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CRIMINAL JUSTICE NEWS - September 2007

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Terrorism Organizational and Communication Strategies
NarcoTerror
Negotiation in the New Strategic Environment: Lessons from Iraq
Agroterrorism - Why We're Not Ready: A Look at the Role of Law Enforcement
Preventing Suicide Attacks
Disguised Weapons
Adolescents, Neighborhoods, and Violence
Electronic Monitoring Resource Center
Identity Theft: A Review
Hate Crime in America
Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Imperative
The Death Penalty: Cruel Vengeance or Justice Served?
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The third anniversary issue of the Hi Tech Criminal Justice Newsletter finds us with well over four thousand subscribers.  Thank you for subscribing and especially for forwarding the newsletter to your colleagues.  This issue continues with the themes of Terrorism, Technology and Justice.

 
 
Terrorism Organizational and Communication Strategies

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Intelligence gathering is the first line of defense against terrorism.  Through use of intelligence, law enforcement and military operations can be designed to disrupt terrorist organizations and preempt their operations.  Prior to September 11, 2001, most state and local law enforcement agencies viewed intelligence gathering on global terrorist groups as the purview of the federal government.  Except for large cities like Los Angeles and New York, if state or local agencies gathered intelligence it tended to be on domestic subversive groups.  We have since realized that some terrorist organizations have a global reach, and that state and local law enforcement officials must broaden their view.

 
 
NarcoTerror

NarcoTerror article by Greg Ferency

By Greg Ferency
 

Since September 11, 2001 the citizens of the United States have been introduced to a type of warfare that they are not very familiar with and not altogether comfortable being involved in. We are now facing groups of individuals who operate in a manner that is concealed, motivated and "group-serving". They show themselves at will and either die in the carnage or slip back into our society. They have the capabilities to kill a small or large number of us and show little regard for human life in general. I am obviously talking about the terrorist and their actions.

 

 

Negotiation in the New Strategic Environment: Lessons from Iraq

 

In stability, security, transition, and reconstruction (SSTR) operations like the U.S. mission in Iraq, negotiation is a common activity. The success or failure of the thousands of negotiations taking place daily between U.S. military officers and local civilian and military leaders in Iraq affects tactical and operational results and the U.S. military's ability to achieve American strategic objectives. By training its leaders, especially junior ones, to negotiate effectively, the U.S. military will be better prepared to succeed in the increasingly complex operations it is conducting-in Iraq as well as the ones it will face in the new strategic environment
 
 
Agroterrorism - Why We're Not Ready: A Look at the Role of Law Enforcement 

by Glenn R. Schmitt

 

Terrorists trying to damage the U.S. economy need look no further than the country's heartland for "soft" targets. Farms, ranches, and feedlots are open and generally unprotected. The majority of State and local law enforcement agencies are financially and strategically unprepared to respond to agroterrorism. Public health officials may seem like the logical leaders for responding to an attack on the food supplies. However, the laws of many States require that agroterrorism be handled as a crime investigation, giving law enforcement primary responsibility.

 

 

 
Preventing Suicide Attacks 

Preventing Suicide Attacks by Michael Aman

Michael Aman, a detective with the El Paso Police Department (Texas) is the author of Preventing Terrorist Suicide Attacks.  Michael Aman's book is a practical look at suicide attacks and the information is squarely aimed at the first responders such as police officers and security officials.  While the book is brief, only 90 or so pages, it has an extraordinarily high ratio of words to ideas.  That is, there is a ton of information succulently presented in the book.

 

The book is divided into two sections: the first discusses the terrorist and terrorists groups that use human beings as delivery mechanisms; the second section uses the terrorists' own methodology as a means to explore prevention.  As an example, in the first section, Michael Aman covers the objectives of a suicide tactics.  This becomes important because by understanding objectives and motivation, the first responder gets a clearer picture on what to look for, beforehand.

 

 

 

 
Disguised Weapons
 

The mission of the California Department of Justice, Division of Law Enforcement, is to provide its customers and clients extraordinary service in forensic services, forensic education, narcotic investigations, criminal investigations, intelligence, and training. In support of this mission, the Division's Criminal Intelligence Bureau's (CIB) Organized Crime Analysis Unit conducted an in-depth intelligence-gathering and examination effort into law enforcement safety handbook.

 

The Disguised Weapons Handbook is a quarterly report to inform law enforcement officers of what new items are available to suspects. In addition, the purpose is to inform law enforcement of the creativity some suspects have when converting everyday items into homemade weapons. The information contained in this report was obtained from various law enforcement sources and databases. Many of the weapons shown in this publication have websites listed where items can be viewed in greater detail.

 
 

Adolescents, Neighborhoods, and Violence

 

Although some adolescents are more violent than others, and some neighborhoods experience more crime and violence than others, the factors that mitigate violent and criminal behavior are largely unknown. The NIJ Research in Brief Adolescents, Neighborhoods, and Violence: Recent Findings From the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods describes the results of a study that examined the neighborhood conditions, individual characteristics, and family characteristics that contribute to adolescent violence. Results from the study work to erase misleading stereotypes about race and violence, emphasizing the importance of neighborhood conditions and social processes in contributing to adolescent violence.

 
 
Electronic Monitoring Resource Center

Electronic Monitoring Resource Center

 

This site is dedicated to providing law enforcement and correctional agencies with assistance in the development and maintenance of electronic monitoring programs. We are funded by a grant from the National Institute of Justice and managed by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (Rocky Mountain Region).

 

This site is strictly for law enforcement and corrections professionals. The intent is to provide a secure environment for sharing information and exchanging ideas.

 

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Identity Theft: A Review 
 

This online report summarizes the scientific literature and walks readers through what the criminal justice field knows about identity theft and which aspects of the crime should be a central focus for future research. The authors describe the role of the Internet as a portal for identity theft, comparing this modality to other methods by which offenders can gain information. Recommendations point researchers in novel directions, including studying the practices, structure, and operations of the organizations that produce and authenticate documents that contain personal information.

 
 
 
Hate Crime in America: The Debate Continues 

by Michael Shively, Ph.D., and Carrie F. Mulford, Ph.D.

 

In December 2000, in Brooklyn, New York, Mohammad Awad punched Chaim Spear while yelling obscenities and anti-Semitic remarks. In nearby Queens, Nicholas Minucci, a Caucasian, fractured the skull of African American Glenn Moore with a baseball bat and robbed him in June 2005. Witnesses testified that Minucci used a racial slur before and during the attack. In October 1998, near Laramie, Wyoming, Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney robbed, beat, and tied Matthew Shepard, a gay man, to a fence. Five days after the attack, Shepard died from his injuries. In Houston, Texas, David Tuck attacked and sexually assaulted a Hispanic teenager in April 2006. Tuck shouted "white power" and racial slurs during the attack.

 

 

 
Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Imperative 

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All law enforcement leaders recognize the ethical and legal imperatives to which they and their officers must adhere to ensure that civil rights of all individuals in their communities are protected. Law enforcement officers, in fact, are the most visible and largest contingent of the nation's guardians of civil rights. Every police officer commits to upholding the nation's prime guarantor of rights, the U.S. Constitution, when sworn into office.

 

To be effective, a police department and its individual officers must be seen primarily as protectors of civil rights, rather than agents of social control whose main purpose is to limit individual freedoms. The effectiveness of police in their varied missions-from law enforcement to community service-depends on the trust and confidence of the community. Public trust and confidence are severely reduced when individuals' civil rights are compromised. And when any community perceives that its civil rights are systematically violated by the police, all sense of trust, cooperation, and partnership between the police and that community will be undermined.

 
 
The Death Penalty: Cruel Vengeance or Justice Served? 
 

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By James H. Lilley

 

Is the death penalty for a savage, cold-blooded act of murder cruel vengeance or justice served?  The debate over Capital Punishment has been argued on local, state, and federal levels and still rages on almost daily.  Our nation has served up the death penalty in many forms from hanging, to electric chair, to gas chamber, and even firing squad.  Over the years each of these methods was damned as cruel and inhumane treatment of the person who had committed a crime of violence.  So, along came lethal injection as an alternative to these "cruel" methods of carrying out a death sentence.  Suddenly there was an outcry over the way the needles were inserted into the arm of the condemned, because surely they were experiencing pain.

 

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