by Scott Schackford. Elizabeth Nolan Brown linked to a piece at The New Yorker this morning about the suicide of Kalief Browder,
22, who spent three years at Rikers Island, often stuck in solitary
confinement, without ever seeing a trial. The journalist, Jennifer
Gonnerman, originally dove deep into Browder's case back in October, and it's worthy ... MORE
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Dreadful Criminal Justice System Destroyed Kalief Browder
by Scott Schackford. Elizabeth Nolan Brown linked to a piece at The New Yorker this morning about the suicide of Kalief Browder,
22, who spent three years at Rikers Island, often stuck in solitary
confinement, without ever seeing a trial. The journalist, Jennifer
Gonnerman, originally dove deep into Browder's case back in October, and it's worthy ... MOREMontana Man Saves Baby Moose, Calls Park Service For Help; Only To See Agents Come And Kill The Little Fella
by Michael E Miller. For Josh Hohm, Memorial Day began with all of the magic of a Disney movie, featuring a new animal friend and an unexpected adventure. Thanks to some Montana park rangers, however, it ended up a snuff film. Hohm decided to spend the holiday at the West Boulder Campground in the Gallatin National Forest — near ... MORE
Lenore Skenazy: Cops And Media Applaud Local Busybody For Bravely Harassing Dad Who Briefly Left Kid Alone
Minding other people's business. Area-man Mark Herrmann didn’t choose to be a hero. No, no, he was just minding his own business when he noticed that a child’s life was in mortal danger. He acted decisively—ensuring the child’s safety, and guaranteeing a police investigation into the negligent parent’s actions. Thanks to the video of the ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: One Nation Under Surveillance
The NSA's technotyranny. We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any electoral mandate or constitutional referendum, and yet it possesses superpowers, above and beyond those of any other government ... MORE5 Yes Or No Questions To Determine If You Are A Statist
by Larken Rose. The 5 Questions: 1) Is there any means by which any number of individuals can delegate to someone else the moral right to do something which none of the individuals have the moral right to do themselves? 2) Do those who wield political power (presidents, legislators, etc.) have the moral right to do things which other people do not ... MORERick Ungar: The Prospect Of A Cashless Society Contemplating Ultimate Surrender To Government Control
Government's end game. Denmark, known to be the “happiest” nation on the planet, has a long and storied history of providing its citizens with a strong social safety net—a system designed, in the words of the nation’s official website, to provide its people with “the necessary material framework for living a reasonable life.” Yet, a ... MOREBill Of Rights Doesn’t Amount To Much In A Cop Culture
by John W. Whitehead. Police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be held financially accountable for their actions.—Law professor Joanna C. Schwartz (paraphrased) If you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police ... MOREMichael Snyder: Police Abduct 10 Children From A Family In Kentucky Because Of Their ‘Off The Grid’ Lifestyle
More evidence the government is not us. If the government does not like the way that you are raising your kids, they will come in and grab them at any time without giving any warning whatsoever. Of course this is completely and totally unlawful, but it has been
happening all over America. The most recent example of this that has
made ... MOREWoman Sues LAPD For Kidnap And Sexually Assault
Punished for not putting out. When Kim Nguyen called a cab after a few drinks, she thought she was on the right side of the law. But in spite of her best efforts, the 27-year-old pharmacist explains she was thrown from a police cruiser after Los Angeles police officers kidnapped and sexually assaulted her while she was waiting for that cab. ... MOREJacob Sullum: No Wonder Freddie Gray Ran From The Cops
Explaining the anger. When the cops chasing Freddie Gray caught up with him, they had a problem: He had not done anything illegal. They solved that problem the way cops often do: They picked a charge after the fact. According to Marilyn Mosby, the state's attorney for Baltimore, that charge, carrying a switchblade, was legally unfounded. Gray's ... MOREWhen Violence And Lawlessness Are Acceptable
by Radley Balko. Yesterday, the Fox News show Fox & Friends devoted a segment to discussing the shooting of New York Police Dept. officer Brian Moore.
The discussion was framed in a particularly absurd way. Why, the hosts
asked, aren’t there protests and riots when police officers are killed,
as there are when police kill suspects? It’s the sort of question ... MORERowan Lee: ACLU Releases App To Track & Record Police
What if citizens required justice? The ACLU has begun to roll out a new program through the form of an app that they call the Mobile Justice Crime Unit. Currently only a handful of states carry the program, as shown here with California’s service, but the app’s outreach is growing. The website is ultra-modern – achieving the ... MORE Available on iTunes Want To Fix Baltimore? End The Drug War
by Christopher Ingraham. No, The Wire does not explain what's happening in Baltimore this week, as my colleague Alyssa Rosenberg wrote yesterday. Still, the show's creator and former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon knows a lot more about the city than most of us. And in a wide-ranging and riveting interview with The Marshall Project ... MOREDid You Know Police Have Their Own Bill Of Rights?
by Eli Hager. Why the public is still in the dark about Freddie Gray. It has been more than two weeks since Baltimore police dragged Freddie Gray
into the paddy-wagon from which he would emerge, half an hour later,
with a fatal injury to his spine. But as another day ticks by, Gray's
neighbors and fellow citizens remain largely uninformed about ... MORENSA Spreads Its Message By Producing Coloring Books
Conditioning kids to the police state. By the time I found the National Security Agency booth on the expo
floor at last week’s RSA Conference, all the best shwag was gone. The
most prized giveaway was a faux-leather Post-it Note kit bearing the
agency’s seal. “We can’t print enough of those,” the agency rep manning the booth
told me. ... MOREVIDEO: Cop On Power Trip Intimidates & Explains Quotas
Public servants caught in the act of being themselves. Do they really work for you?
Police State America: Watch Cop Harass, Then Tackle A Woman Who Had Just Reported Her Son Kidnapped
A disturbing story out of Sacramento: Paul and Suzanne Guzman's car was
stolen out of their Fairfield home's driveway—with their 8-year-old son
Brock in the backseat. So the Guzmans did what most people would do and
called the local police. The boy and car were eventually found,
abandoned unharmed, with the help of a family friend who ... MOREDavid French: Wisconsin Deploys Police To Intimidate Political Opponents With Terrorizing Late Night Raids
from National Review. Cindy Archer, one of the lead architects of Wisconsin’s Act 10 — also called the “Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill,” it limited public-employee benefits and altered collective-bargaining rules for public-employee unions — was jolted awake by yelling, loud pounding at the door, and her dogs’ frantic barking. The entire house — ... MOREThousands Dead From Police Shootings, Few Prosecuted
from the Washington Post. On a rainy night five
years ago, Officer Coleman “Duke” Brackney set off in pursuit of a
suspected drunk driver, chasing his black Mazda Miata down rural
Arkansas roads at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour. When the sports
car finally came to rest in a ditch, Brackney opened fire at the rear
window and repeatedly ... MOREJohn W. Whitehead: No Matter Who Wins The White House, The New Boss Will Be The Same As The Old Boss
Liberty is an individual, not a political, choice. The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new president in the White House can solve the problems that plague us. Yet no matter who wins this next presidential election, you can rest assured that the new boss will be the same as the old boss, and we—the permanent underclass in ... MORE
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