Gender Bias in Law Enforcement

Deterrence Externalities and Racial Bias in Law Enforcement

Knowles, Persico, and Todd (2001) develop a test for racial bias in traffic stops that is predicated on the notion that it is the hit rate—the rate at which motor-vehicle searches result in the seizure of physical evidence—and not the rate of traffic stops or vehicle searches, that should be used to discern whether disparities in police treatment are due to racial bias or statistical discrimina...

Psychotherapy as law enforcement.

Legal doctrines do not stand still, but instead evolve and tend to grow and to spawn what law school academicians fondly term progeny. Tarasoff is no exception. In an expanding list of court decisions, psychiatric patients are being convicted of crimes by virtue of actions by their psychiatrists or psychotherapists purportedly based on the duty to warn. One recent case has featured surreptitiou...

Military involvement in law enforcement

Law enforcement is not a task usually undertaken by military forces, at least within domestic legal contexts. Conversely, maintaining or restoring security within dysfunctional or ‘post-conflict’ areas of operation is a role commonly undertaken by them. Within these latter operations, the skill sets and highly calibrated application of force that are commonly associated with police forces in th...

Conservation Law Enforcement in Michigan

Wanted: Uniform Law Enforcement