This episode of We Don’t Have to Choose with Mary Moriarty features investigative journalist Radley Balko.

Radley Balko reports on criminal justice, the drug war and civil liberties. He was a senior writer and investigative reporter at the Huffington Post, and a reporter and senior editor for Reason magazine, and investigative reporter for the Washington Post. He is author of the books "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces" and "The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South" (co-authored with Tucker Carrington). His work has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Mississippi Supreme Court and two federal appeals courts. He also occasionally writes about the music and culture of Nashville, where he lives. His substack, The Watch, boasts 27,000 subscribers to his reporting and commentary work.