Collaboration Between Federal and Local Law Enforcement

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Police Chiefs ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
University Departments ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Post September 11

Collaboration between law enforcement agencies, at all levels of government, has been identified as a salient component of post–September 11 policing. This study surveys a representative sample of Texas police chiefs concerning their perceptions of the level of collaboration that is occurring between their respective departments and federal agencies. Results suggest that the majority of chiefs hold generally low perceptions of federal-local collaboration. Furthermore, regression analyses show that preparedness and departmental strategy perceptions are predictive of federal-local collaboration. Regarding structural factors, chiefs of large departments as well as university departments are more likely to report higher levels of collaboration with federal agencies. Policy implications and directions for future research are discussed.

A New Era of Policing?

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Stewart ◽  
Robert G. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Police Chiefs ◽  
New Era ◽  
Threat Perceptions ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Department Size ◽  
Local Law

Many claims have been made about how the events of September 11 have thrust American policing into a new era, one wherein homeland security is the dominant strategy. To examine the validity of such claims, a sample of 208 Texas police chiefs is surveyed concerning their perceptions of homeland security as a strategy for local law enforcement. Factors that influence those perceptions are also examined. The findings reveal that, whereas the majority of chiefs felt that homeland security had become the dominant strategy of the police institution, few believed that homeland security had become the overriding strategy of their respective departments. Furthermore, regression analyses suggest that federal collaboration, preparedness, and threat perceptions were predictive of homeland security perceptions. Regarding department size, chiefs of very small departments are more likely to report homeland security as their dominant strategy in relation to chiefs of larger departments. Policy implications are discussed.

Improving African American confidence in law enforcement: Recruit to optimize procedural justice, not racial quotas

2020 ◽  
pp. 146135572097469
Author(s):  
Charles E MacLean
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Nationwide Survey ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Police Forces

Although a common maxim among many practitioners argues that police departments should recruit their way out of the African American confidence race gap by hiring more minority officers, that maxim is unfounded and redirects our recruitment efforts away from hiring to ensure procedural justice and police effectiveness—the two most powerful determinants of African American confidence in the police. The author’s nationwide survey revealed that African Americans living in cities with more racially representative law enforcement agencies were no more confident in local law enforcement than those living in cities where African Americans were underrepresented. That same survey proved, instead, that African American confidence is far higher where local police forces deliver procedural justice and effective policing than where local police forces are merely racially representative. This article presents the survey findings and explores the policy implications for law enforcement recruitment.

Racializing Crimmigration

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amada Armenta
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Jail ◽  
Colorblind Ideology ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Local Law

Deporting “criminal aliens” has become the highest priority in American immigration enforcement. Today, most deportations are achieved through the “crimmigration” system, a term that describes the convergence of the criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems. Emerging research argues that U.S. immigration enforcement is a “racial project” that subordinates and racializes Latino residents in the United States. This article examines the role of local law enforcement agencies in the racialization process by focusing on the techniques and logics that drive law enforcement practices across two agencies, I argue that local law enforcement agents racialize Latinos by punishing illegality through their daily, and sometimes mundane, practices. Investigatory traffic stops put Latinos at disproportionate risk of arrest and citation, and processing at the local jail subjects unauthorized immigrants to deportation. Although a variety of local actors sustain the deportation system, most do not see themselves as active participants in immigrant removal and they explain their behavior through a colorblind ideology. This colorblind ideology obscures and naturalizes how organizational practices and laws converge to systematically criminalize and punish Latinos in the United States.

University Researcher and Law Enforcement Collaboration

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 508-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett C. Burkhardt ◽  
Scott Akins ◽  
Jon Sassaman ◽  
Scott Jackson ◽  
Ken Elwer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Relationship Maintenance ◽  
State University ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Contacts ◽  
University Researcher ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
Benton County

In 2012, heads of local law enforcement agencies in Benton County, Oregon, contacted researchers at Oregon State University to discuss a problem: a sharp rise in the number of contacts between police and suspects displaying symptoms of mental illness. This initial inquiry led to an ongoing collaborative examination of the nature, causes, and consequences of the rise in police contacts. In this article, the authors describe this collaboration between researchers and law enforcement officials from the perspective of both parties, situating it within the context of mental illness in the U.S. criminal justice system. The collaborators draw on firsthand experiences and prior collaborations to discuss the benefits of, challenges in, and recommendations for university–police research collaborations. Although such collaborations may pose challenges (related to relationship definition, data collection and analysis, outputs, and relationship maintenance), the potential benefits—for researchers and law enforcement agencies—are substantial.

scholarly journals Improving Expertise in Local Law Enforcement: Utilizing Virtual Environments to Assess Officer Performance and Standardize Training Procedures

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 2144-2148
Author(s):  
Monica Connelly ◽  
Joel Suss ◽  
Lia DiBello
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Force Scenario ◽  
Management Decision Making

Training for non-federal law enforcement agencies is subject to little regulation—training academies and education requirements often vary between departments—resulting in new officers with varying abilities and on-job proficiencies. The role of expertise can be evaluated in law enforcement and assessed to determine best practices for ideal on-job performance, especially in incidents requiring officers to make potentially lethal, rapid critical decisions (e.g., a use-of-force scenario). Training in a virtual environment has successfully been utilized to maximize management decision-making performance and accelerate the training process. A supplementation of cognitive skills training to existing law enforcement training procedures is proposed along with a recommendation on utilizing virtual environments to enhance expert training and develop a safer community environment.

Illicit Market for Counterfeit Products at Small Businesses in Michigan

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (11) ◽  
pp. 1289-1312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon A. Sullivan ◽  
Jeremy M. Wilson ◽  
Ross S. Militz
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Crime Problem ◽  
Illicit Markets ◽  
Illicit Market ◽  
Incident Reports ◽  
Counterfeit Products

Research on small businesses facilitating illicit markets and the efforts of nonfederal law enforcement agencies to identify these small business offenders has been scant. This exploratory study examines the illicit market for counterfeit products sold through small businesses in the State of Michigan. We used police incident reports of counterfeit products identified during administrative tobacco inspections of small businesses to provide a unique look at this crime problem and the efforts of law enforcement to curtail it. We analyzed the content of these incident reports to explore characteristics of the incidents, businesses and suspects selling counterfeit products, how the counterfeit products were identified and verified, and the origin of the counterfeits. Implications for law enforcement efforts to address counterfeit criminal enterprises and directions for future research are discussed.

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