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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]