Libertarian Party of Montgomery County
Promoting liberty throughout the Greater Dayton area and the Miami Valley
“They’ve taken my car and tried to throw me in jail, but I’m still standing,” Reeves said in the Institute for Justice press release. “I’m not going to take the county’s threats sitting down. This isn’t about money or payback. This is about making sure the county can’t do this to anyone else.”
“Challenges to police misconduct are typically resolved through pretrial litigation, but the death of the trial has also increasingly meant the death of pretrial litigation, including those hearings that would bring to light police misconduct,” the report states. “Trial and pretrial litigation are essential for holding police and other state actors accountable, and plea bargaining has eroded these systems of accountability.” Moreover, many “defendants are often denied discovery, including exculpatory evidence, before they make the decision to plead guilty.”
https://reason.com/2023/03/10/rampant-plea-bargaining-is-a-raw-deal-for-defendants/
States that wish to avoid making the same mistake should view Massachusetts as a warning, not a role model.
https://reason.com/2023/03/09/massachusetts-tobacco-ban-went-as-badly-as-youd-expect/
From sugar and steel consumers to students who already paid off their loans or used their savings to pay for their education, political capitalism punishes those who aren’t elite or can’t organize to extract favors from politicians. Sadly, it gives a bad name to both politics and capitalism.
https://reason.com/2023/03/09/american-capitalism-is-crony-at-its-core/
Civil asset forfeiture in the U.S. is now a form of government piracy flying under a false and flimsy flag of lawfulness.
The county’s arguments would create a loophole allowing any state to take property without compensation, no matter how well‐defined the property interest, merely by changing the state’s definition of property.
https://www.cato.org/blog/supreme-court-should-end-home-equity-theft
Policymakers across the country should marshal current public support for building more homes and make zoning reform a policy priority. Doing so would unlock opportunity for a wide variety of people.
https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-worried-about-housing-cost-open-yimby
There is solid evidence diversion programs are a win‐win opportunity, reducing welfare participation and expenditures while helping recipients. Yet, even in those states with diversion programs on the books, those options are rarely utilized. This is a lost opportunity.
https://www.cato.org/blog/diversion-dole-alternative-traditional-welfare-part-i
On the market, which is a paradigm of voluntary cooperation, each individual serves the interests of others by pursuing his own. Economics helps understand this lesson.
“I’ve warned my publishers that if they later on so much as change a single comma in one of my books, they will never see another word from me. Never! Ever!” [Dahl] said. With his typically evocative language, he added: “When I am gone, if that happens, then I’ll wish mighty Thor knocks very hard on their heads with his Mjolnir. Or I will send along the ‘enormous crocodile’ to gobble them up.”