NYPD Cynically Suggests Parents Know Better Than Lawyers How To Guide Children Through Interrogations
Criminal justice advocates are pushing to pass legislation to tighten rules for juvenile interrogations, but the NYPD is not on board.
Criminal justice advocates are pushing to pass legislation to tighten rules for juvenile interrogations, but the NYPD is not on board.
Stanford University psychologist Keith Humphreys misconstrues libertarianism and ignores its critique of prohibition's deadly impact.
Fortunately, government kills fewer prisoners each year.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
Overbearing CDC guidance, pointless calls to the police, and more.
The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.
As free speech becomes an increasingly important part of the culture war, people won't stop misinterpreting—and outright violating—the First Amendment.
The final report from the January 6 select committee falls short of proving the elements required to convict the former president.
Enforcing all the laws, all the time.
Although both bills have broad bipartisan support, they never got a vote in the Senate and were excluded from the omnibus spending bill.
The former Forth Worth officer shot Atatiana Jefferson through a window of her home. He said he thought she was a burglar.
The legal distinction between the smoked and snorted forms of cocaine never made sense.
The leading possibilities include knowledge and intent elements that have to be established beyond a reasonable doubt.
A compromise to cram crack sentencing reform into the year-end omnibus spending bill fell apart at the last minute.
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The attorney general's memo to prosecutors is an improvement, but it is no substitute for legislation.
Texas law allows police to withhold records of suspects who were never convicted. Police abuse it to hide records from families, reporters, and lawyers investigating deaths in custody.
Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.
The U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals doesn't resolve whether such conduct is substantively constitutionally protected from criminal punishment, but holds that military law didn't put the defendant on notice that the conduct was illegal.
By giving powerful law enforcement officials absolute immunity from civil liability, the Supreme Court leaves their victims with no recourse.
The move comes as legislation flounders in Congress to end the crack-powder sentencing disparity once and for all.
Elon Musk reignited the GOP’s interest to bring charges against Anthony Fauci.
Credit the leaking of body camera footage to the press for helping force the matter.
Healthy cities are a boon not just for those who live in them, but for our entire society.
A Government Accountability Office report last year documented hundreds of ICE actions involving potential U.S. citizens.
San Antonio's city manager said the case illustrated how hard it is to fire employees, but it also shows how hard it is for them to stay fired.
The Richmond City Council unanimously approved a resolution to study applying tougher zoning restrictions to new shops as a way of cutting down on crime.
Another officer claims to have been laid out just by being close to the drug. That’s not how it works.
A study credits "an overall lower police search rate," the result of new priorities and legal constraints.
Judges on The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit disagree over when Title IX claims accrue.
Brown: “The state should not be in the business of executing people.”
An appeals court rejected a qualified immunity defense.
Now the officer is trying to keep his identity secret under a state law intended to protect crime victims.
Long delays and management failures "allowed serious, repeated sexual abuse in at least four facilities to go undetected."
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The city of Vallejo, California, has paid millions in recent years to settle excessive force lawsuits against its heavy-handed police force.
The Arizona Supreme Court becomes the first state Supreme Court to thoroughly incorporate crime victims' rights in its rules of criminal procedure. Others should follow.
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Seventeen retired federal judges, appointed by both Republicans and Democrats, filed a brief supporting his appeal.
Bradley Bass is facing 12 years in prison, despite the fact that he was doing his job as a school administrator.
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