“So long as we’re going to tolerate government officials exempting themselves from the rules they inflict on the rest of us, we might just have to be happy when there’s no body count.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/17/laws-are-for-the-little-people/print
“City officials claimed the display constituted an unapproved ‘sign’ because it attracted people to look at the house. The couple were fined $100 per day.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/18/florida-couple-gets-to-keep-starry-paint
“One out of every 14 children in the U.S. has had a parent imprisoned. Today there are over two million children are growing up in U.S. households in which one or more parents are incarcerated.”
Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/396226-children-are-one-of-the-war-on-drugs-casualties
“For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film ‘Minority Report,’ this will sound like life catching up with art.”
“Federal agencies seized over $5 billion in 2014, which was more than the amount of property burglarized that same year, $3.9 billion.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/keeping-cops-hands-out-of-your-pockets/
“What Rehnquist saw as one of his biggest achievements, Kavanaugh noted, was freeing law enforcement from the annoying restrictions placed on it in the 1960s and ’70s. And Kavanaugh was there to second the motion.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/07/16/brett-kavanaughs-soft-spot-for-police-ab
“Pennsylvania State Police killed a man with a bulldozer over a 10-plant marijuana grow ‘operation’ on state lands in Berks County.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/16/police-run-over-kill-man-with-bulldozer
“The officers will be given the benefits and rights of a sitting government minister, and will enjoy diplomatic immunity when travelling abroad. They also will be protected from prosecution for any offences committed in the course of duty between 3 July 2013 – the day Mr Sisi led the military’s overthrow of Morsi following mass protests against his rule – and 10 January 2016 – when the Egyptian parliament was reconvened. That period featured one of the bloodiest episodes in Egypt’s modern history.”
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44848757
“The officers used the terms ‘A’ or arrest for heads, and ‘R’ for release for tails, according to the station.”
“Following backlash over officials pocketing thousands of dollars in excess funds for their own personal use, Ivey withdrew the policy of ‘paying prisoner food service allowances directly to sheriffs in their personal capacities’ in a memo to the state comptroller, The Associated Press reported.”