Daniel Richman and Sarah Seo on Law Enforcement Federalism
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Daniel Richman and Sarah Seo are professors at Columbia Law School, and they are co-authors of a recent article on Lawfare entitled, "Toward a New Era for Federal and State Oversight of Local Police." Benjamin Wittes sat down with them to discuss the article, the history of the federal-state relationship in law enforcement, how the feds came to play an oversight role with respect to police departments, the limits of that role inherent in the cooperative relationship that law enforcement agencies engage in for other reasons, the role that the feds might play under new legislation and the role that state governments may play as well.
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| 1:08.0 | The world in which a department is going to be a real deal. |
| 1:16.0 | A world in which a department of any sort can be given sustaining help by outside players is not necessarily a world that we ought to be comfortable with. |
| 1:30.0 | I think over time it would be very useful to see even greater consolidation of local police departments. |
| 1:38.0 | It's not exactly a trend, but it's something people have talked about for a while. |
| 1:42.0 | It's quite hard to do because local policing is thought to be a right of any township. |
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| 1:58.0 | Daniel Richmond and Sarah Sayle are professors at Columbia Law School. |
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