Criminal Justice

Politics

Will Oregon's Next Attorney General Uphold Its Medical Marijuana Law?

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2012 3:19 PM

Raid

A Bipartisan Coalition of House Members Tried to Defund Obama's Medical Marijuana Raids Yesterday, Failed

Mike Riggs | 5.10.2012 8:47 AM

Policy

New York's Highest Court Says Merely Looking at Kiddie Porn Is Not a State Crime

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2012 6:09 PM

Civil Liberties

Judge: Two of the Six Police Officers Responsible For Kelly Thomas' Death Will Stand Trial

Mike Riggs | 5.9.2012 5:47 PM

Politics

Milwaukee Police Chief Fires Four Officers This Month, Unrelated to Sweeping Investigation of Police Sexual Assault and Civil Rights Violations

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2012 4:14 PM

Policy

Were McAfee Raid Tactics Born in the Third World or the U.S.?

J.D. Tuccille | 5.9.2012 1:37 PM

Politics

New Jersey Supreme Court Reviewing Kyleigh's Law Requiring Young Drivers to Display Red Decals

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2012 12:38 PM

Politics

Maricopa County SWAT Team Thrills Awful Fox News Reporter

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.8.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

7th Circuit Orders Injunction Against Illinois Ban on Recording Cops

Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2012 7:45 PM

Policy

What Makes a Horror Movie Intolerable in Canada?

Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2012 5:36 PM

Politics

Putin Press Secretary: "Protesters who hurt riot police should have their livers smeared on the asphalt"

Ed Krayewski | 5.8.2012 2:41 PM

Civil Liberties

"Local police boost arsenals with free military weapons": What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Nick Gillespie | 5.8.2012 8:58 AM

Policy

Newly-Released Surveillance Video Shows Police Officers Brutally Beating, Suffocating, and Tasing Kelly Thomas to Death

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.8.2012 12:00 AM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh Talks Tasers, Deaths in Custody with RT

Reason Staff | 5.7.2012 5:30 PM

Politics

New Surveillance Video Contradicts Cops' Story About Beaten Bronx Teen

Ed Krayewski | 5.7.2012 1:59 PM

Policy

Is Every Self-Defense Claim a 'Stand Your Ground' Case Now?

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2012 12:41 PM

Politics

Does the Outcome in Arizona v. United States Matter?

Damon Root | 5.4.2012 12:20 PM

Politics

New Jersey State Police Superintendent Caught in Apparent Lie over High-Speed "Death Race" Escorts

Ed Krayewski | 5.4.2012 12:11 PM

Policy

Police Brutality Incident Leads to Raid, State of Emergency

J.D. Tuccille | 5.4.2012 11:42 AM

Policy

Cops in Cruisers Sniff Out Cars Carrying Pot Smokers

Jacob Sullum | 5.4.2012 11:37 AM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch in Zócalo Public Square on Southern California's Changed Culture 20 Years After the Riots

Reason Staff | 5.4.2012 10:47 AM

Politics

Ed Markey Looks Into Warrantless Cellphone Tracking

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2012 2:48 PM

Policy

How Dharun Ravi's Prosecutors Turned a Minor, Nonviolent Offense Into a Felony Subject to a 10-Year Prison Sentence

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 2:50 PM

Policy

The Path That Led to the Shooting of Trayvon Martin

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 12:59 PM

Politics

'No Fly Zone' Over Chicago for NATO Summit

Ed Krayewski | 5.2.2012 10:13 AM

Policy

20 Years for Standing Her Ground

A Florida woman faces prison after firing a warning shot to scare off an abusive husband.

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Oakland Police Slapped for Militarized Response to Protesters

J.D. Tuccille | 5.1.2012 3:15 PM

Policy

'Shock Artist' Could Get 25 Years for Offending Federal Prosecutors

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2012 12:24 PM

Policy

Colorado Man Exonerated After Serving 18 Years for Murder

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2012 12:08 PM

Politics

Every Move You Make

How new surveillance technologies threaten privacy

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

British Army Deploying Surface to Air Missiles on Residential Rooftops for London Olympics

Ed Krayewski | 4.30.2012 11:23 AM

Politics

The FBI: Making Sure We Don't Need to Import Terror From Overseas

Brian Doherty | 4.30.2012 10:35 AM

Politics

How the L.A. Riots Changed Nothing

Celebrating 20 years of "doing it to the people"

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.29.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh on the 20th Anniversary of the L.A. Riots

Reason Staff | 4.29.2012 12:00 PM

War on Drugs

Victim of Warrantless, Wrong-Door Raid: "I'm not the same person"

Mike Riggs | 4.27.2012 1:25 PM

Policy

Jumping to Conclusions About My Conclusions

Jacob Sullum | 4.26.2012 8:07 PM

Policy

Children Are Unfeeling Sociopaths

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.26.2012 12:47 PM

Policy

Lawyer for Anti-Illegal Immigrant Group Gets SWAT Raid for Son's Graffiti, But He's Still Not Worried About Law Enforcement Excess

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.25.2012 9:15 PM

Policy

20 Years for Standing Her Ground Against a Violent Husband

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2012 1:47 PM

Politics

What We Saw at the Occupy the Justice Dept. Rally in DC!

Anthony Fisher, Joshua Swain, and Lucy Steigerwald | 4.25.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Self-Defense Under Attack

Critics of Florida's "stand your ground" law refuse to retreat, regardless of the evidence.

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

What We Saw at the Occupy the Justice Dept. Rally in DC!

Anthony Fisher, Joshua Swain, and Lucy Steigerwald | 4.24.2012 8:49 PM

Civil Liberties

Maine Cops to Ramp Up Asset Forfeiture Efforts

Mike Riggs | 4.24.2012 1:25 PM

Politics

Ugandan Activists Storm Police Department, Go Topless to Protest Sex Assault

Ed Krayewski | 4.24.2012 11:45 AM

Politics

The Not-So-Secret Secret War on Muslims

Ed Krayewski | 4.24.2012 10:37 AM

Politics

Sanford Police Chief Resigns Over Trayvon Martin Incident

Ed Krayewski | 4.23.2012 4:41 PM