The president's plan to promote public safety by deploying troops in cities across the country is hard to reconcile with constitutional constraints on federal authority.
Kathy Hochul's focus on "assault weapons" is puzzling, since the perpetrator easily could have killed the same number of people with a gun that did not fall into that politically defined category.
Local officials initially were unfazed by complaints that the constant surveillance raised serious privacy concerns.
The widely resented and ridiculed policy, which the U.S. was nearly alone in enforcing, never made much sense.
A DHS video lionizing Customs and Border Protection quotes the Bible and includes a song promising that "God's gonna cut you down."
The recent immigration-related arrest shows that ICE is more concerned with targeting all immigrants than with ensuring public safety.
Flock Safety’s 40,000 cameras present in over 5,000 communities across the U.S. are being used to detain undocumented immigrants, many of whom have no criminal history.
After Charlottesville city officials ignored residents’ demand for a painted crosswalk in a popular intersection, a pedestrian safety advocate made his own.
Former official Brian K. Williams just admitted that he faked a bomb threat during a work meeting. Now he faces up to 10 years in prison.
The decision revives a lawsuit against a Texas officer who shot a driver after endangering himself by jumping onto a moving car.
The movie star’s special treatment highlights the injustice of an illogical federal law.
"This is a gut punch," says Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen. "This is a kick to my balls and two black eyes, to be honest with you."
New Mexico State Police Sgt. Toby LaFave, "the face of DWI enforcement," has been implicated in a corruption scandal that goes back decades and involves "many officers."
For a decade and a half, officers made DWI cases go away in exchange for bribes, relying on protection from senior officers implicated in the same racket.
The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration is holding vehicles to higher standards than it does drivers.
Utah’s experiment with stricter drunk driving laws has led to more fatalities, not fewer. The push for lower BAC limits is missing the real problem.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration declares a crisis and issues new regulations.
Drivers in the state narrowly avoided an even harsher restriction on their automotive freedom.
You don't promote acceptance by locking people up for victimless crimes.
A revision to the municipal code made it illegal for groups of four or more people to convene in public spaces for commercial recreational activities without a government stamp of approval.
Filming cops is a First Amendment right, and there are already plenty of laws against harassing them.
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William Barr and John Walters ignore the benefits of legalization and systematically exaggerate its costs.
The good news: Regulators have exercised unusual restraint.
Let's celebrate her return without exaggerating the relevant dangers; stranger abductions are rare.
"Parents have told me that once their children learn to swim they have more confidence and self-esteem," says Joseph Brier, a swim instructor.
Have we forgotten the era of mass institutionalization?
Railroads spent a decade and billions of dollars fulfilling a costly federal mandate, at the expense of addressing less eye-catching causes of rail-related deaths.
"These are the same people who could not approve an at-home COVID-19 test for a year."
