Crime

Policy

Declare Defeat and Go Home

The War on Drugs has failed. Let's try something else.

A. Barton Hinkle | 6.7.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Locked Up, Locked Out

The social costs of incarceration

Bruce Western | 6.6.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

The Ends Didn't Justify the Means

Our complicity in the devastating war on crime

Matt Welch | 6.6.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Helpful Advice (Indiana Edition)

Jesse Walker | 6.3.2011 11:57 AM

Policy

Flogging Prisoners--Better Than the Lousy System We've Got?

Matt Welch | 5.31.2011 9:01 AM

Politics

When Punishment Is a Crime

The Supreme Court takes on California's overcrowded prison system.

Steve Chapman | 5.30.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Big Brother Is Watching You

Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.25.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Jared Lee Loughner Ruled Incompetent to Stand Trial

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 4:08 PM

Policy

Mandatory Panic Buttons Proposed for NY Hotel Chambermaids

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.23.2011 3:31 PM

Policy

Culture of Misconduct

The misplaced priorities of prosecutors

Ken White | 5.23.2011 7:17 AM

Policy

Radar Love

The changing status of the radar detector in a hyper-surveilled world

Greg Beato | 5.18.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

IMF's Dominique Strauss-Kahn Arrested on NYC [Attempted] Rape Charge

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.15.2011 2:52 AM

Policy

The Opposite of a Nut-Punch

Jesse Walker | 5.13.2011 9:06 AM

Policy

Drug War Results, Part DXXIII

Jesse Walker | 5.4.2011 2:03 PM

Policy

Spray Paint the Walls

Does graffiti count as art?

Greg Beato | 4.29.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

When Donald Trump Didn't Need Proof

Radley Balko | 4.29.2011 11:17 AM

Policy

The "War on Cops" That Isn't

Despite what you may have read, it's safer to be a police officer today than it has been in 35 years.

Radley Balko | 4.26.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

'We're All Hostages to the Dopiest Person With a Phone'

Jacob Sullum | 4.22.2011 1:54 PM

Policy

Watch the Watchmen

It shouldn't be a crime to record the cops.

John Stossel | 4.21.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Sen. Orrin Hatch Demands More Porn Prosecutions

Reason Staff | 4.7.2011 2:51 PM

Politics

Federal Pirates Out to Steal Private Silver Coins

Brian Doherty | 4.4.2011 3:25 PM

Policy

Village Voice: Highly-Publicized Sex Trafficking Report Is Mostly Made Up

Radley Balko | 3.29.2011 1:05 PM

Policy

Failing Upward in Criminal Justice

The prosecutor who wrongly put a paraplegic in prison wants to be a judge.

Radley Balko | 3.22.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Obama: Better Background Checks Would Stop Future Loughners

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2011 1:40 PM

Policy

Video Gamers Take on a Cable News Critic

Radley Balko | 3.2.2011 1:43 PM

Politics

Brian Aitken's Mistake

An outrageous gun prosecution in New Jersey

Radley Balko | 3.1.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Police Cameras and Crime

Can a surveillance state make us safer?

Steve Chapman | 2.21.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Sticklers for Procedure

Ohio's Supreme Court reverses an acquittal in yet another outrageous sex abuse prosecution.

Radley Balko | 2.14.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

The Anti-Cop Trend That Isn't

Despite breathless media reports, there is little evidence that violence against police officers is on the rise.

Radley Balko | 1.31.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

The Minuteman Murder Case

Brian Doherty | 1.28.2011 2:15 PM

Politics

Why Cops Aren't Whistleblowers

The shameful stop snitchin' campaign among the men in blue

Radley Balko | 1.25.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Baltimore's Top Cop Disses The Wire

Jesse Walker | 1.23.2011 11:44 AM

Policy

The Gun Tragedy/Gun Law Lag

Brian Doherty | 1.21.2011 5:05 PM

Policy

No One Is Suggesting Salvia Made Him Do It—Except Us

Jacob Sullum | 1.21.2011 11:09 AM

Policy

Reefer Madness Spreads to the U.K.

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2011 12:01 PM

Policy

Looking for Loughners

Would laxer commitment rules make us safer?

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Why Should Public Opinion About Gun Control Change After a Shooting Rampage?

Jacob Sullum | 1.18.2011 6:31 PM

Politics

Justice for Sal

After five years, the family of a Virginia optometrist killed by a SWAT team finally gets some closure.

Radley Balko | 1.17.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Cliff Kincaid's Reefer Madness

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2011 4:27 PM

Policy

A Gun That Can See Into Your Soul

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2011 2:50 PM

Politics

If Mental Illness Made Him Do It, Why Punish Him?

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2011 12:02 PM

Politics

The Lone Gunman Theory of Legislation

The perils of letting armed lunatics drive public policy

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

David Frum on Jared Loughner's Reefer Madness

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2011 5:56 PM

Politics

He Did Not Have a License to Kill Either

Jacob Sullum | 1.10.2011 4:21 PM

Politics

Paul Helmke Indicts Wayne LaPierre for Mass Murder While Condemning 'Heated Political Rhetoric'

Jacob Sullum | 1.10.2011 2:56 PM

Politics

The Shootings in Arizona: A Reading List

Jesse Walker | 1.10.2011 10:23 AM

Politics

The Death Penalty On the Wane

Is it time to abolish capital punishment?

Steve Chapman | 12.27.2010 7:00 AM