Beyond being illegal, abusive stop-and-frisk practices have made law enforcement even more difficult by causing law-abiding people to be deeply wary of the police.
They have sparked investigations and caused law enforcement to take a fresh look at forgotten cases.
Carpenter said she wondered if she had done something wrong to cause law enforcement officials not to believe her or pursue her case.
"Racial or identity profiling alienates people from law enforcement, hinders community policing efforts, and causes law enforcement to lose credibility and trust among the people whom law enforcement is sworn to protect and serve".
The growth in computer crime during the 1980s and 1990s caused law enforcement agencies to begin establishing specialized groups, usually at the national level, to handle the technical aspects of investigations.
Perhaps more troubling, the addiction to prescription opioids has caused law-abiding people to turn to the streets to seek out heroin, which is cheaper and can be easier to obtain.
Outside, a diesel generator, the base camp's source of electricity, made a constant racket, causing the law officers frequently to request witnesses to raise their voices.
The Archbishop of Canterbury: "Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgments?" The Queen: "I will".
The fact that the 'X causes "X"' law does not in the same way depend on any of the Y1, Y2, …, Yn laws makes the dependence asymmetric.
By Tuesday evening, the Counted had recorded 1,058 deaths caused by law enforcement officers so far in 2015.
American officials may have decided against granting Mr. Zhang political asylum to mute the damage that keeping him on American soil might cause to law enforcement cooperation.
