Issues: Crime & Legal reform
Online resources to help you consider potential ways the crime and legal system can be reformed to make it work better.
- Canada's changes to their laws on euthanising point the way to wider difficulties. [web page]
- Clearview-based facial recognition system given a cold welcome in Canada. [web page]
- Halting police shootings in the USA requires an honest argument that isn't allowed to take place. [web page]
- One law for rioters will help ensure riots don't break out. [web page]
- The dangers of the FBI being turned into a political tool by politicians in the USA. [web page]
- The San Francisco Police Department is now testing the use of autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras. [web page]
- The loss of neighbourhood engagement in policing is why the UK is seeing such a rise in shocking crime. [web page]
- The unique British citizen police force is now becoming just a politicised thuggish arm of the State. [video]
- What caused the rise in homicides in the United States in 2020? [web page]
- UK Law Commission overreaches with civil liberty violation. [web page]
- UK police needs urgent reform to ensure there is no repeat of the rape of thousands of children by gangs. [web page]
- Tackling the UK's serious policing issues. [web page]
- Bad Law Project (UK) [web site]
- As 'Kids for Cash' scandal victims as young as eight were imprisoned for misdemeanour larceny, jaywalking, and smoking in school, US judges who benefited from locking up youngsters must pay $200 million in damages. [web page]
- Attorney-client privilege under threat in USA. [video]
- Why the EU courts always wear a political filter. [web page]
- Unsolved burglaries now a plague of crime on the UK. [web page]
- The USA finds its incarceration rate collapsing to 1995 levels. [web page]
- Why are our youth murdering one another? Knife crime cannot be blamed only on budget cutbacks to juvenile programmes or absent dads. [web page]
- Does the Portuguese approach to drug law have implications for the UK? [web page]
- How the right to cross examine is being removed in the U.S legal system, as default declarations are weaponised in political persecution trials. [video]
- How we created a de-facto blasphemy law for the Muslim faith in the UK. [web page]
- How much of the U.S. organisational bureaucracy now relies on extra-constitutional diktat? [video]
- Rishi Sunak targets left-leaning attorneys in his crusade against politically driven "lawfare." [web page]
- How has China's economy grown so much and so quickly despite such high levels of corruption? [audio]
- Bad policies on crime is leading to violence inequality in the USA. Only the rich can afford to defund the police. [web page]
- Stop knife crime in the UK by give each council wards' voters a chance to vote on stop and search in that area during the council elections. [video]
- Is English law imperilled by the Coulston Four verdict? [video]
- Why is the United Kingdom the most crime-ridden nation in Western Europe, and how do crime statistics reflect reality? [video]
- Anti-social behaviour is 'rampant' because British police officers aren't sent to intervene or investigate. [web page]
- Why the European Union is mounting a serious attempt to take over as many laws as possible, diluting state power. [web page]
- State Secret rules are being used to bypass due process in the U.S. legal system. It's wrong and needs to change. [video]
- The true costs of the U.S. criminal justice system. [video]
- Criminal Will writers are now becoming a problem in the UK. [web page]
- In order to help identify and keep track of offenders utilising public transit, British Transport Police is considering exploiting passengers' journey data. [web page]
- Judicial overreach into the realm of politics is finally taking a hit from the UK's Judicial Review and Courts Bill. [web page]
- In the United Kingdom, a record number of court cases are being heard in secret to clear the Covid backlog. [web page]
- Crime cracked in UK county by a reintroduction of the Sweeney. [web page]
- To realise sovereignty for the UK, the European Court of Human Rights must go. [web page]
- Reforming the USA's security state is now vital. [web page]
- In the UK, public faith in the Thin Blue Line has plummeted, so we asked ex-top cops what went wrong and how to mend it. [web page]
- Why a fatally broken FBI must now be replaced by the U.S Marshals service. [video]
- New facial recognition tech balance is needed. [web page]
- How badly has the US legal system been corrupted by political influence? [video]
- Getting tough on crime in the UK (again). [web page]
- USA changing tack with the war on drugs. [web page]
- Turning back the tide of police politicisation in the UK. [video]
- Supreme Court expansion sought in the USA by Democrats. [video]
- Do long jail terms prevent crime? [video]
- Ron Coleman summarises the legal challenges facing the USA in 2021. [video]
- The EU's nation states are now pushing back against the supremacy of the European Court of Justice. [web page]
- What are the arguments in 2021 for the UK making cannabis legal? [video]
- Police overreach is becoming an issue during COVID lockdown in the UK. [video]
- Property rights and the law are linked closer than you think. [video]
- The future of the U.S. justice system, examined by entrepreneur and political candidate Andrew Yang. [video]
- Abolishing the prison system inside the UK is a truly bonkers idea for reform. [web page]
- Only the return of a visible police presence on the streets can stop the average British constable being an ineffective post-crime clean-up service. [video]
- Judges shouldn't make political laws - not unless they want to be elected. [web page]
- Is the best way to win the war against drugs to legalise more of them? [video]
- The Abolition Of Liberty (book). [book]
- The UK government may face preemptive legal action as a result of its Brexit decision. [web page]
- Fury as a legal firm brags about a "major victory" against the parents of vulnerable children. [web page]
- Fatou Bensouda, the tyrant-hunting lady. [web page]
- Affirmative action at the University of Texas is upheld by the United States Supreme Court. [web page]
- The legal company that battles parents seeking assistance for their special needs children has been described as "just cruel." [web page]
- Theresa May has announced the start of a sharia law study. [web page]
- What factors should I consider while deciding what kind of lawyer I want to be? [web page]
- When a Canadian reporter inquires about human rights, a Chinese official expresses his displeasure. [web page]
- Obama's broad immigration changes were stymied by a 4-4 tie in the Supreme Court. [web page]
- The death penalty for the "intellectually handicapped" will be decided by UK judges. [web page]
- The accountant is the actual heir to the Scottish baronetcy, according to DNA evidence. [web page]
- The first openly homosexual judge in the United Kingdom has been appointed to the position of Master of the Rolls. [web page]
- Is it possible that attorneys may work on a freelance basis in the future? [web page]
- According to EU regulations, imprisoning a lady who was attempting to enter the UK unlawfully was incorrect. [web page]
- Review of Rogue Justice: Bush, 9/11, and the Assault on American Freedom. [web page]
- MPs argue that steep court fee increases constitute a burden on justice. [web page]
- Our liberties are jeopardised by the anti-extremism law and the Prevent campaign | Diane Abbott MP, Natalie Bennett, and 47 others signed a letter. [web page]
- Obituary for Michael Ratner. [web page]
- Aspiring attorneys, here are the answers to your most often asked questions. [web page]
- In a legal fight about who her daughter stays with, her father bugs her clothing. [web page]
- In the ICC cultural destruction trial, a Malian terrorist is expected to enter a guilty plea. [web page]
- What are the reasons for the French strikes, and how will they impact Euro 2016? [web page]
- The Mau Mau case is set to start in the high court. [web page]
- According to a declassified CIA dossier, the prisoner would have likely cooperated before being tortured. [web page]
- The judge who is suing the Ministry of Justice claims he was denied a fair hearing. [web page]
- Recorders are three times more likely to be appointed by white attorneys. [web page]
- For'serious' contempt of court, jurors were handed suspended prison sentences. [web page]
- The Supreme Court will rule on the injunction on the 'celebrity threesome.' [web page]
- Splits occur; nevertheless, deadlocks in the Supreme Court are uncommon. But why is that? [web page]
- England and Wales will have problem-solving courts modelled after those in the United States. [web page]
- The High Court has refused to make the Ben Butler decision from 2014 public. [web page]
- In a case involving a judge's recusal, the Supreme Court decides in favour of a death row prisoner. [web page]
- 600 Iraqis allege that UK troops mistreated them, but the court dismisses their allegations. [web page]
- The 'celebrity threesome' injunction is upheld by the Supreme Court. [web page]
- After seeing porn at work, two ex-judges were found guilty of misconduct. [web page]
- Solitary confinement was found to be a violation of the serial killer's rights. [web page]
- The murderers of Becky Watts lose their appeals against their convictions and sentences. [web page]
- In the instance of the celebrity threesome, the context is important, regardless of what the tabloids claim. [web page]
- A reduction in the number of magistrates will result in less variety. [web page]
- A self-represented defendant has a second chance at a case review. [web page]
