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  • September 20, 2019
    Blog
    “We Give Qualified Immunity to Just About Everybody”
    … prosecute the drug war. More than a decade ago, our former colleague Radley Balko wrote about the paramilitarization of American police in his seminal Cato report “Overkill,” documenting hundreds of botched raids by police departments, many of which were launched …
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • November 1, 2018
    Legal Briefs
    Kelsay v. Ernst
    … friend were engaged in what she called “horseplay,” but some onlookers thought he might be assaulting her and called the police. The police arrested her friend, even though she repeatedly hold them he hadn’t assaulted her. While in a …
    By Clark Neily and Jay Schweikert
  • May 31, 2018
    Washington Examiner
    Yes, Amazon Is Tracking People
    … restrictions. News that Amazon has been supplying powerful facial recognition technology is an indictment of local lawmakers. Across the country, police have been deploying powerful surveillance tools without informing the public. In one particularly egregious example, police in Baltimore conducted …
    By Matthew Feeney
  • April 30, 2018
    Blog
    “Genetic Informants” and the Hunt for the Golden State Killer
    … allegedly committed a dozen murders, at least 50 rapes, and more than 100 burglaries in California between 1976 and 1986. Police made the arrest after uploading DeAngelo’s “discarded DNA” to one of the increasingly popular genealogy websites. Using information …
    By Matthew Feeney
  • December 4, 2017
    Blog
    Don’t Gamble on Double Jeopardy
    … under both federal and state law. Seven years later, Gamble was pulled over for a broken taillight. Smelling marijuana, the police officer searched the car and found, among other things, a 9mm handgun. Alabama prosecuted Gamble under its “felon‐​in …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • December 4, 2017
    Legal Briefs
    Gamble v. United States
    … under both federal and state law. Seven years later, Gamble was pulled over for a broken taillight. Smelling marijuana, the police officer searched the car and found, among other things, a 9mm handgun. Alabama prosecuted Gamble under its “felon‐​in …
    By Brianne Gorod, Ilya Shapiro, and Elizabeth Wydra
  • July 25, 2012
    Blog
    ‘We’re Not Going To Protect You’
    … control after the Colorado theater shooting: “Well, I would take it one step further. I don’t understand why the police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say, we’re going to go on strike. We …
    By Walter Olson
  • July 20, 2011
    Blog
    Guns in D.C.
    … city says that guns may now be purchased at the police station. No details yet on whether residents will have to change into orange jump suits and wait in the holding cells while the police process the paperwork. More here.
    By Tim Lynch
  • May 3, 2010
    Blog
    Suveillance Cameras and Civil Liberties
    … the latest bombing attempt, in Times Square over the weekend, justify urban surveillance cameras? On balance, yes. To be sure, police can abuse those tapes — all law enforcement is subject to abuse. But the tapes are often crucial in apprehending …
    By Roger Pilon
  • Fall 2001
    Cato Journal
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    Editor’s Note: Monetary Policy in the New Economy
    … Filings Policy Studies Opinion & Commentary RESEARCH AREAS SPEAKERS BUREAU SUPPORT CATO CATO UNBOUND DOWNSIZING GOVERNMENT.ORG ELCATO.ORG LIBERTARIANISM.ORG POLICEMISCONDUCT.NET Cato on Facebook Cato on Twitter Cato on Google+ Cato on YouTube Cato Mobile Cato RSS Cato Institute …
    By James A. Dorn
  • Winter 1997
    Regulation
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    Can the Separation of Powers Endure the Age of Muddled Thinking?
    … Filings Policy Studies Opinion & Commentary RESEARCH AREAS SPEAKERS BUREAU SUPPORT CATO CATO UNBOUND DOWNSIZING GOVERNMENT.ORG ELCATO.ORG LIBERTARIANISM.ORG POLICEMISCONDUCT.NET Cato on Facebook Cato on Twitter Cato on Google+ Cato on YouTube Cato Mobile Cato RSS Cato Institute …
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