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  2. Law enforcement agency powers - Wikipedia

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    In a civil society or democratic society, governing bodies give their law enforcement agencies specific powers to intercept telecommunications via specific laws, for example, in Australia with the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, [4] in the United Kingdom via the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, and in the ...

  3. Pass-through (economics) - Wikipedia

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    In addition to the absolute pass-through that uses incremental values (i.e., $2 cost shock causing $1 increase in price yields a 50% pass-through rate), some researchers use pass-through elasticity, where the ratio is calculated based on percentage change of price and cost (for example, with elasticity of 0.5, a 2% increase in cost yields a 1% increase in price).

  4. Lawful interception - Wikipedia

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    Lawful interception is obtaining communications network data pursuant to lawful authority for the purpose of analysis or evidence.Such data generally consist of signaling or network management information or, in fewer instances, the content of the communications.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Law enforcement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Depending on local, state, or federal laws, (as well as agency policy) law enforcement agencies may be required to notify the public of certain types of criminal incidents. For example, the Clery Act requires timely warnings to be published in the event of certain types of offences. Another example is California Assembly Bill No. 748 which ...

  7. Department of public safety - Wikipedia

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    In state governments in the United States, the DPS is often a law enforcement agency synonymous with the state police. At local and special district levels, they may be all-encompassing. Examples of states having these include Texas, Minnesota, Tennessee, Arizona, Alabama, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

  8. Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act - Wikipedia

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    By law this must be outside of the phone company. This prevents law enforcement from being inside the phone company and possibly illegally tapping other phones. Text messages are also sent to law enforcement. There are two levels of CALEA wiretapping: The first level only allows that the "meta data" about a call be sent.

  9. George Floyd Justice in Policing Act - Wikipedia

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    Change the threshold for the permissible use of force by federal law enforcement officers from "reasonableness" to only when "necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury." [ 4 ] Mandate that federal officers use deadly force only as a last resort and that de-escalation be attempted, and condition federal funding to state and local law ...