Police Abuse
‘Botched’ Drug Raids Show How Prohibition Invites Senseless Violence
When Alecia Phonesavanh heard her 19-month-old son, Bou Bou, screaming, she thought he was simply frightened by the armed men who had burst into the house in the middle of the night. Then she saw the charred remains of the…
Jury refuses to indict Sean Dunn for throwing sandwich at federal officer
The New York Times reported today that federal prosecutors failed to secure a grand jury indictment against Sean Dunn, the Washington, D.C., man who was arrested earlier this month after he hurled a Subway sandwich at a…
Brickbat: Up in Smoke
Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Sheriff Steven Tompkins has been indicted for allegedly extorting a Boston cannabis company. According to a federal indictment, Tompkins pressured an employee to sell him $50,000 worth of…
New federal checkpoints in D.C. likely violate the Fourth Amendment
Residents of Washington, D.C., are turning out in force to protest the Trump administration's takeover of the city's law enforcement, which has included police checkpoints on popular streets staffed by federal…
He took a bus to watch his soccer team. Instead, he ended up in a Venezuelan prison.
On a chilly Friday night in mid-June, Samuel boarded a chartered bus for a 14-hour journey along Venezuela's winding, decrepit highways. The bus had no air conditioning, no reclining seats, no space for bags or coolers,…
How Fort Bragg special operations troops created a drug cartel
The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces, by Seth Harp, Penguin Random House, 368 pages, $30 Despite the drug war, U.S. intelligence agencies have sometimes made common cause with rebel forces…
Brickbat: Watch Those Hands
In England, former Thames Valley Police Constable Ben Lane was found to haveinappropriately touched a male colleague's leg while both were on duty in September 2024. Lane claimed he was just demonstrating a sexual…
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