Balkinization, September 24, 2010 by David Sklansky
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/09/constitutional-regulation-of-police-in.html
The police share crime fighting and order maintenance duties with a proliferating array of public and private agencies, and the boundaries are blurring between policing and a range of other things—immigration enforcement, probation and parole supervision, mental health policy, family law, and school discipline, for starters…. We need ways to think about and to address the blurred boundaries between law enforcement … and the growing range of other agencies and governmental functions that pool their resources and their legal powers with the police.