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Law enforcement agencies, or the police force, operate on several jurisdictional platforms within the United States. In general, their primary mandate is to help maintain societal order and the rule of law by assisting subjects with legal compliance, protecting property, helping to keep citizens and property safe and secure, and for assistance in extraordinary events. The police force is part of the social order of society and mediates public events, pre-empts anti-social behaviors, helps mitigate potential dangers at large events, works with other agencies in general search and rescue, crowd control, regulations, education and awareness campaigns, and to support the rule of law (Cole, 2004). Under the rubric of law enforcement, there are three major categories of police: Federal, Local and State.
Local law enforcement provides routine and micro-policing to the communities within their jurisdiction. This may include traffic enforcement, criminal investigations, local laboratory or forensic investigation, certain types of detention, community service, crime prevention, and liasoning at the local level. State law enforcement takes a broader approach: the State's highways, rural areas, motor vehicle inspection and many of the same functions as local police, but with different staff, budgets, and jurisdictions. At the Federal level,...
In the case of law enforcement, often times duties overlap, depending on jurisdiction (e.g. A crime that occurs in two counties, two States, or in multiple States). Additionally, there are crimes (terrorist, espionage, cyber crime, etc.) that are considered Federal in nature because ot their repurcussionsate (The Difference Between Federal and State Law, 2010).
There are a number of Federal Agencies in the United States that work to uphold legal standards and protect citizens and property. For the purposes of our discussion, we will focus on the Department of Homeland Security, the Diplomatic Security Service, and the Bureau of Alchohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet Level Department that holds the primary responsibility of the protection of the United States from terrorism, outside terrorist attacks, and the response to natural diasters. This department was created after the events of…
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