Among the current high-profile assaults on crime and social disorder is a renewed enthusiasm for curfews to keep young people off the streets at night.
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Category Archives: Criminal Justice
Paying the Piper
With the political season entering overdrive, all the candidates are promising to cut taxes, restore morality and make us safer. It is unclear how we will fund both the tax cuts and the public safety proposals, which come with high price tags — more government programs, more police, more laws, more emphasis by government on It…
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A Modest Proposal
It’s been a bad couple of years for the police in my part of the state. Late in 1992, a jury awarded Fred Sanders $1.5 million dollars after finding that officers had beaten him after his arrest and then conspired to cover it up. This January, our city settled a suit brought by a motorcycle club, following a raid based on inaccurate…
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Policing Marion County
John Leaf was home, in bed. Heeding the advice of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and others, he had given his car keys to a friend because he had been drinking.
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It Could Have Been Us
The story from Cincinnati is a familiar one: a white police officer shoots a black teenager, later found to have been unarmed, and the African-American community erupts. A curfew is imposed, and the Mayor declares that the incident will be a catalyst for “real” review and subsequent improvement of community-police relations.
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