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Police Raids and Militarization

Supreme Court Rules Police Need a Warrant to Track Your Car
Steven Titch
January 23, 2012, 3:07pm
Your Lying Eyes
How fallible memories send innocent people to prison
Jacob Sullum
August 31, 2011
Serve and Protect
The dangers of our increasingly militarized police
A. Barton Hinkle
August 23, 2011
Cannabis Capitulation
The marijuana exception to Jan Brewer's federalism
Jacob Sullum
July 27, 2011
The Week of Lying Dangerously
Obama displays a Clintonian desire to have things both ways.
Jacob Sullum
July 6, 2011
The Devil’s Bargain
How plea agreements, never contemplated by the Framers, undermine justice
Tim Lynch
July 5, 2011
Keeping Kids Outside the System
Alternatives to juvenile detention are cheaper and more effective.
Irene Sullivan
July 4, 2011
Collars for Dollars
How the drug war sacrifices real policing for easy arrests.
Peter Moskos
June 29, 2011
Bad Boys
A rogue’s gallery of misbehaving prosecutors, plus three worth praising
Radley Balko
June 27, 2011
Indefensible
Public defenders are too overloaded to protect the rights of the accused.
Clay Conrad
June 22, 2011
Rape Factories
Why is the government doing so little to end sexual assault in prisons?
Lovisa Stannow
June 20, 2011
The Crime Rate Puzzle
Did incarceration reduce the crime rate, or did it get in the way?
Radley Balko
June 20, 2011
The Price of Prohibition
Forty years after Nixon declared war on drugs, it's time to give peace a chance.
Jacob Sullum
June 15, 2011
The Guilt Market
Criminal snitching threatens the integrity of the justice system.
Alexandra Natapoff
June 13, 2011
Prison Math
What are the costs and benefits of leading the world in locking up human beings?
Veronique de Rugy
June 8, 2011
Wrongful Convictions
How many innocent Americans are behind bars?
Radley Balko
June 7, 2011
Declare Defeat and Go Home
The War on Drugs has failed. Let's try something else.
A. Barton Hinkle
June 7, 2011
Locked Up, Locked Out
The social costs of incarceration
Bruce Western
June 6, 2011
The Ends Didn’t Justify the Means
Our complicity in the devastating war on crime
Matt Welch
June 6, 2011
When Punishment Is a Crime
The Supreme Court takes on California's overcrowded prison system.
Steve Chapman
May 30, 2011
Big Brother Is Watching You
Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.
A. Barton Hinkle
May 25, 2011
Home Insecurity
Two privacy rulings hit us where we live.
Jacob Sullum
May 25, 2011
False Forbearance
Obama breaks his promise to respect medical marijuana laws.
Jacob Sullum
May 11, 2011
How Long Before Someone Dies Because of an Unsecured Wireless Router?
Steven Titch
April 26, 2011, 11:48am
Watch the Watchmen
It shouldn't be a crime to record the cops.
John Stossel
April 21, 2011
Constitutional Refuseniks
Stewart Rhodes on his controversial group the Oath Keepers and the orders they won't obey
Radley Balko
April 11, 2011
Failing Upward in Criminal Justice
The prosecutor who wrongly put a paraplegic in prison wants to be a judge.
Radley Balko
March 22, 2011
How Drug Cops Go Bad
We shouldn't be surprised when the police officers we ask to break the laws they enforce turn corrupt.
Radley Balko
March 21, 2011
The Mind of a Police Dog
How misconceptions about dogs can lead to abuse of humans
Radley Balko
February 21, 2011
A Beating in Pittsburgh
A year after three cops beat an unarmed music student, they are still getting paid to do nothing.
Radley Balko
January 24, 2011
Justice for Sal
After five years, the family of a Virginia optometrist killed by a SWAT team finally gets some closure.
Radley Balko
January 17, 2011
When Booze Was Banned but Pot Was Not
What can today’s antiprohibitionists learn from their predecessors?
Jacob Sullum
January 13, 2011
Beyond Bars
A new project has conservatives thinking more seriously about crime.
Radley Balko
December 20, 2010
The SWAT Team Would Like to See Your Alcohol Permit
How police use regulatory inspections to conduct warrantless searches
Radley Balko
December 13, 2010
The Media Aren't Liberal
Prop. 19 highlights the authoritarian tendencies of the mainstream press.
Radley Balko
November 1, 2010
More Democracy, More Incarceration
The devastating mix of politics and crime policy
Radley Balko
October 25, 2010
America's Most Successful Stop Snitchin' Campaign
The failure to protect whistle-blowing cops is inexcusable.
Radley Balko
October 18, 2010
How to Profit by Expanding Freedom
The case for drug legalization
Steve Chapman
October 11, 2010
How to Slash the State
14 ways to dismantle a monstrous government, one program at a time
October 5, 2010
Needs More RAM
Another drug raid gone bad
Radley Balko
August 31, 2010
The Government's License To Steal
Indiana's laws prohibiting police departments from enriching themselves via asset forfeiture would be much more effective if they weren't ignored.
Radley Balko
August 16, 2010
Police Blackout
Law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia say you have no right to know what they’re doing.
Radley Balko
June 29, 2010
Confirmation Theater
Elena Kagan is set to participate in a confirmation process she once dismissed as a charade
Radley Balko
June 28, 2010
Another Marylander Arrested for Recording the Police
According to state officials, only on-duty cops have a privacy right in public spaces.
Radley Balko
June 21, 2010
End the Drug War
Government goes astray when it tries to protect us from ourselves.
John Stossel
June 17, 2010
Lessons from the Death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones
How aggressive SWAT tactics contributed to the death of a 7-year-old Detroit girl.
Radley Balko
May 24, 2010
Pre-Crime Policing
Allegedly “disgruntled” man has his guns seized, and “voluntarily” surrenders to two SWAT teams and dozens of police officers for a crime that hadn’t been committed
Radley Balko
May 19, 2010
A Drug Raid Goes Viral
A violent drug raid posted to YouTube catches fire online. But the only thing unusual about the raid is that it was caught on video.
Radley Balko
May 11, 2010
Watching the Detectives
A nebulous "right" to videotape on-duty cops isn't enough. The right needs to be enforced.
Radley Balko
April 26, 2010
Another Senseless Drug War Death
Stunning developments in the 2009 police shooting of Georgia pastor Jonathan Ayers
Radley Balko
March 23, 2010