Questions tagged [law-enforcement]
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What proportion of detention time is spent by innocent people? [closed]
The time spent by prisoners in any form of detention is easily found in national statistics. For instance, most EU countries answered the 2022 SPACE I survey. Hence, from the report, I can find (p.48, ...
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Is there such a thing as specific agents/officers legally pursuing international criminals across borders?
This is a continuance of this question regarding Interpol.
The answer to that question left a hole; who's going to be the international pursuer in the classic, world-wide cat-and-mouse game? It is a ...
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To what degree can Interpol agents take part in an international pursuit?
I wonder to what degree Interpol agents can take part in the pursuit of an international fugitive. The whole reason Interpol exists is precisely because one country's authorities cannot simply pursue ...
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What constitutes entrapment? [duplicate]
I was just remembering a movie scene where 2 undercover cops knock on a man's door asking to buy drugs and and he sells it to them. In the end he is arrested and convicted. I'm no expert but I thought ...
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is there a limit of speed cops can go on a high speed pursuit?
Let's have the following scenario, where a police officer is trying to pull a car over, but the car decides to try to run away. HOW fast is the police officer legally allowed to go when chasing the ...
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Can authorities pursue you across state lines for something that's illegal in their state but legal in the other state?
As an example, in Arizona, one is free to own many types of firearms without a license, whereas such things are heavily restricted in California.
The cops in California receive video evidence of Bob ...
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Can a city police officer leave the city to pursue someone who commits a traffic offense within city limits?
If I commit a traffic offense in the city and a city cop observes this, and I then leave the city, can the city officer continue the pursuit, or must they terminate the pursuit at the city limits?
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Speed enforced by radar - why the extra verbiage
Jurisdiction NYC.
Sample speed limit sign.
+-------------+
| |
| Speed Limit |
| NN |
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| Enforced by |
| radar |
+-------------+
Why must the authority ...
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Are on-duty officers allowed to lie about their identity?
This is a follow-up to this question. In it, I talk about how I see it as problematic that the identities of LEOs investigating an active case can be publicized. If that case concerns a serial killer, ...
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Is it legal to release the identities of investigators of an active case?
I first want to preface this by saying what I don't know regarding preliminary details:
I don't know whether there are public records of all the police officers and detectives working at a precinct.
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The spectrum of legality
I've always envisioned "legality" as a spectrum, with the label of completely illegal at one end, and the label of strictly legal at the other end. In the middle, I see different levels of ...
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Must the interrogation stop when the right to counsel has been invoked?
Do police officers have to stop an interrogation when right to counsel has been invoked by a suspect or can they continue the questioning like nothing has happened?
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Would you have a recourse if law enforcement listened to your priveledge conversations with legal council?
Of course if they listened to your conversation with your attorney the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine would apply, but could you actually sue them if they did it? Do you have a right ...
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When does an officer's discretion end, and where does an officer's duty begin?
User6726's answer to this question seemed to imply that an officer's discretion was endless; that no matter what the situation, they could always decide not to intervene. That seems highly unlikely to ...
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What can someone do when scammed in the crypto world? How to report the scam and recover your crypto?
Do the police work against scammers and fraudster in the crypto world?
How can someone report to law enforcement a fraud in crypto space?
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