Why Even Partial Legalization of Drugs Is a Good Thing The partial legalization of marijuana has not been quite ideal. Thanks to high regulatory burdens on the marijuana-production industry, limitations on production volume, and high taxes, black markets have...
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The Right to Record and Police Accountability
by Jonathan Blanks | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The New York Police Department’s Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) reported that over a three-year period, NYPD officers threatened, blocked, and otherwise tried to prevent individuals from recording them in public in the performance of their duties. Almost 100...
The Death Party is the Only Party
by Doreen Cleyre | Jun 30, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Content Warning: Brief discussion of suicide. According to The Hill, Hillary Clinton recently tweeted about how, if the GOP approves their recent healthcare bill, we can forget "death panels". Instead, we should refer to the GOP as "the death party" given how many...
Technology Alone Won’t Deliver Justice for Victims of Police Abuse
by Brittany Hunter | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Before video recorders became widely available, many instances of police brutality went unrecognized by the general public. Police abuse is hard to prove when it is a citizen’s word against the state’s. But as more households began buying camcorders to document their...
The State, Individuals, and Decriminalizing Sex Work
by Maggie McNeill | Jun 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The chair of the Libertarian Party of Chicago, Justin Tucker, and Outright Libertarians recently hosted heroic sex worker rights activist, journalist, and proprietor of The Honest Courtesan blog, Maggie McNeill, while she was promoting her latest book of short...
The Over-Criminalization of American Life
by Charles Hugh Smith | Jun 27, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
The over-criminalization of America has undermined justice, the rule of law and legal egalitarianism. While the corporate media devotes itself to sports, entertainment, dining out and the latest political kerfuffle, America has become the Over-Criminalization Capital...
Tucson Court to Hear Extradition of Woman Accused of Feeding her Mother
by Janet Phelan | Jun 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
On Tuesday, Pima County Superior Court in Arizona will hear a case involving a fugitive from justice and the request for extradition to Miami-Dade County, in Florida. The fugitive, a former New York attorney, is a 64-year-old woman named Barbara Stone. Stone was...
Illinois Overwhelmingly Approves Bill to Protect the Innocent from Civil Forfeiture
by Nick Sibilla | Jun 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Today, the Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill that bolsters transparency for civil forfeiture and strengthens due process protections for innocent property owners. Under civil forfeiture, law enforcement agencies can seize and then take title to cash,...
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