Radley Balko is an independent researcher and writer on civil liberties and criminal justice. He is the author of two books: The Rise of the Warrior Cop and The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, Playboy, The Huffington Post, and Reason, among many others, and as a regular column in The Washington Post.
His work has won several journalism awards, including the LA Press Club’s Journalist of the Year, the NACDL Champion of Justice Award, the Innocence Project’s Journalism Award, and the Deadline Club award for feature writing, for his investigation into the Little Rock police union’s ugly campaign against a reformist police chief. Most recently he won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award.
Balko holds a BA in journalism and political science from Indiana University Bloomington.