Criminal Justice
How Axios keeps handing Vera Institute the authority slot on why crime is falling Axios has now run two separate stories on the historic 2025-2026 crime decline. Both times, the outlet turned to the same person to discount enforcement as an explanation: Insha Rahman, president of the Vera Institute
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America cannot fix its criminal justice system by defending failed policies, tolerating ineffective leadership, or ignoring constitutional rights. For more than a decade, criminal justice reform has been sold as a way to make the system fairer, more efficient, and safer. Bail reform, diversion programs, alternatives to incarceration, reduced enforcement,
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History has already tested what happens when government takes control of resources and production. The results are on the record. Turn on the television, scroll through social media, or listen to candidates running for office today and you will hear the same promises repeated over and over again: free healthcare,
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Traffic cameras were sold as convenience. What they've become is a warrant-free surveillance network — and the Fourth Amendment doesn't have an exception for technology. Traffic cameras were sold as convenience. What they've become is a warrant-free surveillance network — and the Fourth Amendment
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In 2018, Mississippi's bail reform critics were dismissed as fearmongers. In 2026, the numbers say they were right. State leaders rarely go back and check their own work. Once a policy is passed, the people who championed it move on to the next cause, and the communities left
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America built its oil-pricing system for a world that no longer exists. It’s time we said so. While politicians spin their narratives and the news media reads whatever talking points their party handed them, a basic question goes unasked: why is American fuel still priced off a single
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What happens after a defendant skips court—and why victims, taxpayers, and local governments bear the cost when no one actively brings them back. For years, the debate over court reform has been trapped inside an academic bubble. Policy advocates love to parade theoretical "release rates" as proof
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The newly released private diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci demand more than another partisan argument about the nation’s COVID-19 response. They require an examination of how scientific uncertainty was concealed, how government authority was protected, and how much of the news media abandoned its responsibility to question the
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Before Americans hand the government their ownership and their freedom, they ought to look at the last country that did — and at what it looks like now. How does one of the most prosperous nations in the hemisphere end up in the dark, standing in line for eggs, watching its
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The real question isn’t capitalism versus socialism. It’s whether the citizen still controls the government — or whether the government has quietly begun to control the citizen. Why are so many politicians trying to change the political system that made America the freest and most successful nation in the
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Statehouses across the country spent 2025 and 2026 modernizing pretrial law. Ours let the moment pass. Across America, state legislatures spent 2025 and 2026 taking a hard look at pretrial release. Lawmakers debated violent offender detention, strengthened constitutional provisions, improved electronic monitoring, increased accountability, modernized bail statutes, expanded data collection,
Mike Morrison Bail Bonding
The First Telephone Call After a Missed Appearance Matters More Than Any Excuse That Follows The information in this discussion applies specifically to bail bonds written in the State of Mississippi. Bail laws and court procedures vary from state to state. A bail bond is a financial guarantee that the