Yellowstone's Zone of Death

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Profs on Cops

Bill Gormley

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Interviews with social scientists and criminologists who are doing cutting-edge research on police practices and behavior and how they affect the community.

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Interviews with social scientists and criminologists who are doing cutting-edge research on police practices and behavior and how they affect the community.

Social Sciences

Science

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Yellowstone's Zone of Death

Profs on Cops

34 minutes 57 seconds

1 month ago

Yellowstone's Zone of Death

Due to some legislative drafting quirks, our nation’s oldestnational park features a 50-square-mile corridor where it is theoretically possible to commit a serious crime without being punished. This legal loophole played a role in C.J. Box’s heart-pounding murder mystery, Free-Fire, featuringWyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett. Brian Kalt, Professor of Law at Michigan State University, generated lots of interest but alas no reform when he wrote about this loophole in a Georgetown Law Review article. Hear him explain how animprobable series of uncoordinated legal decisions made it possible to get away with murder in Yellowstone’s Zone of Death!