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Certificate No.14141
No full textBurial insurance certificate no. 14141 issued April 10, 1943 to Ravel Russey (22). Address is listed as Rt. 1, Box 28, Okolona, Arkansas.https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/wiley_records_burial/1031/thumbnail.jp
Municipal Police Under Federal Control: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Title 42 U.S.C. Section 14141 Negotiated Settlements
Full text linkPassed as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the Law Enforcement Misconduct Statute 42 U.S.C. 14141 (§ 14141) authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate, and enter into a court-enforceable structural reform agreement with a law enforcement agency engaged in patterns or practices of systemic misconduct, violations of federal law, and unconstitutional policing.
Under § 14141 authority, 33 investigations of municipal police have been conducted since 1994 where the DOJ determined that a police agency was engaged in, or at unreasonable risk of engaging in, a pattern or practice of unconstitutional policing. Publicizing this determination, a DOJ issued findings letter is the resultant output of a § 14141 investigation, detailing a variety of organizational deficiencies related to polices, practices, procedures, and systems contributing to systemic misconduct and unconstitutional policing.
Using a mixed-methodological approach, this study sought to identify, describe, explore, and analyze phenomena concomitant to DOJ findings of a pattern or practice of unconstitutional policing for municipal police agencies under § 14141 authority. Through an embedded design, the qualitative methodology consisted of analyzing DOJ’s findings letters for latent and manifest content describing policies, practices, procedures, and systems in need of reform. Supporting the qualitative analysis, the quantitative portion consisted of analyzing variables integrating disjointed incrementalism, deterrence, and the multiple streams framework theories. The quantitative analysis was designed to better understand influences on patterns or practices of police behavior, organizational decision-making across investigative outcomes, and between generations of §14141 enforcement.
These analyses led to an explication of the meaning and contours of unconstitutional policing, the creation of a compendium of policies and practices to address systemic problems in municipal police agencies, and a four-step prescriptive model that can be used to forestall systemic misconduct and unconstitutional policing, obviating the potential for § 14141 investigation, intervention, loss of autonomy, and federal oversight. In addition, an exploration of policy options for the continued enforcement of § 14141 is presented based on the analysis of past enforcement practices, and emerging conditions
Vindicating Civil Rights under 42 U.S.C. 14141: Guidance from Procedures in Complex Litigation
Full text linkIn order to provide remedy for institutional violations of civil rights, Congress enacted 42 U.S.C. § 14141, which authorizes the U.S. Attorney General to seek injunctive relief from unconstitutional patterns and practices by law enforcement officers. Investigations and lawsuits thus far have resulted in consent decrees and agreements between the U.S. Department of Justice and local governmental authorities. This Note proposes that, in order to achieve the most effective and meaningful reform, courts look for guidance to procedures in complex litigation. In particular, the Note discusses potential benefits of employing special masters in § 14141 cases, provision of notice and opportunity for affected communities to be heard, as well as approval of, and release of jurisdiction over, consent decrees
Vindicating Civil Rights under 42 U.S.C. 14141: Guidance from Procedures in Complex Litigation
No full textIn order to provide remedy for institutional violations of civil rights, Congress enacted 42 U.S.C. § 14141, which authorizes the U.S. Attorney General to seek injunctive relief from unconstitutional patterns and practices by law enforcement officers. Investigations and lawsuits thus far have resulted in consent decrees and agreements between the U.S. Department of Justice and local governmental authorities. This Note proposes that, in order to achieve the most effective and meaningful reform, courts look for guidance to procedures in complex litigation. In particular, the Note discusses potential benefits of employing special masters in § 14141 cases, provision of notice and opportunity for affected communities to be heard, as well as approval of, and release of jurisdiction over, consent decrees
Reachability Problems for Infinite-State Systems (Dagstuhl Seminar 14141)
No full textThis report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 14141 "Reachability Problems for Infinite-State Systems", held from March 30th until April 4th, 2014. The seminar gathered 44 participants and the program consisted of 34 presentations. Participants were asked to contribute open questions prior and
during the seminar. A list of these open questions appears in a separate section of the present report. This list generated collaborations among participants and gave rise to research publications solving (partially), for example, question 5.13, namely "what functions are computable by VASS?
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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