Armed Agents of the State Shouldn't Be Enforcing Traffic Laws
Interactions between the public and the police should be kept to a minimum.
Interactions between the public and the police should be kept to a minimum.
Police officers shouldn't be above the law.
Their illegal search was not recorded.
A white mayor is pursuing a racially fraught investigation of a black man for hanging exercise straps in a park. What could go wrong?
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Everybody is talking about changing law enforcement, but not all proposals are equally worthy—or serious.
Police strategies have changed dramatically in the past few decades—and not because of soaring crime. America's War on Drugs is a prime culprit.
Frederick Douglass: "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
Reason showed how Chicago's impound program traps innocent owners in thousands of dollars of debt in 2018.
The felony murder charge against Garrett Rolfe hinges on whether he reasonably believed Brooks posed a threat.
The harsh laws covered large swaths of Tennessee's cities in enhanced sentencing zones and locked away minor drug offenders for years.
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"The original meaning of the constitution binds us as a matter of the rule of law. Its restraint on our power cannot depend on whether we agree with its current application on policy grounds. Such a commitment to originalism would be no commitment at all. It would be a smokescreen for the outcomes that we prefer."
Making a living is a right, not a privilege, and should be respected as such.
The rapper, whose real name is Darell Caldwell, is speaking out about his lyrics and videos being used against him in a murder trial.
Cops have a long history of thinking fast food workers are out to get them.
The bill would incentivize police to ban chokeholds and create a national use-of-force database.
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One need not believe every cop is a bigot to recognize that the problem goes beyond a few "bad apples."
That uniform rule is different from the policies favored by Donald Trump and House Democrats.
Donald Trump didn't start the protests, but the fires he's stoking will scorch the nation and discredit the conservative movement.
It does not touch qualified immunity or police unions.
I wouldn't have expected abortion politics there ....
The decision in Bostock v. Clayton County is well-justified from the standpoint of textualism (a theory associated with conservatives), but less clearly so from the standpoint of purposivism (often associated with liberals).
I edited the 120-page decision down to about 30 pages.
SCOTUS did more today than decide that Title VII applies to employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender status.
Sifting through some positive criminal justice developments on the Reason Roundtable.
How to reduce police killings and enact lasting change.
In a matter of weeks, the number of inmates in solitary jumped from 60,000 to nearly 300,000.
Every encounter with armed agents of the state has the potential to end tragically, which is a good reason to minimize such encounters.
"I have previously expressed my doubts about our qualified immunity jurisprudence," writes Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in a dissent.
How to stop police killings and enact real, lasting reforms.
Michael Thompson is serving a 40- to 60-year sentence for a pot crime in a state where both recreational and medicinal marijuana are currently legal
We need to remove all the ways that government deters people from seeking treatment.
He views the doctrine as likely not authorized by the text of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, or the legal principles that it may have implicitly absorbed; instead, he argues, it was created it just "because of a 'balancing of competing values' about litigation costs and efficiency."
Justice Gorsuch writes for six-justice majority that discrimination based upon sexual orientation or transgender status is sex discrimination under Title VII.
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Some progressive activist groups are trying to resuscitate the idea. Whether they succeed remains to be seen.
for all J.D. graduates of law schools accredited by the American Bar Association who are already registered for the July or Sept. 2020 bar exams.
The family of George Floyd probably won't be able to successfully sue Derek Chauvin in civil court because of qualified immunity, but they will help pay for the killer cop's retirement.