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Articles by John W. Whitehead

Programmed to Kill: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Dogs

By John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute - Commentary

“In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a ...

Governmental Highway Robbery: Asset Forfeiture and the Pillaging of the American People

This is the problem when police officers and police departments have a financial interest in doing their job. We got rid of bounty hunters because they were not a good thing. This is modern day bounty hunting. – Public Defender John Rekowski

Long before Americans charted their revolutionary course in ...