The Crime Victims' Rights Movement's Past, Present, and Future (Part III - the Future)
Efforts to expand and amplify victims' voices in criminal proceedings are justified and likely to continue into the future.
Efforts to expand and amplify victims' voices in criminal proceedings are justified and likely to continue into the future.
The modern crime victims' rights movement has been remarkably successful in inserting the victim's voice into criminal justice processes.
New Mexico State Police Sgt. Toby LaFave, "the face of DWI enforcement," has been implicated in a corruption scandal that goes back decades and involves "many officers."
Under existing Second Circuit caselaw, the district court will almost certainly need to approve the motion to dismiss. But existing Circuit law fails to take into account the Crime Victims Rights Act. And there may be a "victim" who rights are being ignored: New York City.
Snakes. Magic. Orgasmic meditation. And a dubious federal case against the leaders of a supposed sex cult.
Law enforcement acts better when officers know the public is watching.
The victims' rights movement is rooted in America's long tradition of private prosecution, in which crime victims were able to initiate and pursue their own criminal prosecutions.
Taxpayers will continue to be hurt twice by misconduct until individual police officers are held accountable.
Civil forfeiture allows the government of Hawaii to take your property and sell it for profit without proving you did anything wrong.
A driver who was acquitted of drunk driving joins a class action lawsuit provoked by a bribery scheme that went undetected for decades.
Massachusetts outlawed flavored tobacco. Now, just as criminal justice groups warned, a vape shop owner is serving time.
In the latest guilty plea, a local defense attorney says he had been bribing cops to make DWI cases disappear "since at least the late 1990s."
The bill would also create mandatory minimum jail sentences for fleeing the police.
For all the money spent on it, the gunshot detection system has a spotty record at best.
Fogel's story closely mirrored that of Brittney Griner's. But he did not receive the same urgency from the Biden administration, even though he was arrested six months prior.
For a decade and a half, officers made DWI cases go away in exchange for bribes, relying on protection from senior officers implicated in the same racket.
The agency's low points, from working with child sex abusers to enabling drug trafficking
"I know they are guilty," otherwise "they would not be in front of me," said town justice Richard Snyder, who resigned in December.
A(nother) look at how human trafficking panic gets made.
A defanged FBI could minimize our reliance on politicians’ (rarely) good intentions.
Video of the incident shows Micah Washington screaming as a Reform, Alabama, police officer deploys a Taser directly into his back.
Yet its penitentiary centers are already running at over 300 percent capacity.
At his confirmation hearing, the president's pick to run the nation's leading law enforcement agency ran away from his record as a MAGA zealot.
Plus: Air traffic control failures that led to a plane crash, "why shit not working" in New York City, and more...
Public records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation show how sensitive police databases are used and abused.
These bills—in Indiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina—could also imperil IVF practices and threaten care for women with pregnancy complications.
Federal prosecutors say the city's police department was the main focus of a 15-year bribery scheme that also involved the sheriff's office and the state police.
Two new books dissect the "constitutional sheriffs" movement, which seeks to nullify laws adherents see as unconstitutional.
Curtrina Martin's petition attracted support from a bipartisan group of lawmakers.
Frontier magazine's Peter Gietl and Salvadoran journalist Ricardo Avelar debate the merits of Nayib Bukele's criminal justice policies.
Local news reports detail how Polk County, Minnesota, charges drivers and petty offenders with drug-free zone violations like no other county in the state.
Politicians who’ve dropped the ball inevitably see the solution as reducing people's freedom.
"I can tell you that I have never been put in a position of doubting my own sanity like I was in the hands of those police officers," Knox tells Reason.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
By the end of 2025, as many as 100 million Americans could live in a state where they can be reported for protected expression.
"I can't make sense of it. I couldn't even finish watching the video," said the girl's mother. "That's not how you handle children."
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