Radley Balko
Opinion journalist, Washington Post. Author of Rise of the Warrior Cop, and The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. Honorary Duckmaster (3/24/18).
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My Time Inside the Troubling Business of Bounty Hunting
In order to get a closer look inside the world of "bail enforcement agents," writer Jeff Winkler got licensed and spent months working in a broken system that’s bad for just about everyone involved.
Ex-cop details NYPD ‘collar quotas’ — arrest black and Hispanic men, ‘no cuffs on soft targets’ of Jews, Asians, whites: court docs
Cops who arrested black men were rewarded with more overtime, a now-retired officer, Pierre Maximilien writes in an explosive declaration filed Monday in a discrimination lawsuit brought by Sgt. Edwin Raymond and four other cops.
Nashvillians of the Year: Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition
It’s been a busy year for the immigrant advocates at TIRRC, but more is yet to come
Measuring Donald Trump’s Supporters for Intolerance
Survey results suggest that Mr. Trump’s coalition has a significant number of voters who are responsive to religious, social and racial intolerance.
Radley Balko
That poll where half of Republicans say Trump is better than Lincoln makes more sense when you remember that a not insignificant percentage of his supporters oppose the Emancipation Proclamation, and think Lincoln was on the wrong side of the Civil War.
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Kamala Harris Is Dropping Out of 2020 Race
The California senator will suspend her presidential campaign after months of falling poll numbers.
The Condemned — An Investigative Series by The Intercept
Forty-three years after the Supreme Court reversed course and reinstated the death penalty, reliable data on the individuals sent to death row is maddeningly difficult to obtain. The Intercept set out to compile a comprehensive dataset on everyone...
Why New York needs to pause criminal-justice reform
Even as prosecutors and police across New York are struggling to avoid disaster as one major wave of “criminal-justice reform” kicks in Jan. 1, pressure is mounting for yet another round. New York …
Radley Balko
[angry voice] We must stop showing mercy, encouraging rehabilitation, and treating people accused of crimes like human beings! Because the data clearly show...
[whisper] ... there isn't really any data to support our position.
[angry voice] But still!
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Gov. Tony Evers Vetoes Changes To Sex Offender Residency Requirements
Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have allowed sex offenders to live less than 1,500 feet from schools and public parks.
Ex-Rep. Chris Collins Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading Charges
The four-term Republican, who resigned from the House on Monday, shared inside information about a company with others, including his son.
Don’t ‘Blow Up’ State Copyright Schemes, Lawyer Tells SCOTUS (1)
U.S. Supreme Court justices quizzed lawyers over states’ ability to copyright annotated legal codes in a case that both sides say has broad consequences for access to and cost of legal materials.
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Utterly baffled by the notion that a state could charge the public to read the state law that the public is required to follow.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Speaks Out on Trump, Putin and a Divided Europe
'I don't trust anyone at all'
Republicans are leading the country to socialism
Yes, Republicans
Radley Balko
Terrific column from @shikhadalmia: For all the Republican hue and cry about socialism, Trumpism has wrought big government interference in the private sector every bit as much as Elizabeth Warren's most ambitious plans.
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The Startling Low Bar to Ace a Fingerprint Examiner’s Proficiency Test
One wrong match could send an innocent person to prison or see a killer go free. But it doesn’t take much to qualify as an expert.
Court orders release of man on Death Row for killing Tucson girl
Barry Lee Jones was convicted in the 1994 killing of 4-year-old Rachel Gray.
Think Pete Buttigieg Is “Robotic” or “Fake”? You Need to Understand the Gay Archetype He Represents.
Gay “best little boys” might be annoying, but they are legitimately queer.
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Interesting insight here -- Buttigieg's Type A-ness may be how he coped with growing up gay in the Midwest.
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Trump’s Intervention in SEALs Case Tests Pentagon’s Tolerance
Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher’s case pits a Pentagon hierarchy committed to enforcing longstanding rules of combat against a commander in chief with no military experience but a finely honed sense of grievance against authority.
Trump Is First to Use PATRIOT Act to Detain a Man Forever
Never in 18 years has the government used Section 412 of the PATRIOT Act, which permits indefinite detention of resident aliens on national-security grounds. Until now.
Bride arrested after allegedly trying to force photographer to work her wedding, pay her for the privilege — Fox News
Typically, photographers expect to get paid for working a wedding, not the other way around.
First victim of London Bridge attack is named as Cambridge University worker
Jack Merritt, 25, was a course coordinator for prisoner rehabilitation programme Learning Together, which was hosting an event when Usman Khan, 28, launched his attack
When robots are ultra-lifelike will it be murder to switch one off?
Sentient machines with empathy and morality are coming. We urgently need to make some life-and-death decisions about their rights