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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
“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,...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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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