By Arthur Rizer September 20, 2016 Arthur Rizer is justice policy director and a senior fellow at the R Street Institute The Huffington Post | How many “real” news stories are transpiring as I write this, the umpteenth unnecessary opinion piece about Colin Kaepernick and his protest to kneel during the national anthem? There have […]
Yet one more unimportant article about Colin Kaepernick
How many “real” news stories are transpiring as I write this, the umpteenth unnecessary opinion piece about Colin Kaepernick and his protest to kneel during the national anthem? There have been over 500 murders in Chicago this year and we are just over the halfway mark. A real criminal justice reform package is stalled in […]
Criminal justice reform doesn’t have to mean ‘soft on crime’
By Arthur Rizer September 16, 2016 The phrase “criminal justice reform” is loaded with emotional impact. To some, the words translate to “soft on crime,” which has been a political mantra and damning epithet for more than 30 years. To others, it represents subjugation of the poor and minorities. Laws passed during the 1980s under […]
Criminal justice reform doesn’t have to mean ‘soft on crime’
The phrase “criminal justice reform” is loaded with emotional impact. To some, the words translate to “soft on crime,” which has been a political mantra and damning epithet for more than 30 years. To others, it represents subjugation of the poor and minorities. Laws passed during the 1980s under the label of “reform” created vast […]
Criminal-justice reform is no boon to illegal aliens
A common avenue of attack against criminal-justice reform, particularly its mandatory-minimum provisions, is to invoke the bogeyman of illegal immigration. The argument generally suggests that incarcerated aliens would receive some sort of windfall from the legislation. One frequently touted statistic holds that, of the 514 federal inmates who were serving a sentence for “simple possession” […]
Criminal-justice reform won’t be a boon to illegal aliens
By Arthur Rizer September 7, 2016 A common avenue of attack against criminal-justice reform, particularly its mandatory-minimum provisions, is to invoke the bogeyman of illegal immigration. The argument generally suggests that incarcerated aliens would receive some sort of windfall from the legislation. One frequently touted statistic holds that, of the 514 federal inmates who were […]
Criminal-justice reform won’t be a boon to illegal aliens
A common avenue of attack against criminal-justice reform, particularly its mandatory-minimum provisions, is to invoke the bogeyman of illegal immigration. The argument generally suggests that incarcerated aliens would receive some sort of windfall from the legislation. One frequently touted statistic holds that, of the 514 federal inmates who were serving a sentence for “simple possession” […]
Police Violence: The symptoms of deeper societal issues?
The rash of police-on-civilian and civilian-on-police violence has once again brought to a boil the question of why a nation founded on the very idea of limited government power is so tolerant when the government exercises power in the most devastating way — by killing you. We don’t seek here to argue the facts of […]
Police Violence: The symptoms of deeper societal issues?
By Arthur Rizer August 25, 2016 The rash of police-on-civilian and civilian-on-police violence has once again brought to a boil the question of why a nation founded on the very idea of limited government power is so tolerant when the government exercises power in the most devastating way — by killing you. We don’t […]
Arthur Rizer Trading Police
Georgetown University From the SelectedWorks of Arthur Rizer February 24, 2015 Trading Police for Soldiers: Has the Posse Comitatus Act Helped Militarize Our Police and Set the Stage for More Fergusons? by Arthur Rizer Arthur Rizer, West Virginia University Available at: Arthur Rizer http://works.bepress.com/arthur_rizer/3/ Trading Police for Soldiers: Has the Posse Comitatus Act Helped Militarize […]