Radley Balko is a senior editor at Reason Magazine whose award-winning investigative work focuses on criminal justice and civil liberties. His blog, The Agitator, is one of the most carefully curated resources for stories on the same subject.
Q. In your work, you’ve frequently reported on police abuses and the appropriate role of law enforcement in a free society. Though you’re often writing in regard to specific controversies, I wonder if you have any general criticisms of the American criminal justice system. What’s wrong about where we’re at? What are the most urgent improvements you would recommend?
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