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5 May 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
McAuliffe vetoes bill expanding procedural rights for motorists facing camera tickets [The Newspaper] Attracting drug deals to town was money-making scheme for a Florida community’s law enforcers [Radley Balko] “Civil Asset Forfeiture: The Biggest Little Racket in Nevada” [Jason Snead and Andrew Kloster, Heritage; related, Evan Bernick on Georgia and Texas; Balko forfeiture roundup] “Yes, it’s time to get rid of regulatory… [read post]
28 Oct 2010, 7:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Radley Balko called it "another isolated incident": In Longview, a SWAT team broke down the door of the wrong home last week in an apparent no-knock raid. [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 3:13 am
I just learned from Radley Balko that quite a list of notables, including Loyola law prof Alexandra Natapoff, several Texans including past Grits guest blogger Alan Bean, Ethan Nadelman of the Drug Policy Alliance, and Wire producer Ed Burns are meeting at a "roundtable" event to discuss the subject of snitching or informant abuses.This is a project I helped originate when I worked at ACLU. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 6:40 pm by Jeralyn
Radley Balko has a new article at Reason, The Mind of a Police Dog, discussing reasons why drug dogs are not as accurate as police and courts assume. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 1:10 am
Via Radley Balko, Georgia Preacher Jonathon Ayers is no longer with us. [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 4:21 pm
Radley Balko, Senior Editor of Reason, takes on one of my pet peeves in an interview in the Atlantic: crime laws named after individuals. [read post]
13 May 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
The magic of immunity: DEA commandeered truck for fatal sting, but doesn’t owe owner even the cost of bullet holes [Houston Chronicle, Radley Balko, Scott Greenfield] Federal takeover of local policing is a truly bad idea [Glenn Reynolds, USA Today; Elizabeth Price Foley] Some of government’s worst messes come when there’s bipartisan agreement, as with lack of police accountability [Coyote] “Is Rakoff the Only Judge Not In Love with DOJ? [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 10:10 am by Walter Olson
To curtail parody, stop being so parody-able in the aftermath of your decision to send cops after your Twitter critics [Radley Balko, more, earlier] Related: “Watch Repairer Goes Legal Over Tame Yelp Review, Streisand Effect Takes Over” [Geigner, TechDirt] Tweet Tags: Illinois, parody, Streisand effect, TwitterAdvice for Peoria mayor Jim Ardis is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 10:12 pm
(Radley Balko, Reason "Hit and Run", Mar. 27). [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 7:32 pm
With the Heller decision in the news (Michael Dorf has a good summary, while Radley Balko thinks Heller really isn't all that), lots of people are wondering about the militia. [read post]
13 Nov 2008, 9:15 am
Radley Balko asks if any criminal defense lawyers out there have ever heard of such a thing. [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 6:37 pm
Over at Reason's Hit and Run blog, Radley Balko has a post simply titled "Here's a Bad Idea. [read post]
2 Mar 2014, 12:38 pm by Walter Olson
Now this is bound to end well: Mississippi lawmakers vote to give Attorney General Jim Hood, a frequent mentionee in this space, his own strike forces [Radley Balko, AP] Tweet Tags: attorneys general, Jim Hood, Mississippi, policeWhen state attorneys general go paramilitary is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
11 Sep 2009, 10:34 am
Radley Balko at Reason points out that now even that is ticking some tough on crime people off. [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 2:44 pm
Radley Balko has an ugly roundup of recent skirmishes in law enforcement’s War on Dogs, which we have noted previously. [read post]
8 Mar 2014, 6:15 am
Fortunately, we have writers like Radley Balko, who focus on these issues. [read post]
24 Jan 2007, 4:05 am
In a headline at Reason Hit and Run that, as one commenter said, is "pure poetry," Radley Balko asks "Why Does Andy Griffith Hate America? [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 9:58 am
Radley Balko at Reason has the details on the city fathers of Anchorage versus Billy Powers and "Snowzilla," who lives in Powers's yard:The first Snowzilla stood about 16 feet tall. [read post]