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  • October 12, 2023
    Legal Briefs
    Molina v. Book
    Molina v. Book
    … protesters’ rights were protected by police. They were hats identifying themselves as legal observers. After a clash between protesters and police, the Petitioners went to Ms. Molina’s property, 550 feet away. Several minutes later, a police armored vehicle “barreled …
    By Matthew Cavedon
  • September 18, 2018
    Blog
    If Someone Disputes Racism in the Criminal Justice System, Show Them This
    At his Washington Post blog, Cato alumnus Radley Balko has cultivated a running list of data‐​driven reports that show persistent, measurable, widespread, and common racial disparities in criminal justice enforcement. In police stops, sentencing, pretrial detention, the death penalty …
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • December 9, 2016
    Blog
    Another Crazy California Law
    Imagine that you’re a small business owner getting ready to go into your busy season, when several protestors come onto your property and begin disrupting your workers. Ordinarily, you would call the police and have the trespassers removed so …
    By Ilya Shapiro and Frank Garrison
  • December 8, 2016
    Legal Briefs
    Cedar Point Nursery v. Gould
    Imagine you are a small business owner getting ready to go into your busy season, when several protestors come onto your property and begin disrupting your workers. Ordinarily, you would call the police and have the trespassers removed so that …
    By Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus, and Frank Garrison
  • December 12, 2011
    Blog
    Supreme Court Takes Up Arizona Immigration Law
    The Supreme Court has agreed to review Arizona v. United States, the case regarding SB 1070, the Arizona law (only) four sections of which have been enjoined by the lower courts: requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • August 25, 2006
    Blog
    Seizures for SWAT
    The​News​pa​per​.com reports that several towns in South Texas are ratcheting up money and property seizures from motorists: In the South Texas city of San Juan, population 26,200, police have begun seizing ever greater amounts by …
    By Radley Balko
  • 1997
    Cato Handbook for Policymakers
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    Crime
    28. Crime Congress should • respect ithe Tenth Amendment of the Constitution by leaving the tasloof crime fighting to state government; • pending complete federal withdrawal, halt the federal funding of state and local police, courts, and prisons; and • pending complete federal …
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