Legislation and Crime
- It is rarely necessary to wait 24 hours before filing a missing person's report; in instances where there is evidence of violence or of an unusual absence, law enforcement agencies in the United States often stress the importance of beginning an investigation promptly.
- Entrapment law in the United States does not require police officers to identify themselves as police in the case of a sting or other undercover work. The law is specifically concerned with enticing people to commit crimes they would not have considered in the normal course of events.
- Embassies and consulates are not the territory of the country they represent, but remain part of the host country. (They do enjoy some special legal protections, in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.)
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Famous quotes containing the words legislation and, legislation and/or crime:
“The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
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“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)