CJA Week 5 Assignment

Terrorism: A Study in Public Safety – Public Safety vs. Individual Freedom Transcript

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Public Safety vs. Individual Freedom

Fundamental to terrorist is the ability to operate in secrecy as invisible as the wind and as deadly as the tools at their disposal. Terrorist succeed only when their plans can be carried out without discovery or detection. Accordingly proactive government intelligence gathering and intervention has proven to be the best approach to preventing future terrorist attacks. To discover secrets however certain impositions must be made government intrusions and incursions that go along with fighting terrorism bring to light the balance between public safety and individual freedom.

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