All this nations entered into a contractual agreement for a Free Trade Area of the Americas in 2005. However, this agreement excluded the public and other significant participants of Members of Congress. The public was unaware of this contractual agreement and their input unconsidered (Marrero, 2004). Furthermore, the interests of the corporate members are included under the representative of the trade advisory committee system. The agreement allows more than 500 members to own security clearance and authority over the FTAA documents, yet, a small number of Civil Society members have the access to classified information.

The FTAA aims at increasing global competition commenced under the NAFTA agreement, whereby, under the FTAA, oppressed workers in Mexico will compete with distraught workers from Haiti, Bolivia or Guatemala. In addition, the agreement allows free movement of global corporations within and outside their business regions. This agreement that will allow stiff competition of corporations and nations by lowering wages and cutting down the living standards for their workers will also reflect small scale farmers in the western hemisphere. The agreement also facilitates the generation of increased effects of NAFTA on commodity prices.

The agreement allows implementation of other challenging investor-to-state provisions, which surpasses those, implemented by NAFTA, which regulates the power of Federal, state, and local governments. The FTAA operates through nine consulting committees: agriculture, intellectual property rights, investment, government procurement, market access, services, subsidies and anti-dumping and countervailing duties, competition policy, and dispute settlement (Marrero, 2004).

These communities hold monthly meetings with the purpose of establishing agreements and setup commitments. Most Americans are against FTAA negotiations because the ordinary citizen continue to suffer, while the affluent sustains their social status. For this reason, citizens from Canada, Ecuador held massive demonstrations to expose the ill policies...

Most recently, more than 10 million Brazilians have withdrawn from FTAA negotiations. In order to control the FTAA agreements, there are various recommendations purposed to counterbalance the risks associated with these negotiations. For instance, U.S. have a strategy known as divide and conquer approach.
The strategy allows U.S. To enter into bilateral agreements with viable FTAA members in order to ease the implementation of the FTAA and establish restrictive policies in terms of the rights provided to corporations in the agreement (Miami Police Department, 2004).

In addition, in order to improve the efficiency of the police department, the County Manager and Board of County Commissioners should take heed of the following recommendations.

a) They should maintain firmness in their devotion in providing meaningful and effective document that the law enforcement community in general and the Miami Police Department (MPD), in particular, can employ developing and/or improving police-community relations, policies and procedures that improve delivery of law enforcement services.

b) The FTAA members should implement unbiased policies that seeks to serve everyone with equity and which aims at improving the livelihood of every individual regardless of their social status.