Subject: Homeland Security and Terrorism: Intelligence and Law Enforcement: APA style

 After 9/1 we changed the way we defined terrorism and now we consider it both a threat to national security and criminal.  

Prepare a research paper that analyses the intersection and divergence of the intelligence and law enforcement communities. In your paper you will:  

·      Identify the agencies and types of organizations involved in law enforcement and in intelligence.

·      Identify the regulations that control law enforcement and those that control the intelligence community with respect to obtaining information and evidence, classic and electronic surveillance, questioning and capture. Compare and contrast. Consider the effects and reasons for these.

·      Review the history of cooperation (or lack there of) between the two fields. Discuss changes, progress, and remaining hurdles. 

Present facts, research and expert opinion to support your position. Your paper should be approximately 2,500  words, use at least 5 academic sources, and be formatted and cited in APA style.   

Below is a self-check form to make sure you covered everything the prompt asked for: 

· My paper identifies the types and levels of law enforcement agencies in the US 

· My paper identifies the intelligence agencies in the US ( hint  there is one lead and 5 major players) 

· My paper notices the high-level differences between these groups 

· My paper identifies specific laws and regulations that control each group and compares and contrasts them 

· My paper discusses the issue of cooperation between the LE and intel communities noticing history, changes, progress and remaining work to be done on 

· My paper is focused on analysis and not focused on reporting or reciting facts

· My paper uses at least 5 academic sources 

· My paper has been proofread by me and at least one other person. 

Assigned readings for this module are:

Chapters 8,12 and 14 in the Gaines/Kappeler text, Homeland Security