Crime

Politics

The Unbearable Rightness of Being Armed

Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2010 6:01 PM

Policy

What the New FBI Crime Stats Suggest About Arizona, Immigrants, and Crime

Brian Doherty | 5.25.2010 3:44 PM

Policy

Pre-Crime Policing

A SWAT team brings in a man and seizes his legally purchased guns-for a crime no one committed

Radley Balko | 5.19.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

Oh, You Mean Those Quotas

The NYPD stop-and-frisk controversy grows.

Radley Balko | 5.17.2010 5:30 PM

Politics

Pre-Crime Detention Based on Enumerated (Yet Curiously Unspecified) Powers

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2010 2:24 PM

Policy

More on Tonya Craft Acquittal: 'It Wasn't a Victory'

Jacob Sullum | 5.12.2010 1:19 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Acquitted

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2010 6:01 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: 'Inept Interviewers,' 'Shoddy Investigation'

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2010 1:23 PM

Policy

Arrest Everybody

Arizona encourages police to emulate "the toughest sheriff in America."

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

Today on Tonya Craft

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2010 4:40 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: How 'Normal' Becomes 'Very Suspicious'

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2010 3:30 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: 'Wasn't That a Suggestive Question?' 'So What?'

Jacob Sullum | 4.21.2010 5:59 PM

Policy

Fabulous Fab's Backup Band: Goldman Bigshots Approved Abacus Deal

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.20.2010 7:27 PM

Politics

Brown Water and Red Ink In the Yellowhammer State

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.19.2010 12:25 AM

Politics

First They Came for the Criminal Investment Bankers…

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.18.2010 5:20 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft Trial Update: 'Mom Said I Could Get a Toy If I Talked to You'

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2010 3:06 PM

Politics

Consensus Liberalism Was the Root Cause of Daryl Gates

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2010 2:48 PM

Policy

Tonya Craft's Alleged Victim Reports How She Remembered Abuse: 'My Momma Told Me'

Jacob Sullum | 4.15.2010 5:21 PM

Policy

Kindergarten Teacher's Accuser: 'I Just Remembered'

Jacob Sullum | 4.14.2010 7:03 PM

Politics

Gun Controllers Need Not Fear 'Intermediate Scrutiny'

Jacob Sullum | 4.7.2010 4:32 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Mandatory ID Cards, Mandatory Publication Delays, Mandatory Condoms

Jesse Walker | 3.19.2010 8:07 AM

Policy

And LSD Accounts for 93 Percent of Falling Deaths

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2010 5:05 PM

Policy

Feds' Online Snooping Reveals Evidence of Crimes, Possibly Including Their Own

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2010 4:01 PM

Policy

The Other Broken Windows Fallacy

The NYPD is accused of under-reporting serious crimes while manufacturing petty ones.

Radley Balko | 3.8.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

Better Than Releasing People Who Don't Belong in Prison: Not Putting Them There to Begin With

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2010 3:19 PM

Politics

Put That Thing Away!

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2010 11:32 AM

Policy

Satanic Panic and the West Memphis Three

Damon Root | 2.25.2010 10:19 AM

Policy

Weaponizing Mozart

How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control

Brendan O'Neill | 2.24.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

Judge Alex Kozinski: The Fourth Amendment is Gone. "Welcome to the fish bowl."

Damon Root | 2.23.2010 3:29 PM

Politics

Clemency Under Fire

A parolee turned cop killer sparks an ill-informed debate about pardons and commutations.

Radley Balko | 2.23.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Guns: Not Just for the Home Anymore

Brian Doherty | 2.22.2010 5:31 PM

Policy

Is Texas About To Execute Another Innocent Man?

State officials would rather kill a prisoner than give him a DNA test.

Radley Balko | 2.22.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Immigration and Crime

There's nothing to fear from illegal immigrants

Steve Chapman | 2.22.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

How Many More Are Innocent?

America's 250th DNA exoneration raises questions about how often we send the wrong person to prison.

Radley Balko | 2.8.2010 3:00 PM

Politics

Watchdogs and Watches

Russian journalists publish a subtle exposé.

Radley Balko | 1.29.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Brady Campaign Boosts Obama Campaign With Its Seal of Disapproval

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2010 6:54 PM

Policy

Dirty Old Men and Judicial Deviation

Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2009 5:20 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: DC Cop vs. Snowball Throwers, Exclusive Video; UPDATED with Today Show Footage!

Nick Gillespie | 12.21.2009 8:35 AM

Crime

Death of a Watchdog

Pete Shellem, crime reporter

Radley Balko | 12.14.2009 6:01 PM

Policy

When Living Standards Regress to 2002 Levels*, Survivors Will Envy the Dead

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.9.2009 11:58 PM

Policy

Clemency on Trial

Most governors grant clemency for the wrong reasons. Here's what coverage of the Huckabee/Clemons case is missing.

Radley Balko | 12.8.2009 12:00 PM

Policy

Reading People's Faces

Tattoos, dueling scars, and other rational acquisitions

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.3.2009 4:30 PM

Policy

As Employment Falls, So Does Crime

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2009 4:03 PM

Policy

Another Broken Myth: Foreclosures and Crime Rates

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.23.2009 5:35 PM

Policy

How to Get Ahead in Law

Bernard Baran served 22 years on dubious child molestation charges, but the prosecutor who convicted him was promoted to judge.

Radley Balko | 11.20.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

How Could He Have Strangled Her Without a Permit to Carry a Handgun?

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2009 12:38 PM

Policy

Hasan Had a Carry Permit (and Other Irrelevancies)

Jacob Sullum | 11.13.2009 2:31 PM