12 Facts About Radley Balko

Radley Prescott Balko was born on April 19,1975 and is an American journalist, author, blogger, and speaker who writes about criminal justice, the drug war, and civil liberties.

Radley Balko has worked as an opinion writer for The Washington Post, a senior writer and investigative reporter for The Huffington Post, a senior editor at Reason magazine, and a policy analyst for the Cato Institute, specializing in vice and civil liberties issues.

Radley Balko writes on drug policy, police misconduct, obesity, alcohol, tobacco, and civil liberties.

Radley Balko writes on trade and globalization issues and more generally on politics and culture.

Radley Balko was a biweekly columnist for Fox News from 2002 until 2009.

Radley Balko's work has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Playboy, Time, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Reason, Worth magazine, Canada's National Post, and the Chicago Tribune.

Radley Balko has appeared on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and National Public Radio.

Radley Balko began writing an opinion blog at The Washington Post in January 2014.

Radley Balko has written extensively about the Ryan Frederick case and the raid on Cheye Calvo's home.

Radley Balko has expressed his position against the judicial policy of civil asset forfeiture, arguing that it is a "practice contrary to a basic sense of justice and fairness".

Radley Balko has authored two books on the topic of increasing militarization in police forces, and a third on institutional racism and junk forensic science in the criminal justice system.

Radley Balko is one of those throw-back journalists that understands the power of groundbreaking reporting and how to make a significant impact through his work.