By Andrew M. Schnitzel. 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 667.
Violent crime fueled by drug profits is not a new problem for our nation’s inner cities. Police struggle to adapt their tactics to changing street conditions while still safeguarding the constitutional rights of citizens they have sworn to protect. The summer of 2008 marked a tipping point for the Metropolitan Police Department…

Is Hate Speech Becoming the New Blasphemy? Lessons from an American Constitutional Dialectic
November 1, 2009By Justin Kirk Houser. 114 Penn St. L. Rev. 571.
On May 10, 1836, as they were going about their daily business in New Castle County, Delaware, numerous citizens were shocked and alarmed to hear Thomas Jefferson Chandler exclaim in a loud voice, “The Virgin Mary was a whore, and Jesus Christ was a bastard!” The moral outrage of the community was…