Highlighting the pervasive issue of police abuse, a North County Police Cooperative (NCPC) officer in St. Louis County, recently found himself on the receiving end of criminal charges. The charges came after a shocking revelation—this officer allegedly allowed his own...
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COI #186: You Cannot Break the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 10, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #186, Kyle Anzalone discusses a new report from USA Today on the culture in police departments against exposing police abuse. The report found that nearly all police departments have a culture that punishes whistleblowers and defends abusers. The article argues...
News Roundup 10/14/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 14, 2021 | News Roundup
US News A black Louisiana police officer was fired for speaking out against police abuse. [Link] Facebook will give journalists and activists extra protection from harassment. [Link] Overdose deaths in 2020 were up to at least 99,000. [Link] Great Power Putin says he...
6/24/21 Ted Carpenter on the Bloody Legacy of America’s Drug War
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Carpenter discusses the harmful effects of drug prohibition in America, both at home and abroad. First of all, he points out, prohibition simply doesn't work. We learned this during alcohol prohibition, when consumption remained high but prices and violence...
COI #102 – The Israeli and American Police States Are Out of Control
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 28, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #102, Kyle discusses the rampant police abuse by American and Israeli security forces. In the US, a police officer dislocated an elderly woman's arm, then was recording laughing about it. Another officer shot a man ten times after he mistook a phone for a gun,...
New Report Obscures Killing of Duncan Lemp
by Jim Bovard | Feb 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
One of the most positive developments from last year's political strife was a stronger focus on police abuses and no-knock raids. Some states and cities have imposed new restrictions, others are working toward greater transparency when it comes to police...
Interview: Learn How Marxist Revolutionaries Massacred Ethiopia’s Christian Monarchy
by David Gornoski | Oct 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“What happened was a catastrophic revolution that really ate its own bright people. The very people who were behind the revolution were the ones who were its victims," Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie has said on the 1974 Marxist revolution that overthrew his grandfather,...
10/15/20 Matt Agorist on Breonna Taylor and American Police Abuse
by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Matt Agorist about some recent cases of unlawful police killings and police abuse in this country, both the high-profile incidents and the ones that escape mainstream notice. Agorist reminds us of the details of the Breonna Taylor case, in which police...
8/7/20 Tom Woods: The Problems With the Police and How to Fix Them
by Scott Horton | Aug 8, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Tom Woods about his new eBook, which provides a libertarian perspective on some of the national questions being raised these days about the future of policing. Scott and Woods focus in on the war on drugs in particular, which has been the culprit...
There Are Solutions Besides ‘Defund the Police’
by Jim Bovard | Jun 24, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
"Defund the Police” is the latest rallying cry for protestors in many cities across the nation. Many activists, enraged by the brutal killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, are calling for completely disbanding the police, while others are seeking reductions...
Episode 432: Discussing Possible Police ‘Reform’ w/ Sheldon Richman
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jun 17, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
42 Minutes Safe for Work Sheldon Richman is the executive editor at LibertarianInstitute.org and author of the book Coming to Palestine. Sheldon joins Pete to discuss lack of police accountability and the recent protesting, rioting and looting. They look into their...
How ‘Wandering Cops’ Exacerbate Police Abuse
by Tate Fegley | Jun 16, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In a previous post, I discussed how fired police officers are often able to get their jobs back by appealing their termination to independent arbitration and thus how only time will tell if the officers involved in the arrest and death of George Floyd will remain...
Minneapolis Plans to Abolish the Police guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 8, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #502, Will Porter returns to the show to discuss ongoing George Floyd protests. Will and Kyle break down some of the worst examples of police brutality. Will explains that the protests are now in 100s of American cities and have even spread to Europe. The...
Democratic Party Leader Susan Rice: Blacks Are Only Upset By Police Abuse Because Russia Tricked Them!
by Scott Horton | Jun 1, 2020 | Blog
https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1267190459681603584 Of course. America is already great. Now if only the terrible Russians didn't control all of our minds, then we'd finally be happy!
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Roland Fryer’s Shocking Conclusion
https://youtu.be/2nLWCLsmpJ4 On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which...
The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
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