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M2A1: Chapter 3 Assignment Question
This Activity will address module outcomes 2 & 3. Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:
• MO2: Explain the size and scope of the law enforcement industry. (CO2)
• MO3: Examine the fragmentation issue in policing, exploring municipal, county, state, and other specialized law enforcement agencies. (CO4 & CO5)
Complete the following chapter assignment question in no less than 250 words. This question is drawn directly from your text readings and involves a comprehensive understanding of each chapter. Be sure and follow APA format and support your answers with a citation from the text and at least one additional source.
Your response to the question should be no less than 250 words. Be sure to use APA format, and to support your response with citations and references.
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of "civilianization".
One primary reference is Walker, S., & Katz, C. (2018). The Police in America: An Introduction. (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Publishing.
Read:
• Required
o Textbook: Walker, S., & Katz, C. (2018). The Police in America: An Introduction. (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Publishing.
Chapter 3: The Contemporary Policing Industry
Module 2: Module Notes: The New York City Police Department
Due to the political control of law enforcement, policing in America is highly fragmented and spread-out over 18,000 different agencies, where services are provided through four different levels of government: city, county, state, and federal (Walker & Katz, 2018).
One of the most unique and complex police agencies in America, serving as a stellar example of law enforcements fragmentation, is the New York City Police Department, better known as NYPD. Providing policing services to nearly 8.6 million residents, the NYPD is the largest police agency in America, with nearly 40,000 sworn police officers. This does not include an additional 8,000 full-time traffic safety officers (NYPD, 2017).
Operating on an annual budget that exceeds $4.8 billion, NYPD has the most extensive array of specialized units in the nation, structured around bureaus, operating on all four levels of the government simultaneously (NYPD, 2017). The bureaus include:
• Patrol Services Bureau
• Citywide Operations Bureau
• Transit Bureau
• Housing Bureau
• Transportation Bureau
• Counterterrorism Bureau
• Crime Control Strategies Bureau
• Detective Bureau
• Intelligence Bureau
• Internal Affairs Bureau
• Administration
• Collaborative Policing
• Community Affairs Bureau
• Information Technology Bureau
• Legal Matters
• Personnel Bureau
• Public Information
• Risk Management Bureau
• Support Services Bureau
• Training Bureau
Not only does the NYPD manage its own separate and distinct policing units in public transportation, public housing, public transit, and a city-wide housing authority police department, but the Intelligence and counterterrorism units also have NYPD officers stationed in over 11 cities internationally, including London, England, Paris, France, Madrid, Spain, and Tel Aviv, Israel (NYPD, 2017; Hartmann, 2012).
References
New York City Police Department. (2017). Bureaus
Hartmann, M. (2012). "NYPD Now Has an Israel Branch." New York Magazine.
Image credit:
Hosford, D. NYPD. [photograph]. 2009. License: CC-BY-2.0
Module 2: Module Notes: Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force
In 1982, in an attempt to address issues of law enforcement fragmentation, specifically as it relates to large-scale organized crime (drug trafficking, money laundering, gang violence, etc.) in America, the United States Department of Justice created the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) Program (USDOJ, 2017a).
The OCDETF Program established a unique, highly effective, and collaborative multi-law enforcement agency merger, comprised of all 94 U.S. Attorneys' Offices, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Criminal and Tax Divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice, and more importantly, thousands of local and state police agencies across the country. In fact, local and state law enforcement agencies actively participate in over 90 percent of all investigations (USDOJ 2017a; USDOJ 2017b).
Since the program's inception, nearly 45,000 people have been criminally convicted, resulting in the seizure of over $3 billion in cash and assets (USDOJ, 2017b).
References
The United States Department of Justice. (2017a). FY 2017 Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement Congressional Submission.
The United States Department of Justice. (2017b). Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.
Image credit:
McCoy, S. T., US Marshals. USMS-Omaha-29. 2016. License: CC BY 2.0,