Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The Hoboken SWAT-Hooters scandal apparently goes all the way up to the Hoboken police chief.
New study says our soaring prison population has little effect on crime. I haven’t read the study, but even though it plays to my biases, I’m a little skeptical, here. I think lots of things have contributed to 15-year drop in crime, but surely the number of people we’ve locked up at something to do with it, no? That it isn’t to say that crime wouldn’t have dropped otherwise, or that the whatever part of the drop due to high incarceration rates was worth the costs that come with locking so many people up. I’m just skeptical of the sweeping conclusiveness with which the study’s being reported.
David Harsanyi has the details on an outrageous state-sanctioned theft of property. A judge managed to seize a couple’s land for no other reason than he developed an “emotional attachment” to it, and didn’t want them to be allowed to develop it. So he simply took it.
Lawsuit says four Plano, Texas police conspired with a man’s ex-wife to frame him for a DWI. And it looks like he’s got a pretty strong case.
North Dakota farmers are asking a federal court to overturn one of the stupider collateral effects of the drug war: the ban on industrial hemp. You can’t get high on the stuff. It’s illegal because lawmakers are afraid drug cops won’t be able to to distinguish hemp plants from demon weed.
Send your own personalized Peyton Manning pep talk to a friend.
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