criminal justice
37 pieces tagged “criminal justice”, newest first.
Justice Dept. Bails on the Constitution
The DOJ's blanket ruling on pre-trial confinement creates more problems.
The Criminalization of Politics
The impulse to ferret corruption from politics corrupts the criminal justice system when it causes overzealous prosecutors and judges to improvise novel interpretations of the law of bribery. Consider Robert McDonnell's case. Virginia's former Republican governor has been sentenced to prison for actions that he could not have reasonably anticipated would be declared felonies under a dangerous judicial expansion of federal law defining bribery of public officials. Friday the Supreme Court will decide whether to review McDonnell's conviction.
Law Enforcement Loves Legal Larceny
During a talk radio debate last week, Tulsa's district attorney, Steve Kunzweiler, warned that civil forfeiture reform would invite "some of the most violent people in the history of this planet" to set up shop in Oklahoma, making decapitated bodies "hung from bridges" a familiar sight in the Sooner State. Last month, Steve Jones, an assistant district attorney, told Tennessee legislators "criminals will thank you" for making it harder to confiscate people's property.
Thousands of Demo Voters Released From Prison
Just as crime is on the rise, Obama opens the floodgates.
Fix the Criminal Justice System
The Republican Party, like Sisyphus, is again putting its shoulder to a boulder, hoping to make modest but significant changes in the Electoral College arithmetic by winning perhaps 12 percent of the African- American vote. To this end, they need to hone a rhetoric of skepticism about, and an agenda for reform of, the criminal justice system. They can draw on the thinking of a federal appellate judge nominated by Ronald Reagan.
The DOJ Is Wrong: Cops and Criminals Are Not Morally Equivalent
Recently the acting head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Principal Deputy Attorney General Vanita Gupta, gave a very long speech for the "Community Policing Summit" hosted by the U.S. Attorney's office in New Jersey. The speech was a longer and more detailed version of remarks delivered repeatedly by Obama administration officials these days, so it is worth reading with some care.
A Conservative Pitch for Criminal Justice Relief
Crime is down and incarceration is up, but is all well?
Unlock 'em Up?
The Justice Department has announced that it will begin releasing 6,000 "nonviolent" inmates from federal prisons starting at the end of this month. Welcome to the era of de-incarceration. At a conference named for former New York Mayor David Dinkins (who presided over the city at a time of runaway crime), Hillary Clinton decried the number of Americans behind bars and declared, "It's time to change our approach. It's time to end the era of mass incarceration."
Jared Fogle's Arbitrary Punishment
Looking at Pictures Should Not Be Treated Like a Violent Crime