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25 Mar 2009, 9:00 pm
. - The Raw Story and Radley Balko covered the story. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 1:06 pm
On the topic of standing armies and heavily armed police forces, you should read Radley Balko's book Rise of the Warrior Cop, which makes startlingly clear that virtually every community in America now has at least one SWAT team (often with armored vehicles) and that you have almost no protection against them breaking down your door without warning, whether or not they have a warrant. [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 3:27 am
Law," Crime & Consequences"Courting Confrontation," Simple Justice In a link roundup this morning, Radley Balko included the following short item about using Tasers for noncompliance instead of self-defense:Police chief tasers 14-year-old girl in the head after she ran from her mother. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 8:04 am
While police officer deaths did rise in 2011, they've also dramatically declined so far in 2012, as Radley Balko pointed out over the weekend. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 11:20 am
Our Asshat Lawyer of the Day, Harford County, Maryland prosecutor Joseph Cassilly (Radley Balko, Reason.com), thinks this armed guy accosting a motorcyclist in a public place . . . . . . was engaged in private conversation, such that the motorcyclist should be prosecuted for a felony for recording his words: The test is whether police officers can expect some of the conversations they have while on the job to remain private and not be recorded and replayed for the world to hear. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 9:18 am
h/t Radley Balko [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 4:57 am
From Radley Balko: Cops launch drug raid based on anonymous tip and a single marijuana stem found in the trash. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 10:17 am
But Radley Balko, at Reason, makes a compelling case that perhaps it should be. [read post]
1 Jan 2012, 4:49 pm
Radley, the agitator in residence at Huffington Post, is seen by a far broader and larger audience than one finds in the blawgosphere, but Huff Post will never be mistaken for a blawg.Appellate Squawk by Anonymous PD: His blog has taken no prisoners while allowing us to laugh at the nightmares we experience every day. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 9:04 am
'Via Radley Balko, "Laws banning texting while driving actually may prompt a slight increase in road crashes, research out today shows. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 7:14 am
But one suspects the court pleadings will provide interesting reading, giving a lot more first-hand, nitty gritty detail than we usually get to see about how police handle snitches.It's a safe bet that a guy who made most of his income as a police informant to the point where he sued over lost wages has a lot of stories to tell.RELATED: See also Radley Balko's coverage of the Kathryn Johnston case. [read post]
27 Dec 2009, 8:04 am
This comment by Radley Balko is particualrly apt: For all the crap they put us through, this guy still got some sort of explosive material on the plane from Amsterdam. [read post]
11 Dec 2006, 8:16 am
(Thanks to Radley Balko and "Jon".) [read post]
2 Jun 2012, 5:02 am
But then, I'm no psychologist, and likely not as supportive of the difficulties of being a good cop as Fitch.Via Radley Balko and Pete Eyre, by way of an interesting post by Howard Friedman at CopBlock. [read post]
27 Dec 2009, 8:15 am
Radley Balko nailed it: Seems to me that what this, Flight 93, and the Richard Reid incident have shown us is that the best line of defense against airplane-based terrorism is us. [read post]
29 Sep 2008, 3:57 pm
In Virginia, reports Reason's Radley Balko, two police informants "broke into Ryan Frederick's home and stole the alleged marijuana plants the police then used as probable cause to obtain the search warrant. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 1:10 pm
Via Radley Balko, I see that Robbins’ lawyer now claims, based on documents produced in discovery, that the district captured more than 400 pictures from Robbins’ laptop and thousands from others. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 2:53 am
He cites Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop, which similarly treats both manifestations of paramilitary policing as part of the same trend. [read post]
27 Oct 2006, 5:21 am
MORE: Radley Balko thinks this whole story is unfair to Webb: This is nothing like Foley. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 3:38 pm
Radley Balko documented it at Reason, Carlos Miller documents it tirelessly at Photography Is Not A Crime, and Injustice Everywhere frequently has pertinent stories. [read post]
