What Differences Can Collaboration Make In Preventing And Responding To Crime

What differences can collaboration make in preventing and responding to crime? The answers lie within the differences of two separate terrorist attacks in the United States that were twelve years apart. At the beginning of the millennium, the country’s law enforcement’s methods of operation were significantly different than they are today. There was not much communication between law enforcement and government agencies. “Ten years ago, our law enforcement and intelligence communities were driven by a Cold War “need to know” culture that stovepiped information and stymied cooperation” (Budinger & Smith, 2011). A decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which left over twenty-five hundred dead and wounded six-thousand others, the federal government recognized the need for effective
At one point before the attack, an FBI agent had showed surveillance pictures of one of the suspected terrorist to a CIA agent but the CIA agent did not give any feedback to the FBI agent about the pictured man being a suspected terrorist. This was due to the fact that the CIA agent was not authorized to share information with anyone outside the agency in regards to the subject matter. In another case, a Phoenix Field Office FBI agent had prepared a memo regarding a possible effort by Osama bin Laden in sending potential terrorist to aviation schools within the United States. In an unrelated case a month later, the FBI Field Office in Minneapolis had launched an investigation on Zacarias Moussaoui. There was suspicion that Moussaoui was taking aviation courses to be able to hijack a plane. But because there was a lack of communication between the agencies, no major red flags were ever raised throughout the entire