The Police State

In this Mises View, Mark Thornton explains some unintended consequences of bulk NSA spying. Thornton is a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute.

John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute talks with Lew Rockwell about his new book, the state, war, police, and education.

The shooting death of John Crawford

 If, for good reason, we generally distrust the concentrated power wielded by coercive monopolies, we ought to avoid at all costs placing more power in the state, the ultimate embodiment of monopoly.

When it comes to your local police, there is no shopping around, there is no customer service, and there is no choice, writes Jeff Deist.

We know that state monopolies invariably provide worse and worse services for more and more money.

Jeff Deist and Marc J. Victor discuss what's happening in Ferguson, Missouri, and our disappearing legal rights.

How did Hitler do it? There is no shortage of theories or writings related to the rise of the Third Reich and the subsequent Holocaust. Halbrook, however, offers a compelling and important account of the role of gun control in aiding Hitler’s goals of exterminating the Jews and other “enemies of the state.”

Freeing inner cities from militarized police forces is a good start, but government is destroying these communities in many ways, and police brutality is just one of them.