Criminal Justice

Politics

Tidequistadors In Search of Sound Money

A laundry soap has developed as much legitimacy as the dollar to serve as currency. What's going on?

Anthony Randazzo | 4.6.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Bronx Legislators Push To Hold Incarcerated Parents Closer to Children

Ed Krayewski | 4.6.2012 3:37 PM

Politics

America's Bipartisan Reefer Madness

Both Democrats and Republicans support the pointless federal crackdown on medical marijuana

Steven Greenhut | 4.6.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

7 Rules for Recording Police

Courts are expanding rights but cops are cracking down. Find out how to keep your footage, and yourself, out of trouble.

Steve Silverman | 4.5.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Stop Panicking Over Bullies

Despite a flurry of recent documentaries and attention, school hasn't been reduced to jungle law.

Nick Gillespie | 4.4.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Don't Call the Cops No. 359: Police Keep Suspiciously Large Tip

Brian Doherty | 4.4.2012 3:21 PM

Policy

We Are the Police, and We Are Here to Help Kill You

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2012 11:52 AM

Policy

Shooting in the Dark

Three things people don't know about the Trayvon Martin case (but think they do)

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Did George Zimmerman Ignore the Police Dispatcher, and Why Did He Have a Gun?

Jacob Sullum | 4.3.2012 2:24 PM

Politics

ACLU Says Police Often Obtain Cellphone Location Data Without Warrants

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 6:01 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Upholds Pre-Jail Strip Searches for Everyone, No Matter How Minor the Offense

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 4:50 PM

Politics

Capitol Hemp Shuts Down As Government-Selected Vendors Plan to Grow Pot in D.C.

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 3:20 PM

Policy

The Times Keeps Shouting 'Stand Your Ground,' While Reporting That the Real Issue Was Probable Cause

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2012 12:47 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Will Consider Dogs' Reliability As Probable Cause Generators

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2012 5:26 PM

Policy

Study Finds a Third of Bronx Pot Busts Are Bogus

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2012 3:35 PM

Politics

Federal Judge Says Forcing Some Prostitutes to Register As Sex Offenders Violates the Equal Protection Clause

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2012 2:09 PM

Policy

Did Police and Paramedics Conspire to Invent George Zimmerman's Injuries?

Jacob Sullum | 3.29.2012 12:53 PM

Policy

More on the Irrelevance of 'Stand Your Ground' to the Trayvon Martin Case

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2012 1:18 PM

Policy

ABC News: Lead Homicide Investigator Did Not Buy George Zimmerman's Story

Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2012 7:20 PM

Policy

New Details About George Zimmerman's Account of His Fight With Trayvon Martin

Jacob Sullum | 3.27.2012 11:06 AM

Policy

Paul Krugman: 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Increase Incarceration by Reducing It

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2012 1:59 PM

Policy

'Stand Your Ground' May Have Nothing to Do With the Trayvon Martin Case

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2012 12:28 PM

Politics

Hate Is All You Need to Federalize a Crime

Jacob Sullum | 3.23.2012 1:55 PM

Policy

Going to Canada? Leave Your Comic Books at Home.

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2012 6:17 PM

Policy

Smells Like Multiple Fourth Amendment Violations

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2012 3:17 PM

Policy

Was George Zimmerman the Aggressor?

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2012 12:19 PM

Policy

Was Nicholas Kristof's Story About an Underage Prostitute Peddled on Backpage.com 'Concocted'?

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 7:03 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Says Defendants Have a Right to Effective Counsel in Deciding Whether to Reject a Plea Bargain

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 5:11 PM

Policy

The New York Times on 'Stand Your Ground': Prosecutors Do Not Like a Law That Makes It Harder to Prosecute People

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 12:52 PM

Politics

Cops Moving In On Toulouse Shooting Suspect

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.21.2012 7:59 AM

Policy

Dharun Ravi's Hateless Hate Crime

A jury blames Dharun Ravi for his dead roommate's imagined feelings.

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Does Tyler Clementi's Suicide Prove Dharun Ravi Is a Bigot?

Jacob Sullum | 3.20.2012 4:42 PM

Politics

Sextuple Jeopardy

The Groundhog Day of capital murder trials

William Browning | 3.19.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Eric Holder in 1995: We "really need to brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."

Nick Gillespie | 3.19.2012 8:00 AM

Policy

Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime?

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2012 4:25 PM

Politics

Dharun Ravi Found Guilty on Most Charges

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 1:04 PM

Policy

Bill Bennett Takes Drug Policy Advice From Bruce Springsteen

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2012 2:04 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: How Sex Offender Registries Fail Us

Tracy Oppenheimer | 3.14.2012 12:28 PM

Policy

Is Dharun Ravi Guilty of 'Bias Intimidation'?

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 12:11 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on The Alyona Show: Matt Welch Talks Voter Access, Plea Bargaining in America, and Public Attitudes About War

Reason Staff | 3.13.2012 7:42 AM

Policy

Reason Nominated for 8 "Maggie" Awards

Matt Welch | 3.12.2012 4:59 PM

Politics

Ordeal by Trial: Sowing Chaos With the Sixth Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2012 2:52 PM

Policy

New Orleans Police Kill Unarmed Man During Pot Raid

Jacob Sullum | 3.9.2012 1:21 PM

Policy

With 12 Beholders, You Just Need One to Say It Might Be Art

Jacob Sullum | 3.9.2012 12:26 PM

Civil Liberties

Father of Cop Who Killed Kelly Thomas: "It wasn't a beating; it was a struggle."

Mike Riggs | 3.8.2012 12:40 PM

Politics

Debating Hate Crime Laws With Thom Hartmann

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2012 4:09 PM