Criminal Justice

Policy

If You Use Drugs, You Might End Up Eating Someone's Face

Jacob Sullum | 5.29.2012 5:43 PM

Politics

Honor 9/11 Victims by Helping California Fight Livestock Diseases (and Pay State Employees)!

Scott Shackford | 5.29.2012 12:15 PM

Politics

Ted Stevens' Prosecutors Punished for Withholding Evidence

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2012 4:49 PM

Policy

Homicide Isn't Prosecutable When You're a Federal Agent

J.D. Tuccille | 5.25.2012 3:31 PM

Policy

Ray Kelly Outlines Measures to Curtail the Illegal Police Stops He Says Are Not Occurring

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2012 3:21 PM

Politics

Is It Even Possible to Lower Property Assessments "Improperly"?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.25.2012 2:13 PM

Politics

Scott Walker Turns Up the Heat on Flawed Milwaukee Crime Stats

Wisconsin gubernatorial candidates debate high-profile police controversy.

Ryan Ekvall and M.D. Kittle | 5.25.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

D.A. Suspends Grand Jury Investigations of Police Shootings in Albuquerque; No Shooting Ever Ruled Unjustified

Ed Krayewski | 5.25.2012 1:05 PM

Politics

When Government Privileges Trump the Rights of Citizens

California creates a two-tiered system, with government workers on top.

Steven Greenhut | 5.25.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Drug Busts As Make-Work for Superfluous Cops

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2012 11:46 AM

Politics

The Lighter Side of Electronic Monitoring

History shows the benefits of positive reinforcement for Ankleted-Americans.

Greg Beato | 5.24.2012 4:30 PM

Policy

Flashing Headlights to Warn About Speed Traps Is Protected Speech, Sez Judge

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.24.2012 1:35 PM

Politics

The Costs of Police Brutality: Fresh Out Of Bankruptcy, Vallejo Pays $4.5 Million for Warrantless Entry That Led to Spinal Cord Injury, Permanent Disability

Ed Krayewski | 5.24.2012 11:18 AM

Politics

St. Louis Cops Worry That In-Car Cameras 'Are Being Used Against Them'

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2012 5:38 PM

Policy

St. Louis Police Officers Association No Fan of Dash Cams

Ed Krayewski | 5.23.2012 10:55 AM

Politics

Is That a Spy in Your Pocket?

How warrantless cellphone tracking threatens your privacy

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Does the Artist Treated Like a Terrorist Still ?NY?

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2012 4:21 PM

Politics

Cato Relaunches Police Misconduct Tracker, Assuring Regular Online Diet of Face-Stomping, Groin-Crushing 'Professionalism'

Scott Shackford | 5.22.2012 11:52 AM

Policy

Cop Doing "God's Work" Threatens to Face-Rape Petty Crook

Scott Shackford | 5.21.2012 5:36 PM

Politics

Asset Forfeiture: "A Process of Government Enrichment That Often Is Indistinguishable from Robbery"

Damon Root | 5.21.2012 4:51 PM

Politics

Palm Beach Deputy Sheriff "Forced" to Shoot Unarmed Man Checking In on Family Business

Ed Krayewski | 5.21.2012 4:29 PM

Policy

Dharun Ravi Gets 30-Day Jail Sentence, Plus Probation

Jacob Sullum | 5.21.2012 12:50 PM

Policy

Police Tell Woman to Pay Son's Bail in Cash, Then Steal it

Matt Welch | 5.21.2012 9:45 AM

Politics

Jacob Sullum Discusses the Right to Record Cops on RT

Reason Staff | 5.18.2012 11:58 AM

Policy

Prison Study: Equal Sexual Misconduct from Inmates, Staff

Scott Shackford | 5.17.2012 7:39 PM

Civil Liberties

Is There a Drone in Your Backyard?

Even when we don't have an expectation of privacy, we do have a right to be left alone.

Andrew Napolitano | 5.17.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Federal Judge Allows Class Action Challenging the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Program

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2012 6:11 PM

Policy

Three Reasons to Reject Federal Hate Crime Charges Against George Zimmerman

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2012 2:19 PM

Policy

Another Exhibit Against Florida's Self-Defense Law Disintegrates

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2012 1:05 PM

Politics

Will President Obama Commute Clarence Aaron's Sentence?

Ed Krayewski | 5.16.2012 12:54 PM

Politics

Reason TV: Outraged Fullerton citizens react to Kelly Thomas beating tape

Paul Detrick | 5.16.2012 12:02 PM

Politics

Columbia Professor and Students Reveal Texas Justice Executed the Wrong Man in 1989

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.15.2012 10:00 PM

Politics

Greek Protesters Join Cops to Beat Up on Immigrant

Ed Krayewski | 5.15.2012 3:14 PM

Politics

We Find the Defendant, John Edwards, Guilty of Scumbaggery

Jacob Sullum | 5.15.2012 2:32 PM

Politics

Cop Accused of Being Drug Trafficker's Inside Man at NYPD

Ed Krayewski | 5.15.2012 1:23 PM

Civil Liberties

Husband of Sunday School Teacher Killed by Culpeper Cop Files $5 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Mike Riggs | 5.15.2012 12:23 PM

Politics

"I kissed her breasts and nipples, as there was no place for my face to go," Salt Lake City PD Re-Evaluates Vice

Ed Krayewski | 5.14.2012 6:23 PM

Politics

The First Amendment vs. the War on Cameras

Damon Root | 5.14.2012 5:43 PM

Politics

How a Poster Boy for Commutation Falls Through the Cracks

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2012 1:39 PM

Civil Liberties

Why Did a Culpeper Cop Kill a Retired Sunday School Teacher in a Church Parking Lot? [UPDATED]

Mike Riggs | 5.14.2012 11:18 AM

Politics

Oakland Cop Shoots, Kills High School Senior; Nothing to See Here

Ed Krayewski | 5.14.2012 10:13 AM

Policy

California Woman Permanently Blinded by Police Officer's High-Velocity OC Gas Weapon

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.11.2012 7:05 PM

Politics

Bloomberg Likens the NYPD's 'Stop and Frisk' Program to Random DUI Checkpoints

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2012 4:36 PM

Politics

Water Declared Safe in Fracking Town, SEC Investigates JPMorgan Losses, Edwards Wants Case Tossed Out: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 5.11.2012 4:28 PM

Politics

How the Kelly Thomas Killing Sparked a Citizen Revolt

The bipartisan movement to reform a broken California city

Steven Greenhut | 5.11.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

She Stole His Heroin, So She Was the Victim

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2012 6:47 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh on PJTV Talking Romney, Unemployment and Krugman: Updated with Kelly Thomas Palaver

Reason Staff | 5.10.2012 5:09 PM