Criminal Justice

Civil Liberties

Denver Cop Leg-Sweeps 7-Month-Pregnant Woman to Ground Bellyfirst While Beating Her Boyfriend's Head into Asphalt. Drug War is Working!

Brian Doherty | 11.26.2014 2:56 PM

Policy

LOL, Gawker Claims Ferguson Riots Good for Society, Economy, Something

Nope.

Robby Soave | 11.26.2014 2:33 PM

Politics

Why We Should Care About the Racial Divide in Perceptions of Law Enforcement

Emily Ekins | 11.26.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Darren Wilson Got a Private Trial Run by Friendly Prosecutors

Jacob Sullum | 11.26.2014 6:45 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Let's Try That Ferguson Show Again, Featuring Deroy Murdock, Basil Smikle, Eric Guster, Mollie Hemingway, and More

Matt Welch | 11.25.2014 7:25 PM

Policy

Polling Finds a Stark Racial Divide in Perceptions of Law Enforcement

Jason Keisling and Emily Ekins | 11.25.2014 4:45 PM

Civil Liberties

How Grand Was That Ferguson Grand Jury? A Couple of Perspectives

Brian Doherty | 11.25.2014 3:18 PM

Politics

Why Police Officers Keep Claiming Their Unarmed Victims Had Guns, and What We Can Do About It

Emily Ekins | 11.25.2014 2:58 PM

Civil Liberties

Political, Public Pressure to Prosecute in Brooklyn "Accidental" Police Shooting of Black Man in Dark Stairwell

Brian Doherty | 11.25.2014 1:23 PM

Policy

Why Michael Brown's Killer Would Have Been Acquitted

Conflicting witness accounts and ambiguous physical evidence provide plenty of room for reasonable doubt.

Jacob Sullum | 11.25.2014 12:45 PM

Police Abuse

Post-Ferguson Police Reforms Require Look at Police Unions, Structural Power, Not "Community Relations"

Ed Krayewski | 11.25.2014 11:52 AM

War on Drugs

Family Business

Charles Oliver | 11.25.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

The Improbability of Federal Charges Against Darren Wilson

Jacob Sullum | 11.25.2014 12:54 AM

Politics

Grand Juries Almost Never Fail to Indict, But They Did in Ferguson

Anthony Fisher | 11.25.2014 12:52 AM

Ferguson

Would a Jury Have Convicted Darren Wilson Anyway? And What Does That Mean?

Scott Shackford | 11.24.2014 11:35 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Ferguson Announcement and Immediate Aftermath, Possibly Featuring Radley Balko, Deroy Murdock, Basil Smikle, K.T. McFarland, and More UPDATE No Show

Matt Welch | 11.24.2014 8:21 PM

Civil Liberties

Marissa Alexander Takes Plea Deal in Florida "Warning Shot" Case; Three Years in Jail, Most Already Served

Brian Doherty | 11.24.2014 6:40 PM

Politics

In Utah, You're More Likely to be Shot Dead by a Cop Than a Criminal

Anthony Fisher | 11.24.2014 3:03 PM

Police

Killing of Police Officers Down for Second Year

Scott Shackford | 11.24.2014 2:05 PM

Civil Liberties

Immigrant Sex Workers Say They're Victimized by NYPD, Not Traffickers

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.24.2014 2:03 PM

Policy

A Cannabis Crackdown Contracts

After rising dramatically, marijuana arrests are falling and the trend seems likely to continue.

Jacob Sullum | 11.24.2014 8:30 AM

Police Abuse

By Thor

Charles Oliver | 11.24.2014 6:00 AM

Guns

Cleveland Cop Shoots 12-Year-Old Boy Dead for Playing with Toy Gun

Robby Soave | 11.23.2014 6:54 PM

Politics

Another Rapper Has His Own Rap Lyrics Used Against Him

Paul Detrick | 11.22.2014 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Brooklyn Man Killed By Police Officer, For No Actual Reason at All; An "Accident" Says NYPD

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2014 6:02 PM

Michael Brown

Federal Judge Orders Police Not to Interfere with Recording in Ferguson

Scott Shackford | 11.21.2014 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

San Diego Rapper, and Suspected Gang Member, Tiny Doo Faces Potential 25 Years in Prison Over Lyrics, Album Cover Depicting a Gun

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2014 1:37 PM

Puppycide

Buffalo Police Shot 92 Dogs Since 2011; More Than a Quarter By One Cop Alone

Ed Krayewski | 11.21.2014 12:50 PM

Policy

After Rising Dramatically, Marijuana Arrests Are Falling in New York City and Across the Country

Jacob Sullum | 11.21.2014 7:15 AM

Michael Brown

Darren Wilson in Negotiations to Resign from Ferguson Police Department

Ed Krayewski | 11.20.2014 11:40 PM

Civil Liberties

'Sex Purchasers' to Be Branded Online Indefinitely in Orange County

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.20.2014 4:52 PM

Police Abuse

Cops Throw Smoke Grenade Into Room With 2-Year-Old, Family Says They Warned Police in Apparent Wrong Door Raid

Ed Krayewski | 11.20.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

Senators Feinstein, Portman Want to Expand Wiretapping Authority to Combat Sex Trafficking

Another anti-sex trafficking bill from Sen. Dianne Feinstein that uses inflated fears about the issue to push unconstitutional expansions of federal law enforcement power

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.19.2014 5:15 PM

Culture

Gandhi vs. the Mafia

An anti-crime crusade conducted by neither cops nor vigilantes.

Jesse Walker | 11.19.2014 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Here Is the Ferguson-Inspired Nickelback Song You Didn't Know You Wanted

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.19.2014 3:20 PM

Police Abuse

Cleveland Settles For $3 Million in Fatal Car Chase That Ended With 13 Cops Firing 137 Shots, Killing Two

Ed Krayewski | 11.18.2014 3:52 PM

Prisons

Why Is California Fighting the Release of Non-Violent Inmates? Cheap Labor.

Scott Shackford | 11.18.2014 3:15 PM

Civil Liberties

Most States Project Prison Populations to Keep Growing

The number of inmates in state prisons is set to rise 3 percent by 2018 and reverse a recent downward trend.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 11.18.2014 12:25 PM

Culture

Campouts and Corpses in an Urban Park

Exploring an infamous wilderness in West Baltimore.

Jesse Walker | 11.17.2014 2:44 PM

Civil Asset Forfeiture

D.C. Police's Asset Forfeitures Are Very Lucrative and Very Petty

Scott Shackford | 11.17.2014 11:05 AM

Police Abuse

Colorado Cop Charged With Second Degree Murder

Ed Krayewski | 11.17.2014 10:15 AM