The list is long so I am doing this in two parts. Part two will be later today.
by Elizabeth Nolan Brown, The reasonAugust 5, 2024.
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The Ugly Truth website also claims that “there are approximately 18,000 victims in the US” If we take that on its own (and again, it’s questionable), that would mean approximately 17 to 44 percent of all trafficking victims in the US of San Diego County. Why, it’s almost as if these numbers are completely made up… [italics in original]
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Local, national, and international media outlets have used Bonta’s frame in their articles. “14 Arrested at Comic-Con In Anti-Human Trafficking Sting,” NBC reported. “Fourteen sex-trafficking inmates are on the rampage at San Diego Comic-Con,” Sky News said.
If you read a few paragraphs down the Bonta news, you will see that no sex trafficking or labor trafficking arrests because of this smuggling attack. 14 people were arrested for trying to pay another adult for sex. That old man, however, turns out to be an undercover cop. [italics in original]
by Jacob Sullum, The reasonAugust 7, 2024.
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“Criminal statutes have grown so overarching and reaching for previously innocent behavior that almost anyone can be arrested for something,” noted Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch in 2019. Gorsuch elaborates on that theme in a new book, showing that increased criminal penalties have given prosecutors greater power to destroy people’s lives, leading to a near-elimination of jury trials and plea deals.
“Some scholars point to the number of federal legal cases at more than 5,000,” said Gorsuch and co-author Janie Nitze. Over Ruled: The Human Value of Too Much Lawwhile “estimates suggest that at least 300,000 federal agency laws have criminal penalties. “The fact that no exact number is known speaks volumes about the proliferation of federal law.
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Since keeping up with all that law is a challenge even for experts, we can’t all hope to know exactly what conduct is criminal, even though “due notice” is a basic requirement of due process. Civil liberties attorney Harvey Silverglate has suggested that “the average busy professional in this country” may inadvertently commit “several corporate crimes” every day.
DRH Note: I have read the referenced book, Three cases a dayand I don’t find Silverglate coming close to making that case. You have come up with an interesting topic but I don’t think his book fits the topic. Furthermore, almost every time I see a book mentioned, the person referring to it says that Silverglate makes that claim. He doesn’t do it. I suspect that the number of criminals per day is much less than the title of the book suggests.
by Emily Ekins, Cato at LibertyAugust 7, 2024.
A recently released national survey of 2,000 Americans by the Cato Institute conducted by YouGov finds that two-thirds (66%) of Americans say global trade is good for the US economy, and 58% say it has helped raise their standard of living. This may help explain why 63% of the public favors the United States increasing trade with other nations.
Three out of four (75%) are worried about price gouging for the products they buy in the store. Indeed, two-thirds (66%) of Americans would object to paying even $10 more for a pair of blue jeans because of the cost, even if it is meant to help the production of blue jeans in the US.
by David J. Bier, Cato at LibertyAugust 8, 2024.
Many people mistakenly believe that immigration is essential to the illegal supply of fentanyl in the United States. However, proponents of this theory have offered more than speculation to support it. New data obtained by the Cato Institute through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request calls this belief into question. New data shows that US citizens account for 80 percent of people caught with fentanyl while crossing borders at ports of entry from 2019 to 2024.
The FOIA data contains individual records pertaining to each individual encountered by officials at US ports where fentanyl was seized. Figure 1 shows the demographics of people arrested with fentanyl from fiscal year (FY) 2019 to 2024, as of June. Overall, the dataset reveals that of the 9,473 people associated with fentanyl ingestion, 7,598 were US citizens (80.2 percent).
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