Year: 2014
A Challenge for Prosecutors
Over at Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger writes about one of the philosophical problems with the exclusionary rule: For many years, the U.S. Supreme Court has been pruning back one of the most repugnant notions of criminal procedure — the idea that a clearly guilty criminal can suppress rock-solid reliable evidence of his crime on… Read more
Why I Don’t Debate Evolution
My sometimes co-blogger Ken and I often discuss the whole evolution-v.s.-creationism issue, and I’ve tried a few times to explain to him why I don’t write about it much here. I occasionally discuss or speculate about some basic evolutionary science, and I’ve slammed some really idiotic creationist nonsense, but I just don’t want to get… Read more
We Talk to Cops All the Time…
Over at Popehat, Ken White has another of his posts explaining that the most important thing you can do when talking with cops is to stop: One of the most consistent messages I offer here is about interactions with law enforcement, and can be expressed in two words — shut up — although “oh you… Read more
Chicago PD, “Stepping Stone” — Not Loving Voight
When I saw that NBC was preparing to launch a weekly scripted drama called Chicago PD, I figured I’d have to blog about it. Aside from taking place in my home city, it also seemed from the advertising to be yet another show about a cop-who-breaks-all-the-rules-to-get-justice, and as a civil libertarian who agrees with pretty… Read more
Scattershot 2014-01-10
Random shots around the web: Radley Balko now has a home at the Washington Post. Interestingly, he’s billed as an “Opinion Blogger” rather than an “Opinion Writer” like the columnists featured at the top of the Opinions page. (In fact, he doesn’t appear anywhere on that page as I write this.) Radley plays it like… Read more