This social and political issue has plagued mankind for centuries‚ but has only recently come into the eyes of current world leaders. The events of September 11‚ 2001 brought this issue into the spotlight (What Is Terrorism? Pg. 1). Ladies and gentlemen‚ I am of course talking about the agonizing issue of terrorism. Although this issue has existed for centuries‚ the word "terrorism" has only begun being used in the second part of the 19th century (What Is Terrorism? Pg. 1). The earliest account of
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Terrorism has been widely known to all of the world for many years. "It exists as a means of making a government or group aware of certain needs that they must change something by creating fear and destruction". But why do people have to resort to violent acts such as: bombing‚ assassinations‚ and hi-jacking? How do and how can individuals and organizations justify these acts of terror? During the last few years‚ many groups of terrorists have formed all over the world and it’s becoming an international
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someone else. Shared information is also used in this type of structure. Second‚ is the matrix structure. This type of structure attempts team policing and produce a problem-solving environment. Personnel is assigned to specific areas such as counterterrorism and organized crime‚ just as the government specific area that certain federal agencies must stay in. A similarity between the police and U.S. Government is the Secret Service and the S.W.A.T. team in law enforcement. They are independent of
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is the greater threat—domestic or international terrorism? Why? International terrorism because it’s foreign based or directed by countries or groups outside the United States against the United States. 2. Does your police department have a counterterrorism strategy in place? If so‚ what is it? The USA PATRIOT ACT which gives police unprecedented ability to search‚ seize‚ detain or eavesdrop in their pursuit of possible terrorist.? 3. What type of terrorist attack would you fear most? Bioterrorism
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The idea of political correctness is often meet with much negative resistance and the question of it the necessity is a key issue currently driving a division in western culture. When political correctness is brought up as an ideology‚ it is often times met with opposition. In fact‚ most of the time the term is only brought up when what it stands for is being opposed and rejected. The rise of political correctness or‚ “PC culture‚” in our changing culture is viewed by many as a shift to controlling
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07 April 2014 Airport Searches/Screenings Airport security consists in preventing potential threats on board of aircrafts. Security measures include the screening of passengers and baggage‚ but also the monitoring of movements in the terminals and as well around the aircraft. Over the past few decades airports have increased their measurements of security screenings to reduce the risk of damage to property and persons. In result of this is the arrival of full body scanners at airport terminals
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The United States needs to bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Their reasons for being at war are invalid because American company in the foreign countries is insubstantial; the U.S. government cannot afford the continuous costs of war‚ and has lost sight of aims. It is time to bring our forces home. American presence in their countries is not making a significant difference. Military and foreign policy experts agree that there is no military solution in Afghanistan‚ and that “any
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will be subjected to intense scrutiny regarding their alleged outcomes and claimed successes. A more immediate challenge‚ however‚ is to assert some conceptual and terminological clarity. While deradicalization has become the latest buzzword in counterterrorism‚ it is critical that we distinguish it from disengagement and stress that not only are they different‚ but that just because one leaves terrorism behind; it rarely implies that one become ’deradicalized ’. One of several implications arising
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Alien and Sedition Act 1798 Carrie Ostrander HLS 300E: Administering Homeland Security Steve MacMartin 9 April 2013 Many people believe the fight to secure our homeland began after 9/11 but this is not entirely true. Although this is partially true as there have been many improvements to homeland security‚ the fight began years ago with multiple acts being passed that‚ unbeknownst at the time‚ were in reality related to securing our homeland. In 1798 Congress passed
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airplane. This dramatic event has changed the face of aviation forever while fundamentally modifying the thinking and approach to security in the whole world. Nations have worked together and independently to implement new strategies against counterterrorism and improve the security and safety in the aviation industry. a. 9/11 Al-Qaeda terrorist organisation was behind the 9/11 terror attack‚ where 19 members divided into four groups hijacked four passenger airplanes. The first hijacked aircraft
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