- Small favors dept.: police chiefs group supports use of drones, but concedes they probably shouldn’t be armed [USA Today; more on drones, Michael Kirkland, UPI, Paul Enzinna, PoL]. Earlier here, here, and here.
- Gibson Guitar settlement with feds controls what it can say about the case. Dangers in that, no? [Harvey Silverglate, earlier here, here, etc.]
- “Mission Creep Leads TSA to Racially Profile in Pursuit of Non-Terrorists to Arrest” [Virginia Postrel]
- Guestblogging at The Agitator, William Peterson outlines doubts about prosecutions that include the pursuit of Victoria Sprouse on mortgage-fraud charges in North Carolina, abuse accusations relating to the Creative Frontiers school near Sacramento, and the conviction of Courtney Bisbee at the hands of Maricopa County D.A. (and Overlawyered favorite) Andrew Thomas in Arizona;
- Canada: “Pay your dog license on time or we’ll arrest your wife!” [Sherwood Park News via @derekjamesfrom]
- “Overcriminalization, the comic” [Ted at PoL; plus videos from NACDL]
- “Police enlist young offenders as confidential informants. But the work is high-risk, largely unregulated, and sometimes fatal.” [Sarah Stillman, New Yorker]
Filed under: Arizona, Canada, child abuse, crime and punishment, North Carolina, prosecutorial abuse
3 Comments
Re the post on “Mission Creep”…that practice is known among government employees as “empire building.” The most extreme example would be the NYC school system “free breakfast” program.
Unfortunately, the link to the WSJ article on Gibson is behind a paywall.
But this link seemed to work.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443324404577594890622149010.html
RE: the Dog License post
He calls it “government overreach.” There is no such thing in Canada. It is a contradiction in terms. Government is all powerful so it can reach anywhere it wants.