CJ 100 Lecture 20: CJ 100 Exam Section Three
16 Jun 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
About 50 federal law enforcement agencies; 17,876 state and local law enforcement agencies. Most visible presence of government in us. Images of policing come mainly from fiction (think law and order, Provide security for the nation"s transportation systems. Highest firearm qualification standards in the law enforcement community. Protect 1,900 miles of border with mexico and 5,000 miles of border with canada. Originally established in 1865 solely to suppress the counterfeiting of. Dual mission now: protection of national and international leaders, and safeguard our financial infrastructure. #1 priority is to protect the us from terrorist attacks. Critical languages: arabic, chinese- all dialects, farsi, hebrew, hindi, Japanese, korean, pashtu, punjabi, russian, spanish, urdu, and. Nation"s oldest and most versatile federal law enforcement agency (1789) Serve as the enforcement arm of the federal courts. Apprehend more than half of all federal fugitives, protect the federal judiciary, operate the witness security program, transport federal prisoners, seize criminal property, etc.
