Criminal Justice

Civil Liberties

FBI Investigating LA County Jails for Reports of Deputy Involved Inmate Beatings

Paul Detrick | 9.26.2011 4:42 PM

Policy

The Escalating Penalty for Asserting Your Right to a Trial

Jacob Sullum | 9.26.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

NYC Police Commissioner Tells Cops to Stop Arresting Pot Smokers for Following Instructions

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 5:50 PM

Politics

Do Cops Need a Warrant to Track Down Your Cell Phone?

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 4:48 PM

Policy

You Call That a Mandatory Minimum?

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 3:07 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: What We Saw at the Troy Davis Protest in Washington, D.C.

Anthony Fisher | 9.22.2011 6:48 PM

Politics

Rick Perry Has No Faith in Government but Total Faith in the Death Penalty

Why pro-death penalty rhetoric is not pro-individual rights.

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.22.2011 10:30 AM

War on Drugs

Use of Sound Weapon Provokes Lawsuit Two Years After Pittsburgh G20

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.21.2011 6:43 PM

Policy

New Evidence Supports Sequential Presentation of Suspect Photos to Eyewitnesses

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 3:27 PM

Civil Liberties

Liveblog: The Orange County District Attorney's Kelly Thomas Hearing [Breaking: Two Officers Charged with Second and Third Degree Murder]

Mike Riggs | 9.21.2011 1:58 PM

Policy

The Government Blames Full Tilt Poker for the Disruption the Government Deliberately Created

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 12:33 PM

Policy

Springfield Police Arrive Seven Months Late for a Suicide

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 11:38 AM

Policy

One Year After Beating University of Maryland Student John J. McKenna, Two Maryland Police Officers Indicted

Mike Riggs | 9.21.2011 11:25 AM

Policy

Reason.tv: Cops Vs. Cameras: The Killing of Kelly Thomas & The Power of New Media

Paul Detrick | 9.21.2011 9:04 AM

Politics

Judge Rejects Eavesdropping Charges for Recording Police

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2011 4:17 PM

Policy

Cell Phone Video Contradicts Police, Leads to Acquittal

Jacob Sullum | 9.19.2011 4:29 PM

Policy

Who Wouldn't Want to Give DSK a Blowjob?

Jacob Sullum | 9.19.2011 12:30 PM

Policy

Cory Maye Free After 10 Years

Jacob Sullum | 9.18.2011 7:38 PM

Police

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 9.18.2011 7:36 PM

Civil Liberties

UPDATED: One of the Fullerton Cops Who Beat Kelly Thomas Into a Coma Had a History of Violence

Mike Riggs | 9.16.2011 4:39 PM

Civil Liberties

New Jersey Cop Attacked Woman Who Filmed Him at DWI Checkpoint

Mike Riggs | 9.16.2011 3:04 PM

Policy

"Should Faking a Name on Facebook Be a Felony?"

Damon Root | 9.15.2011 5:55 PM

Politics

Why Should We Care If Sarah Palin Snorted Cocaine?

Jacob Sullum | 9.15.2011 5:44 PM

Politics

Judge Posner Fears 'Snooping Around by Reporters and Bloggers' If People Are Allowed to Record the Police

Jacob Sullum | 9.14.2011 6:47 PM

Politics

California Mothers in Prison May be Going Home Soon

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.13.2011 5:30 PM

War on Drugs

Florida State Trooper Teamed With TSA to Ship and Sell Oxycodone

Mike Riggs | 9.13.2011 12:40 PM

Politics

Medicare Thieves

Stealing from the government-run health care system is much easier-and potentially more lucrative-than dealing drugs.

Peter Suderman | 9.13.2011 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Forty Texas Cops Rob a Strip Club

Mike Riggs | 9.12.2011 12:28 PM

Politics

Bummer

Barack Obama turns out to be just another drug warrior.

Jacob Sullum | 9.12.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Remembering 9/11: No, You're an Astroturf-Funded Protester!

Matt Welch | 9.12.2011 11:29 AM

Policy

Autopsy Results Revealed in Mountain Police-Related Death

Paul Detrick | 9.9.2011 9:48 PM

Policy

'Someone at That Office Must Have Misread the Statute'

Jacob Sullum | 9.9.2011 1:20 PM

Policy

Sometimes Police Dress Like Civilians, Sometimes Civilians Dress Like Police

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.9.2011 11:05 AM

Politics

The Era of Big Government Is Not Over

Guitar raids, Texas "justice," and other depressing scenes from the 2012 presidential campaign

Damon Root | 9.9.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Now Updated with Video! Nick Gillespie on RT's The Alyona Show Talking Post-9/11 Civil Liberties; 6.20 p.m. ET Today!

Nick Gillespie | 9.8.2011 6:08 PM

Policy

Renton Police Drop Cyberstalking Investigation of Cartoon Creator, Pursue Harassment Claim Instead

Jacob Sullum | 9.7.2011 3:30 PM

Politics

Put on a Guy Fawkes Mask, Bring Transparency Back to Texas

Jesse Walker | 9.7.2011 12:30 PM

Politics

California Prisons Isolate Some Inmates for Years

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.6.2011 11:15 AM

Civil Liberties

One More Reason Cops Don't Like Cameras: Sometimes They Get Caught Having Sex in Uniform

Nick Gillespie | 9.6.2011 8:08 AM

Civil Liberties

Instapundit Glenn Reynolds on Why it's Important to Film the Police

Nick Gillespie | 9.5.2011 11:22 AM

Politics

Rick Perry's Criminal Justice Record

Jacob Sullum | 9.2.2011 6:03 PM

Policy

Texas Sporting News

Jacob Sullum | 9.2.2011 4:49 PM

Politics

The ACLU and the DOJ Form a Medical Marijuana Alliance

Jacob Sullum | 9.2.2011 2:07 PM

Politics

Maybe Steven Seagal Actually is a Cop

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.2.2011 11:30 AM

Policy

More Apparent Evidence Tampering From Michael West, Bite Mark "Expert"

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.1.2011 5:28 PM