The Attorney General approvingly discussed my article linking the dramatic decline in street stops in Chicago under an ACLU agreement and the subsequent homicide spike. While Professor John Rappaport has a different take on this "ACLU Effect," his unsupported analysis does not fit the data.
Government, not private companies, is supposed to provide oversight over police behavior.
Stamford, Connecticut, police chief objects to salty language on a sign. That's not a crime.
CBP won't return the cash unless the owner signs an illegal waiver.
Despite the misuse, nobody involved questions that corrupt mentality that led to asset forfeiture in the first place.
Behold, the worst argument against legalizing marijuana.
Company throws weight behind reformers who want to end the practice of jailing people who cannot afford to pay.
The Delaware Criminal Justice Council found it difficult to "justify the resources that have been expend on so few" participants with such a "low rate of success."
The anti-Weinstein crusader apparently had some problems of his own.
The FIRST STEP Act would result in the immediate release of about 4,000 federal inmates, advocates say.
A neighbor thought they were robbing the place.
Not a good weekend for relationships between officers and citizens
An interesting question, which some other courts have answered otherwise.
Libertarians also tend to favor free expression. And there appears to be a real-world trade off.
Will the federal courts issue directly clashing national injunctions about DACA?
Pet food puffery, suspiciously loud laughter, and the school of hard knocks.
What happened when Reason sent a 22-year-old non-lawyer to fight for transparency.
Rahm Emanuel wants to do the thing that critics of drone surveillance fear most.
Herein of "Folsom Prison Blues" and criminal jurisdiction.
The Withdrawal of the Obama-Era "Dear Colleague Letter" (which made transgender access to the bathrooms of students' self-perceived gender rather than their anatomical sex mandatory on schools) was the right thing under federal law. But now the arguments are being made under state law.
"Freedom of the press," as I've argued in earlier posts, was understood as protecting the freedom of all to use the printing press -- not just a freedom of the profession or industry that we might call "the press."
Rothschilds, "fake Jews," "termite[s]," Louis Farrakhan, and more.
Because nothings says "rule of law" like a sheriff held in contempt for refusing to follow a judge's orders.
Violators are required to take classes to reduce racial bias.
It remains unclear whether contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives violated the law.
More undocumented immigration meant less violent crime.
Rauch is one of my favorite writers -- plus I just turned 50, so I suppose I want to believe ....
Siwatu-Salama Ra used a legally purchased firearm to protect her family. She was sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Prompted by the apparent catching of the Golden State Killer.
A Reason investigation found the zones covered wide swaths of cities and buried first-time offenders under huge sentences.
The last thing left-leaning feminists want is a constitutional amendment that would jeopardize such things as preferential treatment for woman-owned businesses.
Taxpayers are increasingly on the hook for millions in overtime, pension costs.
New York's highest court says accusations can be considered for registration purposes even when the defendant was acquitted.
One of America's largest body camera suppliers has expressed interest in the technology.
I just started to listening to this a few months ago (late adopter), I know, and I'm totally hooked.
Is Maine so multicultural now that it can't bring itself to criminalize female genital mutilation within its borders? If the line on cross-cultural tolerance shouldn't be drawn there, where should it be drawn?
It was a rotten durian, and "the waste will be dealt with by Environment Protection Authority officers."
The right approach, in my view.
A law-nerd discussion, posted up at Lawfare.
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