Philosophical Investigations

When thinking about the leaking of classified information by Edward Snowden, you can almost play devil’s advocate when you think in terms to why he did it. When Edward did this, he did this illegally by releasing the information that was top secret. However, he was looking out for the people and their privacy. According to our book Snowden stated “If we want to be free, we can’t give away our privacy (Kroenke, & Boyle, 2015, p. 419)”. He believed that out rights where being violated due to the…

In 1939, the term “white-collar crime” began to be associated with frauds committed by business and government professionals. The phrase was mentioned during a speech given by Edwin Sutherland to the American Sociological Society. Sutherland defined “white-collar” as “a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social stats in the course of his occupation” (White Collar Crime). However, white-collar crimes are described in various ways. The Justice Department characterize…

I feel that America should be involved in the fight against Isis because they have planned and gone through attacks on the United States. There have been several cases where the Group that Calls them self “Isis” has planned many attacks against the allies of the United States or on U.S soil its self. So that’s what’s makes me feel that the United States should do something. The Other reason that I feel that we need to be doing something is because this group has made plenty of threats on the…

Terrorism is a matter that afflicts the world every minute of the day. The United States became the main target on September 11 that stunned individuals. Ever since, the horrendous attack against the United States citizens and the Government have raised their guards. The Homeland Security was informed to secure and shield risks that are coming to the United States (Taylor & Steedman). It is time that we take a more consequential procedure and seek why the system is at fault for all of grief…

What is Apple? Apple is a multinational technology company. So far Apple has had a problem with the FBI. The FBI wanted Apple to create a new software that can hack into a person’s iPhone to examine their personal information, but Apple refused. Apple’s decision on not allowing the FBI to hack into people’s iPhone was right. In the article entitled PRO/CON: Should Apple have resisted FBI pressure to hack an iPhone? By Tribune New Service, examines the area in which Apple had the right or not…

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…

Federal Government Duties and Responsibility “Homeland security begins with hometown security” according to DHS about building partnerships (2015). A part of DHS strategy to have local hometown security prepared they designate effort to get tools, information, and resources law enforcement partners. DHS being part of the federal government does not directly get involved with day to day with every state and local agency. Without having direct involvement with every incident DHS is currently…

The Federal Bureau of Investigations houses the statistic reported by the participating agencies. UCR reporting is broken down into two categories part 1 crimes and part 2 crimes. Part one crimes consist of Criminal Homicide, Rape, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Larceny-theft…

information as well as the e-mail addresses. The Maras database has information of the criminal gang that operates in central America, these information includes the gang members’ personal data, their images of how they look like, the weapons that they use, the vehicles registration number and their mobile phones –although they could change- and the criminal events that the gang is alleged to have been involved in. According to Taveres (2002) the international police have very strong tools that…

monitored improperly. Last month, the FBI refused to rule out whether it had information about several McClatchy journalists, although it's likely that the FBI had records at some point related to one of the reporters. In 2007, the FBI opened a leak investigation to determine the sources for the reporter's stories on a public corruption…