3 Libertarian Tips for the #DefundPolice Movement
Reducing law enforcement requires more than merely cutting and shifting a budget.
Reducing law enforcement requires more than merely cutting and shifting a budget.
Gun opponents would leave predatory cops armed and their victims helpless.
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Police brutality brought Americans into the streets. What would military force do?
There’s a lot of work to be done to prevent future George Floyds. Here are some baby steps.
Over and over again, unions have defended bad policing and bad police. It’s time for them to go.
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."
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Law enforcement, on his orders, violently dispersed nearby peaceful protesters.
The U.S. already has a major problem with overcriminalization.
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.
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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.
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.
Are we seeing a tipping point where police begin to grasp why the public is so outraged?
So much for the First Amendment.
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The federal government is reviewing the department's investigation into the botched drug raid.
When mask-wearing and social distancing rules are legally enforceable, the potential for violence cannot be avoided.
But the high court may consider other cases that could overturn the outrageous legal doctrine.
The Delano Police Department cleared its officers of wrongdoing.
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When will Americans learn?
What could happen—and what to do about it—if you get pulled over by the cops
The LAPD released body camera footage of Frank Hernandez's use-of-force incident.
They even sent an ambulance, because it's not like there's anything else going on in New York.
Officer Frank A. Hernandez, who beat a suspect while his hands were behind his back, once shot an innocent bystander in the leg.
To the NYPD, everything still looks like a nail.
Considering Stormtroopers aren't known for their aim, the police had nothing to fear.
A state trooper believed a man driving by and flipping the bird at the cops constituted disorderly conduct. (It didn't.)
Some officials want to reevaluate enforcement of low-level, nonviolent offenses during the pandemic. For others, it's business as usual.
Lockdown enforcement is becoming more authoritarian.