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26 Feb 2016, 5:11 am
Radley Balko explains: Cass and Charles Camp were owners of the Abilene Gold Exchange, a business that bought jewelry and other precious gems and metals and paid the owners in cash. [read post]
6 May 2019, 3:59 am
Building on his work over more than a decade, Radley Balko asked 20 Questions of the candidates seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination for president. [read post]
18 Jul 2019, 3:46 am
The once-agitator, Radley Balko, wrote a critically-acclaimed and critical book about junk forensic science called “The Cadaver King and The Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South,” dealing with bite mark testimony and its allegorical relationship to who and what gets admitted into expert evidence to lock down convictions when there is little to no actual evidence otherwise. [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 6:37 am
In a post titled "Qualified Immunity Strikes Again," Radley Balko describes a case out of Bellaire, TX that wraps together several themes which arise on this blog with some frequency, including the sweeping scope of "qualified" immunity for police officers and database errors (in this case, a user error) leading to unjust and tragic results:Cop runs license check on a suspicious vehicle. [read post]
15 Sep 2007, 8:04 pm
Radley Balko on why Texas might try to prevent anti-death penalty groups, as well as the rest of the world, from finding out whether Texas executed an innocent man:Now, I can think of some reasons why a prosecutor would want to destroy a piece of physical evidence that could prove that the state executed an innocent man. [read post]
18 Jan 2009, 11:49 pm
From Radley "The Agitator" Balko, this Washington Post story of police form Prince George's County, Maryland who stopped and ordered a TV reporter, Andrea McCarren, out of her car at gun point. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 11:40 pm
Via Radley Balko comes one of the most horrendous stories ever, and one that everyone should know.From the Denver Post: Charles Porter is a 13-year veteran of the Denver Police Department who one night last spring, on a gang- unit detail, believed he'd seen Juan Vasquez, a 16-year-old boy, swigging an alcoholic beverage in northwest Denver. [read post]
25 Sep 2011, 5:00 am
Via Radley Balko, a brave Miami police officer, whose name isn't revealed by NBC Miami, took down 22-year-old Gilberto Powell. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 11:11 pm
From Radley Balko at the Agitator comes this incredible tape of an interaction between some our friendly, highly-trained airport security folks under the tutelage of the TSA and a guy who just happened to have some cash.While it's been the case for quite a while that anyone traveling outside the country carrying more than $10,000 in currency must declare it, It's troubling, of course, but intended as a way to catch money laundering,… [read post]
12 Dec 2013, 4:13 pm
Via Radley Balko, these pieces never get old:Some 250,000 tons of Nutella are now sold across 75 countries around the world every year, according to the OECD. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 3:38 pm
Radley Balko reported the story in the Washington Post. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 3:38 pm
Radley Balko reported the story in the Washington Post. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 4:54 am
Radley Balko at WaPo provides us with yet another tale of monumental and pointless harm at the hands of a cop whose need for mindless control exceeded anything resembling human thought. [read post]
20 Jul 2016, 5:05 am
Radley Balko asks if that’s so hard? [read post]
30 Jul 2014, 5:42 am
Via Radley Balko, the story of Roger Carlos’ beating in San Antonio reflects a disconnect from reality that ought to shame Police Chief William McManus into, at the very least, a tearful, heartfelt apology. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 5:14 am
Wearing bullet-proof body armor, Radley Balko proposes that the time has come to rid ourselves of the crime of drunk driving. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 2:47 am
Radley Balko gives the TL;dr version: But the gist is that a veteran who apparently grew marijuana to self-medicate for anxiety and depression apparently shot and killed one cop and wounded several others during a nighttime raid on his home. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 11:27 am
From Radley Balko and Scott Greenfield comes the heartwarming tale of Florida Circuit Judge Joseph Will, who, while bound by Supreme Court precedent that the Constitution allows the police to lie to a citizen to gain entry to the citizen's home, is unwilling to take the word of an admitted liar. [read post]
3 Jul 2010, 3:52 am
Via Radley Balko, Carlos Miller from Photography Is Not A Crime, and Stretch Ledford, a veteran photojournalist currently pursuing a Masters degree in Multimedia Journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication, decided to do a test. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 3:06 am
Via Radley Balko, another "isolated incident :" Cook County sheriff's police on a drug raid smashed into a Southwest Side house late Thursday night, terrorizing the elderly couple who lives there before admitting they had the wrong house. [read post]
