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limitations of homeland securities intelligence community. The intelligence community (IC) consist of local law enforcement, federal organizations, and other organizations that strive to investigate and monitor activities that pose a threat towards the United States and their own communities. Local law enforcement or Intelligence-led policing (ILP) is “a new dimension of community policing, building on tactics and methodologies during years of community policing experimentation." (USDOJ, 2014)…

Defining Homeland Security and National Security is a difficult task. In theory, they seem to represent protecting the people and the values of our country, but are uniquely involved in their similarities and their differences. Apparently, they both serve the government’s effort to defend our nation from threats within our borders and globally, while being responsible for the well-fare of its people (Katz, n.d.). However, when both meanings are broken down, their notable differences appear, even…

Integrated National Security department was sub- divided into the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Immigration and Citizenship Enforcement (I.C.E.) and Border Protection (Frederking 286). This institutional restructuring is evidence that the primary mission of national security was focused on the collection of information related to visa’s and citizenship. In 2003,then Department of Homeland Security…

There are many challenges that law enforcement agencies faces when it comes to enforcing public safety at the same time protect the rights of individuals. Balancing civil liberties and fighting terrorism is a delicate task that is affecting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The focus is the of involvement relationship between public safety and individual rights. The first topic is the statutory authority and responsibilities of government officials, security personnel, and private…

We need heroes. People joining the Coast Guard become real-life heroes. Saving lives, also helping people on boats or ships that are in trouble. Although the U.S government faces a serious problem protecting the home front, a country, and protecting America. Protecting America before the treats hit American soil. The limited resources issue to marine terrorism, this is also a major drawback/problem in the Coast Guard. Marine terrorism represents the percentage of overall terrorist attacks on…

The national landscapes in the United States are some of the most abundant and well-managed regions in the world. They provide our country with ample resources and aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-cultural values. Unfortunately the effects of climate change are deteriorating our national forests. Drier summers and wetter winters are already affecting regions in the West, causing projections for forest fires to increase in severity, frequency, and scale. Forest fire management policies have…

battle of Gettysburg at a service to dedicate the opening of the national cemetery (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Lincoln’s Address was spoken to the citizens and soldiers of the union in the wake of the second invasion of the North by Robert E. Lee (The Battle of Gettysburg Facts & Summary). “The Gettysburg Address” was meant to reinvigorate the Union populace’s desire to bring the Confederacy back into the United States. “The Gettysburg address” also capitalizes on the emotions that…

Pinchot and the Forests From 1890-1920 the United States went through a period of reform known as the Progressive Era. The era’s reformers had a wide variety of social, political, and economic goals that they began pursuing at a grassroots level, such as temperance and women’s suffrage (“Progressive Era and World War I”). A significant facet of the era was the Conservation Movement, whose philosophy came from the writings of early naturalists such as John Muir (1838-1914) (“Conservative…

During the summer of 2016, I fought wildland fire for the Weiser Ranger District of the Payette National Forest in Idaho. I worked on a type four heavy engine, E-421. As a firefighter, I was able to witness climate change and increasing fire activity first hand on an off forest assignment to Midas, Nevada. It was there where my module was the first to respond to the Hot Pot Fire. In a little under 36 hours, the Hot Pot Fire spread 123,000 acres. It claimed an abandoned ranch and almost consumed…

institutions constraint the president’s ability to pursue his national security policy priorities. In this paper, I will argue that the congress with his constitutional power, and the president’s advisory team with their close proximity to the president are the factors that most severely constrain the president to pursue the national security policy priorities. The first factor to constraint the president ability to pursue his national security policy priorities…