Criminal Justice

Policy

Now Playing at Reason.tv: A Drug Raid Goes Viral: Radley Balko on the Missouri SWAT Raid Video

Reason Staff | 7.21.2010 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Winning The War on Photography

Nick Gillespie | 7.21.2010 10:55 AM

Politics

Bono and Buttman

If indecency is unconstitutionally vague, why isn't obscenity?

Jacob Sullum | 7.21.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Why Would 80 Police Officers Cost Oakland $100 Million?

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.20.2010 11:18 PM

Policy

Arrest Everybody

Arizona encourages police to emulate "the toughest sheriff in America."

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2010 12:00 PM

Politics

Public Servants vs. the Public

Damon Root | 7.20.2010 11:53 AM

Politics

Is John Stagliano's Victory a First Amendment Victory?

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2010 12:03 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Rebellion, Expulsion, Seepage

Jesse Walker | 7.19.2010 8:27 AM

Policy

A Drug Raid Goes Viral

A violent police raid posted on YouTube sparks outrage-but the only thing unusual was that it was caught on video.

Radley Balko | 7.16.2010 1:30 PM

Policy

Sheriff Joe's War: Now More War-ry!

Radley Balko | 7.16.2010 1:27 PM

Policy

One Woman's Trash Is the City's Treasure

Jacob Sullum | 7.15.2010 5:34 PM

Politics

"Chu has lost his ticket to ride"

Damon Root | 7.15.2010 2:54 PM

Civil Liberties

USA Today Editorial on Recording the Police

Radley Balko | 7.15.2010 11:39 AM

Policy

If 'Indecency' Is Unconstitutionally Vague, Why Isn't 'Obscenity'?

Jacob Sullum | 7.14.2010 12:49 PM

Policy

Porn Over National Security, Vice Squad Overreach, and Censorship in the Courtroom

More dispatches from the John Stagliano obscenity trial

Richard Abowitz | 7.14.2010 11:45 AM

Policy

Tattoo Tuesday: Now With Mad Scientists!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.13.2010 1:12 PM

Civil Liberties

Justice for Johannes Mehserle

The involuntary manslaughter verdict for Oscar Grant's killer may not be popular, but it is appropriate.

Radley Balko | 7.12.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

The Trial of John Stagliano

This week's momentous obscenity case shows that Obama's Justice Department is no different than Bush's when it comes to pornographic speech.

Richard Abowitz | 7.12.2010 2:15 PM

Civil Liberties

More on Recording On-Duty Police Officers

Radley Balko | 7.12.2010 2:10 PM

Policy

When the Police Stop Absolutely Everybody

Robby Soave | 7.12.2010 1:55 PM

Policy

Now Playing at Reason.tv: Robert K. Elder on The Last Words of the Executed

Reason Staff | 7.12.2010 12:20 PM

Politics

The First Amendment Right to Carry a Gun

Jacob Sullum | 7.9.2010 10:48 AM

Civil Liberties

Audio/Transcript of My Discussion on NPR About Recording Police

Radley Balko | 7.9.2010 10:10 AM

Politics

Parasitic Tort Lawyers

The trouble with trial lawyers

John Stossel | 7.8.2010 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

The FBI Closes a Window to the Truth

Why federal investigators should use recording devices

Steve Chapman | 7.8.2010 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

A Case Study in Local News Futility

A Pennsylvania TV station utterly botches an important story about police officers and transparency.

Radley Balko | 7.7.2010 12:00 PM

Policy

Ninth Circuit Panel: Innocence, Schminnocence. We Have Rules, You Know.

Radley Balko | 7.7.2010 10:11 AM

Civil Liberties

More Watching of the Watchers

Radley Balko | 7.5.2010 7:04 PM

Policy

California NAACP Backs Marijuana Legalization, Citing Racial Disparities

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2010 4:12 PM

Policy

NYPD, Stop-and-Frisk, and a Rock Star Police Chief

Radley Balko | 6.30.2010 11:22 AM

Policy

How You Get 20 Years for a Prescription

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2010 6:35 PM

Policy

Police Blackout

Law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia say you have no right to know what they're doing.

Radley Balko | 6.29.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

If You Don't Give Us 150 Percent Pensions, We'll Kill This Child

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.25.2010 3:17 PM

Politics

Now We Know What Honest Services Fraud Is (Sort Of)

Jacob Sullum | 6.25.2010 12:15 PM

Politics

When Politicians Raise Cigarette Taxes, the Terrorists Win. No, Really.

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2010 12:06 PM

Policy

Immigration Raid Leads to Fraud Accusation, and Essential Lifetime Imprisonment for Kosher Meat Entrepreneur

Brian Doherty | 6.23.2010 4:21 PM

Policy

BP's Brave Fight Against Camera-Wielding Terrorists

Jesse Walker | 6.23.2010 3:13 PM

Policy

They'll Do Anything to Goose Housing Prices, Even Hand Out Tax Credits to 1,300 Prison Inmates

Matt Welch | 6.23.2010 12:43 PM

Civil Liberties

Cop vs. Dog

Radley Balko | 6.22.2010 3:31 PM

Politics

Another Marylander Arrested for Recording the Police

According to state officials, only on-duty cops have a privacy right in public spaces.

Radley Balko | 6.21.2010 4:30 PM

Politics

L.A. Builds Expensive New Jail, Can't Afford to Use It

Brian Doherty | 6.21.2010 3:52 PM

Policy

Reason Writers on the Tube: Radley Balko Discusses SWAT Teams and the Drug War on John Stossel's Show

Reason Staff | 6.19.2010 7:06 PM

Politics

Girl-Punching (and Cop-Taping) in Seattle

Matt Welch | 6.17.2010 11:05 AM

Policy

"If he did this to a city councilman and lied about the facts…imagine what he does to average citizens"

Damon Root | 6.16.2010 3:16 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: The Great Philly Beer Bust or, Step Away From The Unlicensed Ale or I'll Shoot!

Reason Staff | 6.16.2010 1:00 PM