Tag: Jacob Sullum

Danger: Cops are on the Road

Post author By Adam Dick
Post date May 22, 2020

“Once police stop you, a ticket is the least of your worries,” writes Jacob Sullum early on in his new Reason article “10 Ways a Roadside Police Stop Can Go Wrong.”

After starting off with a short examination of the discretion police have to pull over vehicles on the road for a plethora of reasons, Sullum addresses, in turn, ten of the ways beyond a ticket that a traffic stop can be harmful. He starts with number one, having one’s driver license taken away, and proceeds on to number ten, being killed.

Tags Adam Dick, Jacob Sullum, police, pull over, Reason, stop, vehicles

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Rubber-Stamping Gun Grabbing

Post author By Adam Dick
Post date February 18, 2020

Proponents of red flag laws in states or countrywide often assert that the laws protect targeted individuals’ due process rights. However, examining the exercise of the Florida red flag law in Broward County, Jacob Sullum provided in a Reason article last week plenty of reason to believe that judges have been implementing that red flag law by routinely rubber-stamping denying people’s right to possess guns while disregarding those individuals’ due process rights.

Tags Adam Dick, Broward County, due process, Florida, Jacob Sullum, Reason, red flag law

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Oregon Supreme Court Limits Police Actions at Traffic Stops

Post author By Adam Dick
Post date November 30, 2019

When police stop vehicles for purported driving rules infractions, police will often take advantage of the situation to inquire about other matters in a “fishing expedition” to establish suspicion of unrelated lawbreaking. They also may ask drivers for permission to search the stopped vehicles. This can end up badly for drivers and other vehicle occupants, especially those who do not adhere to the basic self-protections rules of saying as little as possible to cops and refusing permission for searches.

Tags Adam Dick, decision, Jacob Sullum, James Duane, Oregon, Oregon Supreme Court, Oregon v. Arreola-Botello, police, question, search, traffic stops

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This Week’s Psilocybin Mushroom Vote and the Drug War’s Future

Post author By Adam Dick
Post date May 9, 2019

What does the victory this week of a ballot measure making arrests of people 21 years old and older for personal use or possession of psilocybin mushrooms the lowest priority for Denver police portend for the future of the drug war in America?

Jacob Sullum, who will be speaking May 18 at a Ron Paul Institute conference titled “Winning the War on the War on Drugs,” provides a detailed and thoughtful answer to this question in a Thursday Reason article.

Tags Adam Dick, Denver, drug war, Jacob Sullum, mushrooms, psilocybin, vote