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  2. Decentralization - Wikipedia

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    According to one definition: "Decentralization, or decentralizing governance, refers to the restructuring or reorganization of authority so that there is a system of co-responsibility between institutions of governance at the central, regional and local levels according to the principle of subsidiarity, thus increasing the overall quality and ...

  3. Police and prison abolition - Wikipedia

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    The police abolition movement is a political movement, mostly active in the United States, that advocates replacing policing with other systems of public safety. [1] Police abolitionists believe that policing, as a system, is inherently flawed and cannot be reformed—a view that rejects the ideology of police reformists.

  4. Police reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the two levels of the organization which the police executive must address, two dimensions of law enforcement must also be addressed: the police culture and various community cultures. Thus, to effect change in police-community violence, police executives must take a multidimensional approach.

  5. Divided government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Those in favor of divided government believe that such separations encourage more policing of those in power by the opposition, as well as limiting spending and the expansion of undesirable laws. [1] Opponents, however, argue that divided governments become lethargic, leading to many gridlocks.

  6. Force chiefs dismiss claims of two-tier policing in wake of ...

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    A police chief branded claims of two-tier policing “nonsense” as he insisted his officers had been “entirely fair” in the way they responded to the summer riots.

  7. Police power (United States constitutional law) - Wikipedia

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    The authority for use of police power under American Constitutional law has its roots in English and European common law traditions. [3] Even more fundamentally, use of police power draws on two Latin principles, sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas ("use that which is yours so as not to injure others"), and salus populi suprema lex esto ("the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law ...

  8. Duverger's law - Wikipedia

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    A two-party system is most common under plurality voting.Voters typically cast one vote per race. Maurice Duverger argued there were two main mechanisms by which plurality voting systems lead to fewer major parties: (i) small parties are disincentivized to form because they have great difficulty winning seats or representation, and (ii) voters are wary of voting for a smaller party whose ...

  9. Two major reports slam UCLA over policing, violence at pro ...

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    Two reports, one submitted to the L.A. Police Commission and the other released by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, criticize UCLA and the police response to the spring pro- ...