United States Federal Witness Protection Program

There are many reasons victims do no want to testify in court. Legal cynicism and witness intimidation are a couple of the top reasons. One reason I feel is overlooked is witness intimidation. Witness Intimidation is when threats are made by defendants to discourage victims or witnesses of a crime from reporting or testifying. (Connick and Davis 439) If a victim feels threatened, they often become hesitant to testify sometimes even to report the crime. With the right incentives, victims and witnesses

MOB’S TARGET nicely conveys the premise of this crime thriller. The plot focuses on an insecure and fearful accountant who testifies against a major mobster, sending him to prison. The mob wants revenge and she’s the target. She enters a Witness Protection program, but an enforcer tracks her down. The goal of survival is clear and the stakes are life and death. There are several themes incorporated into the script about trust, revenge, justice, survival, and second chances. The script also poses

How far would you go to defend your family’s rights against a corrupt government organization and a group of reckless criminals? So far as to get a $500,000 bounty on your head from the mafia?  Prosecuting the witness protection program even though odds are a losing case? Jerry Festa may have had a history of causing mischief among others and even the law, but Mr. Festa is a man that stands out from many. This is because of his perseverance in tough times, being a family man, and being courageous

I live in a place where crime is the only job a man can get. In 1992 my mother and I moved to the Bronx when I was fifteen. My mom worked a dead end job to support me and to pay rent for our apartment along White Plains Rd. It was no secret that my mother and I struggled to live in this city of mayhem. The prices were ridiculously high and jobs didn't seem to pay enough. I learned at the age of fifteen that the only way to get ahead in life was to do things that the “average man” would think is illegal

In the United States of America, the Organized Crime Control Act, 1970 established witness protection program that provides for the identity protection and relocation of witnesses and their families to safe place in state and federal criminal proceedings under this act. Under title V of this Act, the Attorney General Authority was empowered to expand grants for the protection of witnesses. However, this act provides protection to the witnesses only in the proceedings related to organized crime. The

think. The Federal Law Enforcement takes a huge part in removing dangerous fugitives who roam the streets that innocent people walk every day. Especially the U.S. Marshals, if it were not for their brave services, more lives around the world would be in danger compared to now. The U.S. Marshals are the best trained Law Enforcement Officers on earth. They take a huge role in the everyday life by providing all of society with protection, removing numerous threats, and protecting the federal judicial

Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (TVPA) and its many Reauthorization Acts. It was passed in 2000, and was reauthorized in 2003, 2005, and 2008. The main purpose of this policy is to address the needs of individuals who have been trafficked and is the policy around which all human trafficking legislation is based. The act “established several methods of prosecuting traffickers, preventing human trafficking, and protecting victims and survivors of trafficking” (Current Federal Laws 2016). Overall

As the United States begin to develop and became rapidly growing, president George Washington wanted to find a way to ensure that all citizens of the United States were being well secure and protected. As more tensions began to develop in this country ideas such protecting your rights and protecting what you should say about an event that occurred that can be useful for evidence. Ideas such as having someway or someone to protect us from any threats or any type of conflict we might be having with

of the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental disasters during the 1960s in the United States had significant impacts on both the human and sea life populations. During the New York weather inversion of 1965, over 80 people died from the man-made smog over the four day period. In the Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969, over 3,700 sea birds were killed, along with countless other forms of marine life. The nuclear reactor meltdown in Idaho in 1961 was the only United States incident by that time

local and state law enforcement agencies throughout the United States (BJS, 2011) with an additional 105,000 law enforcement personnel in approximately 65 federal agencies as of 2004 (BJS, 2006). Law Enforcement agencies function at all levels of the government: local, state, and federal with many similarities and differences in their day-to-day operations, each responsible for specific duties and functions. These agencies have the formidable task of protecting the United States from foreign