Biden voted for the 1997 bill that created the Pentagon's 1033 program, which allows surplus military gear to be passed along to local cops. It took 23 years, but he finally changed his opinion.
Princeton's Omar Wasow talks about the complicated effects of civil rights demonstrations, police brutality, and racial fears on public policy.
The officers who shot David McAtee had their body cameras turned off.
And that means breaking through the "blue wall of silence."
Plus: George Floyd's death ruled "homicide caused by asphyxia," and more...
Law enforcement, on his orders, violently dispersed nearby peaceful protesters.
The U.S. already has a major problem with overcriminalization.
The Reason Roundtable talks riots, police, protesters, policies, and more.
For decades, New York's secrecy regime has hidden police misconduct records from families and reporters.
Meanwhile, Sen. Tom Cotton is asking the military to commit war crimes against American citizens. Trump approves!
"Rioting is a form of tyranny," Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News show. He's wrong.
Plus: the return of the "outside agitator" narrative, Trump can't designate Antifa a terror group, and more...
If you are unwilling to do whatever you can to stop injustice, injustice is all the more likely to continue unabated.
Much can and must be done to curb police brutality. The task is difficult, but far from hopeless. But riots and looting are both wrong in themselves, and likely to have counterproductive results.
The answer hinges on Derek Chauvin's state of mind as he kneeled on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes.
They still were a lot better-behaved than officers elsewhere.
Aggressive police tactics are likely to worsen the situation.
Mayors are imposing curfews and governors are deploying the National Guard in response to anti-police-abuse protests.
The available evidence suggests that police unions are a major obstacle to holding rogue police officers accountable.
They're using their Second Amendment rights to protect local businesses from riots and looting.
The Supreme Court could announce as early as Monday that it's revisiting qualified immunity, a doctrine that shields rotten cops from civil rights lawsuits.
Riots have raged in the city in response to Floyd's death.
Are we seeing a tipping point where police begin to grasp why the public is so outraged?
So much for the First Amendment.
Police departments exist to protect people's persons and property. The Minneapolis Police Department has failed to do either.
In Timbs v. Indiana, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause applies to state asset forfeiture seizures. But key issues were left for lower courts to resolve.
Indiana is still fighting to keep Tyson Timbs' SUV seven years after it first seized the car, but for now, it's back in Timbs' driveway.
Fate Vincent Winslow, who has never committed a violent crime, fears catching coronavirus in prison.
The House will consider a surveillance reform proposal that failed in the Senate by just one vote.
Minneapolis police said George Floyd died after he "appeared to be suffering medical distress."
Plus: Supreme Court considers church reopenings, GOP proposes back-to-work bonuses, Libertarian Party picks 2020 ticket, and more...
A law passed by Florida Republicans to limit a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights to felony offenders violates the 14th and 24th Amendments, the judge ruled.
The announcement brings the total number of suspect cases initiated by Gerald Goines to 164 over 11 years.
It’s all about the revenue. Civil forfeiture brings in money, and lawmakers are more worried about their budgets than residents’ due process and property rights.
On crime, drugs, immigration, and foreign policy, his 44-year policy record is a cautionary tale of bipartisanship in response to perceived crises.
The federal government is reviewing the department's investigation into the botched drug raid.
Plus: Virginia decriminalizes marijuana, it's not Trump's call whether we close the country again, and more…
A federal judge ordered officials at Elkton to stop "thumbing their nose" at their own authority to release inmates at risk of coronavirus.
Google thinks I'm a robot. What if it's right?
When mask-wearing and social distancing rules are legally enforceable, the potential for violence cannot be avoided.
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