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    which intensified the surveillance powers held by the federal government through the National Security Agency (NSA) and other federal agencies. This act increased national airport security procedures, metro security in most major U.S. cities, and extended the government’s capacity to spy on citizens. There are many surveillance tactics currently used by the U.S. government. This includes cellphone data requests by local, state, and federal law enforcement authorities, drones, and stingray interceptors

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    This report below is a concerning the overall DHS program prioritization which will address the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) which is a directorate under the DHS and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which become part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of DHS. This report could have not been prepared without gathering background information concerning the following area hazard/threats, hazard identification and risk analysis, terrorist laws and

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    whites to slide by with only a warning, while blacks are forced into prosecution. However, these skewed results wouldn’t account for the high percentage of the black population that is currently incarcerated. According to a census taken by the Federal Bureau of Prisons on February 22, 2014, by race, whites make up only 59.5% of the prison population (blacks are second (37.2%), Native Americans are third (1.9%), and Asians are fourth (1.5%)). Additionally, by ethnicity, 65.5% of

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    attacks. The Department of Homeland Security as well as other agencies are providing real time intelligence to many different agencies as well as local law enforcement in the United States. Prior to September 11th lack of sharing intelligence among federal and state agencies was one reason the events of that day where not discovered or disseminated, the information of a possible attack existed in bits and pieces but was not shared overall to “connect the dots” (Blum, 2010 pg. 78). The Main intelligence

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    Police use of force in America has been and still is a major area of concern to the American public. The media seemingly never runs out of stories and cases to push into the mainstream for the public to watch and develop more concern for this area of law enforcement. Furthermore, there is a portion of the population who believe that the use of force by law enforcement is disproportionately used on minorities more specifically the African American community (Kolhatkar, 2017). However, is this use

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    different in different types of jurisdiction. The different types of jurisdictions are state, county, state, federal and tribal government, and military installations. The main systems are state and federal. State systems handle offenses that occur within state boundaries and federal systems handle offense that occur in more than one state or on federal property (land owned by the federal government). Most criminal justice systems consist of 5 components. These components include law enforcement

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    of the ROT. Cain met with Johnie Wise and Roberts the next day at the Bargain Barn to discuss computer related topics. Cain became worried about Roberts, ROT affiliation when he went to work for Roberts on a daily basis. Cain told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about Roberts’ request for secretarial assistance on ROT matters

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    A Career In Criminology

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    1. Introduction a. Why and how did you become interested in criminology as a field of study? I ultimately became interested in studying criminology by reading course descriptions for a few of the courses within criminology. I initially considered majoring in either computer science or accounting but after reading some of the course descriptions for courses within criminology, I knew that criminology would be the most rewarding field of study for myself. Criminology is an extremely important and

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    Security (DHS) formally came into being as a standalone, Cabinet-level, department to further coordinate and unify national homeland security efforts” (Homeland Security past, present, future). “This new department integrated all or part of 22 different Federal departments and agencies into a single unified entity” (Homeland Security past, present, future). Since the 9/11 attack, a little over a decade ago, our nation has witnessed the initiation and implementation of two national warning systems, which

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    Several suggestions have been proposed to cut the cost of Medicare and reduce its proportion of the federal budget. These include; a) The introduction of voucher system that would enable for the more privatization in the offering of insurance policies for Medicare. b) Increasing the Medicare revenues by raising the payroll taxes that are charged on the beneficiaries. Unhealthy lifestyle choices like smoking also need to be penalized by Medicare so as to reduce the many claims related to such habits

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