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  • December 7, 2015
    Blog
    Canada Moving to Legalize Marijuana
    From today’s Washington Post: Has this war on marijuana worked? “No, it hasn’t,” said Clive Weighill, chief of the Saskatoon police force, president of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police and a veteran of the August raids …
    By Tim Lynch
  • Raidmap Admin Entry
    Type * Raid on an innocent suspect. Death of an innocent. Death of a nonviolent offender. Death or injury of a police officer. Unnecessary raids on doctors and sick people. Other examples of paramilitary police excess. Title * State * AL AK AR …
  • October 1, 2010
    Blog
    Dollarization Keeps Ecuador Economically Stable Despite Political Instability
    Political chaos and institutional meltdowns are all too common in Ecuador’s recent history. A cynic could even interpret yesterday’s violent police uprising that threatened the continuity of President Rafael Correa’s government as “a return to normalcy” in …
    By Juan Carlos Hidalgo
  • July 16, 2010
    Blog
    Cops and Cameras: The Future of Policing
    … joins the Washington Examiner and Washington Post in this critique. USA Today’s opposing view (presented by two AFL-CIO police union officials) provides this comment: In today’s environment, police officers have to assume that every action they take …
    By David Rittgers
  • April 13, 2010
    Blog
    University of Maryland Beating Prompts Investigations
    … to the streets to celebrate. Prince George’s County Police, along with mounted officers from the Maryland‐​National Capital Park Police, responded to disperse an unruly crowd. One student skipped for joy toward police in riot gear, then stopped as …
    By David Rittgers
  • June 22, 2009
    Blog
    No Wrongdoing in the Calvo Raid?
    Last year the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Department SWAT Team raided the home of Berwyn Heights, Maryland Mayor Cheye Calvo. Police officers on the case knew that dealers were sending packages to random addresses so that accomplices in …
    By David Rittgers
  • June 4, 2009
    Blog
    Fusion Centers
    Most people don’t care about government surveillance — just so long as they are not affected by it. We want the police to be on lookout for trouble — so some surveillance is necessary for the work they do. But how …
    By Tim Lynch
  • March 29, 2007
    Blog
    DC Gun Laws
    Eugene Volokh has thoughts on what constitutes a violation of the DC law regarding firearms possession. Today’s Washington Post says police and lawyers are unsure about what is legal and what is illegal–at least with respect to members …
    By Tim Lynch
  • July 24, 2006
    Blog
    LEAP on Overkill
    The terrific group Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) issued a statement today on my Overkill paper: The concern over escalating police paramilitary raids is a valid one, as this tactic takes us farther and farther away from the concept of …
    By Radley Balko
  • June 7, 2006
    Blog
    What Would You Do?
    … police bother you when you do not break any laws? Now consider the nightmare case of James Calvin Tillman. The police arrest Tillman for rape. He asserts his innocence, but the victim says she is sure that he is the …
    By Tim Lynch
  • May 19, 2006
    Blog
    Applying the Law
    Some additional thoughts on the Hudson case, which Radley wrote about earlier today … To quickly recap Hudson, it involves a police search of a man’s home, during which the police found contraband. The law says that before the police …
    By Tim Lynch
  • April 27, 2000
    Foreign Policy Briefing
    No. 57
    “Isolationism” as the Denial of Intervention: What Foreign Policy Is and Isn’t
    The tendency of both the Clinton administration and its Republican opponents to frame foreign policy as a compromise between “global policeman” and “isolationism” misses the point entirely. The real issue is what the United States commits itself to defend–and …
    By Earl C. Ravenal
  • March/April 1995
    Policy Report
    Henry Hyde Criticizes Forfeiture Abuse, Urges Reform
    … police dog sniffed traces of drugs on the $9,600 he wascarrying (a common condition for U.S. currency), the police confiscatedthe money. Jones could not afford to post the bond required tochallenge the seizure. Instead, he sued for racial …
  • August 2, 2023
    The Dispatch
    Merger Madness
    Merger Madness
    New guidelines from the Justice Department and FTC seek to revive discredited legal doctrines.
    By Scott Lincicome
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