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Radley Balko 
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Radley Balko is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com.
Previously, Balko was a policy analyst for the Cato Institute specializing in civil liberties issues, where he published a paper on alcohol policy and a groundbreaking study on paramilitary police raids.
He is a columnist for FoxNews.com and has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, Forbes, National Post, Worth and numerous other publications. Balko has also appeared on the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Fox News Channel, MSNBC and NPR.
Balko's work on paramilitary raids and the overuse of SWAT teams was featured by John Tierney in The New York Times, has been praised by outlets ranging from Human Events to the Daily Kos, and was cited by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's dissent in the case Hudson v. Michigan.
Balko is also credited with bringing national attention to the case of Cory Maye, a black man who prior to Balko's work was on death row in Mississippi for shooting and killing a white police officer during a raid on Maye's home. Balko's Reason feature on Maye was also cited in an opinion by the Mississippi State Supreme Court. National Journal also profiled Balko's coverage of the case.
Balko publishes the personal blog, TheAgitator.com. He graduated from Indiana University in 1997 with a degree in journalism and political science.
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- McCain, Obama Equally Gassy on Oil, Radley Balko, August 19, 2008
- The System is Broken, Radley Balko and Roger Koppl, August 12, 2008
- Collateral Damage , Radley Balko, August/September 2008 Print Edition
- Change We Can Believe In?, Radley Balko, July 30, 2008
- Where's the (Criminal) Justice?, Radley Balko, July 23, 2008
- Straight Talk, Radley Balko, July 16, 2008
- A Hollow Victory?, Radley Balko, July 2, 2008
- Coca Zero, Radley Balko, July 2008 Print Edition
- Too Much Information?, Radley Balko, June 25, 2008
- The Public Spinmeisters, Radley Balko, June 10, 2008
- Republic of Montana, Radley Balko, June 2008 Print Edition
- Soundbite: Freeing the Innocent, Radley Balko, June 2008 Print Edition
- '30 Years of Failure', Radley Balko, June 2008 Print Edition
- RateMyCop.com, Radley Balko, June 2008 Print Edition
- Presidential Power-Tripping, Radley Balko, May 22, 2008
- Guilty Before Proven Innocent, Radley Balko, May 2008 Print Edition
- Operation Overdose, Radley Balko, May 2008 Print Edition
- So Long, Seattle, Radley Balko, May 2008 Print Edition
- Suing the DA, Radley Balko, April 24, 2008
- Burn the Byrne, Radley Balko, April 15, 2008
- Is This America's Best Prosecutor?, Radley Balko, April 7, 2008
- Forfeiture Folly, Radley Balko, April 2008 Print Edition
- Silencing the Dead, Radley Balko, April 2008 Print Edition
- Data: Handout Bonanza, Radley Balko, April 2008 Print Edition
- Another Drug Raid Nightmare, Radley Balko, March 18, 2008
- "Someone Has To Start Wondering What the F Is Going On.", Radley Balko, March 7, 2008
- Sex Flaws, Radley Balko, March 2008 Print Edition
- Better Dead Than High, Radley Balko, February 29, 2008
- The Bite-Marks Men, Radley Balko, February 25, 2008
- How Wrongful Convictions Happen, Radley Balko, February 13, 2008
- Morally Vacuous and Poisonously Dogmatic?, Radley Balko, February 6, 2008
- House of Death, Radley Balko, February 2008 Print Edition
- Soundbite: Prisoner of Pain, Radley Balko, February 2008 Print Edition
- Should We Allow Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports?, Radley Balko, January 23, 2008
- How Do We "Fix" the Inherent Problems With Elections?, Radley Balko, January 22, 2008
- The Internet Gambling Ban, Radley Balko, January 3, 2008
- 2007: The Year in Videos, Radley Balko, Ronald Bailey, Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Jeff Taylor, Jesse Walker, Matt Welch, Tyler Cowen, David Harsanyi, Brendan O'Neill and Markos Moulitsas, January 1, 2008
- Pants Police, Radley Balko, January 2008 Print Edition
- Predictions for 2008, Radley Balko, December 21, 2007
- The Death of Main Street, Radley Balko, December 5, 2007
- No Money, No Justice, Radley Balko, December 2007 Print Edition
- Ganging Up, Radley Balko, December 2007 Print Edition
- Kathryn Johnston: A Year Later, Radley Balko, November 23, 2007
- Richard Paey Speaks, Radley Balko, November 20, 2007
- Three Vetoes, Radley Balko, November 8, 2007
- CSI: Mississippi, Radley Balko, November 2007 Print Edition
- Persecuted Pills, Radley Balko, November 2007 Print Edition
- Death Investigation Deficiencies, Radley Balko, October 29, 2007
- Tomorrow's Neocon Today, Radley Balko, October 19, 2007
- Forbidden Clothes, Radley Balko, October 2007 Print Edition