Civil Asset Forfeiture Gone Horribly Wrong
Article from MLive by Gus Burns. An 18-year veteran of the Hazel Park Police Department is accused of stealing at least $85,000 from the department’s forfeiture accounts. He resigned while…
The Police State Is Still Strong
Article from Reason by Jacob Sullum Tomorrow New Hampshire will become the 22nd state to eliminate the possibility of jail for possessing small amounts of marijuana. Under a law passed this year, adults caught…
We Must End Warrantless Spying
Article from Reason by Zach Weissmueller. As former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed to the world in 2013, the U.S. government routinely spies on its own citizens. “I, sitting at…
Amash Scores Huge Victory Against Civil Asset Forfeiture
Photo by: By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America (Justin Amash Uploaded by AlbertHerring) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Article from The Hill by Cristina Marcos….
The TSA Is Going Way Too Far
Article from The Weekly Standard by John McCormack. Earlier this year, the LA Times reported: “TSA quietly launches new ‘enhanced’ pat-down procedure.” The Times noted that TSA would not describe precisely how the new…
The Police State Strikes Again
Article from Reason by Scott Shackford. The campus police at Berkeley may not be able to stop people from trashing the town while protesting conservative college speakers, but they sure…
Why This Rogue Cop Needs To Lose His Job
Shall we ease into our Labor Day weekend with an absolutely repulsive video of a police detective abusing his authority against a completely innocent person for no real justifiable reason?…