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  • March 26, 2010
    Blog
    Watch It Here: 10 Rules for Dealing with Police
    10 Rules for Dealing with Police, the new film from Flex Your Rights, premiered at Cato earlier this week. If you’re interested in knowing more about how to defend your rights during encounters with law enforcement, this is a …
  • March 25, 2010
    Blog
    Dealing with Police
    Media Name: Ten-Rules.jpg Yesterday Cato hosted the premiere screening of the new film, 10 Rules for Dealing with Police, produced by our friends at Flex Your Rights. The Washington Post has a nice piece about the film and …
    By Tim Lynch
  • December 9, 2009
    Blog
    10 Rules for Dealing With the Police
    Our friends at Flex Your Rights have a new film that is about to be released. It’s called 10 Rules for Dealing with Police. Trailer for the film here. I have seen the entire film and it is an …
    By Tim Lynch
  • November 30, 2009
    Blog
    Tacoma Police Killings
    National Review Online invited me to offer comments on the four police officers who were murdered in Tacoma, Washington. Here’s an excerpt: The vicious killing of the police officers in Tacoma, Washington, may well have political repercussions for Mike …
    By Tim Lynch
  • July 29, 2009
    Baltimore Sun
    Obesity Police’s Shaky Science
    … the African‐​American female, who on average is disproportionately heavy. And she is disproportionately comfortable with her weight. The fat police view this fact as simply unacceptable. Hence, their attack on Dr. Benjamin, which they perceive as an opportunity to …
    By Patrick Basham and John Luik
  • June 27, 2009
    Blog
    ‘The Police Became a Mob’
    … explained his conduct as “just kind of going along with everybody.” That is the way of the mob. Society has police forces to pose a counterweight to mobs, yet here the police became a mob. Schabel and Martinez were on …
    By Tim Lynch
  • June 10, 2009
    Blog
    Should Judges ‘Have the Back’ of Police Officers?
    … detain, wiretap, imprison, and interrogate. The separation of powers principle means that judges must maintain their impartiality and “check” the police whenever they overstep their authority. To abdicate that responsibility and to “go along with the police” is to do …
    By Tim Lynch
  • March 9, 2009
    Blog
    Put Surveillance Cameras on Police Guns, Not Street Corners
    … said before, cameras don’t deter terrorism, but they do satisfy the need to “do something” without really improving security. Police officers prevent attacks with traditional investigation and intelligence gathering; cameras are only useful in picking up the pieces after …
    By David Rittgers
  • December 26, 2008
    Orange County Register
    Be Wary of Using Military as Police
    … Act, the longstanding federal statute that restricts the president’s ability to use the U.S. military as a domestic police force. In September, the Army Times described the unit’s training as “the first ever nonlethal package that the …
    By Gene Healy and Benjamin H. Friedman
  • August 2, 2008
    Blog
    Another Police Raid; More Dead Dogs
    … in just such a scheme. This would make Calvo and Tomsic the unfortunate victims of an understandable error by the police SWAT team, except… The police action was yet another guns‐​ablazin’, no‐​knock raid, in which the officers (in …
    By Thomas A. Firey
  • July 8, 2008
    Blog
    Democrats Unleash Food Police
    … I’m genuinely curious (especially since it may just be a matter of time before we have a Federal Food Police imposing these rules on the rest of us): The Democratic National Convention host committee guidelines for caterers suggest serving …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • July 3, 2008
    Blog
    When the Police ‘Take the Fifth’
    … as if it all evens out in the end. Not true. In Garrity v. New Jersey, the Supreme Court said police officers could “take the Fifth” with respect to internal investigations into police misconduct. Now police officers, like anyone else …
    By Tim Lynch
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