She Was Jailed for Basic Journalism. A Federal Court Isn't Sure if That's Unconstitutional.
Priscilla Villarreal's case will be heard again tomorrow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She has attracted some unlikely supporters.
Priscilla Villarreal's case will be heard again tomorrow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She has attracted some unlikely supporters.
Body camera footage shows precisely why some people don’t trust police to respond appropriately to nonviolent incidents.
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Any unjustified killing by the government demands public attention. But fatal shootings by police used to be much more common.
Officers piled on top of a cuffed Akeem Terrell after he was arrested for acting erratically at a party, and later found him pulseless and facedown in an isolation cell.
Criminal justice advocates are pushing to pass legislation to tighten rules for juvenile interrogations, but the NYPD is not on board.
The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.
The former Forth Worth officer shot Atatiana Jefferson through a window of her home. He said he thought she was a burglar.
Somehow deaths have climbed even though the prison population has dropped.
Credit the leaking of body camera footage to the press for helping force the matter.
San Antonio's city manager said the case illustrated how hard it is to fire employees, but it also shows how hard it is for them to stay fired.
An appeals court rejected a qualified immunity defense.
The city of Vallejo, California, has paid millions in recent years to settle excessive force lawsuits against its heavy-handed police force.
Bradley Bass is facing 12 years in prison, despite the fact that he was doing his job as a school administrator.
The San Francisco Police Department assured the public it had "no plans to arm robots with guns." But assurances aren't guarantees.
The New York Civil Liberties Union is fighting about a dozen different lawsuits against stonewalling police departments.
A precedent set in the January 6 prosecutions could be dangerous to the public.
“You're cracking, you just drank too much,” said one officer as Randy Cox cried that his neck was broken.
The cop who killed Shaver was fired. But he will receive a disability pension for the rest of his life because he claims he has post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
Alex Villanueva was ousted after a single combative, troubled term. Voters also approved giving county leaders the power to remove future sheriffs.
After Eric Parsa's death at the hands of Louisiana police, officers received approval for search warrants of the teenager's "incidents of violence or documented behavioral reports" at school.
The two sheriff's deputies have been disciplined, and the sheriff called the arrest "unacceptable."
In 2020, police severely injured Karen Garner when they arrested her for petty theft. While two officers faced time behind bars for the incident, a newly released report makes even more misconduct public.
California police seized more than $17,000 from Vera and Apollonia Ward and accused them of laundering drug money, all without charging them with a crime. The two sisters were trying to start a dog-breeding business.
Even in cases that hinged on the trustworthiness of demonstrably untrustworthy cops, people are still waiting to get their money back.
Priscilla Villarreal found herself in a jail cell for publishing two routine stories. A federal court still can't decide what to do about that.
The two fake news organizations want the Supreme Court to review the case of a man who was arrested for making fun of the police.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in September that will chip away at a policy that has long been criticized as enabling racially-motivated policing.
Out of 37 officers who were terminated and later reinstated, 17 had committed acts deemed a "threat to safety."
The lawsuit contends that after passengers are screened at federally mandated security checkpoints, Clayton County police search them again before they can board their flight.
Sierra Pettengill's documentary focuses on the fake towns, built by the Army in the 1960s, to train law enforcement.
An officer used an anonymous account to lash out at police protesters (and a Reason post). He was uncovered and fired.
The Kansas credentialing body reprimanded the officer for using excessive force against a child, but stopped short of pulling his license.
In Criminal (In)Justice, the Manhattan Institute scholar argues that most reforms favored by social justice activists—and many libertarians—make life worse for communities of color.
No, a big storm does not require big government.
A First Amendment case prompts The Onion to explain how parody works.
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Plus: The editors unpack a philosophical question from a listener concerning foreign policy.
A technically astounding film that turns a French housing block into a political warzone.
The 6th Circuit ruled that qualified immunity prevented Anthony Novak from vindicating his First Amendment rights.
The onerous sanctions regime carried out by the Trump and Biden administrations has done immeasurable harm in Iran.