The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away
By Carissa Byrne Hessick The Atlantic The Bill of Rights exists to protect individuals. It protects the right to free speech, the right to due process, the right to counsel, and […]
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After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules
By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]
U.S. Army has Hidden or Downplayed Loss of Firearms for Years
By Kristin M. Hall, James Laporta & Justin Pritchard Associated Press The U.S. Army has hidden or downplayed the extent to which its firearms disappear, significantly understating losses and thefts […]
Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t
By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]
Murderous Manila
By James Fenton The New York Review of Books One night in December, I was standing in heavy rain, under an umbrella, in a dark Manila alleyway, outside a house […]
Addressing Armed Violence: A Look at Small Island Developing States
By Shmuel Levin The Diplomat The Caribbean and the Pacific each offer a unique and contrasting perspective toward addressing armed violence. Despite sharing similar challenges as Small Island Developing States […]
Do Tasers Interfere With Your Ability to Understand Miranda Warnings?
By Nathan Collins Pacific Standard When you’re arrested by police and they read you your Miranda rights, you have two main options: You can keep quiet and demand a lawyer, […]
Should Cops Get to Review the Video Before They Report?
By Kathy Pezdek The Marshall Project The scenario is all too familiar. A police officer with a dash-cam or body camera stops an individual, the situation escalates, the individual is […]
Battling America’s Other PTSD Crisis
By Tina Rosenberg Yahoo! The fight that started Keith Davis on a path to a new life began when he was buying marijuana. It was early afternoon on Aug. 8. […]
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