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- You Might Be a Terrorist, Too, Radley Balko, February 2, 2011
- NPR Visits Mississippi, Radley Balko, February 2, 2011
- Reason Morning Links: Clashes in Egypt, Manning Investigation Faults Commanders, Change in Jordan Too, Radley Balko, February 2, 2011
- Reason Morning Links: Protests Swell in Egypt, Winter Storm in the Midwest, the Internet Gets Crowded, Radley Balko, February 1, 2011
- The Anti-Cop Trend That Isn't, Radley Balko, January 31, 2011
- "Do You Want Me To Throw It on the Ground?", Radley Balko, January 29, 2011
- L.A. Teen Charged With "Attempted Lynching" Now Gets Raided by Police, Radley Balko, January 28, 2011
- Civil Society Defeats a Bigoted Policy, Radley Balko, January 27, 2011
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- Reason Morning Links: Protests in Egypt, Giffords Improves, Life in Prison for Gitmo Detainee, Radley Balko, January 26, 2011
- The Travis Corcoran Saga, Radley Balko, January 25, 2011
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- Reason Morning Links: SOTU Tonight, New Government for Lebanon, Court Rules Against Emanuel, Radley Balko, January 25, 2011
- Why Cops Aren’t Whistleblowers, Radley Balko, February 2011
- Citizen-Shot Photographs Show Apparent Police Execution, Radley Balko, January 24, 2011
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- Another Isolated Incident, Radley Balko, January 23, 2011
- Cops Raid Barbershops, Radley Balko, March 2011
- Junk Science, Radley Balko, March 2011
- Another Illinois Resident Charged for Recording Police, Radley Balko, January 23, 2011
- On Voting for Less Violence, Radley Balko, January 21, 2011
- Stories of Commitment, Radley Balko, January 21, 2011
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- Justice for Sal, Radley Balko, January 17, 2011
- The Eurie Stamps Investigation Goes Into Lockdown, Radley Balko, January 17, 2011
- Mistakes Were Made. Guns Were Pointed. A Family Was Terrorized. Pets Were Threatened., Radley Balko, January 16, 2011
- What a More Liberal Approach to Involuntary Commitment Looks Like, Radley Balko, January 14, 2011
- The Most Amazing Wrongful Conviction Story You'll Read Today, Radley Balko, January 14, 2011
- Another Isolated Incident, Radley Balko, January 13, 2011
- Supreme Court To Decide If Smell of Pot, Suspicious Sounds Merit Warrantless Entry, Radley Balko, January 13, 2011
- Adventures in Drug War Incompetence, Radley Balko, January 13, 2011
- Reason Morning Links: Obama Speaks in Tucson, Emerging Middle Class in Africa, Flooding in Brazil, Radley Balko, January 13, 2011
- Gun Owner Who Showed Restraint, Good Judgment Is Apparently an Argument Against Gun Ownership, Radley Balko, January 12, 2011
- Illinois Prosecutor Invokes Homeland Security in Recording Cops Case, Radley Balko, January 12, 2011
- Reason Writers on TV: Radley Balko Discusses Police Militarization, Radley Balko, January 12, 2011
- Reason Morning Links: One Year Since Haiti Earthquake, Giffords Improving, Boehner Opposes New Gun Control, Radley Balko, January 12, 2011
- Reason Morning Links: Loughner Appears in Court, New Gun Control Measures Unlikely, Scientists Tout a Universal Flu Vaccine, Radley Balko, January 11, 2011
- More on Abolishing Drunk Driving Laws, Radley Balko, January 10, 2011
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Radley Balko
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Radley Balko is a contributing editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com.
Previously, Balko was a policy analyst for the Cato Institute specializing in civil liberties issues, where he published a paper on alcohol policy and a groundbreaking study on paramilitary police raids.
He has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Forbes, ESPN, the National Post, Worth and numerous other publications. Balko has also appeared on the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and NPR. From 2002 until 2009 he was a columnist for FoxNews.com.
Balko's work on paramilitary raids and the overuse of SWAT teams was featured by John Tierney in The New York Times, has been praised by outlets ranging from Human Events to the Daily Kos, and was cited by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's dissent in the case Hudson v. Michigan.
Balko is also credited with bringing national attention to the case of Cory Maye, a black man who prior to Balko's work was on death row in Mississippi for shooting and killing a white police officer during a raid on Maye's home. Balko's Reason feature on Maye was also cited in an opinion by the Mississippi State Supreme Court. National Journal also profiled Balko's coverage of the case. Balko's November 2007 investigative report on Mississippi medical examiner Steven Hayne and his May 2008 report on the wrongful prosecution of the Colomb family in Louisiana each won second place in the investigative reporting category at the Los Angeles Press Club awards. His April 2009 feature on fraudulent forensic evidence in the Louisiana murder trial of Jimmie Duncan won the Western Publications Association "Maggie" award for best news story.
Balko publishes the personal blog, TheAgitator.com. He graduated from Indiana University in 1997 with a degree in journalism and political science.
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