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  • November 1, 2010
    Blog
    Taser Cameras
    … released. “Video is going to help the officer,” said Cmdr. Steve Wilkinson, internal affairs investigator for the West Melbourne (Fla.) Police Department. “And if you don’t record it, the kid down the street with a cellphone is going to …
    By David Rittgers
  • September 20, 2010
    Blog
    Phone Numbers, E-Mail Addresses, and Metaphor Wars
    … to conflicts between competing metaphors. Is a hard drive like a closed briefcase whose contents are all fair game for police once the “container” is legitimately opened? Or is it more like a warehouse containing hundreds or thousands of individual …
    By Julian Sanchez
  • September 18, 2009
    Blog
    Cheye Calvo Reflects on SWAT Shooting
    … Sunday’s Washington Post, Calvo reflects upon his experience — not just the raid itself, but on the actions of the police department afterward. Excerpt: I remain captured by the broader implications of the incident. Namely, that my initial take was …
    By Tim Lynch
  • March 12, 2006
    Arizona Republic
    Anti-Gambling Crusade a Bad Bet
    … behavior has never made that behavior go away. Because consensual crimes take no victims, vice laws are difficult to enforce. Police have to use informers and undercover work and sometimes need to break the very laws they’re trying to …
    By Radley Balko
  • September 24, 2001
    Cato.org
    A Not-So-Global War on Terrorism?
    … might not be as sweeping as earlier reports had indicated. If so, it’s a wise move, for America cannot police the entire globe. But America can take some actions to find and stop the major terrorists and the entities …
    By Ivan Eland
  • April 29, 2016
    Events
    What Should Be Done about the Heroin Problem?
    What Should Be Done about the Heroin Problem?
    … federal government is not doing enough to attack heroin production in Mexico and Afghanistan. Others argue that drug interdiction and police crackdowns have failed and call for deregulation and legalization. Please join us for a wide‐​ranging debate about the …
    Featuring Jeffrey Miron and Tim Lynch
  • April 29, 2016
    Debate
    What Should Be Done about the Heroin Problem?
    … federal government is not doing enough to attack heroin production in Mexico and Afghanistan. Others argue that drug interdiction and police crackdowns have failed and call for deregulation and legalization. Please join us for a wide‐​ranging debate about the …
  • August 20, 2024
    Legal Briefs
    United States v. Ross
    United States v. Ross
    … bottom standards for seizing property and heavily government-favoring legal procedures, not all forfeiture cases go smoothly for sticky-fingered police and prosecutors. As a result, the government sometimes chooses to voluntarily dismiss forfeiture cases and return the property at …
    By Michael Yaeger and Clark Neily
  • May 15, 2024
    Blog
    The "Zombification" of Qualified Immunity?
    The “Zombification” of Qualified Immunity?
    … Dispatch’s Advisory Opinions podcast while discussing a recent Fifth Circuit decision denying qualified immunity to a pair of Houston police officers in an utterly bizarre false‐​arrest case. Though he doesn’t elaborate, the idea seems to be that …
    By Clark Neily
  • March 17, 2022
    Blog
    Facial Recognition Debate Lessons from Ukraine
    Facial Recognition Debate Lessons from Ukraine
    … of images in the Clearview AI database, thereby confirming identity. In the U.S., civil liberties activists have protested the police use of Clearview AI, which has resulted in thousands of queries. American police use of Clearview AI prompted Google …
    By Matthew Feeney and Rachel Chiu
  • August 31, 2021
    Blog
    High Prices, Competition, and the Biden Administration
    … The article begins: Senior Biden administration officials, alarmed by the rising costs of consumer staples, are ramping up efforts to police corporate monopolies and alleged collusion by big companies, arguing a crackdown on corporate malfeasance will translate into cheaper goods …
    By David Boaz
  • May 31, 2017
    The Hill (Online)
    Time for a (Different Kind of) Change in Afghanistan
    Continued intervention will not achieve U.S. goals, and it may actually slow the development of Afghanistan’s capacity to manage its own affairs.
    By Erik Goepner and A. Trevor Thrall
  • December 7, 2016
    Survey Reports
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    Toplines
    By Emily Ekins
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