7 Race-Neutral Solutions to Racially Skewed Law Enforcement
These reforms would protect all Americans while reducing racial disparities in policing.
These reforms would protect all Americans while reducing racial disparities in policing.
Police unions exist to protect cops at the expense of the public.
The legislation rolls back regulations that have been shielding bad police from accountability.
Police officers shouldn't be above the law.
A white mayor is pursuing a racially fraught investigation of a black man for hanging exercise straps in a park. What could go wrong?
Police strategies have changed dramatically in the past few decades—and not because of soaring crime. America's War on Drugs is a prime culprit.
The felony murder charge against Garrett Rolfe hinges on whether he reasonably believed Brooks posed a threat.
Our leaders and institutions are failing us spectacularly. It's up to us to reboot society.
Cops have a long history of thinking fast food workers are out to get them.
The bill would incentivize police to ban chokeholds and create a national use-of-force database.
One need not believe every cop is a bigot to recognize that the problem goes beyond a few "bad apples."
That uniform rule is different from the policies favored by Donald Trump and House Democrats.
Donald Trump didn't start the protests, but the fires he's stoking will scorch the nation and discredit the conservative movement.
It does not touch qualified immunity or police unions.
Sifting through some positive criminal justice developments on the Reason Roundtable.
How to reduce police killings and enact lasting change.
Every encounter with armed agents of the state has the potential to end tragically, which is a good reason to minimize such encounters.
"I have previously expressed my doubts about our qualified immunity jurisprudence," writes Associate Justice Clarence Thomas in a dissent.
How to stop police killings and enact real, lasting reforms.
The family of George Floyd probably won't be able to successfully sue Derek Chauvin in civil court because of qualified immunity, but they will help pay for the killer cop's retirement.
The comedian expresses rage over police brutality while offering optimism for a better world.
Will progressives alienate allies and squander this opportunity for change?
Citing work from Reason, players and coaches from the NFL, NBA, and MLB are urging Congress to end qualified immunity.
If this is what cities are paying billions for, no wonder people are calling for defunding.
For those who have been advising Americans for years that we should lay down our own weapons and trust armed government employees, this year has been a massive reality check.
All that accomplishes is encouraging us to view our fellow Americans as enemies, to see ourselves as members of warring tribes rather than citizens of a nation.
It's a perverse kind of progress, but it's progress all the same.
After George Floyd’s death, the city will bring in outside advisers to recommend changes to make policing more transparent and accountable.
With Trump opposed too, there's little hope that a serious police reform bill will get through Congress anytime soon.
Is the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone a brave experiment in self-government or just flash-in-the-pan activism?
The criminal complaints against Derek Chauvin and three other officers rely on expansive liability principles that reformers usually oppose.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision is "a precedent-setting error of exceptional public importance," writes dissenting judge.
No, we should interrogate its persistent popularity and our relationship to it as forcefully as possible.
Abolishing qualified immunity is a crucial step in holding police accountable for violating our rights.
New York was a national outlier in hiding police misconduct records. The state legislature finally repealed the law responsible for it.
Union leaders show very little interest in considering collective bargaining’s role in protecting bad cops.
There's no evidence to support the claim that 75-year-old Martin Gugino is part of antifa.
A spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety says they were scared people would drive too fast.
Elite journalism's bizarre week, analyzed on The Reason Roundtable.
The bill includes many items on police reformers' wishlists, but it would also pump more federal money to police departments instead of shrinking their budgets.
No amount of protesting is likely to reduce police brutality in the absence of structural reforms that increase accountability, competition, choice, and incentives.
The Democratic presidential candidate wants an extra $300 million in federal grants for cops.
It's not likely to have the chilling effect he expects. Unfortunately, it might not do as much as criminal justice reformers expect either.