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  • October 28, 2009
    Blog
    Some Thoughts on the New Surveillance
    … a guy named Roy Olmstead. Back in the days of Prohibition, Roy Olmstead was the youngest lieutenant on the Seattle police force. He spent a lot of his time busting liquor bootleggers, and in the course of his duties, he …
    By Julian Sanchez
  • May/June 1995
    Policy Report
    Cato Studies: IRS, Environmental Law Limit Constitutional Rights
    … the standards of financial accountability and diligence that it imposes on the citizenry. Since the IRS can no longer adequately police itself, he writes, it can no longer be trusted with the authority to police individual American businesses and taxpayers …
  • April 1, 2021
    Reason.com
    The CDC vs. the Constitution
    The CDC vs. the Constitution
    … not invite a court to “pile inference upon inference in a manner that would…convert congressional authority…to a general police power of the sort retained by the states.” At the time, Lopez seemed to be a game‐​changer. But …
    By Sam Spiegelman
  • July 22, 2013
    Blog
    Krugman: Detroit’s Bankruptcy “Just One of Those Things”
    … amounts to attain a 47 percent functional illiteracy rate; where “only about a third of the ambulances are running” and “police solve less than 10 percent of the crimes that are committed.” One of those bells that now and then …
    By Walter Olson
  • February 12, 2009
    Blog
    Taking Cues from Terrorist Playbooks
    … of the Urban Guerrilla, said as much decades ago: The government has no alternative except to intensify its repression. The police networks, house searches, the arrest of suspects and innocent persons, and the closing off of streets make life in …
    By David Rittgers
  • November 20, 2013
    Cato.org
    U.S. Prisons Thriving on Jim Crow Marijuana Arrests
    … this brazen American prejudice is mar​i​jua​na​-arrests​.com, “an online library about marijuana possession arrests, race and police policy in New York City and beyond.” The site is part of the Marijuana Arrest Research project, which examines …
    By Nat Hentoff
  • September 19, 2018
    Blog
    “The Difference between Justice for the Masses and Justice for the Few”
    … can lead to devastating, lifelong consequences. It is alarming that, in a system theoretically built around transparency and truth seeking, police and prosecutors have such outsize power to surveil, search, detain, bully, coerce and nearly destroy a person without producing …
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • May 4, 2017
    Investor’s Business Daily (Online)
    Turkey’s Erdogan Destroys His Nation’s Liberty as His Popularity Wanes
    … that anyone would tar his dignity. His political brutality grew along with challenges to his rule. In 2013 Erdogan purged police and prosecutors linked to Hizmat, the movement headed by Muslim teacher and cleric Fethullah Gulen, a former ally. Two …
    By Doug Bandow
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