Trust in Law Enforcement

Community Enforcement of Trust∗

We examine how trust is sustained in large societies with random matching, when the player to be trusted may default voluntarily or involuntarily. In order to incentivize trustworthiness, defaulters should be punished through temporarily exclusion.The difficulty is that trusting defaulters who are the verge of rehabilitation is profitable. With perfect bounded information, defaulter exclusion u...

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