Editors at Issues and Insights highlight bad news for one of the nation’s best-known law enforcement agencies. We have been writing about the weaponization of government under the Obama and…
Jason Rantz writes for the Federalist about the likely consequences of new anti-police measures in one West Coast state. Washington state just reimagined policing with sweeping so-called “police accountability” bills…
That’s the title of a helpful primer on the topic that was posted today by UNC School of Government Professor Shea Denning. Here are some excerpts that have particular revelance to…
Jason Beale argues in a Federalist column that it’s statistically impossible for recent anti-Trump FBI errors to have been completely random. There’s no way the cards can all fall one…
George Leef’s latest column for Forbes highlights an unfortunate case of abuse of police power. A case just decided by the Tenth Circuit shows how utterly absurd the “war on…
The IRS doesen’t seem to have heard of either one of them. At the Cato Blog, Jim Harper reports that: The Internal Revenue Service has filed a “John Doe” summons…
My latest court story for Carolina Journal: RALEIGH — Charges against Mount Airy resident Myra Combs of driving while impaired were dismissed after a judge ruled that the traffic stop…
Headlineth the press release: City of Asheville seeks public input in selection of new police chief. OK. I would like him to be tall and fit, with blond hair, deep…
It’s a free country, so we need more traffic checkpoints to make sure you can’t go from here to there without getting roughed up. If this doesn’t make sense, consider…
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but…
A 2-1 split N.C. Court of Appeals panel reversed a lower court ruling and threw out a 2008 Pitt County drunk driving case. The majority ruled that a state trooper…
First, there was the DNA bill, where innocent people who are arrested will have their DNA information collected by the government to protect, in a very minimal way, public safety.…