Primary functions of the four agencies of the Department of Justice
i. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
This is a government agency in the US Department of Justice that acts as a federal criminal investigative body and at the same time serving as an internal intelligence agency. The FBI is an agency that seeks to counter issues of terrorism and also dealing with intelligence matters. It is used to handle the security services of the US and plays a major role in the in the US intelligence service. One of its roles is conducting crime investigations on the matter of sovereignty. For instance, Native American reservations in the US that falls under the Major Crimes Act. The FBI carries jurisdictional investigations over matters of law violations …show more content…
This includes monitoring/inspecting and doing information dissemination at the same time acting as a spokesperson. In this function, the CEO is responsible for constantly supervising the progress of the department ensuring smooth operations (as smooth as the policy agency is expected to run).A number of police executives make use of their day to day staff meeting to address and discuss any issues about the past one day that may have an effect to the department.
iii. Decision Maker Role.
Finally being a decision maker, a police organization CEO acts as an entrepreneur, a negotiator, a disturbance handler and a resource allocator. The CEO is supposed to sell ideas to the department or the governing board. The ideas may involve new technologies or communication systems, a policing approach/strategy or different working approaches, which have a general intention of improving the organization.
• As a disturbance handler, the executive does the tasks of resolving trivial issues and conflicts among the staff members.
• As a resource allocator the CEO controls the allocation of resources among the various units of the organization to promote fairness (Stolzenberg & D'alessio, 2000, p.74).
Analyze the problems related to determining the actual numbers of hate crimes and what makes hate crimes different from other …show more content…
For example, the FMI statistics for 2009, the number of hate crimes reported by the state and the law enforcement agencies to the FBI was slightly down in 2009 from 2008.The news seems good, but hate crimes have been notoriously under-reported, which slightly makes minor changes in the statistics making them unreliable. In addition to many victims becoming reluctant to report hate crimes, other law enforcement agencies give no reports on crime data at all to the FBI or rather do not make hate crimes distinct effectively from other types of crime. It is furthermore significant to observe that hate crimes are viewed or defined in different ways from state to state, which also influences the reporting of the hate crimes to the FBI. It is as well intricate to establish motives of the perpetrators as they are key components of evidence thus they end up not being reported as hate crimes (Stolzenberg & D'alessio, 2000,
i. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
This is a government agency in the US Department of Justice that acts as a federal criminal investigative body and at the same time serving as an internal intelligence agency. The FBI is an agency that seeks to counter issues of terrorism and also dealing with intelligence matters. It is used to handle the security services of the US and plays a major role in the in the US intelligence service. One of its roles is conducting crime investigations on the matter of sovereignty. For instance, Native American reservations in the US that falls under the Major Crimes Act. The FBI carries jurisdictional investigations over matters of law violations …show more content…
This includes monitoring/inspecting and doing information dissemination at the same time acting as a spokesperson. In this function, the CEO is responsible for constantly supervising the progress of the department ensuring smooth operations (as smooth as the policy agency is expected to run).A number of police executives make use of their day to day staff meeting to address and discuss any issues about the past one day that may have an effect to the department.
iii. Decision Maker Role.
Finally being a decision maker, a police organization CEO acts as an entrepreneur, a negotiator, a disturbance handler and a resource allocator. The CEO is supposed to sell ideas to the department or the governing board. The ideas may involve new technologies or communication systems, a policing approach/strategy or different working approaches, which have a general intention of improving the organization.
• As a disturbance handler, the executive does the tasks of resolving trivial issues and conflicts among the staff members.
• As a resource allocator the CEO controls the allocation of resources among the various units of the organization to promote fairness (Stolzenberg & D'alessio, 2000, p.74).
Analyze the problems related to determining the actual numbers of hate crimes and what makes hate crimes different from other …show more content…
For example, the FMI statistics for 2009, the number of hate crimes reported by the state and the law enforcement agencies to the FBI was slightly down in 2009 from 2008.The news seems good, but hate crimes have been notoriously under-reported, which slightly makes minor changes in the statistics making them unreliable. In addition to many victims becoming reluctant to report hate crimes, other law enforcement agencies give no reports on crime data at all to the FBI or rather do not make hate crimes distinct effectively from other types of crime. It is furthermore significant to observe that hate crimes are viewed or defined in different ways from state to state, which also influences the reporting of the hate crimes to the FBI. It is as well intricate to establish motives of the perpetrators as they are key components of evidence thus they end up not being reported as hate crimes (Stolzenberg & D'alessio, 2000,