Jessie, I really enjoyed reading your post as it was the same topic I was assigned and you used a different way to explain yourself than I did. I liked how you defined each era of policing to show the reader how different each era was compared to the Homeland Security Era. You were correct in saying that the Homeland Security Era was rightly named as it could not be called anything else. I do think the federal government hurt many local police agencies when they cut Community Policing funding to pay for many Homeland Security programs. One reason they made this choice was that they had not embraced Community Policing ideas as much as local agencies. This decision must not force local agencies to ignore community programs to concentrate
