Criminal Justice Reporter
A survey of presidential preferences and regrets
The Trump administration deployed more than 100 federal law enforcement officers to Portland to quell weeks of unrest. The administration claimed it was simply protecting a federal courthouse.
Joe Biden has said plenty of regrettable things about criminal justice, but that wasn't one of them.
Atilano Dominguez was serving a life sentence for marijuana offenses, and federal prosecutors tried to ensure he died behind bars.
The charges are not for killing Taylor, but rather endangering her neighbors with wild shots.
The parts that aren't constitutionally dubious are brainless culture-war fodder.
That includes 1,114 armored personnel carriers.
The allegations are horrific and, as of now, otherwise unsubstantiated, but if true they would not be without precedent.
"When you're conditioned to believe that every person...poses a threat to your existence, you simply cannot be expected to build out meaningful relationships."
The ruling is a major setback for civil liberties groups trying to re-enfranchise an estimated 775,000 Floridians with felony records.
There were four times as many incidents of physical restraint against students the year after Florida doubled the number of police in its schools.
This is the 10th lawsuit in the past few years accusing Chicago police of terrorizing families because of sloppy, outdated search warrants.
Cheryl Weimar's case put a gruesome spotlight on Florida's troubled prison system.
"I will continue to give all Americans, including former inmates, the best chance to build a new life and achieve their own American dream," Trump said.
Sen. Tim Scott (R–S.C.) criticizes Joe Biden's record on mass incarceration.
The unions argued that releasing unsubstantiated complaints would harm officers' reputations and threaten their safety.
"Our findings suggest that increasing SRO staffing in schools does not improve school safety and that increasing exclusionary responses to school discipline incidents increases the criminalization of school discipline."
A Florida prosecutor's office reviewed the cases and agreed to resentencing for nearly two dozen inmates, calling it "a matter of fundamental fairness."
The Secret Service wanted the helicopter to deploy a "fast ropes" commando team if necessary.
There is no need to excuse Kamala Harris' law enforcement record just because it has outlived its usefulness for her political ambitions.
His wrists were too small for the cuffs, though.
In other news, Chicago Public Schools will still spend $15 million on school police.
The lawsuit accuses the group's leaders of fraudulently diverted millions of dollars to prop up their luxury lifestyles.
Iowa was the last state in the U.S. with a lifetime voting ban for anyone with a felony record.
A 2016 Reason investigation found Detroit police have a nasty habit of shooting dogs during drug raids.
In two-thirds of those cases, there were no accompanying arrests.
The 2012 internal affairs report complaint was filed by a use-of-force instructor who warned the advice could lead to lawsuits.
A National Guard officer will testify that the June 1 clearing of protesters outside the White House was "an unnecessary escalation of the use of force" and "deeply disturbing."
A 2018 Reason investigation showed how Chicago's impound program ensnared innocent owners, stripped them of their cars, and soaked them in debt.
Trump and other White House officials say the feds may soon be coming to other major cities as well.
The ACLU of Oregon says it's the first of many lawsuits regarding the Trump administration's deployment of federal law enforcement to Portland.
The state has barred hundreds of thousands of residents with felony records from voting without first paying off their court fines and fees.
Inmates serving mandatory minimum sentences have been left behind.
Reason profiled William Forrester's 15-year mandatory minimum sentence in a 2017 investigation into Florida's draconian opioid trafficking laws.
Stone was set to report to federal prison to serve 40 months for lying to Congress and witness tampering.
And Sen. Tim Scott (R–S.C.) says policing reform in Congress might not be dead after all.
The report found it was "not uncommon for Narcotics Bureau officers to write false or incomplete narratives that justify their uses of force."
This deadly and contagious disease has exposed problems with prison systems that have been ignored for decades.
It's been nearly four months since a Maryland SWAT team killed Duncan Lemp, and there's been no transparency.
A Reason investigation has identified three deaths from alleged medical neglect at FCI Aliceville, a federal women's prison. Current and former inmates say it's routine, but the Bureau of Prisons won't talk about it.
There's a lot going on. Here's a rundown of significant police reform news from around the country.
Republicans have said ending qualified immunity is off the table, and for the moment policing reform looks dead in Congress.
San Francisco and Oakland have moved toward getting police out of its schools, while Chicago and L.A. rejected similar proposals this week.
The department says the officer "displayed an extreme indifference to the value of human life" when he "blindly fired 10 rounds" into Taylor's apartment.
Reason showed how Chicago's impound program traps innocent owners in thousands of dollars of debt in 2018.
The harsh laws covered large swaths of Tennessee's cities in enhanced sentencing zones and locked away minor drug offenders for years.
The bill would incentivize police to ban chokeholds and create a national use-of-force database.
In a matter of weeks, the number of inmates in solitary jumped from 60,000 to nearly 300,000.
