Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3707087
Title: American Law Enforcement Responses to COVID-19
Authors: Kugler, Matthew B
Oliver, Mariana
Chu, Jonathan 
Lee, Nathan
Issue Date: 11-May-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Citation: Kugler, Matthew B, Oliver, Mariana, Chu, Jonathan, Lee, Nathan (2021-05-11). American Law Enforcement Responses to COVID-19. SSRN Electronic Journal 112. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3707087
Abstract: During the spring and summer of 2020, what role did law enforcement play in promoting COVID-19 restrictions in the United States? Because most law enforcement in the US occurs at the local level, we conducted a survey of local police departments to examine their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show that most departments, especially departments in smaller jurisdictions, played a minimal role in enforcing COVID-related restrictions and tended to only encourage compliance. Further, it was extremely rare for a department to use sophisticated surveillance technology to monitor COVID compliance. This lack of monitoring stands in stark contrast to both the regimes employed by several comparable industrialized countries and the broad surveillance powers permissible under the U.S. Constitution.
Source Title: SSRN Electronic Journal
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/227457
ISSN: 15565068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3707087
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