Avant-garde encounters with the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-373
Author(s):  
Kevin Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Entire Series ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Twin Peaks ◽  
Authority Figures ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Art Film ◽  
The Military

David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) departs from the series’s origins as a detective thriller/primetime soap pastiche to reveal the sf creature feature lurking in its DNA. In The Return’s most celebrated hour, Lynch ventures deeper into experimental filmmaking by soaring into a recreation of the first atomic test at Alamogordo, now commonly cited as the Anthropocene’s origin date. Following the blast, Lynch introduces a creature feature backstory for the entire series via three indelible creatures: the blackened human-hybrid Woodsmen; the winged frogs that enter the mouths of their sleeping prey; and BOB, the series’s original villain. My essay examines how Twin Peaks has transitioned from being, in part, a show about a forest that needs protecting to an art film about a universe reeling in the aftermath of human-made ecological imbalance - a permanent rift that even the most determined authority figures (local law enforcement, the military, the FBI and other government agencies) can’t hope to remedy or comprehend. I also analyse how Lynch’s disruptive avant-garde filmmaking in The Return resists didacticism in favour of providing visceral and ambiguous ways to engage environmental crises.

scholarly journals The enforcement of statewide mask wearing mandates to prevent COVID-19 in the US: an overview

F1000Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Jacobs ◽  
Arvi P. Ohinmaa
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal Remedies ◽  
The Us ◽  
Local Law ◽  
State And Local

Face masks have become the bulwark of COVID-19 prevention in the US.  Between 10 April and 1 August, 2020, 33 state governors issued orders requiring businesses to require their customers and employees to wear face masks, and persons outdoors who could not social distance  to do the same. We documented the policies and enforcement actions for these policies in each of the states.  We used governors’ orders and journalists’ news reports as our sources. Our results show that the states used a variety of state and local (county and municipality) agencies to enforce business prevention behaviors and primarily local  law enforcement agencies to enforce outside mask-wearing behaviours. In particular, law enforcement officers demonstrated a strong preference for educating non-mask wearers, and indicated a reluctance to resort to civil penalties that were enacted in the state orders.  Businesses expressed a preference to have government agencies enforce non-mask wearing behaviours.  But there was also a widespread reluctance on the part of local law enforcement  to resort to legal remedies.

LEVELS AND AREAS OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL ACTION AGAINST CORRUPTION IN PROSECUTOR BODIES IN UKRAINE

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
I. S. Hrytsenko
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal Action ◽  
Public Prosecution ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Law ◽  
The Military ◽  
Functional Areas

The article covers the issues of determining the levels and directions of administrative and legal counteraction to corruption in prosecuting bodies in Ukraine. The following levels of administrative and legal counteraction to corruption in the bodies of the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine are highlighted: international; nationwide intra-departmental (carried out on the system of prosecutorial bodies in the general departmental order); nationwide law enforcement; regional intra-departmental; regional law enforcement (carried out by regional prosecutor’s offices and regional departments of the Military Prosecutor’s Office and the Specialized Military Prosecutor’s Office; local intra-departmental; local law enforcement. The directions of administrative and legal counteraction to corruption in the bodies of the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine are distinguished: 1) by the subjects of counteraction and entities in respect of which the corruption is being counteracted: intra-departmental counteraction to corruption; counteracting corruption by external bodies; counteracting corruption in the functional areas of the prosecution bodies by such bodies; 2) in the areas of combating corruption: combating corruption in the field of internal administrative issues (appointment, remuneration, disciplinary proceedings, etc.); counteracting corruption in crime investigations; counteracting corruption in the field of public prosecution in court; counteracting corruption in the area of coordination of pre-trial investigation bodies; counteracting corruption in the area of administrative liability for corruption offenses; counteracting corruption in other areas of the prosecutor’s office; 3) for the subjects of corruption offenses: combating corruption against prosecutors; combating corruption related to prosecutors; counteracting corruption against other prosecutors; counteracting corruption in relation to bodies that are coordinated with the prosecutorial system; counteracting corruption against others; 4) by nature of actions: preventive counteraction to corruption; human rights counteraction to corruption; anti-corruption counteraction.

scholarly journals The Fine Line: Rural Justice, Public Health and Safety, and the Coronavirus Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110031
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sherman ◽  
Jennifer Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
Personal Liberty ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Sheriff's Department ◽  
Public Health And Safety

In this article, we provide an early glimpse into how the issues of public health and safety played out in the rural United States during the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on Washington State. We utilize a combination of news articles and press releases, sheriff’s department Facebook posts, publicly available jail data, courtroom observations, in-depth interviews with those who have been held in rural jails, and interviews with rural law enforcement staff to explore this theme. As elected officials, rural sheriffs are beholden to populations that include many who are suspicious of science, liberal agendas, and anything that might threaten what they see as individual freedom. At the same time, they expect local law enforcement to employ punitive measures to control perceived criminal activity in their communities. These communities are often tightly knit, cohesive, and isolated, with high levels of social support both for community members and local leaders, including sheriffs and law enforcement. This complex social context often puts rural sheriffs and law enforcement officers in difficult positions. Given the multiple cross-pressures that rural justice systems faced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, we explore the circumstances in which they attempted to protect and advocate for the health and safety of both their incarcerated and their nonincarcerated populations. We find that certain characteristics of rural communities both help and hinder local law enforcement in efforts to combat the virus, but these characteristics typically favor informal norms of social control to govern community health. Thus, rural sheriff’s departments repeatedly chose strategies that limited their abilities to protect populations from the disease, in favor of appearing tough on crime and supportive of personal liberty.

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.

Assessing law enforcement websites: a comparative analysis exploring types, quantity and quality of information available

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Hansen ◽  
John C. Navarro ◽  
Sierra A. Malvitz
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Law

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the availability of information on law enforcement websites in the state of Wisconsin.Design/methodology/approachThe study conducted a content analysis of all 179 county and municipal local law enforcement agency websites within Wisconsin. The authors then implemented a comparative analysis that explored whether the quantity and quality of information available on law enforcement websites are similar to those of local governments and school districts. The authors then estimated models to test whether there is a relationship between the population size served and gender distribution of law enforcement departments to the availability of information on law enforcement websites.FindingsLaw enforcement websites contain a noticeable lack of information. The finding is even more apparent when comparing law enforcement websites to the websites of local governments and school districts. Finally, the authors show a positive link between information sharing on law enforcement websites and the proportion of the civilian staff at an agency that are women.Originality/valuePast studies that reviewed the make-up of law enforcement websites analyzed large law enforcement departments rather than local law enforcement departments, which notably represent the majority of most law enforcement departments. The authors also explicitly demonstrate that the commitment to information sharing is lagging within law enforcement websites compared to local-level governments. Future scholarship and law enforcement departments may benefit from exploring the employment of female civilians.

Commentary the U.S. Military in Iraq: Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Christopher Varhola
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Government Administration ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Economic Considerations

Peacekeeping, even more than civil administration, requires significant adjustments by a military force. Although military forces have certain advantages, such as a centralized chain of command and a flexible decision-making apparatus, they also have certain disadvantages, including the focus on combat operations, sometimes to the exclusion of an understanding of indigenous power structures and socio-economic considerations. In Iraq, this was magnified by the military's lack of training in both the Arabic language and support activities, such as local law enforcement, government administration, and post-conflict reconstruction tasks ranging from maintenance of irrigation systems to the rebuilding of factories.

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