In New York City, opioid addiction treatment is sharply segregated by income, according to addiction experts and an analysis of demographic data provided by the city health department, the New York Times reports. More affluent patients can avoid the methadone clinic entirely, receiving a new...
In 100 places across Canada, Europe and Australia, supervised drug injection facilities allow visitors to inject heroin and other drugs in a clean, well-lighted space under the watchful eye of trained personnel who can rescue them if they overdose. Tens of thousands of drug users...
Chicago may become the first U.S. city to arm its police officers with devices that will tell them immediately if motorists were texting when they got into a traffic accident, the Associated Press reports. After hearing from a father whose son was killed in a...
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner will launch a criminal investigation into accusations engulfing Gov. Eric Greitens, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Greitens’ acknowledgment of an extramarital affair and denial of possible blackmail shook the GOP-controlled state capital on Thursday. While GOP legislative leaders limited...
The dismissed case against Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy is a dramatic example of prosecutorial misconduct, which some legal experts see as a cultural flaw in the criminal justice system. Prosecutors are arguably the most powerful actors in the system, in part because they are the...
It is modern liberalism, not classical liberalism, that blurs the distinction between the state and society, and that destroys ordered liberty....
President Trump campaigned on a promise of law and order. On Thursday, the White House deployed the bully pulpit on behalf of prisoners struggling when they return home. At a roundtable with policy experts and elected officials, Trump expressed a desire to “break this vicious...
On January 9, the House of Representatives passed the Cyber Vulnerability Disclosure Reporting Act by voice vote. The Act directs the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) to prepare a report describing the policies and procedures that DHS developed to coordinate the...
The United Stated State Department issued a new crime warning for the Bahamas. You can read the new warning issued on January 10, 2018 here. The crime warning states, in part: Exercise increased caution in The Bahamas due to crime. Violent crime, such as burglaries, armed robberies, and...
For the first time in a decade, the San Jose Police Department is giving its community access to a trove of data about use of force through a new web portal where it is inviting residents to do their own research of the kind of...