CCJ 3024 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fingerprint, Fide, Profit Motive
22 Feb 2017
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More diverse police departments race and gender. Changes in 2000s more focus on terrorism. Customs and border protection (blended other agencies) Counties and cities have counterterrorism policies and focus. level intelligence: e. g. , nyc has counterterrorism bureau, but smaller cities have training too. Contemporary law enforcement agencies are becoming much more user friendly": decentralizing police departments, making departments more responsive to community needs, adapting to new forms of criminal behavior. Law enforcement is distributed across local, county, state, and federal jurisdiction: 765,000 sworn officers in 20,000 agencies. Federal law enforcement agencies: dozens of agencies, distributed throughout several cabinet level agencies, no agency has unlimited jurisdiction, no particular rank order or hierarchy, designed to protect the rights and privileges of us citizens. Private policing: a multibillion dollar industry and employs more than 1. 5 million employees (3:1). Federal bureau of investigation: investigates violations of federal law, protect americans from terrorist attacks, gathers crime statistics, comprehensive crime laboratory, helps train local law enforcement officers.
