The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a federal law that bars gambling on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states, the Associated Press reports. The ruling gives states the go-ahead to legalize betting on sports. By a 6-to-3 vote, the high court voided...
News media headlines appear daily on the so-called “opioid crisis.” A major thread in public policy discussions is an asserted need to “solve” the crisis by limiting production of opioid analgesics and reducing medical exposure to potentially addicting drugs. But are such steps actually a...
Across New York City, black people were arrested on low-level marijuana charges at eight times the rate of white, non-Hispanic people over the past three years, the New York Times reports. Hispanic people were arrested at five times the rate of white people. In Manhattan,...
Hypnosis is a matter of life and death in Texas, the Dallas Morning News reports. Texas has the most robust U.S. forensic hypnosis program, training police officers across the state to sharpen or recall crime witnesses’ lost memories. As more states ban the practice, Texas...
The violent-crime rate in rural areas rose above the national average for the first time in a decade, the Wall Street Journal reports. Though cities on average have a higher violent-crime rate than rural areas, large metropolitan areas are safer than they have been in...
A barbed comment by a soon-to-retire Ilinois State Police lieutenant gave Cara Rabe-Hemp both the title and the theme of her new book. Observing that the lieutenant, who had joined the force in the 1980s, was just completing a 25-year career in the policing, Rabe-Hemp asked...