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  • January 25, 2013
    Blog
    Brick Wall of Local Bureaucracy
    … they wrong. A member of Mason Supervisor Penny Gross’s staff helped Cooper and Vorona file the paperwork, Mason District Police officers agreed to lend their support, and they began rounding up volunteers. But then William Dunlap of VDOT told …
    By Chris Edwards
  • December 25, 2008
    Blog
    Great Moments in Local Government
    … the Civil War” in his fifth‐​grade class at Fairview Elementary School. …Tosha said that Wednesday afternoon, after school, “six police officers actually rushed into the door” of their home. “He [Alandis] opened the door because they’re police. And …
    By Daniel J. Mitchell
  • December 10, 2004
    American Spectator
    Thinking Outside the Black Box
    … benefits if auto accidents can be dissected in detail, of course. Auto manufacturers, safety groups, and insurers want this information. Police departments want it too. Already, prosecutors are using information from automobile Black Boxes as evidence against drivers. Last year …
    By Jim Harper
  • Summer 2013
    Regulation
    How Much of Food Activism Is Nonsense?
    … unprocessed, natural foods—but none of us lives past 30.” If you believe the blandishments of the self‐​styled food police, every food science innovation further contributes to obesity, chronic diseases, and even addiction to fat and sugar. That’s …
    By Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller
  • January 27, 2025
    Blog
    A Breath of Fresh Air: Trump’s FDA Takes a Step Back from the Menthol Ban
    A Breath of Fresh Air: Trump’s FDA Takes a Step Back from the Menthol Ban
    … York City’s exorbitant taxes on cigarette packages generated an underground market in untaxed individual cigarettes, called “loosies.” In 2014, police infamously encountered 43-​year-​old Eric Garner selling loosies on a street corner, and a policeman’s chokehold led …
    By Jeffrey A. Singer
  • December 20, 2024
    Legal Briefs
    Hoskins v. Withers
    Hoskins v. Withers
    … Jared Withers pulled over Joseph Hoskins in Toole County, Utah, for an partially obscured license plate. Hoskins complied with all police instructions throughout, including exiting his vehicle and standing by while Withers retrieved his drug dog and walked it around …
    By Clark Neily and Christine Marsden
  • October 10, 2024
    Live Online Policy Forum
    Government Surveillance and Journalism: The Threat Landscape
    Government Surveillance and Journalism: The Threat Landscape
    … Law Enforcement: Trends in Policing and the Law and Technology Surrounding It In the four years since nationwide protests against police misconduct rocked the nation, momentum for police reform has stalled. Cato Surveillance Week image October 10, 2024 Government Surveillance …
  • December 19, 2014
    Blog
    Nebraska and Oklahoma Sue Colorado
    … marijuana, it does not follow that all the states have to enact laws against marijuana. And just because the federal police (FBI and DEA) have grown accustomed to having state and local police conduct marijuana raids and arrests, it does …
    By Tim Lynch
  • October 21, 2013
    DC Examiner
    Instead of Confirming Jeh Johnson, Senate Should Abolish Homeland Security
    … operated as something akin to a federal Department of Dystopia, encouraging the proliferation of surveillance cameras, armed personnel carriers and police drones across Main Street America with some $35 billion in Homeland Security grants. All of which suggests some possible …
    By Gene Healy
  • April 13, 2009
    Blog
    Cuban Agents Beat Up Young Dissident (and ElCato.org Contributor)
    … on his way with two friends to a meeting in support of prisoners of conscience when members of the political police intercepted him, took him to a nearby park and gave him a beating. “Yero’s experience is unfortunately representative …
    By Juan Carlos Hidalgo
  • November 23, 1999
    Washington Times
    The Real Kosovo
    … in the insidiously clever practice of freely distributing large firecrackers to idle Albanian youths in order to keep the UNMIK police offbalance. Indeed, with a sporadic mix of gunfire and firecrackers echoing throughout the city day and night, UNMIK police …
    By Gary Dempsey
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