Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
What Religious and Racial Hatred Does to American Criminal Justice
Hatred has become a multi-million dollar industry in America. It is a subject we have spoken to on several occasions (here and here). In…
Acquittal of Defendant in Pulse Nightclub Shooting Raises Questions
Omar Mateen’s shooting rampage at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida on September 14, 2016 left 49 people dead and another 53 seriously injured.…
Hatred Fuels War on Muslims In the U.S.
The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino reports that hate crimes increased by roughly 20…
Qualified Immunity, Excessive Force by Police
Qualified Immunity, Unauthorized Use of Excessive Force by Police Conway is the county seat of Faulkner County located in central Arkansas. The city’s police…
Being a Young Black Man in America is a Capital Offense
The Guardian reported in December 2015 that 1,134 black men were killed by the police in the United States of America that year—a rate…
Border Patrol Gets Away with Murder in “Constitution-Free” Zone
It started out as a kids’ game sometime after 2003: Mexican kids, some of whom were teenagers, are known to gather at concrete culverts…
Bail Reform: Time for Presumption of Release and Elimination of Money Bail
The right to bail in this country was firmly planted by the Framers in the original Bill of Rights: the Eighth Amendment of the…
Mark “Hoss” Cowden: Portrait of Bad Cop
Mark A. Cowden was a bad cop long before he assaulted an arrestee, Ryan Hamrick, on January 27, 2015. He spent twenty-six years with…
Civil Asset Forfeiture Under Fire—AG Not Listening
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, nicknamed “Buddy” as a kid growing up in Hybart, Alabama, got his law degree from the University of Alabama in 1973.…
Trial Judge’s Tolerance of Prosecutorial Misconduct Unacceptable
There are two safeguards against prosecutorial misconduct during a criminal trial: a good defense attorney and an impartial trial judge. Both failed Frederick Michael…
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