By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Here’s some great public mental health advice: stay home, wear a mask, and definitely wear earplugs and blinders when you watch TV news. Or you can just read about free market policy people who are working through the storm, offering perspective and policy options to lead us to […]
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Washington Beyond the Headlines: Real Ideas for Police Reform
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor We all know the bad news – you can take your pick! So here’s the good news: free market policy people keep right on working through the storm, offering perspective and policy options to lead us to better times. This week’s news … “Fixing” the Police. Some […]
Dropping qualified immunity would change police behavior
“Yes, Abolishing Qualified Immunity Will Likely Alter Police Behavior” By Jay Schweikert, courtesy of the Cato Institute Yesterday, the New York Times ran an op‐ed by Professor Daniel Epps, titled “Abolishing Qualified Immunity Is Unlikely to Alter Police Behavior.” I’m fully aware that op‐ed authors generally don’t get to pick the titles of […]
Amazon’s Ring Doorbell Camera Shouldn’t Be an End Run around the Constitution
By George Landrith, President, Frontiers of Freedom More than 675 police forces across the nation have formed a partnership with Ring — the company that makes the now popular doorbell surveillance system. Ring is owned by Amazon and these police partnerships give the police the ability to quickly request and download video recorded […]
Tories get in touch with their spendy side
While Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson isn’t afraid to utter the c-word — that’s “capitalism” — in pleasant contrast to his immediate predecessors, his government seems to be steering away from other longstanding Tory principles, namely those of fiscal responsibility and small government. So […]
Amazon Ring devices enable mass surveillance
Like so many technological revolutions before it, the Internet of Things is being broadly embraced without any consideration for its implications for society — and that includes mass surveillance courtesy of seemingly innocuous items like digital doorbells, which just happen to be equipped with […]