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POLITICAL SCIENTISTS HAVE followed the popular culture in their developing obsession with the leadership styles of America's presidents. Psychologists such as David Keirsey have constructed elaborate taxonomies, assigning presidents to [...]

Byline: Kevin Wack The fragile detente between the federal government, the cannabis industry, and the banking sector is suddenly in jeopardy. President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions for [...]

Byline: John Heltman WASHINGTON -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has formally appealed an October court ruling that undercut the agency's independent status, arguing that the decision laid out a [...]

Byline: Kristin Broughton Big banks in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday told employees to work from home, following a second night of unrest in the city. The city center erupted into [...]

Are black Americans more likely to be shot or roughed up by police? AS A teenager, Roland Fryer had 'unpleasant' run-ins with police. Officers pointed guns at him six or [...]

Former federal government officials with prominent roles in the debate over whether to require tech companies to give law enforcement agencies access to encrypted communications and devices suggested this week [...]

Byline: Kate Berry Two recent Justice Department settlements, one with a large nonbank mortgage lender and the other with a small one, speak volumes about how much Federal Housing Administration [...]

In 1961, at the end of his term in office, President Eisenhower warned of an ominous development: defense policy was falling under the influence of a new 'military-industrial complex' that [...]

Pulaski, TN, has experienced several kinds of crimes related to supermacist beliefs advocated by the Ku Klux Clan. Although the group disbanded in 1865, minor instances of violations were still reported. The area's law enforcement have, however, taken the initiatives to control the occurrence of related crimes. Proper management planning and approaches have helped their department control such events.

State and local police enforcement needs sufficient attention and effective leadership. However, incentives must be given to those who are willing to lead a certain organization. Community policing, a strategy that encourage community involvement and participation, requires competent leadership that would turn visions and goals into concrete courses of actions. Police leadership, thus, plays a significant role in community development.

The Los Angeles Police Dept (LAPD) faces the challenge of reform as it seeks for a leader to provide the necessary boost towards achieving its goals in the 21st century. The LAPD's image has been tarnished by criticisms about the way it conducts police work at the expense of civil liberties. One of the strongest blows to the police force was the controversial Rodney King beating, which resulted in the 1992 riots after the defendants were acquitted of all charges. These developments have paved the way for some changes in the LAPD, where focus has been given to community-based policing.

Crime control through law enforcement is generally considered to be a two-part process of apprehending and incapacitating or rehabilitating the guilty, and deterring the innocent from crime by the threat of punishment. The analysis presented here shows that the protection of the innocent from harassment - detention, arrest, punishment, and other intrusions by the criminal justice system - is important in deterring crime. Specifically, the analysis shows that deterrence from crime is weakened and then lost for a rational individual who holds the majority attitude toward risk, if the levels of rightful punishment and wrongful harassment are increased, as in a war on crime, and the likelihoods of wrongful and rightful punishment are reasonably close. The analysis is employed to show how the perceived likelihood of harassment may be a contributing factor to the disproportionately high representation of minority groups in the U.S. prison system.

Data from a national survey of police departments are presented to explore the progression of American policing from a traditional orientation to a community policing model. Despite widespread support for [...]

While technology is providing more resources for municipalities to streamline services and reduce workloads, it also can lead to frustration because of its ever-changing nature. Often, municipalities are not sure [...]

A basic model for job task analyses addresses the legality of the concept, design of job task surveys and the diverse techniques and applications of job analysis data. The survey design and methodology considerations require the task analyst to obtain reliable job task information through the inclusion of elements such as organization-specific job task statements into the survey design. A significant outcome of the job task analysis is the formulation of functional job descriptions to develop complementary personnel systems.

As it shifts from communism to democracy, the Republic of Hungary faces a host of problems, one of the most visible of which is a growing crime problem. This article, based on author Chris Eskridge's personal observations in Hungary and his interactions with officials there, explains that as Hungarians are undergoing a period of momentous social, economic, and political change, they are facing increases in crime including white collar crime, organized crime, and property crime. The author describes the country's law enforcement structure and court and correctional systems and offers a view of what the future holds for crime and justice in Hungary.

Experience with drug enforcement applied to the effort to control illegal gun markets suggests that only modest results can be achieved because of the informality and broad distribution of the gun market. The best opportunity for control may be where the drug and gun markets intersect. The analysis is based first on identification of the characteristics of illegal markets that impede enforcement and then on comparing drug and gun markets according to the salient characteristics.