WMD proliferation tends to be regarded as falling squarely in the domain of diplomatic/military affairs; rarely is a proliferation problem handled exclusively or even primarily as a law enforcement matter. This essay asserts that international law enforcement need not displace nonlegal responses to proliferation, but criminal law mechanisms should be available at maximum strength; their absence...

The Email Mining Toolkit (EMT) is a data mining tool that visualizes a very wide range of detailed analyses of email and email flows derived from an archive of email in a variety of formats. EMT may be leveraged in many applications. In this project we focus on providing support to detectives and analysts in law enforcement to develop powerful means of analyzing emails acquired under due proces...

This paper develops a theory of the incompleteness of law. It argues that law is inherently incomplete and that the incompleteness of law has important implications for the design of lawmaking and law enforcement institutions. When law is incomplete, residual lawmaking rights must be allocated. In addition, agents have to be vested with law enforcement rights. We analyze the optimal allocation ...

Since the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released their Electronic Crime Needs Assessment for State and Local Law Enforcement study results in 2001, several critical strides have been made in improving the tools and training that state and local law enforcement organizations have access to. One area that has not received much attention is the computer crime first responder. This paper focu...

Law enforcement officers must possess a number of unique characteristics and skills that are not common in most professions such as the ability to react under pressure and high levels of physical fitness. As a result of these demands, candidates applying for acceptance to law enforcement academies, such as the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA), are screened, prior to acceptance, using a ba...

In law enforcement applications, there is a critical need for new tools that can facilitate efficient and effective collaboration. Through a field study, we observe that crime analysis, a critical component of law enforcement operations, is knowledge intensive and often involves collaborative efforts from multiple law enforcement officers within and across agencies. To better facilitate such kn...

The September 11 terrorist attacks pointed out the lack of information sharing between law enforcement agencies as a potential threat to sound law enforcement in the United States. Therefore, many law enforcement agencies as well as the federal government have been initiating information sharing systems among law enforcement agencies to eradicate the information sharing problem. One of the syst...

INTRODUCTION In light of overwhelming evidence that access to sterile injection equipment reduces incidence of injection-attributable bloodborne disease without encouraging drug use, many localities have authorized sterile syringe access programs (SAPs), including syringe exchange and pharmacy-based initiatives. Even where such interventions are clearly legal, many law enforcement officers are ...