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(Ortmeier, 7/2005, p. 7) Within the United States law enforcement is divided into three major divisions, who are all responsible for protect the well-being of society, however the structure of each varies drastically. Law enforcement officers ensure that federal, state and municipality…

The foundation of computer crimes lies with The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) of 1986, 18 U.S.C. 1030. According to Easttom and Taylor (2011), the CFAA was a federal act which provided protection of computer systems that were part of a federal entity or financial-institution. Over time and through a series of congressional hearings, lawmakers have amended and tailored language in a manner to protect the government's interest in computer crimes while striking a balance with the ability of…

of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Aprils 19, 1995 was one of the worst attacks in American soil. This attack took the lives of 168 innocent people including 19 children and injuring more than 500 people. According to McVeigh’s letter he wrote to Fox News, he decided to bomb a federal building because he had no other options, and he did it as retaliation. He described it as a counter attack for the damage and violence that the federal agents had participated…

For decades, overcrowded prison populations have been at the top of the list for penal reform in the United States. The Federal Bureau of Prisons reports that nearly 85,500 individuals are currently incarcerated on drug-related charges, making up 46.4% of the total inmate population in our prison systems. Of those incarcerated on drug charges, nearly half are low-level drug offenders with no current or prior violence charges on their records. (The United States War on Drugs, n.d) Are…

Federal agencies have led law enforcement efforts against computer crime since these agencies hold the technical expertise and political influence to gather significant financial and operational resources at the national level. Thus, these agencies have progressively reorganized in an attempt to channel resources directly at preventing digital crimes and capturing computer criminals, including the creation of special sections within these organizations, employing of new personnel who have…

is the Monetary policy. Monetary policy refers to what the Federal Reserve Bank, the United Sates central bank, does to influence the amount of money in the U.S. economy. It controls the economy by managing amount of money available. By modifying money supply and/or interest rates, aggregate demand can shift. The Federal Reserve Bank is the central bank of US, which sets the overall policies and oversees all banks. The Federal Reserve Bank has three different tools it uses to either…

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Plan: The government will curtail its surveillance by only viewing collected data by means of a warrant. Intro-After the NSA reported their first transparency avowal, the publisher Omicron Technology Limited stated, “The report said 19,212 "national security letters"—administrative subpoenas that allow the FBI to collect information without a warrant—were issued last year, containing…

Analysis of the Crash The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the likely cause of the crash was that both pilots were fatigued (NTSB, 2010). Both the pilot and first officers failed to respond and correct a stall during snowy weather that the airplane could not recover from. Other contributions to the accident were the flight crew’s failure to monitor airspeed in relation to the rising position of the low-speed cue, the flight crew’s failure to obey sterile cockpit procedures,…

inflation, that the federal reserve can essentially control. Interest rates are changed based on the type of output gap affecting the economy. The general rule is that higher interest rates represent an expansionary gap, while lower interest rates represent a recessionary gap. During this recession of the 1970’s in the U.S., interest rates decreased by very little, and the Federal Reserve increased the money supply causing high rates of inflation. This created a perfect storm for the federal…

“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has dropped its lawsuit against Apple, ending its desire to force the company to create software to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, gunmen”(Randall G. Holcombe). Wednesday, December 2 a gunman and his wife killed 14 people in a mass shooting in San Bernardino California. The FBI took over the investigation and found the suspect’s phone which happen to be an iPhone. The Federal Bureau Investigation asked Tim Cook, who is the…