Police Abuse

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh on PJTV Talking Romney, Unemployment and Krugman: Updated with Kelly Thomas Palaver

Reason Staff | 5.10.2012 5:09 PM

Civil Liberties

Judge: Two of the Six Police Officers Responsible For Kelly Thomas' Death Will Stand Trial

Mike Riggs | 5.9.2012 5:47 PM

Politics

Milwaukee Police Chief Fires Four Officers This Month, Unrelated to Sweeping Investigation of Police Sexual Assault and Civil Rights Violations

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2012 4:14 PM

Policy

Newly-Released Surveillance Video Shows Police Officers Brutally Beating, Suffocating, and Tasing Kelly Thomas to Death

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.8.2012 12:00 AM

Policy

7 Rules for Recording Police

Courts are expanding rights but cops are cracking down. Find out how to keep your footage, and yourself, out of trouble.

Steve Silverman | 4.5.2012 1:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Father of Cop Who Killed Kelly Thomas: "It wasn't a beating; it was a struggle."

Mike Riggs | 3.8.2012 12:40 PM

Policy

An Orange Country Deputy Shot an Unarmed Marine in Front of His Children Last Week

Lucy Steigerwald | 2.13.2012 6:35 PM

Policy

It Seems Like Cops Should Be Aware of the Existence of Deaf People

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.28.2011 6:10 PM

Politics

Reason TV: How a Local Blog Broke the Kelly Thomas Story

A conversation with Friends for Fullerton's Future

Paul Detrick | 11.4.2011 12:22 PM

Civil Liberties

DC Metro Cops Who Attack Wheelchair-Bound Boozer Get Off

Nick Gillespie | 10.24.2011 11:27 AM

Civil Liberties

Liveblog: The Orange County District Attorney's Kelly Thomas Hearing [Breaking: Two Officers Charged with Second and Third Degree Murder]

Mike Riggs | 9.21.2011 1:58 PM

Policy

One Year After Beating University of Maryland Student John J. McKenna, Two Maryland Police Officers Indicted

Mike Riggs | 9.21.2011 11:25 AM

Policy

Reason.tv: Cops Vs. Cameras: The Killing of Kelly Thomas & The Power of New Media

Paul Detrick | 9.21.2011 9:04 AM

Civil Liberties

UPDATED: One of the Fullerton Cops Who Beat Kelly Thomas Into a Coma Had a History of Violence

Mike Riggs | 9.16.2011 4:39 PM

Civil Liberties

Instapundit Glenn Reynolds on Why it's Important to Film the Police

Nick Gillespie | 9.5.2011 11:22 AM

Civil Liberties

Reason Morning Links: New Witness Claims Kelly Thomas Didn't Fight Back, KBR Makes Bank, Wikileaks Releases Unredacted Cables

Mike Riggs | 8.30.2011 8:44 AM

Local Government

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 8.21.2011 6:31 PM

War on Drugs

Attorney for the Fullerton Six: "Public perception of officer's trying to control a combative, resistive suspect rarely conforms…to reality"

Mike Riggs | 8.3.2011 3:21 PM

War on Drugs

Fullerton Cops Who Beat Kelly Thomas Into a Coma Placed on Leave

Mike Riggs | 8.3.2011 11:14 AM

War on Drugs

Fullerton Cop Allegedly Bragged About Brutally Beating Homeless Man Kelly Thomas

Mike Riggs | 8.2.2011 4:49 PM

Civil Liberties

New Witness Testimonies Surface In Kelly Thomas Case: "They Pounded His Face Against the Curb"; "He's Almost Halfway Dead"

Mike Riggs | 8.2.2011 10:46 AM

Civil Liberties

FBI Investigating "Scuffle" In Which Five Fullerton Cops Beat Kelly Thomas Into a Coma

Mike Riggs | 8.1.2011 4:47 PM

War on Drugs

Homeless Man Dies After Being Brutally Beaten by Five Fullerton Cops

Mike Riggs | 7.29.2011 1:52 AM

War on Cameras

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 6.19.2011 10:40 AM

Politics

Big Brother Is Watching You

Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.25.2011 4:30 PM

Police Abuse

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 4.24.2011 10:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Atlanta PD Will No Longer Harass Citizens Who Record Cops

Radley Balko | 2.12.2011 12:57 PM

TSA

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 1.23.2011 1:09 PM

Culture War

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 11.16.2010 1:29 PM

Civil Liberties

FOP Chief: Citizen Video Makes Cops "Afraid To Act"

Radley Balko | 10.20.2010 1:14 PM

Politics

How to Record the Cops

A guide to the technology for keeping government accountable

Radley Balko | 9.20.2010 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

More Watching of the Watchers

Radley Balko | 7.5.2010 7:04 PM

Policy

NYPD, Stop-and-Frisk, and a Rock Star Police Chief

Radley Balko | 6.30.2010 11:22 AM

Civil Liberties

In Spite of State Law, Maryland Law Enforcement Officials Still Arresting, Charging People for Recording Cops

Radley Balko | 5.29.2010 8:34 AM

Civil Liberties

Illinois: Where Recording On-Duty Cops Is Treated Like Sexual Assault

Radley Balko | 5.20.2010 12:40 PM

Policy

NAACP Sets Up Website for Cell Phone Videos of Police Misconduct

Radley Balko | 7.17.2009 2:52 PM

Policy

The Case for Videotaping Police Interrogations

Radley Balko | 10.27.2008 10:29 AM

Policy

Assault With a Deadly Camera

Radley Balko | 10.16.2007 12:47 PM

Police Abuse

The Riots & After: Reconstruction

The power of imagination.

Virginia Postrel | 8.1.1992 12:00 PM

Poverty

Rage, Riots, & Respect

What Los Angeles needs is a little respect

Virginia Postrel | 7.1.1992 12:00 PM

Police Abuse

The Cops: Heroes or Villains?

Editorial notes on police brutality

Lanny Friedlander | 11.1.1969 2:04 PM