Prometheus 6

The Suggestion of Law

Submitted by Prometheus 6 on October 20, 2007 - 8:32am.

You must read American Lawbreaking at Slate.

This series explores the black spots in American law: areas in which our laws are routinely and regularly broken and where the law enforcement response is … nothing. These are the areas where, for one reason or another, we've decided to tolerate lawbreaking and let a law—duly enacted and still on the books—lay fallow or near dead....