The Role of Federal Agencies in Fighting Digital Crime The Role of Federal Agencies in Fighting Digital Crime Michelle Herrick Strayer University Prof. Masud Chowdury March 1, 2013 The Role of Federal Agencies in Fighting Digital Crime In the United States, a number of law enforcement agencies, including the Secret Service, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, among others, have taken on roles to fight computer crimes and terrorism. Explain the existing challenges that result from the independent nature of these agencies, as well as the other factors that are common to each of them. The FBI is an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities—the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Justice and a full member of the U.S. Intelligence Community. It has the authority and responsibility to investigate specific crimes assigned to it and to provide other law enforcement agencies with cooperative services, such as fingerprint identification, laboratory examinations, and training. The FBI also gathers, shares, and analyzes intelligence—both to support its own investigations and those of its partners and to better understand and combat the security threats facing the United States.
Early work on offender profiling by the FBI indicated a broad distinction between organised offenders and disorganised offenders. This distinction was based on interviews and case details of 36 serial sex offenders who volunteered to be interviewed about their crimes. Since its first appearance, the organised/disorganised distinction has been widely cited in academic literature and used as a model by professional investigators. According to the Crime Classification Manual (Douglas et al., 1992), the organised/disorganised typology can be applied to all sexually motivated murder and some cases of arson. In 1992, Douglas suggested that a third category of ‘mixed’ offender be added to the twofold category system, to accommodate those offenders who cannot easily be categorised as either organised or disorganised.
Discuss approaches to profiling There are three approaches to criminal profiling; the British approach, the US approach and Geographical Profiling. The US approach is a top down approach which means they start with the big parts of the case and work down to the smaller things involved. The approach was invented by the FBI in the 1970’s when they first looked at the family backgrounds, personalities, behaviours, crimes and motives of serial killers who had sexual aspects to their crimes. They then went on to use in-depth interviews with 36 serial killers. The information they gathered from this and the FBI’s experience and intuition they developed the classification system.
Were the attacks of 911 a conspiracy theory? On Tuesday September 11th 2011, famously known as ‘911 the attacks by Al-Qaeda took place in the United States in New York City and in Washington, D.C. Al-Qaeda are a group of Islamic terrorists founded by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other militants whose individuals use Islamic motivations for their actions. 19 of these individuals hijacked four different American airliners which were later to be flown into the North and South tower of the World Trade Centre by American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, the Pentagon by American Airlines Flight 77 and attempted to crash into Washington DC by United Airlines Flight 93.-Inside 9/11: Zero Hour, National Geographic Channel documentary, 2005.” The attacks resulted in the death of 2,996 people 19 of which were the hijackers and caused at least $10 billion of economic damage to infrastructure of property. -How much did the September 11 terrorist attack cost America, Institute for the Analysis of Global security. Not only did the attacks leave behind sheer devastation it left behind lots of speculation between what really happened that day.
Imagine for a second that every phone call you make, every text message you send, and every place you go is being constantly monitored by multiple governments. Well this is basically what the United State and United Kingdom's government is doing on a daily basis. The United States National Security Agency has been implementing projects in secret to monitoring people since 2001 but it would still be kept as a secret if Edward Snowden did not reveal this massive secret that was intruding the public’s privacy for years. The U.S. surveillance program started because of the September 9th, 2001 terrorist attack that hijacked airplanes and slammed them into the World Trade Center towers. It evolve over time and President George W. Bush’s "Terrorist Surveillance Program" had created PRISM.
Technology and system changes Leshea Hicks Professor Stephanie Palmer-Phillips CRJ499 February 17, 2012 Technology has grown in the criminal justice system. Law enforcement added new systems to help track and apprehend suspects and wanted criminals. For example, some patrol cars have a fingerprinting devices, this device is used to run a persons prints through a nationwide database. This has led to apprehending illegal immigrants, individuals with warrants, and numerous criminal offenses. I want to discuss how technology has led to increased violence in our prison system and how we can implement current technology to control prison violence.
The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks. Two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, were crashed into the North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York City. Within two hours, both towers collapsed with debris and the resulting fires causing partial or complete collapse of all other buildings in the WTC complex, as well as significant damage to ten other large surrounding structures. A third plane, American Airlines Flight 77, was crashed into the Pentagon, leading to a partial collapse in its western side.
Hostage Rescue Team agents have to report wherever there is a hostage assignment. This could be anytime and anywhere. Also the when a applicant applies for a position in the FBI agency the government already has your information but the main criteria a candidate must go through is the criminal background check and drug policy which they ask a series of questions. For example 1.Have you used marijuana at all within the last three years? 2.
Howitt (2009) stated that FBI profiling is a four-stage process. The first stage is data assimilation. This is when investigators gather information from multiple sources e.g. police reports, crime scene photographs and pathology reports. The second stage is crime scene classification which is when the profilers decide whether the crime scene represents an organised or disorganised offender.
Microsoft is headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft produces, licences a large range of products related to computing. Measured by revenue Microsoft is the world's largest software maker and is also one of the most valuable companies in the world. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4 1975. Local, National, International or Global Oxfam operated in over 90 countries.