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21 Dec 2011, 3:17 am
What is uncontested is that Baldwin and McCue used their shields to deliberately violate Crossland's constitutional right to be left alone, to refuse to be seized and searched, to tell the "aggressive" officers in whatever language he chose to go away.As Radley Balko noted with incredulity: Both the trial court, the appeals court, and even the prosecution acknowledge that because Crossland was doing nothing wrong before the incident, it was illegal for… [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 2:09 am
Radley Balko posts about a terribly depressing case, made even worse by the opinion of an appellate court that acknowledges how wrong it was and yet demurs. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 3:02 am
It made no sense to me, so I let Radley know. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 1:25 pm
More: Glenn Reynolds (NTSB “distracted” by its own pre-existing agenda and oversimplifying causes of Missouri accident) and more, Chapman, Marc Scribner/CEI (even bans on texting don’t seem to have worked as intended), Amy Alkon, (two years back) Radley Balko, and Ira Stoll (per IIHS, quoted on NPR, “states with cellphone bans have seen no real decrease in accident rates”). [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 3:10 pm
Radley Balko and the others involved (including but by no means limited to Jacob Sullum) deserve major kudos for showing what a news and commentary magazine can still do. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 4:23 am
One can never be too sure that only the right kind get on the Path Train, and if that means an extra bit of pedigree, so be it.H/T Radley Balko© 2011 Simple Justice NY LLC. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 6:25 am
Here's some hump day reading material for you on subjects Grits doesn't immediately have time to blog about:Austin Statesman: Morton lawyers put prosecutors on the defenseKXAN-Austin: Yogurt shop murder debate still ragesHouston Press: Three meals a day for Texas prisoners: The petition campaign Amarillo Globe News: Prison education struggles amid cuts Amarillo Globe News: Amarillo slows down ordinance to restrict sex-offender residencyDallas News: Bondsmen's rearrest system needs… [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 5:23 am
TSA: design of gun on purse is “replica gun” [Radley Balko] “Note: Before Attaching Ankle Monitor, Make Sure Leg Is Real” [Lowering the Bar] “Harm to others” rationale seems to fall by wayside as Boston bans workplace use of e-cigarettes [Jacob Sullum] “Should legislation protect the obese? [read post]
RADLEY BALKO: SWAT Raids, Stun Guns, And Pepper Spray: Why The Government Is Ramping Up The Use Of …
5 Dec 2011, 10:09 am
RADLEY BALKO: SWAT Raids, Stun Guns, And Pepper Spray: Why The Government Is Ramping Up The Use Of Force. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 9:41 pm
Radley Balko, a journalist who has studied the issue, told a House subcommittee on crime in 2007 that one criminologist found a 1,500 percent increase in the use of SWAT (special weapons and tactics) teams in the United States in roughly the last two decades. . . . [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 4:05 am
Via Radley Balko: Gibbs said she had no problem going through security at Jacksonville International Airport, but rather, when she headed home from Virginia. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 9:29 am
Via Radley Balko, we learn of a police raid on smoke shops, including one called Capitol Hemp. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 1:04 pm
the operation of the Lacey Act does indeed menace innocent artisans who make musical instruments [Kathryn Marie Dudley] Tim Cavanaugh finds the L.A.Times strumming a derivative ideological tune, while Radley Balko notes, in a police-restraint-for-me-but-not-for-thee vein, that a reporter arrested at Occupy Nashville had mocked concern over the gun-toting Gibson raid. [read post]
RADLEY BALKO: Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent …
26 Nov 2011, 11:41 am
RADLEY BALKO: Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime. [read post]
26 Nov 2011, 6:42 am
In case you missed them, here are a couple from the past day or so really worth the read: First, Radley Balko’s piece “Driven by Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims of Violent Crime. [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 7:59 pm
(Ilya Somin) Radley Balko has an interesting piece at Huffington Post on the ways in which the War on Drugs creates perverse incentives for police departments: Arresting people for assaults, beatings and robberies doesn’t bring money back to police departments, but drug cases do in a couple of ways. [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 6:53 pm
Radley Balko has a new feature article at Huffington Post on law enforcment's misplaced priorities in the War on Drugs. [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 8:08 am
Six-year-old charged with sexual assault [Channel3000.com, Wisconsin; Radley Balko] “Beware: Cities Hunting You Down For Reagan-Era Parking Tickets” [David Kiley, AOL] Waco, Texas: “McLennan DA fights DNA testing because exonerations override juries” [Grits for Breakfast] Robert Mosteller, “Failures of the Prosecutor’s Duty to ‘Do Justice’ in Extraordinary and Ordinary Miscarriages of Justice” [Legal Ethics Forum] … [read post]
25 Nov 2011, 3:46 am
” As Radley Balko aptly notes, so much for relying on prosecutorial discretion to keep the lid on taking half-baked legislation to its logical extreme.So attorneys for the boy have filed a §1983 action. [read post]
19 Nov 2011, 12:11 pm
You can see many such videos of police abusing people displayed and discussed by people such as Scott Greenfield or Radley Balko. [read post]
