Las Vegas Review-Journal: Another Failure of Drug War is Lack of Accountability
Each year, the United States spends more than $51 billion on the war on drugs — a war we’re clearly losing.
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Newsweek Columnist: Why Is FBI Violating Rights of Activists?
By Patrick Eddington Newsweek Five years ago this week, FBI agents raided the homes of six political activists of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) in Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin, as well as the office of the nonprofit Anti-War Committee. Those activists are still waiting to learn when, or even if, they will be charged or cleared. As…
New York Times Editorial: More Accountability Needed for Border Patrol
José Antonio Elena Rodríguez was 16 when he was gunned down on a street in Nogales, Mexico, in October 2012.
Arizona Republic: Court Case Over Constitutional Rights of Mexican Child Needs Hashed Out
Either the Constitution means something or it doesn’t.
Dallas Morning News: Time to Hold Border Patrol More Accountable
By Editorial Board The Dallas Morning News Thousands of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers face a difficult mission as they work daily to halt illegal immigration and drug smuggling on America’s southern frontier. But there’s no excuse for the dozens of suspicious shootings and other abuses in recent years by minimally accountable border officers….
Las Cruces Sun-News: Border Patrol Should Not Police Itself After So Many Fatal Shootings
By Editorial Board Las Cruces Sun-News Two years ago, a scathing independent report by law enforcement experts found that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency had failed to fully investigate all 67 uses of deadly force, including 19 killings, by its agents from January 2010 through October 2012, most occurring along the southwest border…
Sacramento Bee: Gun Laws Can Help Prevent Attacks Like South Carolina Church Shooting
By Editorial Board Sacramento Bee Nine people are dead. A lone gunman is to blame. The gun he was wielding? It might’ve been one he got from his father for his 21st birthday, no paperwork required. The state where he lives? South Carolina has some of the loosest gun-control laws in the country. We know this…
Cleveland.com Editorial: TSA Gives Little Reason for Confidence in Security
By Editorial Board Cleveland.com At airports around the country, including Cleveland Hopkins International, passengers entering the security wringer run by the Transportation Security Administration have been entertained by a display of some of the instruments of mayhem that agents have taken from people over the TSA’s 14-year history. Earlier this year, the TSA proudly released a year-end…