The Importance Of Police Surveillance

Surveillance is key procedures in many cases, in this case however it was kind of a bust. The FBI were investigating every lead they had including putting potential suspects on twenty-four hour surveillance on the ground and in the air. None of their potential suspects were the actual bombers though so the surveillance turned out to be a huge waste of time, resources, and money. Surveillance can be a very boring procedure you can be setting around for hours waiting for the smallest thing to happen. The FBI launched its largest ever aerial fleet to circle over Boston in the hunt for the bomber. The advantages of having a bird in the sky are endless especially with the use of thermal imaging you can see people walking around in the shade or even
This relationship is very love hate, in some ways the media can be very helpful when it comes to releasing pictures or information of possible suspects on their platforms and getting it to millions of citizens. The media can greatly stress out police department in many ways especially when they release false information to the public. In today’s society people want information as quickly as possible, media outlets fight to get the information out first and gaining an audience no matter if the information they have is accurate or not. It is important for police departments to be transparent with the media no matter how it affects the department they should tell the media as soon as they have or don’t have information this way they don’t put out false information. In the case of the Boston marathon bombing the media prematurely put out that the Boston police department had the two bombing suspects in custody. This is very dangerous because the public as well as the Boston officers begin to let their guard down knowing the danger has been stopped. Another important aspect of this case is when the FBI had photos of the men they believe to be the bombers, they thought they could silently track down the suspects and take them down before they even knew the FBI had them on their radar. The element of surprise was in the favor of the FBI. Until, the FBI received a call from a Boston news station, the station informed the FBI they also had the pictures and was going to release them to the public. This was a huge shock to the FBI wondering how this information got out. The hand of the FBI was forced and they scheduled a press conference asking for the help of the public. In my opinion this was a huge mistake the FBI pretty much told the bombers we know who you are and we are coming for you. This resulted in the suspects getting flustered