Scott interviews Patrick Jaicomo of the Institute for Justice about the case of José Oliva, a Vietnam veteran who was assaulted by police officers at a VA hospital in 2016. Because of doctrines like qualified immunity, it has taken years just to reach the point where...
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2020 Exposed the State as the Enemy
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 1, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On Conflicts of Interest #52, I discuss how the murderers of Tamir Rice and Breonna Taylor went unpunished by the state. While the cops who murdered Taylor eventually were fired, they will not face punishment for their crime. The FDA recently announced distilleries...
News Roundup 12/31/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 31, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Two Kentucky police officers were fired over the murder of Breonna Taylor. The two officers who were fired are the officer who killed Taylor and the officer who lied to get the warrant needed for the night raid on Taylor’s apartment. [Link] The Department of...
Department of Justice Closes Tamir Rice Inquiry, Will Not File Charges
by Scott Horton | Dec 29, 2020 | Blog
Of course. Listen up here: Go and read this important article right now. It explains EVERYTHING. Tamir Rice's Basically Reasonable Murder
6/19/20 Mike Maharrey: End Qualified Immunity for Cops
by Scott Horton | Jun 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Mike Maharrey untangles the complex web of legal history that has given America the system known as qualified immunity, which in practice shields police officers from just about any civil lawsuit. The doctrine, which has emerged out of the precedents set by repeated...
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...
Why Its Hard To Fire Abusive Cops
by Tate Fegley | Jun 3, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
What does it take to fire a cop? In comparison to several other high-profile cases in which a police officer has killed someone on video, things have moved remarkably fast in the George Floyd case. The other four officers involved in his arrest were fired from the...
Beyond George Floyd: A Look at the 400 Americans Killed By Police in 2020
by Matt Agorist | May 29, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As the nation reels from the horrifying murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, MN, it is important to remember that there were more than 400 others who’ve lost their lives at the hands of America’s police force. Like many of the folks who had their last moments alive...
3/27/20 Patrick Jaicomo on Our Unaccountable Overlords
by Scott Horton | Mar 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Patrick Jaicomo of the Institute for Justice discusses the (brief) history of the "qualified immunity" doctrine, which makes it very difficult for civilians to sue government agents for constitutional rights violations. Jaicomo breaks down the different types of legal...
The Police State’s Deadly Toll on America’s Children
by John Whitehead | Oct 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice
“Mommy, am I gonna die?”— 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl’s boxer-terrier dog, Patches “‘Am I going to get shot again.’”—2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three...
The Ft. Worth Killer Cop Will Probably Get Away With It
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Peter Quinones
Those who take police accountability seriously had reason to celebrate this month when Amber Guyger, the police officer who walked into 26-year-old Botham Jean’s apartment, mistook it for her own, and fired a fatal shot into him, was found guilty of murder and...
Snouts in the Trough, Hooves in the Till: Why You Shouldn’t Donate to Police Charities
by Will Grigg | Dec 8, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice, Will Grigg
The median annual household income in Idaho is roughly $49,000. Mark Furniss, 46, was making almost $20,000 a year in excess of that figure when he resigned from his job as a Boise Police Officer on October 20, the same day he and his wife Sara filed for Chapter 7...
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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...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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