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“The Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is a data collection from nationwide law enforcement agencies reporting on national crime statistics. The UCR began being used in the 1930's by the Federal Bureau of Investigation” (Barkan, 2012). Moreover, these crime statistics reported to the FBI by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies. In the criminal justice system, divided crimes into twenty-nine categories of offenses and eight of these are major crimes.…

UCR Program began in the 1930's when Congress authorized the U.S. attorney general to survey crime in America. Not only to survive crime but to survey it by uniforming crime statistics. In order to get information to the program, law enforcement agencies provide crime information, with data coming from city to city, country, colleges, universities and state departments. These citizens crime reports included reports from different cities, states and even millions of people were covered by the…

can be defined as those who “expose misconduct (e.g., fraud, abuse, or illegal activity) within an organization.” Whistleblowers, in the context of the intelligence community, are employees or contractors of federal intelligence agencies who bring information on agency wrongdoing to the surface. The report “Intelligence Whistleblower Protections: In Brief” by Rodney M. Perry notes that the Obama Administration and Congress in Obama’s era did take action to “limit retaliation” against…

In my thesis essay, I will be discussing how terrorism has affected modern policing the modern law enforcement approach. I hope to cover the information well and be direct in my finding of my study. For many terrorism is just a word we see every day on the news or in our text books but for law enforcement it can be a hazard for mankind. But to understand what terrorism is you first understand it definition, terrorism is the use of international force or violence by any group or a specific…

tremendous need for local patrol officers to become more educated. After all, local police departments are the very roots of the entire justice system in the United States. These are the agencies that need and deserve much more focus. I plan to use my graduate degree to help improve my local agency and other local agencies as well. I am eager to begin my journey toward a Master’s degree at Bethel University and am ready to begin working toward that goal. Bethel University gives a unique…

ways that enable multiple agencies to 'connect the dots ' and identify potential security threats (Monahan & Palmer, 2009). The role and contribution of fusion centers in counterterrorism and national security become even greater, given that they are central to developing effective information-driven relationships with private entities. The latter can provide useful information to help prevent possible attacks. Dozens of fusion centers currently operate in the U.S., with hundreds of…

In state and large local police and departments recruits get training in their agencies police academy. In small agencies recruits often attend a regional or state academy. Training includes classroom instructions in constitutional laws civil rights, state laws and local ordinances and police ethics. Recruits also receive training and supervised experience…

(Mattis, 2012, pg.52). There is two schools of thought regarding this practice. One is being able to operate independently give the PLA the ability to make decisions without having to confer with other agencies which allows for a more rapid response. On the other hand, without having an alternate agency working in concert, such as the CIA and the military, the room for error increases due to a lack of checks and balances. Another major different between the Chinese and the United States is the…

police department must embody a division of the community in order to maintain credibility and respect” ”(Patterson pg. 6), they can get feed back as well from the citizens on how they are doing and they can help one another. Many law enforcement agencies feel like money plays a big part in citizens, not wanting to get involved in community policing, but that’s not true, a numerous of citizens want to volunteer where they can make the community they live in a secure place. Many citizens in the…

The Beginning of the End of Terrorism: Is It Justified? In the most recent years, a rise in terrorism globally has invoked a string of United States military actions in response. Though these actions have been debated by pacifists to warmongers based on personal beliefs, Aquinas’s just war theory from Summa Theologica is the most impartial and distinguished method to justify or condemn the U.S. military’s involvement. There are numerous actions taken by the United States military that were, and…