More on the nonexistent ‘nationwide crime wave’

By Radley Balko

• Former cop turned law professor Seth Stoughton looks at what went wrong in McKinney, Tex.
• The first sure sign of summer: Local cops or bureaucrats shut down the first kids’ lemonade stand.
• More debunking on the ill-informed contention that we’ve entered a “new nationwide crime wave” from Jason Linkins, James Alan Fox and even NYPD Chief William Bratton.
• The man that Justice Antonin Scalia once called the poster case for capital punishment . . . has been exonerated.
• High bail: Another way to criminalize poverty.
• San Diego vice cops seem to spend quite a bit of money drinking and purchasing lap dances at the city’s strip clubs. All to keep the city safe, of course.
• A Colorado SWAT team destroyed an innocent man’s home after a standoff with a suspected shoplifter.