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  • February 20, 2015
    Legal Briefs
    O’Keefe v. Chisholm
    SWAT teams—police units equipped with military‐​style weaponry and trained to deal with the most dangerous of criminals—were first created police realized that patrolmen equipped with revolvers and batons are generally able to keep the peace, they lack …
    By Bradley A. Benbrook, Stephen M. Duvernay, and Ilya Shapiro
  • October 15, 2014
    Blog
    Les Miserables in Hong Kong
    As the police move in to tear down the barricades built by the protesters in Hong Kong, I am reminded of scenes from the musical “Les Miserables,” and of this song: Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song …
    By David Boaz
  • February 17, 2011
    Blog
    Gambling Raid in Baltimore
    … Baltimore police must have solved the city’s violent crime problem. They’ve shifted resources to illegal gambling: Baltimore County police arrested five men after an undercover detective infiltrated an illegal high‐​stakes poker game in Edgemere, records show. Police …
    By David Rittgers
  • February 10, 2011
    Blog
    Seattle Cop Caught on Tape
    A Seattle police officer was caught on tape kicking a man who was lying face down on a sidewalk with his hands already handcuffed behind his back. Whether the off‐​duty cop was drunk and badgering some women, as some …
    By Tim Lynch
  • May 27, 2010
    Blog
    The Insane Drug War
    “Thousands of police and soldiers swarmed into slums in Jamaica’s capital Tuesday in search of an alleged drug kingpin wanted by the United States, trading gunfire with masked supporters of the fugitive,” the Washington Post reports. “At least …
    By David Boaz
  • March 28, 2010
    Richmond Times-Dispatch
    Concealed Handguns Won’t Make Bars Shooting Galleries
    … police in whom Chief Jacocks places so much of his faith. Last June, Officer Bryan Womble of the Virginia Beach Police Department’s Selective Enforcement Unit — the group of officers tasked with keeping drunk drivers off the road — was arrested …
    By David Rittgers
  • February 26, 2009
    Spiked (Online)
    Four Fat Myths about Obesity and Cancer
    The fat police have tried to frighten us for so long they’ve used up most of their stock of scary images. Yet the media still run with every ‘The Fat End is Nigh’ story, no matter how absurd. Exhibit …
    By Patrick Basham and John Luik
  • May 21, 2008
    Blog
    The D.C. Gun Ban Works Soooo Well …
    … that D.C. police have to carry around increasingly more‐​powerful firearms while walking the beat. June 30 can’t come soon enough.
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • April 26, 2008
    Cato.org
    Beacon Hill’s Gift to the Black Market
    According to police, Richard “Pops” Picardi, a 76‐​year Revere man who hobbled about on a prosthetic leg, was a purveyor of many vices. For drug addicts he supplied OxyContin, Percocet, and other narcotics, investigators say. To smokers he supplied …
    By Patrick Fleenor
  • May 22, 2007
    Blog
    Defining Misconduct Down
    … know” the suspects had moved three months earlier. Well, they should have. This is the distressing trend–too often the police are skipping the investigative work and raiding homes. Conservatives usually say, “well, if the police run amok, people can …
    By Tim Lynch
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