The Bureau

The Patriot Act was passed after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. This act allows the government and or federal officials to track and intercept our communications with one another. It also makes new crimes, punishments, and new procedures that we use for terrorists. The history of the Patriot Act, the abuse of our civil liberties, and the current issues with the act lead Americans to feel like they cannot trust their government. We have the Patriot Act because on September 11, 2001…

‘’On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 other people. Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose older brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day” (“Boston Marathon Bombings”).This capture and shootout…

Journal Article Reflection I read an article titled “Fraud Squad, Top Eight Ways to Win a Circumstantial Arson Case” by Cynthia L Bernstiel”. Just as the title implies, the article gives readers tips on how to win a circumstantial arson case. This article interested me because I was curious to how circumstantial arson cases get solved. A fire claim where a house is completely destroyed is a huge loss that insurance companies do no pay off lightly. After reading this article I learned a thing…

The San Bernardino shooting was a tragic event. A cell phone recovered after the shooting has been collected as evidence. Law enforcement believes that unlocking the phone which is an iPhone would help them learn more about the attack and plans. They also believe that this would allow them to intercept future attacks and protect innocent people. Guessing the code incorrectly ten times is believed to erase the data on the phone (Lichtblau). The government has reached out to Apple INC. asking for…

Theory Based on numerous holes in their stories, it seems that Adnan and Jay are both lying in their accounts of January thirteenth. The cell phone record wound up to be the best evidence provided. The cell phone record corroborated Jay’s story partially, but altogether revealed flaws in Adnan and Jay’s claims of what happened on January thirteenth. Adnan had the most sensible motive to kill Hae, and also the most witnesses testify against him. Adnan’s story was incredibly vague and his no…

Is the world that Orwell created really going to come to pass or are people just paranoid? In the world of 1984 the people of Oceania are under constant watch by the ruling party and their mysterious leader Big Brother. In some ways this could be applied to what is happening in the real world with the government keeping tabs on us using our electronic devices and cameras. In the novel the people are watched in many ways, but the most obvious way is through the telescreen. The telescreen is…

Two people, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, were involved in a mass shooting on Wednesday in San Bernardino, California. The duo killed 14 people and left 21 people injured. With the ammunition they had, it looked like they planned the assault beforehand. They found a few bombs that did not go off at the scene and are using them for research. Investigators say that Farook had connections to some people who are under investigation for international terrorism and that might have been their…

Yes, I believed that the concept of homeland security present problems with our constitutional protection of civil rights. Firstly, the formation of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was as a result of the terrorist attacks that happened on September 11, 2001, in the United States. DHS was to oversee and coordinate a complete national strategy to protect the country against terrorism and respond to any future attacks.” (Bullock, J. A., Haddow, G. D., & Coppola, D. P. (2012). The organization…

According to the Police Chief Magazine, “The casual observer has witnessed a relaxation of standards with respect to the prior illegal possession of drugs, while other data reveal that young adults up to age 23 now have a 41 percent likelihood of having a prior criminal (non-traffic) arrest.” Retention Strategies In research conducted by Oladapo (2014), it stated that one of the primary concerns of many organizations today is employee retention, which is a strategic opportunity for many…

In this essay i will be discussing information found on the ice.gov website regarding the operating procedures and goals from the specific context of the U. S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which operates under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security. To better understand the goals of ICE it is best to look at what their mission statement specifies, ICE’S mission is as quoted by the website "to protect America from the cross-border crime and illegal immigration that…