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19 Feb 2015, 4:41 am
It’s called Peace Officer, and here’s the trailer, including the beloved smiling face of Radley Balko speaking to police militarization: The film is by Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber, who offer this description: Peace Officer is a feature documentary about the increasingly militarized state of American police as told through the story of William “Dub” Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first… [read post]
30 Oct 2017, 2:59 am
In Mississippi, a “mother has been forbidden from any contact with her newborn for 14 of the 18 months the child has been alive” because of unpaid misdemeanor fines [Radley Balko, WLBT/MSNewsNow; judge has now resigned, but similar practices reported to be common] Is Biloxi going to do better? [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 9:15 pm
Radley Balko: …critics allege that the “key-man” system that many Harris County judges use to pick grand jurors selects for law enforcement officials and their friends, family, and acquaintances. [read post]
24 Mar 2016, 9:05 pm
Scott Moxley/OC Weekly via Radley Balko, Voice of OC] And from February: “former Los Angeles sheriff Lee Baca announced that he would plead guilty to criminal charges related to systemic misconduct in his department, specifically to a charge of lying to investigators in an effort to cover up that wrongdoing. [read post]
30 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm
Lists of lists, if not indeed lists of lists of lists: Lenore Skenazy picks worst school safety overreaction cases of the year [Reason] and worst nanny state cases [Huffington Post] Radley Balko, “Horrifying civil liberties predictions for 2015″, and you won’t need to read far to get the joke [Washington Post] Feds probe NY Speaker Sheldon Silver over pay from law firm — not his big personal injury firm, but an obscure firm that handles tax certiorari… [read post]
4 Feb 2017, 7:59 am
Radley Balko urges civil libertarians, including those on the liberal side, to feel a sense of relief at the selection of Neil Gorsuch: “Trump has nominated a thoughtful judge who seems as likely to challenge inevitable future Trump power grabs as any justice on the court. [read post]
25 Apr 2007, 1:56 am
To judge by its title, Fox News contributor Radley Balko's latest column ("Straight Talk: Duke Case Shows Justice System's Flaws," April 23) addressed prosecutor misconduct in the Duke lacrosse fiasco, but he used most of his allotted space to compare the incident to police and prosecutor misconduct in Texas, writing:The same week the Duke players were exonerated, another man was cleared of rape charges as well. [read post]
23 Dec 2019, 3:03 am
“A Louisiana DA will let you out of your community service obligation — if you donate to his nonprofit” [Radley Balko; Calcasieu Parish, La.] [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 9:05 pm
Time for courts to strike it down [Radley Balko, earlier] “First Amendment challenge to broad gag order on family court litigants” [Eugene Volokh] Federally funded Indiana U. program to monitor political opinion on Twitter didn’t much like being monitored itself by critics [Free Beacon, earlier (project "intensely if covertly political")] Holocaust denial laws abridge the freedom of speech. [read post]
21 May 2012, 6:48 am
Adler) Radley Balko reports on fairly severe asset forfeiture abuse in Wisconsin. [read post]
21 Dec 2018, 2:59 am
” [Radley Balko on Fifth Circuit ruling in Dean v. [read post]
20 Jan 2011, 3:32 am
Via Scott Greenfield, Radley Balko writes about the $2 million settlement of the Sal Culosi case: Fairfax County detective, David Baucum, overheard [Culosi] and some friends wagering on a college football game at a bar. [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]
3 Sep 2010, 5:47 am
Via Radley Balko, it seems that the cops don't love guys with concealed carry permits as much as one might think. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 11:16 pm
Via Gideon, Radley Balko has a book review at Reason in which he argues that public defender offices, far from deserving scorn, arguably deserve bigger budgets in light of what we've learned from dozens of recent DNA exonerations about how innocent people come to be convicted.Yes, that's a senior editor at Reason magazine, the small "l" libertarian bastion, calling for increased spending on a government program. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 4:21 am
The most likely outcome is that he's made a judge.From Radley Balko at Reason comes the post about how Larimer County, Colorado, settled with Tim Masters for $4.1 million for his wrongful murder conviction. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 4:45 am
Radley Balko points to a St. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 3:44 am
I knew nothing about Skinner, having somehow missed Radley Balko's post at Reason about him.The email told a saga that's both hard to believe and easy to accept. [read post]
6 Dec 2010, 1:34 pm
That's the title of Radley Balko's post at Reason. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 8:28 am
Radley Balko points it out for us, quoting the Associated Press: Gale Buckner, a former Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent . . . . [read post]
