Sheriff Lee Baca in an interview with Robert Faturechi of the L.A. Times: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said Friday his deputies’ marijuana enforcement would not change even if Proposition 19, which would legalize the drug in California, passes Nov. 2. “Proposition 19 is not going to pass, even if it passes,” Baca said […]

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Despite some potential misgivings about Rand Paul as a candidate, I will be voting for him for the simple reason that every law enforcement agency in the state has sided with Conway. If cops unanimously support a particular candidate, surely said candidate is an immoral statist ready to use cops violently in order to support […]

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Another day, another fucked up police beating; this time of a menacing pregnant woman, causing her to miscarry. Vic Rykaert of the Indystar: Metro police are reviewing a woman’s claim that a beating from a police officer caused her to lose her unborn child, said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Chief Paul Ciesielski. What are the […]

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‘Ain’t prohibition great?

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Officers taze a 10 year old boy for having a smart mouth and beat the shit out of an 80 year old man for “posturing.” As should be predicted, they were cleared of official wrongdoing despite eyewitness accounts and official omission of the juicy bits from police reports. When the fuck are we going to […]

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Justin Scheck via The Wall Street Journal: Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko, his budget under pressure in a weak economy, has laid off staff, reduced patrols and even released jail inmates. But there’s one mission on which he’s spending more than in recent years: pot busts. The reason is simple: If he steps up his […]

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Radley Balko’s weekly kick in the nuts: First, the dog obviously poses no immediate threat to anyone. It’s chained. Until the officer starts chasing it with a restraining pole, the dog is calmly lying on the ground. Second, even if you take the neighbor’s complaint and the police report at face value, the dog never […]

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Fuckin’ Cops.

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Spenser S. Hsu via The Washington Post: Arizona’s new crackdown on illegal immigration will increase crime in U.S. cities, not reduce it, by driving a wedge between police and immigrant communities, police chiefs from several of the state’s and the nation’s largest cities said Wednesday. You don’t say.

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Where if by free, you mean the biggest fucking prison population in the world.  And you thought we didn’t have a statist problem.

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