Police

Policy

Supreme Court Rules Against Bank Robber in Forced-Accompaniment Case

9-0 decision affirming criminal conviction.

Damon Root | 1.13.2015 10:50 AM

Civil Asset Forfeiture

Forfeiture News: New York's Program a Mess; Lawmakers Want to End Federal Asset Sharing Program

Scott Shackford | 1.12.2015 12:20 PM

Policy

NYPD Brass to Rank and File: Start Writing More Summonses Or Else

The politics of the police slowdown are now completely scrambled.

Jesse Walker | 1.12.2015 10:27 AM

NYPD

NYPD Slowdown Resulting in $10 Million Less a Week in Parking Tickets

Scott Shackford | 1.9.2015 5:20 PM

Politics

What Cops and Protesters Both Get Wrong: Police-Related Violence in New York City Has Been Falling For Decades

Jim Epstein | 1.6.2015 4:31 PM

NYPD

NYPD Cop Shot in Bronx Not Happy Mayor Visited Him in Hospital. That's OK.

Ed Krayewski | 1.6.2015 3:11 PM

Policy

Congress Can Help Fight Police Abuse by Ending Incentives to Seize Assets

The Fifth Amendment Integrity Restoration Act would help take the profit motive out of law enforcement

Scott Shackford | 1.6.2015 10:00 AM

Policy

Help the Cops Chill Out

How law enforcement can be made more compatible with Americans' liberty.

Ed Krayewski | 1.6.2015 10:00 AM

Police

We'll Get It Right Next Time

Charles Oliver | 1.6.2015 6:00 AM

NYPD

NYPD Continues to Not Arrest People. Are New Yorkers Envying, Eating the Dead, Yet?

Scott Shackford and Jason Keisling | 1.5.2015 6:32 PM

Politics

Data on Shootings by Police is Even Worse Than We Thought

Anthony Fisher | 1.5.2015 1:40 PM

Economics

Altoona's Privately Funded Drug War

One form of privatization we can do without

Jesse Walker | 1.5.2015 10:42 AM

Civil Liberties

12 Times the Police Used Deadly Force Under Questionable Circumstances in 2014

From Eric Garner to John Crawford to Tamir Rice.

Ed Krayewski | 1.2.2015 1:30 PM

Tasers

Being Homeless in Miami May Lead to a Tasering

Scott Shackford | 1.2.2015 11:15 AM

Politics

Friday A/V Club: Watch New York Cops Riot Against the Mayor—in 1992

An earlier—and rowdier—revolt at the NYPD

Jesse Walker | 1.2.2015 10:43 AM

Police

Do the Police Know Detroit's Broke? They're Investigating One Piece of Anti-Cop Graffiti

Ed Krayewski | 1.1.2015 4:03 PM

Policy

Candid Camera Cops

Recording law enforcement

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.1.2015 12:00 PM

Police

Mentally Ill Man Posts Police Threats on YouTube, Shot to Death by Cops From Three Jurisdictions Trying to Arrest Him

Ed Krayewski | 12.31.2014 12:31 PM

Policy

NPR Discovers the Dire Effects of Petty Law Enforcement Regarding Drivers Licenses

Brian Doherty | 12.30.2014 12:53 PM

Police

NYPD Punishes City by Not Citing, Arresting Citizens as Much. Oh, No!

Scott Shackford | 12.30.2014 11:40 AM

Police

Civilian and Police Homicide Rates Roughly Comparable

Ronald Bailey | 12.30.2014 11:36 AM

Police Abuse

Rules of the Road

Charles Oliver | 12.30.2014 6:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Body Cameras for Police Only Work When On: Did Utah Police Killing of Iraq Vet Sgt. Nicholas McGehee Go Down Like Police Claim?

Brian Doherty | 12.29.2014 11:23 PM

Policy

Police Informant Says His Lies Killed a Harmless Pot Smoker

Jacob Sullum | 12.29.2014 2:27 PM

Politics

Instapundit: Excessive Tribalism Poisons Both Sides of Police-Violence Debate

Nick Gillespie | 12.29.2014 11:54 AM

Protests

Nashville Police Responded Peacefully to Peaceful Protesters, and That Made Some Folks Upset

Scott Shackford | 12.29.2014 11:20 AM

Public Unions

Affidavit Shows Cop Union Targeting Foes

A case in California spotlights their political 'playbook'

Steven Greenhut | 12.26.2014 11:30 AM

Police

Dallas Cop Disarms Armed Suspect Without Shooting at Him

Ed Krayewski | 12.26.2014 11:12 AM

Police

Merry Christmas, Rudolph!

Charles Oliver | 12.25.2014 6:00 AM

Politics

Teen Fatally Shot by Police Officer at Suburban St. Louis Gas Station

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.24.2014 9:30 AM

War on Drugs

Top 25 'Christmas Gifts' Cops Took From You or Bought With Your Money

Justin Monticello and Paul Detrick | 12.24.2014 9:00 AM

Cuba

The Fugitive Assata Shakur, U.S.-Cuba Relations, and the So-Called 'Anti-Cop' Movement

Past imperfect

Ed Krayewski | 12.23.2014 4:31 PM

Terrorism

Amanda Marcotte Is Confused

On Ismaaiyl Brinsley and Scott Roeder

Jesse Walker | 12.23.2014 2:09 PM

Police

Cincinnati Cop Charged in Teen Sex Scandal May Not be Only Officer Involved

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.23.2014 12:50 PM

Militarization of Police

Rand Paul: Demilitarize the Police! New York: Bulletproof Everything!

Scott Shackford | 12.22.2014 5:10 PM

Police Abuse

Sotomayor Is Right: SCOTUS Gave Too Much Leeway to the Police in Heien v. North Carolina

Damon Root | 12.22.2014 2:40 PM

Detroit

Investigation into Overtime Fraud at Detroit Police Department Expanding

Ed Krayewski | 12.22.2014 2:18 PM

Politics

NYPD Freakout: "We've Become a 'Wartime' Police Department"

Ed Krayewski | 12.22.2014 9:32 AM

NYPD

Two Cops Shot and Killed in New York City in "Ambush" and "Assassination," Says Commish

Ed Krayewski | 12.20.2014 9:07 PM

Culture

And the Award for Fattest American Workers Goes to… Cops

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.19.2014 10:10 AM

Police

'Your Eyes Are Kind of Messed-Up Looking,' Says Cop Interrogating Girlfriend of Man Wrongly Killed By Cops

Robby Soave | 12.18.2014 12:19 PM

Civil Asset Forfeiture

Philadelphia Drops Two Asset Forfeiture Cases Amid Legal Battle

Scott Shackford | 12.18.2014 11:35 AM

Politics

Centralized Policing Is the Wrong Solution

Elinor Ostrom and the case against centralization

Jesse Walker | 12.17.2014 4:30 PM

Nanny State

Help End Violence Against Sex Workers by Decriminalizing Prostitution, Activists Say

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.17.2014 2:07 PM

Police

LAPD to Get Body Cameras. Will They Tamper with Those, Too?

Scott Shackford | 12.17.2014 10:35 AM

Civil Liberties

Friend Disputes Police Narrative in Death of Miami Graffiti Artist Demz

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.16.2014 4:16 PM

Civil Liberties

Law Student Calls Out Cops Trying to Ticket Him for Playing 'Fuck Tha Police'—So They Find Other Reasons to Ticket Him, Obviously

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.16.2014 12:05 PM