Release Body Cam Footage
With the right freedom of information and use policies, wearable cameras could still be a powerful weapon to increase transparency.
With the right freedom of information and use policies, wearable cameras could still be a powerful weapon to increase transparency.
They're a consistent force of organized resistance to calmer, safer, less aggressive policing.
This court-invented doctrine shields bad cops from civil liability.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says that information is confidential. Government watchdogs say that excuse is bogus.
If Art Acevedo had any shame, he would be engaging in less grandstanding and more introspection.
From tighter use-of-force rules to eliminating qualified immunity, here are some reforms that could make a real difference.
The USPS has lost $78 billion since 2007, but could lose as much as $13 billion this year as the pandemic has crushed mail volume.
In requiring greater transparency in police record-keeping, California proves it can do at least one thing right.
This is how the system is supposed to work.
Pruitt's recurring waste of taxpayer money undermines his laudable regulatory reforms.
The foul ups by the Broward County Sheriff's Office don't inspire confidence.
The agency already tried to get out of the requirements once.
Only 3 percent of drug-related incidents by staff have resulted in disciplinary action.
Officer Richard Haste's departmental trial for the killing of teenager Ramarley Graham was open to the public, but records of the trial are not.
The evidence is in: All police should wear cameras.
Can't rely on government to oversee itself.
Legislators want civil fines as option if agency provides bad information
First covered by Reason TV last June, CBS's venerable newsmagazine probes the death of the college student turned confidential informant.
Kyle Olson of the Education Action Group (EAG) shines a spotlight on wasteful public-school spending.
If you work as an informant, law enforcement is unlikely to have your back.
Amnesty International report calls for "nationwide review" and "collection and publication of nationwide statistics on police shootings."
Andrew Sadek was bullied into becoming an informant by an unaccountable drug task force. When he turned up dead, police washed their hands of him.
A three-hour long city council committee hearing on police procedures demonstrates how elusive real police accountability is.
The California Report Card is a growing, grassroots tool for individual citizens to make their government officials listen.
Why do the people in charge of our security apparatus behave as though they can do whatever they want? Because no one has stopped them.
2-page bill unlikely to be passed into law
But they work so wonderfully shadowy in the U.S.!