“I know that the majority of police officers are really hard-working officers who are risking their lives day in and day out, but those really bad ones who go rogue do a disservice to the officers who are risking their lives and taking time away from their families. You have to apply justice fairly and […]
The US’s third largest city has consistently been in the news lately for some of the worst violence the country has seen in recent decades. In an investigation led by CNN, according to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), homicide levels have skyrocketed in the last five years, and at the current rate, they estimate about […]
A bill with bipartisan sponsorship aims to reform the questionable police practice of civil asset forfeiture that allows law enforcement to take cash and property from people without convicting them, or usually even charging them, of a crime. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.) introduced the “Deterring Undue Enforcement by Protecting Rights of Citizens from Excessive Searches […]
By John Yannone In the long legal battle between victims’ families and Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the A-15 gun used by Adam Lanza to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, a judge has ruled that the families can now access Bushmaster’s marketing records. The aim of […]
By Ben Whitley On May 3, 2016, the British Medical Journal (BMJ), published an article citing medical errors as one of the leading causes of death in the United States. John Hopkins professor Martin Makary, MD, MPH, and research fellow Michael Daniels contend that medical errors account for more than 250,000 deaths in the United […]