…still appointing federal judges whose main credential is a history as a prosecutor or some other tough-on-crime, pro-police background–he hasn’t noticed that this no longer appeals even to Republicans, at…

…a neighboring apartment complex, where he shot him after he said he felt threatened, according to a confession documented in an Orlando Police Department report. Smith even said he feared…

…less in means-tested benefits. Same with public employees such as teachers, firefighters, police offices, research scientists and untenured university professors, whose numbers have decreased dramatically in recent years; we could…

…not short-term. Or maybe there’s some distinction between opinion and fact, on the one hand, and a prosecutor’s telling his bosses that there’s evidence that a police officer fabricated evidence…

…he nor the police could protect her. “My uncle told me it wasn’t safe for me to stay there. They told him that on April 3, and I left on…

…worldwide taxation substitutes for a general anti-avoidance rule making avoidance itself illegal, which is the approach most other industrialized countries take. Inversions make it impossible to police avoidance, so they…

From Tom Dispatch author Matthew Harwood points out the rapid growth in the use of SWAT teams for regular police functions: In 1984, according to Radley Balko’s Rise of the…

Charles Reid explains a bit on some background for the news in Missouri: Quite properly, journalistic reaction to events in Ferguson, Missouri, has focused on the militarization of the police,…

…police was of the friendly wave I would get from the private security detail that patrolled my neighborhood, and the only trouble I ever got in was when the officer…

…been given government police powers. As for the ACA, each state that has not set up its own healthcare insurance exchanges under the ACA has— as per and as mandated…