The kill rate of American police will surprise you. Ed Stringham gives us the data, as well as the radical libertarian solution. The homicide rate in America is 5 per 100,000. The police homicide (killed by police) rate in America is 145 per 100,000. This is worse than some of the deadliest countries in the […]
by William Norman Grigg We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is least in danger and fix its approval on the virtue nearest to that vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them running about with fire extinguishers whenever there is a […]
by Barry Donegan: In 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs, replacing criminal penalties with civil penalties and court-ordered stints in drug treatment. As The Washington Post‘s Christopher Ingraham points out, supporters of the US War on Drugs have in the past offered up gloomy predictions as to the escalating rates of drug use that would eventually befall Portugal […]
A Texas police officer has been placed on leave after video emerged showing him using force, including drawing his gun, at a pool party on Friday (June 5).
The failed policies of alcohol prohibition continue to haunt the Treasure Coast as 194 people were arrested not for crimes or victimizing others but for vices. As a result almost 200 people were kidnapped and cages for making their own choices. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of […]
TCPalm reports on local crime. In the Treasure Coast’s three counties of Indian River, St. Lucie and Martin, the average crime rate now is below the state’s, which itself is at a 44-year low, FDLE reports show. As a whole, the region’s crime rate is about 57 percent of what it was in 2000. However […]
John describes how robots may become our newest law enforcers and how digital surveillance – along with physical surveillance via drones – may serve to quell free speech. He answers the question on everyone’s mind: “Is the NSA really listening to all of our phone calls?” Source: Lions of Liberty
by Eric Peters You’ve no doubt heard the term, “checks and balances.” It’s usually mentioned in the context of government – of the American form of government (well, its theoretical form) in particular. The idea that the legislative branch acts as a check on the powers of the executive, while the judicial balances the legislative […]
by John Whitehead: “If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers? If you look at the police department, their creed is to protect and to serve. A soldier’s mission is to engage his enemy in close […]
Local law enforcement have terrorized a disable woman over the last two years. Sandra Silasavage was disabled due to a horse accident that disfigured her spine. But at 60 disabled and never arrested a day before in her life she was terrorized by St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Freeman. Cruising along at a steady 57mph […]
