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April 21, 2023
Blog

TikTok Panic Threatens Speech
… Americans who use TikTok to express themselves, and efforts to crush the app risk giving the government new powers to police speech across the internet. TikTok’s Project Texas aims to assuage concerns about ByteDance’s ownership of the platform …
By Will Duffield
April 5, 2023
Blog

Cato Wins Webby Honor for Study on How Qualified Immunity Hurts Law Enforcement
… Has the bottom fallen out of police‐community relations? Even as people seek increased police presence, they remain distrustful of police themselves. This has made policework undesirable, which in turn, complicates the effort to build the police force necessary to …
By James Craven
March 8, 2023
Cato Daily Podcast

New Hampshire’s Governor on the Regulatory State, Accountable Cops, and Ukraine
New Hampshire governor Chris Sununu (R) discusses devolving the regulatory state, police accountability, and U.S. support in the war in Ukraine.
Featuring Governor Chris Sununu and Caleb O. Brown
March 8, 2023
Research Briefs in Economic Policy

No. 323
Who Watches the Watchmen? Evidence of the Effect of Body-Worn Cameras on New York City Policing
… roughly equivalent number show no significant change, and at least one has found that BWCs lead to an increase in police use of force. As to whether BWCs make police officers more passive, the evidence is also muddy. Findings from …
By Mitchell E. Zamoff, Brad N. Greenwood, and Gordon Burtch
March 1, 2023
Cato Audio Issues

March 2023
Ian Vásquez and Johan Norberg on global freedom during COVID-19; Tiffany J. Smith and Dane Lund on regulating decentralized finance; Jay Schweikert on police accountability; Clark Neily on jury trials and plea bargaining
February 21, 2023
Cato Daily Podcast

Federal Task Forces and Holding Corrupt Local Cops Accountable
A Minnesota police officer may avoid accountability for criminally sending some teenagers to federal prison for two years because she’s a deputized federal agent. Patrick Jaicomo of the Institute for Justice represents one of the teenagers.
Featuring Patrick Jaicomo and Caleb O. Brown
January 19, 2023
Legal Briefs

Salazar v. Molina
… police – public trust in law enforcement has fallen to record lows, in large part because of the frequency with which police officers are not held accountable for their misconduct. That lack of accountability hurts not just the victims of police …
By Clark Neily and Jay Schweikert
October 28, 2022
Blog

The First Amendment Protects the Right to Parody the Government
In May of 2016, Anthony Novak of Parma, Ohio, spent four days in jail for making fun of his local police department. The cause of this unfortunate encounter with law enforcement was his decision to engage in the longstanding American …
By Thomas A. Berry and Nicholas DeBenedetto
October 3, 2022
Legal Briefs

Gonzalez v. Trevino
An important constitutional question that has arisen with increasing frequency is when critics of police or other government officials may bring suit for a retaliatory arrest that was plausibly meant to punish and chill their exercise of free speech. In …
By Laura Moraff, Savannah Kumar, Darpana Sheth, & Clark Neily
August 9, 2022
Cato Daily Podcast

Social Media Fights over the Definition of ‘Recession’
Economists use a variety of metrics to pinpoint recessions, and those determinations often come after the fact. Social media companies nonetheless try to police language about recession. Ryan Bourne and John Samples discuss the fight over “recession.”
Featuring Ryan Bourne, John Samples, and Caleb O. Brown
July 8, 2022
Cato Daily Podcast

Law Enforcement Continues to Meddle in Pain Management
Even after a Supreme Court decision that appears to protect some physicians, law enforcement will continue to target physicians for improper prescribing. Cato’s Jeff Singer argues that police generally have precious little knowledge of how medicine works.
Featuring Jeffrey A. Singer and Caleb O. Brown
January 25, 2023
Policy Forum

Does Liberty Have a Future in Iran?
Since September 2022, when the 22‐year‐old woman Mahsa Amini died at the hands of “religion police,” Iran has been shaken by massive anti‐regime demonstrations. The protestors demand freedom from an authoritarian regime that has ruled in the …
January 25, 2023
Events

Does Liberty Have a Future in Iran?
Since September 2022, when the 22‐year‐old woman Mahsa Amini died at the hands of “religion police,” Iran has been shaken by massive anti‐regime demonstrations. The protestors demand freedom from an authoritarian regime that has ruled in the …
Featuring Mohamad Machine-Chian, Mustafa Akyol, and Sahar Khan
June 14, 2022
Antiwar.com

Congress Is Willingly Abdicating Its War Powers Again
The failure of Congress to halt brazenly unconstitutional presidential wars – starting with the Korean “police action” – has been the most graphic example of such dereliction of duty.
By Ted Galen Carpenter
May 20, 2022
Blog

When AI Meets the Transgender Community
Whatever your position on how members of the transgender community identify themselves, you should be concerned about police being able to scan citizens’ faces with tools that were never subjected to public oversight and comment.
By Matthew Feeney