Where’s the outrage?

I don’t know how long this has been around, but I just stumbled upon it recently. The market-liberals^[1] at the Cato Institute have compiled an interactive map of botched police raids. It appears to be both well-researched and thorough, and shows that the scourge of police invasions on innocents and nonviolent offenders is not limited to the years under the Bush administration.

Meanwhile, Cato’s ideological brethren over at Reason have this video interview with Regina Kelly, who was wrongly arrested and jailed based upon a “tip” from a police informant. Ms. Kelly tells harrowing tale.

1. This is, I believe, the label they prefer. For an interesting read, check out How to Label Cato, where they explain why they shouldn’t be called a good number of other things.↩

posted by Nicholas ⋅ tagged america, civil liberties, law

One response to “Where’s the outrage?”

1. June 21st, 2007 at 1:37 pm , amyb says:
   

   Nick, this map is amazing & really frightening. The blasé attitude that law enforcement can have when dealing with a human life or privacy is really phenomenal. The use of SWAT teams for innocents or non-violent offenders is especially crazy, by bringing in a swat team unannounced, you up the ante so to speak, and of course people are going to assume they’re being robbed or attacked and try to protect themselves. Thus making people violent “offenders” in the process.