Federal Stats on Police Killings to Remain Incomplete, Confusing, Mostly Useless
FBI numbers have huge gaps from non-participating law enforcement agencies.
FBI numbers have huge gaps from non-participating law enforcement agencies.
Men can now be counted as victims and the crime turns not on force but consent.
This, from Ken White, a former prosectuor who has seen it all.
After marijuana decriminalization, more is required to pull someone over.
LAPD offers little by way of public accountability and gets $1 million anyway.
Police response was unjustified no matter what.
We've heard this story before. Many times before.
Disturbing privacy-violating practice at Burning Man finds drug dogs once again striking out.
Teen loses cell phone privileges, constitutional rights.
"Jail time should be understood" for those caught soliciting prostitution says Indiana AG Greg Zoeller.
Living in Baltimore is more dangerous than being a cop.
Bill fails, but the battle's not over.
Rape kit testing is important but the initiative threatens to set up yet another front in federal bureaucracy.
Law and order lobbyists defeat due process.
If there really is a war on cops, whoever's fighting it seems to be losing.
California's participation in federal program threatened just by calling for better due process.
Settlement announced in man's death while in police custody
If you pay attention to what crime numbers actually say, you're a "smug left-wing journalist," apparently.
If you work as an informant, law enforcement is unlikely to have your back.
Only a few million arrests to go and surely we'll stamp out this prostitution fad, by golly...
Will require agents get warrants for devices that track mobile phone locations.
State AG just got the authority to investigate such shootings last month.
At stake: Possessing a firearm during a "crime of violence" adds five extra years to a felony sentence.
The increasingly bad image of police around the country is their fault and nobody else's.
Kafka-esque sexting nightmare
Is it a new trend or a temporary detour? And what's to blame?
Is it possible for two teens to sexually exploit each other?
Cops are under more scrutiny than before, but there isn't a rise in killings, and it's probably never been safer to be a cop.
As Reason regulars are all too aware, the feds have been taking a heavier hand lately when it comes to online speech.
A step in the right direction?
Law allows police to arm them with non-lethal weapons.
DHS "will use its unique authorities to disrupt and dismantle" gay escort sites, says special investigator.
Her so-called crimes? Screening clients and booking appointments for willing adult sex workers.
Head of federal officers association says Obama commuting the sentences of 46 prisoners is "releasing the lions."
Santa Ana officers tried to suppress a video that seems to show them sampling a dispensary's wares.
Will major civil liberties measure change the way California police behave?
The new federal sex trafficking law makes very clear that anyone paying for sex with a teen is guilty of the crime of human trafficking.
Heroin addicts directed to treatment, not jails and courtrooms.