Community policing needs organizational transformation which is similar to the needs of homeland security. For law enforcement to successfully implement homeland security practices they must transform the organization, not just have certain officers learn about how to ‘fight terror’. This includes police learning how terrorists operate and how to identify their activities while on duty. Learning the type of tactics that terrorist may use, their typical living situations, and how to analyze and gather data and intelligence for suspected terrorism and share it with other agencies, are important measures. Knowing how to investigate suspected terrorists while upholding the Constitution and not targeting the entire community is challenging but important.
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Trust with the community can greatly help against counter-terrorism (Demos, 2007). The police must be the ones who reach out and to the communities to build a better relationship. When there are communities that have no communication and or collaboration with the police it makes it a safe zone for terrorist cells and recruitment. When there is not intelligence coming from the community the police don’t have many other options than using traditional tactics that may lead to more to more frustration and anger (Murphy, 2005). Also using traditional tactics focus on deterrence theory that may not work with terrorists. Terrorists are often martyr’s so they expect to die in the attack so the threat of punishment might not work.
Federal law enforcement does not participate in community policing, but they still get the benefit of what local law enforcement do in community policing. Since there has been an improvement in communication between federal, state, and local law enforcement with sharing information and the use of fusion centers the information community police officers get can go all the way to the CIA or FBI. The lack of shared information some argue is a key reason why 9-11 wasn't prevented (Best Jr, …show more content…
Also much of what Federal agents do is secret and does not include the community except for a source of intelligence (Hanniman, 2008). Much of the success of counter-terrorism seems to be unknown (Lum, Haberfeld, Fachner, & Lieberman, 2011). Statistical analyzing data for terrorism has methodological problems since it's such a rare event and may arise due to factors outside of policing, such as political unrest in foreign nations (Kilburn,et al., 2011). When a suicide attack is successful there is no one to interrogate so there is a loss of learning about motives and true reason of the
Trust with the community can greatly help against counter-terrorism (Demos, 2007). The police must be the ones who reach out and to the communities to build a better relationship. When there are communities that have no communication and or collaboration with the police it makes it a safe zone for terrorist cells and recruitment. When there is not intelligence coming from the community the police don’t have many other options than using traditional tactics that may lead to more to more frustration and anger (Murphy, 2005). Also using traditional tactics focus on deterrence theory that may not work with terrorists. Terrorists are often martyr’s so they expect to die in the attack so the threat of punishment might not work.
Federal law enforcement does not participate in community policing, but they still get the benefit of what local law enforcement do in community policing. Since there has been an improvement in communication between federal, state, and local law enforcement with sharing information and the use of fusion centers the information community police officers get can go all the way to the CIA or FBI. The lack of shared information some argue is a key reason why 9-11 wasn't prevented (Best Jr, …show more content…
Also much of what Federal agents do is secret and does not include the community except for a source of intelligence (Hanniman, 2008). Much of the success of counter-terrorism seems to be unknown (Lum, Haberfeld, Fachner, & Lieberman, 2011). Statistical analyzing data for terrorism has methodological problems since it's such a rare event and may arise due to factors outside of policing, such as political unrest in foreign nations (Kilburn,et al., 2011). When a suicide attack is successful there is no one to interrogate so there is a loss of learning about motives and true reason of the