigation into this matter so that the perpetrators of such heinous acts may be brought to justice via a Judge and Jury of their peers. Thank you for your support and interests in seeing that Justice is SERVED on behalf of Robert Leone and his family.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good morning Friends! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE 'Like' & 'Follow' Along on this Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Justice-for-Robert-Leone/292048890892958?pnref=story And WATCH this Video: http://youtu.be/K5FsPBeSauo Thank you!