A Police Officer Shot and Killed a 17-Year-Old Boy as He Fled. Now, His Mother Is Suing.
"I hurt every day," said the victim's mother. "I cry all day, every day."
"I hurt every day," said the victim's mother. "I cry all day, every day."
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg reportedly intends to prosecute Trump for falsifying business records.
The Institute for Justice says Robert Reeves' First Amendment rights were violated when prosecutors filed and refiled baseless felony charges against him after he sued to get his car back.
Mayor Eric Adams frets that COVID-19 masks are making it too easy for shoplifters to evade facial recognition.
Police dogs seriously injured 186 people within the last two years—more than batons or tasers did, according to the ACLU.
Criticism of public officials doesn't have to be polite, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court confirmed.
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He did "what any dad would—he went to hug his crying kid," says former town councilman Keith Kaplan.
Yes, even children should have access to an attorney.
Video footage and arrest data indicate that most of the Trump supporters who invaded the building did not commit violent crimes.
Judges and prosecutors accused James and Jennifer Crumbley of negligent behavior despite the fact that school officials at the time reached many of the same judgments.
The two-year investigation, launched after the police killing of Breonna Taylor, concluded that Louisville police routinely used invalid search warrants and failed to knock and announce their presence.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. ET for a discussion with former New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton about the new documentary "Gotham."
Department of Homeland Security
Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.
A ballot initiative that would have allowed recreational use was defeated by a large margin in a special election.
"Lifetime registries are wrong," said the plaintiff's attorney. "They're wrong based on the science and they're wrong based on the reality that risk is not static. It is dynamic."
Amit Katwala’s Tremors in the Blood explores how unreliable technologies have been used in our criminal justice system.
Convincing law enforcement officers that those who do wrong will suffer consequences is by far the most powerful tool for changing police behavior in the long run.
In rebuking the legislation, the president showed that he may not know what's in it.
Michael Friend was arrested in 2018 for holding a sign that read "Cops Ahead" near a police checkpoint. That arrest violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights, a federal appeals court has ruled.
According to the Justice Department's reading of the law, the crime need not involve impersonation or even fraud.
"The Officers' actions were unreasonable, deliberately indifferent, reckless, willful, wanton, and shocking to the conscience," a new legal complaint states.
One guy with gambling debts is a news story, but a formal policy of legalized theft is a national scandal.
Twenty years ago, the justices deemed registration nonpunitive, accepting unsubstantiated assumptions about its benefits and blithely dismissing its costs.
Bradley Bass' case in Colorado says a lot about just how powerful prosecutors are.
"No one buys this sham of a review," wrote one critic. "And the reason we don't buy it is because we all have functioning brains."
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Police have not yet determined whether the suspect was armed at the time of the shooting.
The families argue that they should have been given an opportunity to confer with prosecutors under the Crime Victims' Rights Act before Boeing's deferred prosecution agreement was finalized.
The paper pushes modest reforms while endorsing continued criminalization.
Richard Ward's family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Pueblo County and five sheriff's office officials over a shooting incident that left him dead.
Many Democrats and Republicans were outraged when Trump and Biden respectively were found with classified documents. But both sides are missing the point.
For the second time, Justice Jackson dissents from the Supreme Court's refusal to hear a case.
While expressing great sympathy for the victims' families, Judge O'Connor concludes that no remedy is available for the Justice Department's failure to enforce the families' right to confer under the Crime Victims' Rights Act.
The article explains how the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act and other crime victim protections contain a broad definition of the term "victim."
After a tragic on-set accident, a district attorney used a law passed after the incident to threaten Baldwin with years in jail.
Reason reported in 2020 on allegations of fatal medical neglect inside two federal women's prisons. The Bureau of Prisons heavily redacted reports that would show if women died of inadequate care.
"This is a fundamental statement of morality, of what's right and wrong," Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro said Thursday. "And I believe Pennsylvania must be on the right side of this issue."
The president reaped political benefits with his pre-election proclamation but has yet to follow through.
Tony Mitchell's death was a "direct and proximate result" of jail officers' "deliberate indifference or malice, and of their ongoing denial of Tony's constitutional rights under a scheme that continued to operate after his death," his family's suit states.
Because legislators omitted a crucial letter, there is no straightforward way to downgrade convictions for offenses that are no longer felonies.
Government agencies have paid to access huge amounts of Americans' data.
Over 88 percent of opioid overdose deaths now involve either heroin or fentanyl. Targeting prescriptions is not an efficient way to address mortality.