What Radley Balko thinks about government
Investigative journalist writing on policing, forensics and wrongful convictions at The Watch, previously at the Washington Post, Huffington Post and Reason. His reporting on the Mississippi medical examiner Steven Hayne and the bite-mark analyst Michael West preceded nine exonerations.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Radley Balko has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingA broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.
Their wordsThe old system stubbornly defied reform because it served the people in power.
↗The framing of Chris Duncanradleybalko.substack.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsAnd that risks giving the impression that basic constitutional rights and restraints on police and executive power that date back to the Founding are, actually, negotiable.
↗The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiationradleybalko.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAn administrative warrant is just a way for a law enforcement officers to memorialize a hunch on paper.
↗The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiationradleybalko.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece