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Radley Balko

Opinion bloggerNashville, Tenn.

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Video revisits an era when everyone feared the occult.

  • Apr 27, 2016

Plus: CIA waterboarded wrong man 83 times, prosecutor caught forging documents, Oklahoma deputies must return $53,000 to Thai band.

  • Apr 26, 2016

Cops manufacture crimes, then cite “nuisance” laws to pressure owners to pay fines, spy on customers

  • Apr 22, 2016

Plus: Deputies allegedly mocked inmate as he died, world leaders condemn the drug war, and a former Virginia cop pleads guilty to manslaughter.

  • Apr 20, 2016

It isn’t just that misbheaving prosecutors go unpunished, it’s that they’re often promoted

  • Apr 18, 2016

City officials both defensive, contrite. Newspaper praises them.

  • Apr 13, 2016

“I will choke you out right now.“

  • Apr 8, 2016

Plus: San Francisco PD’s persistent bigotry problem, NYC murder rate hits all-time low, Florida passes forfeiture reform.

  • Apr 5, 2016

Aiken, S.C., cops had no reasonable cause for even the traffic stop, much less to violate the man’s body.

  • Apr 1, 2016

Police chief’s “forceful and serious tone” convinces city council to nix plan to fire lying cops.

  • May 2, 2014
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Radley Balko blogs about criminal justice, the drug war and civil liberties for The Washington Post. He was previously a senior writer and investigative reporter at the Huffington Post. He is the author of "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces," and his work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Mississippi Supreme Court. He also writes about the music and culture of Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives. A graduate of Indiana University, Radley has also been a senior editor at Reason magazine, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute and an opinion columnist for FoxNews.com.
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