This Suicidal, Gasoline-Drenched Man Burned to Death After Cops Tased Him. A Federal Court Says That's Reasonable Force.
"In what legal universe is it not even plausibly unreasonable to knowingly immolate someone?" asks dissenting judge
"In what legal universe is it not even plausibly unreasonable to knowingly immolate someone?" asks dissenting judge
A new investigation of Pennsylvania prosecutions confirms that the defendants are often friends or low-level dealers.
A North Carolina city council member wants to make feeding homeless people a misdemeanor.
With panic in the air, federal law enforcement seized the moment.
A jury convicted the former Minneapolis police officer of murder and manslaughter in April, nearly a year after Floyd's death set off nationwide protests.
Baltimore kept tabs on citizens' movement across 90 percent of the city, without a warrant, to investigate crimes.
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Realtors, contractors, and insurance agents who engage in bad behavior can be stripped of their licenses. Police officers, on the other hand, rarely get fired.
Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.
Cracking down on "rogue gun dealers" and enforcing background checks won't stop criminals from arming themselves.
Once again, it shows just how hard it is to hold bad officers accountable.
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Holding a sign in a public park should not cause an arrest.
"In lower courts' view, [a] federal badge now equals absolute immunity."
Fourth Amendment advocates win big in Lange v. California.
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The EQUAL Act would finally end one of the worst legacies of the 1980s drug war and clean up one of the biggest stains on Joe Biden's record.
The ex-cop's closing pitch is filled with crazy accusations about "disenfranchis[ing] Black voters."
Gotham voters are trending toward candidates who acknowledge that violent crime is up, and that school closures were terrible.
In 2018, the Republican said family separations were "tragic and heart-rending."
Rules range from absurd to appalling without respect for civil liberties or basic logic.
The book argues that judges should take their responsibility as gatekeepers of scientific and technical evidence more seriously.
But the appeals court wasn't having it.
Pending the governor's expected signature, Connecticut will become the 19th state—and the fifth this year—to legalize recreational weed.
Returning traffic enforcement and criminal law enforcement to their proper spheres could put both police and drivers at ease.
Legislators cannot have it both ways.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids railed against cops for enforcing the same kind of anti-vaping rule they help pass.
And it's not a moment too soon.
A new brief asks the Supreme Court to reinstate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence.
She was sentenced to more than five years for revealing how Russia tried to hack the 2016 election.
The little-known but outrageous practice allows federal judges enhance defendants' sentence based on conduct a jury acquitted them of.
Two states have passed laws requiring court approval before the cops can use genetic genealogy services to track down a suspect.
Dumb laws lead to police brutality.
Reason tried out the field test kits used to test for drugs in prison. They were unreliable and confusing.
"It makes me feel like the government is preying on the vulnerable and the weak to line their own pockets."
Bloodstain pattern analysis is one of several forensic techniques that has come under scrutiny in recent years for its lack of established error rates.
The question of proportionality assumes that punishment is appropriate for peaceful conduct that violates no one's rights.
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