Robocops

摘要

Radley Balko's writing has long been read by people who care about civil liberties. First for the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank, then for his own blog, "The Agitator", now part of the Huffington Post, he has written about criminal-justice policy, with a focus on police abuses: not corruption so much as the excesses that have become inherent in ordinary policing. Mr Balko manages to avoid the cliches of both right and left, and provokes genuine outrage at the misuse of state power in its most brutal and unaccountable form: heavily armed police raiding the homes of unarmed, non-violent suspects on the flimsiest of pretexts, and behaving more like an occupying army in hostile territory than guardians of public safety.