Arming Icebreakers
By Andreas Kuersten RealClearDefense Icebreakers ply polar waters, smashing open sea lanes with their heavily armored bows. Yet in addition to being equipped to do battle with the elements, should […]
Tag Archives: Law Enforcement
The Cow Cops
By Tay Wiles High Country News In the early days of ranching in the West, few laws existed, and those that did were hard to enforce. Beginning in 1873, county […]
The Future of DNA Profiling
By Francie Diep Pacific Standard Despite what procedural dramas might lead you to believe, the DNA that police collect at crime scenes can’t tell you anything about the characteristics of […]
There’s Nowhere to Hide on the Internet
By Thomas Beller The New Yorker Sometime before dawn on March 29th, not too many hours after Congress approved legislation that allows Internet-service providers to sell your browsing history to […]
The Search for the Truly Nonlethal Law Enforcement Weapon
By Robin Washington The Marshall Project In the new cop drama, “APB” (Monday nights on Fox), an Elon Musk-type billionaire engineer buys a beleaguered Chicago police precinct to avenge his […]
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 […]
The Good and Bad of Predictive Policing
By Sidney Perkowitz Aeon In an age of anxiety, the words sound so reassuring: predictive policing. The first half promises an awareness of events that have not yet occurred. The […]
What do Driverless Cars Mean for Policing?
By Robin Washington The Marshall Project If you’ve ever been pulled over for a broken taillight and suffered a punishing fine — or worse — you can take heart that […]
Taking on the Bail System Through Charity
By Alysia Santo The Marshall Project The nationwide movement for bail reform is advancing, gradually, through legislatures and courts. Just last week the U.S. Department of Justice filed a friend-of-the-court brief […]
Chasing ISIS Through Europe
By Mitch Prothero Buzzfeed The assignment given to the Belgian police in the summer of 2014 was straightforward but high stakes: Follow two men suspected of involvement with ISIS through […]
