CJUS 550 Discussion2-Reply2

CJUS 550 Discussion2-Reply2

The below assignment has been written by another student. Please
read it very carefully and reply to it by providing 200 words, apa
format, at least 2 or 3 citations in addition to course textbook
Schmalleger, F. (2011). Criminal justice today: An introductory
text for the 21th Century (11th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall. Your work should be original work. Thanks (paula) In
today’s world, our threat is not just gambling, selling stolen
merchandise, drugs, or gang wars, but stopping people who want to
destroy the United States and what we stand for. With the new
threats to the United States, law enforcement agencies have to find
new ways of policing. Intelligence led policing is one way law
enforcement agencies combat terrorism. Intelligence led policing is
a combination of surveillance, financial records, covert
operations, interviews, ease dropping, newspapers, interrogation,
and newspapers (Schmalleger, 2011). It is needed to keep our
citizens safe. Another way the United States is fighting terrorism
is through fusion centers. Fusion centers gather intelligence from
all levels of law enforcement. In 2008, the first conference of
over 900 law enforcement agencies came together in Washington D.C.
They included multiple levels of government such as federal, state,
and local law enforcement units. The premise behind fusion centers
is to gather information from law enforcement and analysis patterns
from the information gathered. Currently, over seventy centers are
in operation in thirty seven states. These operations are used to
detect, prevent, investigate and respond to criminal and terrorist
activity (Schmalleger, 2011). Intelligence led policing is a
strategic planning resource in the fight against transnational
terrorism. In an article I reviewed, it discussed the need for
gathering intelligence to protect our borders and citizens from
domestic and national terrorism. It also discussed that the crime
we face today is not localized and that we have to use multiple
avenues in preventing terrorism such as the use of all types of
communication devices in gathering intelligence (Bell and Congram,
2013). In another article on network fusion centers, three specific
advantages were discussed on why network fusion centers are so
important. First, it is a faster way to gather the information and
deliver it to the decision makers. Second, is that by having
different levels of government, you are able to look at the
information from different perspectives. The third advantage is it
is financially more feasible to have different levels of law
enforcement together (Pfeifer, 2012). Finally, as a Christian, a
law enforcement official who has to deal with the possibility of
terrorism in their backyard, he or she must understand that the
threat currently is coming from those who oppose Christianity. A
force that demands that people convert to a distorted belief in a
Judeo Christian viewpoint, that does not allow others the freedom
of religion that is a basic right outlined in the Constitution,
should be resisted. The law of the land in these free United States
allows the citizens to worship as they wish freely without the fear
of the government interfering. Threats from abroad threaten that
viewpoint and it is the responsibility of every American to defend
that right. References: Bell, P., & Congram, M. (2013).
Intelligence-led policing (ILP) as A strategic planning resource in
the fight against transnational organized crime (TOC).
International Journal of Business and Commerce, 2(12), 15-28.
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