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19 May 2014, 9:05 pm
Radley Balko weighs in on Philadelphia bodega-robbery scandal: “I want to refer to these thugs as ‘rogue cops,’ but given that [they've thrived] how rogue can they really be? [read post]
19 May 2014, 4:09 am
On “The perils of privatized probation,” Radley Balko seems convincing to me [Washington Post], quoting The Economist’s “Democracy in America“: I’ve written about these fees before, but here’s a quick refresher: if you get hit with a $200 ticket you can’t pay, then a private-probation company will let you pay it off in instalments, for a monthly fee. [read post]
11 May 2014, 9:01 pm
Radley Balko first commented on the disparity between the overwhelmingly negative response the Cohan book received from Amazon reviewers (51 of the 75 Amazon reviews are 1-star) and the puff-piece comments from reviews in most of the mainstream media.The negative reviews clearly captured Cohan’s attention; he has complained about them in a couple of press appearances. [read post]
9 May 2014, 3:19 am
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8 May 2014, 4:46 am
But then I saw Radley Balko’s post about the piece, and it dawned on me that I was dead wrong. [read post]
7 May 2014, 7:38 am
As Radley Balko has presciently observed, the pattern in reviews of author William Cohan’s book has been straightforward: overwhelmingly negative reviews from any reviewer who followed the case closely, coupled with glowing reviews from those who knew nothing about the case and appeared willing to uncritically accept Cohan’s musings without even wondering about the merits of using a convicted liar as the book’s chief source. [read post]
6 May 2014, 4:45 am
As Radley Balko notes, this is another “but for video” case (a phrase that he shamelessly stole from me without any attribution I might add). [read post]
5 May 2014, 9:05 pm
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]
2 May 2014, 3:53 am
It came via a twit by FAMM’s Mike Riggs, retwitted by Radley Balko. and was sufficiently alluring to compel me to read: Federal appeals court rules driving with your hands at 10 and 2 is suspicious behavior and thus grounds for a stop. [read post]
30 Apr 2014, 9:15 pm
Balko: I remember collecting arrowheads as a kid. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 9:05 pm
[Radley Balko, with reader comments on challenges of supplies and maintenance] Good: “Obama to consider more clemency requests from nonviolent drug offenders” [CBS, Tim Lynch, my take in December] Arkansas: “Mom Arrested for Breastfeeding After Drinking Alcohol in a Restaurant” [Free-Range Kids] Tweet Tags: Arkansas, child protection, Fourth Amendment, police, Supreme Court, transitPolice and prosecution roundup is a post from… [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 3:39 am
Via Radley Balko, the ACLU hooked up with deaf actress and advocate Marlee Matlin to make a video to help the deaf and hard of hearing to handle such interactions. [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 11:32 am
For those with a few minutes of spare time over the weekend, some items for review:(1) I’ve linked a couple of times to Radley Balko’s excellent piece on the disparity in reviews of the Cohan book. [read post]
26 Apr 2014, 10:10 am
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]
25 Apr 2014, 1:26 pm
Radley Balko has this post at the WaPo, titled "When fact-checking fails":This local TV station's "fact check" of a campaign ad in the South Carolina governor's race shows just how easily the fact-checking concept can fly off the rails. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
Amidst a basically content-free attack on people (including me) who have reviewed his book negatively, author William D. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 4:09 am
In a remarkable post, Radley Balko revisists Boston a year after the marathon bombing. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 3:33 am
I’m a little late in getting to this, but last month Radley Balko wrote the definitive blog post on the appalling state of federal bank structuring law, which makes it a felony to arrange bank transactions in quantities of less than $10,000 so as to avoid reporting requirements that kick in at that threshold. [read post]
17 Apr 2014, 9:01 pm
Less than three weeks before Cohan’s book appeared, Darryl Howard’s story was brilliantly explicated by Radley Balko. [read post]
10 Apr 2014, 4:01 am
As Radley Balko notes, what happened in LA is why there needs to be a missing video presumption: It doesn’t matter how potentially beneficial the technology is if the cops using it are going to undermine its transparency value, and if police agencies and courts don’t subsequently hold those cops accountable. [read post]
