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    Change in Law Enforcement Agencies Essay

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    1. Identify and discuss the eight (8) recurring reasons that change occurs in law enforcement agencies. There are many recurring reasons that changes occurs in law enforcement agencies. The book outlines 8 reasons that change occurs. The 8 reasons are as follow: 1. A single catastrophic event, often followed by civil liability litigation, leads to the chief of police being replaced (Swanson, 2012, pg. 650). This forces changes because it addresses a single incident and forces change. A good example

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    components are effective communication, organizational skills, and empowerment. The number one component that will make a law enforcement manager successful and in turn will make the agency successful is communication. Effective communication is the most important element for any successful law enforcement agency. The law enforcement manager must be able to successfully communicate his or her desires, wants, and goals throughout the entire organization. “Many ‘people problems’

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    The evolution of competing secret intelligence agencies only began to occur during world war one when developing technologies meant gathering information on the enemy was entering new phases of complexity. The need for information became an increasingly more desperate pursuit as new devastating weapons were created which could inflict widespread and catastrophic damage, escalating from chemical weapons, to nuclear warheads. But as the 20th century proved conflicts became increasingly focused on the

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    Edward Snowden Edward Snowden worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) as a security guard. Eventually, he got a job at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) working in the information-technology field. In 2009, Snowden left the CIA to work for Dell. Dell sent him to Japan to work under the NSA and was then stationed in Hawaii. After working in Hawaii for three months, Snowden left Dell and switched over to Booz Allen Hamilton . Snowden started making copies of NSA documents that contained

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    Discussion Although the questionnaire and interview processes are useful in gaining a better understanding of the cultural competence of law enforcement agencies, they are not helpful in improving the cultural competency of those agencies. This is where instituting mandatory cultural competency training comes into play. For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proposed steps and recommendations to increase cultural competency and one of those steps was to “develop and deploy effective

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    shady practices taking place behind the closed doors of both the U.S. and U.K. governments at the time. The National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies within the United States, were using illegal tactics in order to spy on their own citizens in efforts to determine possible threats. What was so shocking to the world was the fact that these intelligence agencies were doing so on their own terms and were operating without the permission of the public. They were hacking into people’s

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    happens faster than other times. Consequently the interception of information, in other words, the cases of espionage, become one of the biggest worries for the nations around the world. Recently, Edward Snowden, an ex-agent of NSA (National Security Agency) from USA, leaks a largest number of documents containing information about various countries. This leak sparked the warning signal of the countries (Shoichet, 2013). The predecessor of NSA, was created in April 28, 1917, when a code and cipher

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    This essay will be focusing on the structure-agency debate and the application of this debate to the sociological reading The Dirty Work of Democracy: a year on the streets with the SAPS (2005) by Antony Atlebeker. This easy will demonstrate how the structure-agency debate can help explain Captain Louis De Kosters attitudes towards police work and his actions. The argument I will be putting forward is in support of Anthony Giddens’ Structuration Theory (1984). I will prove this argument by referring

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    his work, “Going Dark: Scratching the Surface of Government Surveillance,” informs, the agency has two tasks: “1) information assurance, which prevents foreign agents from obtaining classified information, and 2) signals intelligence, which collects and analyzes foreign intelligence” (475). Metadata collection does not fall under either of these tasks. Prior to the establishment of the National Security Agency in 1952, the earliest surveillance measure enacted in the United States was the Communications

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    The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence organization of the United States federal government responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. They have the ability to see web browser history, massages, they can see exactly what is displayed on the screens. If they are interested, they can even see what you are reading right now. The NSA collects every American phone records, they have the power to

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