According to news reports, the incident began when a motorist involved in a property-damage auto accident drove away without stopping—a hit and run. Rather than waiting to run the license plate number, police gave chase. Lots of them. Some witnesses counted over twenty police cars involved by the time the chase ended inside the Abbey.
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Category Archives: Criminal Justice
Promoting Public Safety
Is the criminal justice system broken? And if the answer is yes, how do we fix it?
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A Piecemeal Federalism
The recent Supreme Court term has ended with a flurry of decisions, some of which can only be characterized, charitably, as "troubling." Others reaffirmed long-standing constitutional principles or–as in the internet indecency case– applied those…
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It Could Have Happened Here
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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Seat Belts & Drug Stops
Within the past week, courts have handed down two opinions which seem contradictory: the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the law allowing police to stop and ticket drivers for failing to buckle up, while the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against drug interdiction checkpoints. I think both decisions were legally correct.
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