Why is Law Enforcement Decentralized?

Why Is Law Enforcement Decentralized ?

Law enforcement is decentralized. It is so despite documented interjurisdictional externalities which would justify its centralization. To explain this fact, we construct a political economy model of law enforcement. Under decentralization, law enforcement in each region is in accord with the preferences of regional citizens, but interjurisdictional externalities are neglected. Under centraliza...

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...

Wanted: Uniform Law Enforcement

Inefficiently Automated Law Enforcement

For some crimes the entire law enforcement process can now be automated. No humans are needed to detect the crime, identify the perpetrator, or impose punishment. While automated systems are cheap and efficient, governments and citizens must look beyond these obvious savings as manual labor is replaced by robots and computers. Inefficiency and indeterminacy have significant value in automated l...

Law Enforcement Access Network

THIS PAPER OUTLINES THE LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS NETWORK (LEAN) proposal recently announced by the Commonwealth Government. The proposal arose as a direct consequence of the Commonwealth Government’s acceptance of the recommendations in 1987 of the white paper entitled Review of Systems for Dealing with Fraud on the Commonwealth (Australia 1987). A description of the Commonwealth’s campaign again...