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Law & Public Safety
Through research and policy proposals, Locke supports the protection of the public and the right to self-defense. Unfortunately, issues like overcriminalization and asset seizure have caused public safety to stray from that vital responsibility.
Law & Public Safety
Bad News: Violent Crime Is Up in North Carolina’s Largest Cities
The Major Cities Chiefs Association has just released a Violent Crime Survey comparing the first half of 2024 to the same period last year. The good news is that for…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Restoring the Separation of Powers in North Carolina
A strict separation of legislative, executive, and judicial power is guaranteed by both the North Carolina and the United States constitutions. With the connivance of progressive jurists, the progressive left…
Law & Public Safety
Gorsuch Gets It
In Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law, US Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and his former clerk, Janie Nitze, describe the extent to which the United States had…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Restoring the Right to a Fair Trial in North Carolina
Judicial deference to administrative agencies undermines North Carolinians’ right to a fair trial. The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that challenges administrative deference. In a…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Solving North Carolina’s Crime Problem: Part One
North Carolinians are worried about crime, and with good reason. Crime levels spiked in 2020 and 2021 and remain significantly higher than in previous years. Clearance rates, on the other…
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Agriculture
Let’s Broaden North Carolina’s Regulatory Sandbox
Recognizing that overregulation is stifling innovation, a regulatory sandbox allows for an incubation period for new products and services under a guided relaxation of legal and regulatory stringencies. The General…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Curbing Legalized Theft in North Carolina
North Carolina’s asset forfeiture regime includes provisions that protect innocent property owners and discourage abuse. The federal equitable sharing program allows North Carolina law enforcement agencies to circumvent those provisions.…
Research Brief
Health Care
Recent Developments in a Challenge to North Carolina’s Pernicious and Unconstitutional Certificate of Need Law
North Carolina’s Certificate of Need law harms patients, insurers, and taxpayers by making health care more expensive and less accessible. In a lawsuit currently before the North Carolina Supreme Court,…
Law & Public Safety
Policy Pizza: Affirmative Action
For our second week of Policy Pizza in the Big Apple, we were joined by Renu Mukherjee of the Manhattan Institute. Renu studies affirmative action and has been following the…
Law & Public Safety
Policy Pizza: Intensive Community Policing
This week on Policy Pizza, we are joined by attorney and legal expert Jon Guze, who encourages communities to deter crime through elevated policing. Intensive community policing has proven successful…
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Elections & Public Integrity
Anita Earls’ Lawsuit Against the Judicial Standards Commission Should Spark Changes
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls is suing the state’s Judicial Standards Commission to make them end investigations into some of her public statements. The lawsuit is based purely…
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Law & Public Safety
Misconceptions About the Supreme Court’s Decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis
The U.S. Supreme Court recently handed down a decision holding that the State of Colorado may not force a website developer to create websites for same-sex weddings. While many commentators…