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The Rise of Government-Sanctioned Home Invasions

by John W. Whitehead.        Who will protect you from the police?  It’s 3 a.m. You’ve been asleep for hours when suddenly you hear a loud “Crash! Bang! Boom!” Based on the yelling, shouting and mayhem, it sounds as if someone—or several someones—are breaking through your front door. With your heart racing and your stomach churning,     ... MORE

Jeff Deist: Whatever Happened To Peace Officers?

We want Andy Taylor, we get the terminator.     Today when we use the term peace officer, it sounds antiquated and outdated. I’m sure most people in the room under 40 have never heard the term actually used by anyone; we might as well be talking about buggy whips or floppy disks. But in the 1800s and really through the 1960s, the term      ... MORE

Radley Balko: Dire Civil Liberties Predictions For 2014

The grade and lubriciousness of the slippery slope.      As we come to the end of a year that saw revelations about massive government spying programs, horrifying stories of police abuse, and brazen violations of the Fourth Amendment, I thought I might offer my own grim predictions about where civil liberties are headed in the      ... MORE

Cop Shoots Mother Of 3 In Head During Botched Drug Raid

The war against drugs is a war against us.        The American Drug War claimed another casualty when a woman was shot in the head while sitting on a couch by an incompetent police officer, who fired his weapon through an exterior wall prior to raiding the home. At about 10:30 p.m. on December 11th, a group of cops calling themselves     ...  MORE

John Stossel: Beware The Warrior Cop

To serve and protect who?      We need police to catch murderers, thieves and con men, and so we give them special power — the power to use force on others. Sadly, today's police use that power to invade people's homes over accusations of trivial, nonviolent offenses — and often do it with tanks, battering rams and armor you'd expect   ... MORE