Cops Tase a Veteran's Service Dog During an Unconstitutional Arrest for Panhandling
The dog died after the man went to jail for exercising his First Amendment rights.
The dog died after the man went to jail for exercising his First Amendment rights.
A holistic look at the data shatters the narrative about bias-based violence.
What happens when a community bail fund stops paying bail and starts trying to abolish it?
The sheriff's predictive policing program has caused more problems than it's solved.
Such punitive measures do not make society any safer.
A North Carolina city council member wants to make feeding homeless people a misdemeanor.
Returning traffic enforcement and criminal law enforcement to their proper spheres could put both police and drivers at ease.
Legislators cannot have it both ways.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids railed against cops for enforcing the same kind of anti-vaping rule they help pass.
Dumb laws lead to police brutality.
The victim will now have no right to argue his case before a jury in civil court.
There are many other people who deserve such mercy.
George Wingate, who had pulled over on the side of the road to check an engine light, flatly refused to show his ID when a sheriff's deputy demanded it.
If public health scolds get their way, they will worsen the nation’s overcriminalization problem.
It's yet another example of the effects of having to enforce dumb laws.
From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.
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Some states have taken action. It's time for the federal government to do the same.
The women's liberation movement has gotten tied to mass incarceration. It needs to break free.
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For possessing a gun while committing a crime—even when no one is killed—too many defendants are slammed with sentences decades or even centuries longer than justice demands.
The U.S. has an interest in protecting its political system from manipulation by foreign enemies or their paid agents. But treason and espionage are already illegal, as is bribery.
Police response “likely escalated tensions and the potential for violence” say investigators.
And taxpayers will foot the bill.
Excessive traffic and pedestrian stops, especially in black communities, are dangerous and counterproductive.
There were four times as many incidents of physical restraint against students the year after Florida doubled the number of police in its schools.
The new law features harsher penalties, 12-hour detentions, and other invitations to abuse government power
A 2018 Reason investigation showed how Chicago's impound program ensnared innocent owners, stripped them of their cars, and soaked them in debt.
Real police reform requires backing off efforts to force people to do things they don’t want to do.
How to reduce police killings and enact lasting change.
Will a hiring surge for school police and renewed zeal for zero tolerance policies undo years of declining youth arrests in Florida?
One of the officers was fired after arresting two 6-year-olds in one day.
The little girl said, "I shoot you," but her mother says she didn't understand what she was saying.
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Gig workers and companies are suing over a California law, AB 5, that criminalizes their continued employment.
The Democratic presidential candidate wants to keep prostitution customers criminalized while "decriminalizing sex work on the part of the seller."
The 21-year-old faces criminal punishment for text messages to her suicidal boyfriend.
This year, Mississippi and North Carolina both ditched a vague "good moral character" clause that kept occupational licensing out of reach for people with criminal records.
"Touching someone's arm to get their attention, I would have thought was normal."
Arrests for petty crimes, like underage drinking, protect nobody and do long-term damage to people’s lives.
An attempt by the district attorney to drop charges against nonviolent protesters was overruled.
The police union's attempt to punish the city for dismissing Daniel Pantaleo is instead showing the problem of overpolicing,
A school criminalizes a playground injury.
What the hell is going on with this state?
When "almost anyone can be arrested for something," no one is safe.
The Trump appointee warns that "little would be left of our First Amendment liberties" if cops could punish people who irk them by finding a legal reason to bust them.