scholarly journals “Those People Count”: Naloxone Media Coverage in Mississippi

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1237-1248
Author(s):  
Braden Bagley ◽  
Candace Forbes Bright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Opioid Epidemic ◽  
Misleading Information ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Positive Effect

There is a movement to promote naloxone adoption by law enforcement and other stakeholders in the state of Mississippi. The purpose of this study is to understand how local media are framing the conversation about naloxone products, and to better understand how it might affect naloxone adoption among law enforcement. We searched for news articles published in Mississippi from January 2012 to July 2018 mentioning the words Narcan® and/or naloxone. Four main themes emerged from 25 articles: (a) positive and informative discussion of naloxone, (b) full articles persuading readers to use and/or advocate the use of naloxone, (c) government or organizational effort to increase the availability and use of naloxone products, and (d) negative or misleading information about naloxone. Better efforts to disseminate correct and persuasive information about the drug will have a profound and positive effect on the opioid epidemic in Mississippi and in the United States.

How Local Media Coverage of Voter Fraud Influences Partisan Perceptions in the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriano Udani ◽  
David C. Kimball ◽  
Brian Fogarty
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Election Administration ◽  
Local Media ◽  
American Elections ◽  
The Media ◽  
Voter Fraud ◽  
2012 Election

Extant findings show that voter fraud is extremely rare and difficult to prove in the United States. Voter’s knowledge about voter fraud allegations likely comes through the media, who tend to sensationalize the issue. In this study, we argue that the more voters are exposed to media coverage of voter fraud allegations, the more likely that they will perceive that voter fraud is a frequent problem. We merge the 2012 Survey of Performance of American Elections with state-level media coverage of voter fraud leading up to the 2012 election. Our results show that media coverage of voter fraud is associated with public beliefs about voter fraud. In states where fraud was more frequently featured in local media outlets, public concerns about voter fraud were heightened. In particular, we find that press attention to voter fraud has a larger influence on Republicans than Democrats and Independents. We further find that media coverage of voter fraud does not further polarize partisan perceptions of voter fraud. Rather, political interest moderates state media coverage on voter fraud beliefs only among Republicans. Last, our results provide no support that demographic changes, approval of election administration, or information concerning actual reported voting irregularities have any discernable effects on partisan perceptions.

scholarly journals Foreign Experience in Ensuring Secrecy during the Fight against Crime by Police Units

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-168
Author(s):  
Stanislav MAKARENKO
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
State Secret ◽  
Effective System ◽  
National Police ◽  
State Secrets

An effective system of protection of state secrets is one of the guarantees of preserving the integrity and inviolability of any country, regardless of its location. In the context of the protracted armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, this issue is becoming particularly relevant and requires detailed study in the scientific field and appropriate regulation at the legislative level. One of the most effective methods of implementing this is to study the systems of protection of state secrets of the world in order to borrow their leading experience. This article examines the foreign law enforcement experience of ensuring secrecy in combating crime by criminal police units based on the practice of countries such as the United States, Australia, Iraq, Britain, Poland, and others. Emphasis is placed on the fact that as a positive foreign experience in terms of ensuring secrecy in combating crime by the British criminal police, we can single out the statutory mechanism of prohibition through the court of media coverage of certain information containing information classified as restricted. According to the author, the practice of the United States of America to reduce to a minimum the number of documents containing information that is a state secret and its maximum storage exclusively in electronic form on special secure computers is noteworthy. It would be expedient to introduce, as a positive experience, several promising areas of implementation of foreign practice on issues of ensuring secrecy during the implementation of the operational and investigative activities by units of the National Police of Ukraine. It is proposed to introduce into the national criminal law the distinction between criminal actions by officials for failure to ensure secrecy during the operational and investigative activities, depending on the consequences caused and the type of rights and freedoms that have been violated.

scholarly journals Latino Officers and Their Involvement in Police Shootings

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. McElvain ◽  
Augustine J. Kposowa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Southern California ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Population Trends ◽  
Latino Population ◽  
Police Shootings

With an emphasis to examine Latino officers who have been involved in police shootings, this study analyzed twenty-one years (1990–2010) of data from one of the largest law enforcement departments in the United States. The study compared Latino population trends in the United States, the State of California, a southern California County, and focused on the representativeness of Latinos in one southern California law enforcement department. The analysis further investigated police shootings by the race of the officer, narrowing the focus to determine whether an increasing representativeness of Latino officers had any effect on police shootings. Results revealed that while the percentage of White officers in the department decreased and Latino officers increased, so too did their involvement in police shootings. Most surprisingly, Latino officer-involved shootings outpaced their growth in the department by a factor of 3.3 and in the county by a factor of more than 4.

From Kiddie Cops to the Coal Police

2021 ◽  
pp. 257-290
Author(s):  
Noah Tsika
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Real Power ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
Private Actors

In the United States, the normalization of police power has often demanded the delineation of fraudulent or otherwise illegitimate aspirants to such power. This chapter considers cinematic depictions of parapolicing. Such representations speak to ongoing anxieties surrounding the actual, discernable contours of police power in the United States. In Hollywood, the Studio Relations Committee was particularly wary of analogies between “real” police officers and their privately employed counterparts. The films examined in this chapter address the complexities of those public-private partnerships that pivot around law enforcement. Ultimately, these films work to affirm the state’s monopoly on lawful violence, either because it is the state itself that “generously” grants power to particular private actors or because those private actors fail miserably and, in so doing, necessitate the expansion of “real” police forces. Such films complicate, in markedly populist terms, the professional police’s presumed monopoly on expertise, without, however, questioning the police’s monopoly on violence. The films at the center of this chapter are meant to show that while policing may be teachable—imitable—actual law enforcement officials hold the real power.

A Dark History Hits Home

2019 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 78-87
Author(s):  
Robert Aquinas McNally
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Native Peoples

In June 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom apologized to tribal leaders for the genocide his predecessors waged against California's Native peoples, the most comprehensive such admission to date at the state level. The apology broke through widespread public denial of this historical atrocity and prompted extensive media coverage. In California's case, vigilantes, state-sponsored and -funded militias, army campaigns, and abysmal reservation conditions cut an estimated population of 150,000 in 1846 to 15,000 by 1900. Remarkably, California's tribes, augmented by migration of Native Americans from other parts of the United States, have demonstrated great resilience and are now building their cultural presence in state and nation.

How Many Years?

1973 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanford Bates
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
Local Law ◽  
County Jails

Very little has been done in the United States to improve the thousands of county jails that hold sentenced petty offenders and persons awaiting trial. Because these inmates are not considered an immediate danger to society, the facilities that handle them are virtually ignored. They are usually operated by local law enforcement officials, who do not have the knowledge or the time to develop needed rehabilitative programs. Subjected to these jails, many minor offenders go on to commit felonies. The deplorable conditions that exist in these local facilities might improve if every jail became part of the state correctional program.

Is This the Care We Need?: An Examination of Childcare Policy in Pennsylvania

Commonwealth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennie Sweet-Cushman ◽  
Ashley Harden
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Care ◽  
Current System ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Women And Politics ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Childcare Policy

For many families across Pennsylvania, child care is an ever-present concern. Since the 1970s, when Richard Nixon vetoed a national childcare program, child care has received little time in the policy spotlight. Instead, funding for child care in the United States now comes from a mixture of federal, state, and local programs that do not help all families. This article explores childcare options available to families in the state of Pennsylvania and highlights gaps in the current system. Specifically, we examine the state of child care available to families in the Commonwealth in terms of quality, accessibility, flexibility, and affordability. We also incorporate survey data from a nonrepresentative sample of registered Pennsylvania voters conducted by the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics. As these results support the need for improvements in the current childcare system, we discuss recommendations for the future.

Development of the Concepts for Providing Close Air Support

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-74
Author(s):  
Hristov Manush
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Air Force ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Combat Experience ◽  
Second World

AbstractThe main objective of the study is to trace the perceptions of the task of an aviation component to provide direct aviation support to both ground and naval forces. Part of the study is devoted to tracing the combat experience gained during the assignment by the Bulgarian Air Force in the final combat operations against the Wehrmacht during the Second World War 1944-1945. The state of the conceptions at the present stage regarding the accomplishment of the task in conducting defensive and offensive battles and operations is also considered. Emphasis is also placed on the development of the perceptions of the task in the armies of the United States and Russia.

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