As school budgets are cut, disabled students are being handed over to police for behavioral infractions -- and handcuffs are just the beginning of what they're forced to endure.
The war on drugs takes taxpayers' finite law-enforcement resources away from fighting real crimes on and off Wall Street, and instead concentrates it on punishing pot use.
Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. February 17, 2012.
The proposed budget is remarkable for how closely it hews to previous years, especially in regard to the allocation of resources for treatment and law enforcement.
Police and Border Patrol officers around the country are being punished for criticizing the devastating war on drugs and supporting drug decriminalization.
Ignoring the disproportionate racial impact of drug law enforcement while focusing on the disproportionate racial impact of the drug problem is simply Orwellian.
By arming local police departments with military grade equipment, domestic policing has come to resemble a combat operation with citizens as the enemy.
Ryan Gabrielson, California Watch. February 13, 2010.
California police are turning DUI checkpoints into profitable operations that are far more likely to seize cars from unlicensed minority motorists than catch drunken drivers.
Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times. August 19, 2009.
If you're living on the streets, engaging in the biological necessities of life -- like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering -- will get you in jail.
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. September 4, 2007.
Isn't it the height of madness to use America's finite law enforcement resources to seek out and arrest people for tapping the foot of a cute undercover officer in a restroom?
