Criminal Justice

Policy

Taser Cams

Weapons transparency

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.23.2012 6:36 AM

Policy

Pot Pat-Downs

Manufacturing misdemeanors

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2012 6:34 AM

Politics

Death Sentence Commuted Under New Anti-Race Bias Law in North Carolina

Ed Krayewski | 4.20.2012 5:22 PM

Politics

Zimmerman Takes Stand, Survives

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.20.2012 4:21 PM

Policy

Are We Sliding Toward a Police State?

Law enforcement officials should not behave like an invading army.

Steven Greenhut | 4.20.2012 1:30 PM

Policy

Judge Rules That Advocating Jury Nullification Is Not a Crime

Jacob Sullum | 4.20.2012 11:43 AM

Policy

University Adviser Dies Days After Being Shackled and Hooded by Cops

Ed Krayewski | 4.19.2012 2:10 PM

Policy

Does the 'Backlash' Against 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Make Sense?

Jacob Sullum | 4.19.2012 12:03 PM

Politics

FBI Spent Years Infiltrating Patriots Movement, Completely Missed Timothy McVeigh

Ed Krayewski | 4.19.2012 11:06 AM

Politics

Only Latent Criminals Need Fear BusSafe Sweeps

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2012 5:36 PM

Civil Liberties

We'd Like to Take This Opportunity to Congratulate Ourselves for Our Unsubstantiated Role in Ending D.C.'s Most Notorious Traffic-Camera Speedtrap

Nick Gillespie | 4.18.2012 11:39 AM

Policy

No Good Cops Go Unpunished When They Stop a Beatdown

J.D. Tuccille | 4.18.2012 11:18 AM

Politics

Crack Cocaine, Mandatory Minimums, and the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 4.18.2012 11:11 AM

Politics

From Hackers to Slackers

How a federal law can be used to prosecute almost anyone who uses a computer

Jacob Sullum | 4.18.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Your Government: Committed to Keeping the Drug Market As Dangerous As Possible

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2012 5:50 PM

Politics

Justice for Cisco: A Wrong Door Puppycide in Austin

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.17.2012 2:35 PM

Policy

How Can Overcharging Be Ethical?

Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2012 4:47 PM

Politics

Cops May Throw Wet Blanket on Nude Maid Service

Ed Krayewski | 4.13.2012 3:58 PM

Politics

How and Why a Campus Cop at UC Davis Viciously Pepper-Sprayed a Group of Passive College Kids

Mike Riggs | 4.12.2012 5:12 PM

Politics

More From George Will on the Costs of Drug Prohibition

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 3:35 PM

Policy

How Long Will Nicholas Kristof Continue to Profit From Sex Trafficking?

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 1:31 PM

Policy

If George Zimmerman Loses a Pretrial Motion to Dismiss, He Can Still Be Acquitted

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 11:22 AM

Politics

Newt Gingrich Tells Us About the Justice System and Experts

Ed Krayewski | 4.11.2012 7:42 PM

Policy

George Zimmerman Charged With Second-Degree Murder

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 6:09 PM

Politics

Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 4:17 PM

Policy

WP Says Prosecutor Will Charge George Zimmerman

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 2:17 PM

Policy

9th Circuit Says Watching Reason.tv at Work Is No Crime

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 1:49 PM

Politics

Can Volunteers Protect Communities?

Tracy Oppenheimer | 4.11.2012 12:30 PM

Policy

It's Not the Crime; It's the Cover-Up—Even If There Is No Crime

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 4:11 PM

Policy

Autopsy Raises Doubts About Police Account of Kenneth Chamberlain's Death

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 2:48 PM

Policy

The New York Times Gets Florida's Self-Defense Law Wrong. Again.

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 1:47 PM

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

Policy

Will Google's Augmented Reality Glasses Facilitate an All-Seeing Surveillance State?

Peter Suderman | 4.6.2012 2:50 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