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Quiet fishing expeditions are being used to sort through potential suspects. SCOTT SHACKFORD | 8.13.2019 2:10 PM (Richard B. Levine/Newscom) Last October, if you happened to be near the scene where some right-wing Proud Boys got into a […]

The nation’s leading scholar of mass shootings explains how media coverage of horrific events such as El Paso and Dayton stoke unwarranted fear and anxiety. NICK GILLESPIE | 8.14.2019 3:30 PM James Alan Fox (James Alan Fox)Audio […]

During the term that begins this fall, the Supreme Court is expected to consider its first potentially important Second Amendment case since 2010. The case involves New York City’s tight restrictions on transportation of legally owned guns, which the […]

Attorney General William Barr delivered an emotionally charged speech defending law enforcement this week to the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) for its 64th Biennial Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. FOP is the US’ largest […]

A North Carolina Highway Patrol officer did not break the law when he pulled over a driver who flipped him the middle finger, the state Court of Appeals said in a decision this week. Shawn […]

In 1984, as part of Ronald Reagan’s renewed war on drugs, the Drug Enforcement Administration launched Operation Pipeline. This program was inspired by the strategies employed by state troopers in New Mexico who, after pulling […]

After a leak revealed that the British Ambassador to the USA had called Trump “inept, insecure and incompetent” (leading to the ambassador’s resignation and a round of Twitter insults between Trump and senior Tory officials), London’s Metropolitan […]

On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every […]

When former Baltimore cop Peter Moskos returned to his old beat during a ride-along, the banter was lighthearted until his partner said, “Body camera on.” The mood darkened. “You instantly thought, ‘God, what might I […]

While expressing concern for free speech and privacy, lawmakers are seriously threatening both. ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 8.8.2019 7:00 AM (zerocreatives Westend61/Newscom) Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) has taken a lot of heat for a recent proposal to ban […]