Criminal Justice
Is the NYPD Actually Changing Its Weed Policy?
The mayor's office is hinting at big changes in how NYC cops will deal with ganja. Are we buying it?
What Does It Take to Be a Doctor on a SWAT Team?
I took a SWAT tactical medicine training course, and found out just how far America's fetish for militarized policing has crept.
California Just Became the First State to Defelonize Drug Use
The Golden State has been an archetype of the US prison boom since the War on Drugs began, but now it's joining the mass incarceration reform wave.
I Learned the Art of the Chokehold from a Retired NYPD Officer
Should more cops get martial arts training?
Californian Cops Stole a Suspects' Nude Photos as a 'Game'
US cops can be just as creepy as the dudes behind the Fappening?
The Milwaukee Police Officer Who Killed a Schizophrenic Man Got Fired and Nobody's Happy
US cops frequently kill the mentally ill without paying a real price.
Annoncering
American Liberals Won’t Let the Death Penalty Die
It might take a Conservative to end capital punishment.
Matt Taibbi Talks About Criminalised Poverty and Why Wall Street Is Above the Law
His new book is all about how messed up our criminal justice system is.