Beyond its scope, the enforcement action is noteworthy because the drug violations were not uncovered in postrace laboratory tests — as is customary — but rather through veterinary records.
"It's clear to me that that decision went beyond the law enforcement agencies," he said, adding, "a decision at a higher level, at a political level of some sort, had to have been taken".
The most specific policy recommendation in the 97-page autopsy was support for comprehensive immigration reform, which, translated, means going beyond the law enforcement remedies favored by the party's bedrock supporters.
But while it's almost impossible to tell which cities have the biggest problem or identify hubs for sex trafficking beyond the Internet, enforcement has seen some positive change.
The US government has expressed concerns about this approach warning that it expands the commission's role "beyond enforcement of competition and State aid law under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) into that of a supra-national tax authority".
Beyond that, enforcement against individuals, as opposed to businesses, is practically nonexistent: in the past 18 months, only one American was penalized for violating the sanctions, with a fine of $525, according to a Congressional report published last month.
This practice is beyond the reach or enforcement of most laws, and outside the scope of the norms that limit states' interference in one another's affairs.
By pursuing Internet service providers, Mr. Cuomo is trying to move beyond the traditional law enforcement strategy of targeting those who produce child pornography and their customers.
But he said the city needed to undertake a broader approach, moving beyond law enforcement to link the various agencies that provide youth services to create an interlocking web of programs.
And the problems stretch beyond law enforcement.
