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From Tampa Bay Times:
A former undercover officer who now teaches criminal justice echoed the explanation from the Sheriff’s Office, saying she considers gun buys the most dangerous of undercover…
Whenever I write about police-abuse and use-of-force issues, I often hear from the “back the badge” crowd to defend whatever it is the police officer did in a given situation. They’re not…
From Norfolk Daily News:
In Austin, the proposal failed because it was an unfunded and unrealistic mandate to increase minimum police staffing and require officers to spend a third of their…
Two contrary police reform measures—one to increase police officers in Austin, Texas, and another to decrease them in Minneapolis—went before voters this month. The goal of each was to create a…
WASHINGTON (Nov. 3, 2021)—Following the vote to uphold the existence of the police department in Minneapolis, R Street’s Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties Director Jillian Snider released the…
From R Street Institute:
[Moderator] Steven Greenhut, Resident Senior Fellow and Western Region Director, State Affairs, R Street Institute
Jillian…
I recently was driving behind a pickup truck that sported a bumper sticker with a U.S. Marine Corps logo and these words: “When it absolutely positively has to be destroyed overnight.” That line…
In the rural area where I live, those black flags with the thin-blue-line stripe have supplanted the stars and stripes as the chosen expression of patriotism. I refer to them as the “please tread…