Police
Ohio Gov. DeWine Order Flags Lowered for Slain Officer
Three Lorain Police Department officers were shot on Wednesday in what Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, says “appears to have been a targeted attack on law enforcement.” One of the officers shot, Phillip Wagner, has since died from…
New York State Police must disclose officer names in misconduct records
A judge ruled Monday that the New York State Police (NYSP) must disclose the names of officers it redacted from two decades of misconduct complaints sought by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). Albany County Supreme…
Brickbat: Don't Come Around Here No More
Godson Vondee, a police officer in Prince William County, Virginia, has been charged with stalking and five counts of using a computer to obtain identifying information. He is accused of using the department's criminal…
Pennsylvania police officer threatens to run over protester for filming on the sidewalk
As longtime Reason readers are aware, police officers often don't like to be filmed by the public. Recently, an officer in Pennsylvania got so fed up with being recorded that he drove his car on the sidewalk and…
Brickbat: Pretty Tied Up
A federal judge sentenced Mario Stewart, a retired police sergeant in Mount Vernon, New York, to six months in prison and six months of home confinement for repeatedly tasing a restrained 20-year-old man who was experiencing…
A harsher teen curfew won’t reduce D.C.’s crime
After a slew of teen arrests related to illegal fireworks in Washington, D.C.'s Navy Yard neighborhood were made over the July 4 weekend, the city's Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser signed the Juvenile Curfew…
Brickbat: Song and Dance – Reason.com
Egyptian authorities arrested belly dancer Sohila Tarek Hassan Haggag at Cairo International Airport, charging her with "corrupting public morals" over dance videos posted on social media, where she has over 2…
Why a Trump-appointed judge is torching his court’s approach to qualified immunity
Concurrences are underrated. Though they don't serve as the primary explanation for a court's ruling, they can add crucial context to majority opinions and shape how we interpret them—and the law generally. For a…
ICE Agents Face Increased Threats as Dems Call for Mask Ban
Democrats presented a bill in the Massachusetts House on Wednesday to ban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from covering their faces during immigration raids and arrests. Democrats and Republicans are sparring…
New Jersey journalists face criminal charges for publishing information from a police blotter
Last September, Red Bank Green, a news site covering Red Bank, New Jersey, published information from a local police blotter, including a description of an August 31 arrest for simple assault—an arrest that was expunged the…
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