My visit earlier this month to the site of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany, was nothing less than surreal. At this very place during the final months of World War II, over 50,000 prisoners, most of them Jews, died of typhus, extreme malnutrition and other virulent […]
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Opinion | New Virginia law bans police arrest and ticket quotas
Placeholder while article actions load Nick Sibilla is a legislative analyst at the Institute for Justice. In a long-overdue reform, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) last month signed bipartisan legislation that will finally prohibit ticket and arrest quotas for Virginia’s law enforcement agencies. Across the commonwealth between July 2020 and January […]
Opinion | An Update of Rape Laws Would Be a Step Back on Consent
A major effort to update the model criminal code on rape may actually undermine new understandings of consent advanced by the #MeToo movement. Silence or a lack of resistance, as we have now learned, does not signal consent. Yet the proposed code — a blueprint for states in updating their […]
Opinion | Unarmed Drivers Killed by Police in Traffic Stops
To the Editor: Re “How Broken Taillights End in Killings by Police” (front page, Oct. 31): I am a 68-year-old white man. In July 2020, I was pulled over by a New Hampshire state trooper for speeding on I-95. Expecting a speeding ticket, I was shocked when the trooper immediately […]