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  • April 14, 2016
    New York Post
    Obama Just Gave Cops the OK to Simply Take Your Stuff
    … has grown more than 1,000 percent in the last 15 years, filling the coffers of federal, state and local police departments. Civil forfeiture allows police to seize private assets, often without any proof of wrongdoing, and often the agency …
    By Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer
  • April 11, 2016
    CapX
    Trump on NATO: Even a Broken Clock Is Right Twice a Day
    … Organization. In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly called NATO “obsolete” and noted that the United States “can’t be the policemen to the world” while adding to its $19 trillion debt. Other NATO countries are “not paying their fair share …
    By Marian L. Tupy
  • April 7, 2016
    National Interest (Online)
    Washington Can’t Fix Broken Policing
    … troubled police force. The Justice Department has also investigated and instituted reforms in many of the United States’ big‐​city police departments—Los Angeles, New Orleans, Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, to name a few. Clearly, police misconduct is more widespread …
    By Tim Lynch
  • December 31, 2015
    Huffington Post
    Bernie Sanders’s Frustration — and Ours
    … approach the crux of Sanders’s complaint. “The United States of America cannot succeed, or be thought of as the policeman of the world,” the senator from Vermont explained. He lamented: that when there’s an international crisis all over …
    By Christopher A. Preble
  • September 28, 2015
    Forbes
    Body Camera Studies Aren’t Conclusive—Mandate Them Anyway
    … not provided any reasons for police to not use body cameras. Regardless of their effect on police or citizen behavior, police officers should be wearing body cameras if only for the valuable role they can play in police misconduct investigations …
    By Matthew Feeney
  • July 31, 2015
    Forbes
    Two Takeaways from Samuel DuBose’s Killing
    There are two key takeaways from Samuel DuBose’s unnecessary and tragic death at the hands of University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing: 1) body cameras can play a crucial role in police misconduct investigations, and 2) even police …
    By Matthew Feeney
  • April 15, 2015
    Washington Post
    We Should Get to Decide How the Government Spends our Taxes
    … more, or less, down to zero. The case for letting taxpayers choose whether their money goes to schools or the police or Medicaid. A taxpayer who thinks that $600 billion is too much to spend on military in the post …
    By David Boaz
  • April 9, 2015
    The Lawfare Institute
    The Foreign Policy Essay: Can Terrorists be Scared Straight?
    Since the shock of 9/11, the FBI and other policing agencies have shifted how they deal with terrorism. Instead of seeking to bring terrorists to justice after they have committed, or tried to commit, violence, the police now seek …
    By John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart
  • September 22, 2014
    Washington Times
    The Long-Run Solution to an Economic Mess
    Most basic functions of government —courts, schools, police and fire protection — are often best provided by relatively small governmental units.
    By Richard W. Rahn
  • August 14, 2014
    CNN.com
    Ferguson, a War Zone or U.S. City?
    Police officers simply do not have the training that military troops have, and giving them the arms, armament and attitude of being warriors is simply dangerous.
    By Tim Lynch
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