Essay on Code of Ethics & Counterterrorism

By understanding the steps to prepare for countering and responding to a terrorist, the well-being of US national security interests can be promoted and the exposure to risk and susceptibility to experiencing harm can be efficiently managed for communities, families and individuals in the event of a terrorist incident. The welfare of US national security, citizens and property can be effectively safeguarded through the understanding of protection strategies administered collectively by local communities, families and individuals. Local emergency operations planning, family disaster planning, as well as self-protection planning each represent important protective measures, which serve to educate the nation and its citizens how to

By reviewing this video I feel embarrassed and disappointed that those Peace Officer’s had committed this embarrassing and hateful act toward the Muslim culture. For this assignment, I am an internal affairs investigator assigned to examine the allegations. The news reporter on the video stated, “The assault and mistreatment of Muslim inmates has been going on since 2001, right after 9/11”. The prison staff’s and supervisors knew and condoned this hateful act toward one ethic group. One Muslim inmate was even murdered for his belief in his religious and his death was covered up as a suicide by the immediate supervisor because the inmate did not want to take a shirt that was wrapped around his head off. The inmate was beaten and had a towel

National terrorism has been the focus of attention since September 11. But now domestic terrorism is becoming increasingly common among hate groups across the nation. Domestic terrorism can be defined as visible crime, or “street crime.” These acts would consist of violent crimes, (acts against people in which injury or death results) property crimes (acts that threaten property held by individuals or the state) and public order crimes. (acts that threaten the general well-being of society and challenger accepted moral principles) It can also however be described as political crime, (criminal acts by or against the government for ideological purposes) which would include the 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing.

“The danger that darkened the United States of America and the civilized world on September 11, did not pass with the atrocities committed that day”. (Ashcroft, 2003) The terrors of 9/11 caused increased security that comes at a cost that many feel is an invasion of their charter rights. The idea of racial profiling is not new, but many feel worse than ever in today’s anti-Muslim society. This habit of losing civil liberties in the wake of terror is to some an unnecessary change that is unallowable, but leaves many wondering if we should sacrifice our freedom for safety.

As a result of the 2001 September 11th attacks, a series of catastrophic, heartbreaking incidents which claimed the innocent, helpless lives of approximately 3,000 individuals, the implementation of increased foreign affair regulation, and more stringent guidelines related to the admission and monitoring of legal immigrants, highlights the profound effect induced upon the controversial issue of immigration in response to these drastic terrorism events, a pivotal moment redefining the perception of immigration held by individuals in the United States. In fact, in consequence to the attacks, the United States government supported the implementation and ratification of the Homeland Security Act, a submission validated by President Bush which facilitated

Over the past 50 years the standards for justice professional has steadily increased. Before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms justice professionals were not expected to follow basic human right policies that exist now; there was no such thing as freedom of speech or innocent until proven guilty. Not to mention there was the divide between white and black, women and men, even children and adults. As time goes on, each generation tries to improve the next, so that their kids don’t make the same mistake. In 1982 the charter of rights and freedoms was introduced and suddenly people were not allowed to do things without consequences anymore. Police were no longer allowed to toured people for information or discriminate between white and black. In the 21st century all justice professionals are expected to follow a code of ethics, this code restricts justice professionals from making the mistakes of previous generations; it also allows them to learn and contribute to society by instilling what is truly right and wrong. By studying ethics, justice professionals will gain the knowledge of culture and varying perspectives; this will decrease the amount of coercion and biased opinion which will improve the general understanding of discretion.

Combating in modern warfare does not simply mean killing the enemy. There are ethical rules and standards of behavior that soldiers must strictly follow because these rules are essential for defeating the enemy, winning "hearts and minds" of potential allies, and maintain the morale of the troops. These tasks have become especially challenging in the face of the proliferation of guerilla warfare that has been adopted by weaker military forces in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. In fighting insurgencies, abiding by the ethical standards of the Army behavior may be even harder than in fighting conventional battles. The ethical rules may sometimes put the soldiers in dangerous positions. Disregarding the acceptable standards of behavior, however, may have even graver consequences, putting innocent non-combatants at risk and risking total demoralization of the Army unit participating in disorderly behavior. It is therefore essential that Army leaders maintain an ethical command climate during the war.

Military personnel operating in combat missions must maintain mental and situational awareness of their area of operations. This includes a complete understanding of their physical and doctrinal training. Besides accomplishing their mission, soldiers must also consider the rules of engagement and the personal and professional ethics, values and morals that factor into their decisions in high stress environments (Allen, 2013). Well planned missions will never be executed perfectly. Due to human nature, soldiers may be faced with an ethical dilemma.

The government can implement many new methods to increase security, or better yet give off the image of better security which is what they have predominantly done, yet ultimately there will always be a way to bypass or come up with a new way to infiltrate that measure. The government so far has done a variety of things ranging from the closing of the Dulles airport (permanently), working with the FAA on new security measures, having pilots carry handguns, and a not so specific, profiling.

Radicalization is a process of socialization to extremism. Radicalization processes is what lead to acts of terrorism. It thrives in an enabling environment with a sediments of injustice, exclusion and humiliation among the terrorists groups. Triggering factors varying in accordance to individual experience and personal pathways to radicalization, it is due to global, sociological and political drivers such as extreme marginalization, general decline or globalization. Hence, to analyze the drivers of radicalization, we need to understand the collective grievances behind radicalism by making comparisons of primary causes of radicalization which will ultimately lead to terrorism in different terrorists groups like ISIS and LTTE, will allow us to decide if whether terrorism is primarily due to globalization.

Terrorism has many trends in our today’s world, the enormity of the complexity of the numbers of terrorism and why some are combatted against and some just get away with whatever bad they did. Usually, there will be individual ways of lives that may traditionally opposed to the use of violence in addressing certain situations due to the inability of a total disregard or unwillingness of the society to engage with certain trouble makers in the world. Plus as the famous saying goes “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Because if a group of people that shared the same ideology are against one subgroup of people that they don’t identify with may result to violence or even negligence of some of those threats and violence by the central authorities running that particular place and these types of negligence resort to grievances that often escalates the rate of hatred, anger, bigotry among citizens of the same nation and may end up violent between groups that are not even known as a terrorist organization because vengeance and animosity and grievances all comes in different forms and people that embark on terrorism as a results of trends like these, may not necessary belong to well-known terrorists organizations.

The global threat of Al Qaeda and ISIL, increase Sunni-Shia conflicts and voice in Middle East, Africa. Europe and around the world and has posed challenge to government in the region and the global. Some scholars argue that the clash of civilization or culture war between the Muslims and the West relations. The public discussion of Islam and violence have raised question about the relationship of Islamism in regards to violence and terrorism. Many critics’ believes that doctrines like Jihad and past historical event in the past has been a strong indicator and evidence that Islam is the main driving force Muslims extremism and terrorism in contemporary world. Islamic radicalization and terrorists have taken advantage of the doctrine Jihad like Christian and Jewish did in the past to carry out the acts of terrorism in unholy wars in the name of Christianity or Judaism. The meaning of Jihad in the Quran is '' to fight following the will of God, fight injustice and oppression, reform and create a just society, and if necessary to engage oneself in armed struggle to defend one's community and religion. The Quran also stresses on fighting against aggression and offensive or expansionist and a command to fight against all unbelievers and spread the message and public order. Critics argue the meaning and intention of Q. 9:5 is the motivation behind Muslims extremist and terrorist groups in past and present history. Islamic groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda as well as Boka Haram

Islam is the arab word for submission, it is the second most practiced religion world-wide but, in the western world it is mostly regarded as a constant source of debate and conflict. Islamist groups have been attributed to 48 out of the 50 most deadly terrorist attacks in the year 2017. This figure is especially concerning if we consider that all this attacks had at least 19 decease, and up to more than 250. But, while it is true that terrorism is a very present topic, we must take into account that there are around 1.8 billion Muslims in the world and the most active islamist terrorist organization (Islamic State) was estimated to be around 26.000 fighters (making it around 0.000015% of the total muslim population). When looking at any other type of data, this ridiculous percentage would be dismissed as an outcast. There seems to be no reason to consider these few individuals the “rule” but, if we consider they might be the ones actually following what their religion dictates, the exception becomes a seemingly acceptable justification for discrimination. With people killing people “in the name of God” and others preaching verses such as “O You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace (Islam). Do not follow in the footsteps of satan. He is an outright enemy to you.”- Holy Quran: 2, 208, many people have begun to ask themselves whether Islam is religion of peace. Whether Islamic based terrorism is a version, or a perversion of the Qur’an. Not many people, however, have

Due to the elusive and unpredictable nature of terrorism, there is a global debate on how to respond to it (Musial, 2017). This is reflected in attempts to define the concept, as mentioned previously (Lavina, 2015). Problems with terrorism do not stop at definitions, it is an incredibly hard phenomenon to police (Lavina, 2015; Justice, 2017). Terrorism attacks are becoming increasingly violent and the loss of life is mounting up (Bakker & de Leede, 2015). Islamic terrorism has been a constant feature in the media and policy debates (Kirk, 2017; Roy, 2015). There is no official profile for a terrorist which makes it even more difficult (Bloom, 2011; Roy, 2007). Research has identified factors of vulnerability which makes individuals more susceptible for radicalisation; these can include age, social selection, social networks, value systems or education (Bouhana & Wilkstrom, 2011).

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