FEDERAL SUPPORT OF LOCAL LAW-ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, POOLED TIME-SERIES DESIGNS, AND THE CHALLENGES OF EVALUATION RESEARCH

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-323
Author(s):  
KENNETH C. LAND
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Pooled Time Series

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.

An Exploratory Study of Local Homeland Security Preparedness

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
William V. Pelfrey
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Homeland Security ◽  
Weapons Of Mass Destruction ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Local Law Enforcement ◽  
Law Enforcement Agency ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Local Law ◽  
Local Agencies

As an artifact of the war on terror, local law enforcement agencies have been asked to serve as the “eyes and ears” of federal intelligence agencies. The federal Office of Domestic Preparedness (ODP) has assembled a set of guidelines to assist agencies in terrorism prevention and weapons of mass destruction identification. However, there is a dearth of metrics and measurement tools available to assess preparedness. Based on ODP guidelines, a methodology to tap preparedness levels is defined. Additionally, preliminary findings from an assessment of a large law enforcement agency are presented. Application of this methodology will enhance the preparedness of local agencies by identifying areas of strength and those areas which require attention. Once these deficit areas are defined, policy makers can define appropriate training and programmatic changes.

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