Domestic Surveillance Pros And Cons

Well the answer to this questions is no. According to CNN, “The CIA had quite a bit of information about two of the hijackers and their presence in the United States before 9/11,” and their threat reports was shared with Bush administration official but even after multiple warnings, the Bush administration was not able to respond to these threats appropriately (Bergen P). Even though it is clear that NSA spying would not resolve in the prevention of such a detrimental terrorist attack, it is still their reason on continuing the program. The NSA also did not prevent the Boston bombing on April 15, 2013, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 people (Levitz J). The NSA spends around $2 billion each year but the results that the government is getting is not quite promising (Sahadi J).

They criticize the government and condemn the security measures. However, they don't want to admit that many terrorist attacks were prevented by wiretapping, monitoring the internet, and so on. Professor Levinson states that it is “spying”. I would call it “a desire to defend the people, to protect their lives and health from the terrorist

I have come to realize that the media has always sided what was popular to the public. Though in some cases I’m sure there have been some influencing through monetary means and under the table deals. Nonetheless the media actually served as a counter argument to my thoughts and actually helped me remembered in why I vote for what I vote for. As you can see from most of the media in the last 6 years it has served towards democrats and more government interference. Now don’t get me wrong things like the patriot act are necessary for the safety of our nations

If someone had some important evidence on their phone to help solve an investigation wouldn 't someone want the authorities to be able to look at the phone? There have been situations over the past year where authorities may have thought there was some evidence on a phone that would help them solve a case. Some may say if the police will just get the phones they will know the information right away and help criminal activity to drop. Many people may make an argument to say if the police officers are allowed to look at these phones crimes this still wouldn 't help the criminal investigations.

On September 11, 2001 the world came to a stand still as a terroristic attack targeting our country killed 2,977 people. As fear ran high in every American house hold, the government quickly acted and on October 26 President George W. Bush passed the USA PATRIOT Act. The full title, "Uniting and Strenghtening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act", suggest how the government quickly acted in response to the new threat that we were experianceing. Although some may argue that it violates our civil liberties, the Patriot Act serves as an asset to help protect U.S. citizens by stopping terrorist attacks, giving the law enforcement tools to make investigations easier, and increases national security.

Without a doubt, Snowden made people question how secure their personal lives are. Now no one can really know if the message he or she is sending is being read be more than the just the intended recipient. Even though it isn 't a guarantee that every one of our phones will be tapped, knowing that the NSA has the ability to do so makes it hard to trust the organization. The German Government caught wind that Verizon had been giving the NSA their users phone records and ended all ties with the phone company. Since the documents were released, there has been a grand rise in encryption, mainly from the big internet sources.

Post- 9/11 events demonstrated the importance of sharing information from federal agencies to local law enforcement. Typically the FBI would only share sensitive information, or ongoing investigation information to those who had the clearances to receive that information (FBI, 2015). Some of the major communication errors included FBI known intelligence on terrorist individuals, failure to share such information, and technology issues (The 9/11 Commission Report, 2002). The 9/11 commission was created so that the report and recommendations would be sent to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people (The 9/11 Commission Report, 2002).

Roughly three years, nuclear weapon researchers were targeted by zero-day vulnerability attacks. “The exploit caused vulnerable Windows machines to be compromised by "Poison Ivy," a notorious backdoor trojan that had been modified so it was detected by only two of 46 major antivirus programs.” (Goodin) After this event occurred many government officials began to increase the security of their databases. What is puzzling to most people is that many of the systems people believe are secure really are not.

Though case law is splinted, employees tend not to have genuine privacy expectations in connection with the companys’ computer which store data. During 11th September 2001 when there was a trade canter attack in the pentagon and general in the whole world, the president came up with electronic surveillance policy to strengthen the searches program. This patriotic act was mainly created to increase the capability of enforcement of law thus searching telephonic communication, emails and any financial record would be easier to access. The law permitted   search warranty which permitted access to voicemails hence obtaining the relevant information needed. The procedures of getting such warranties were made minimal hence making it very easier to obtain them.

In the United States, the police have the authority to use coercive force in several occasions, but only when citizens do not comply with the officer. In the states throughout the country, there have been incidents in which people believe that the police used unnecessary use of force on a victim. It has been argued that police have been taking advantage of their authority and power for no reason. In these cases there have been tragic incidents in which citizens either get killed or get beat up by police officers. Most of the time, these cases end up having riots by the community to make the court to convict the officer that killed an innocent victim.

Bruce Scheiner’s article , Spy Cameras won’t make us safer, argues that cameras do not help fight against crime, and it is true. In paragraph five of the article, Scheiner explains few of the downsides when police stare helplessly through the monitor, such as: criminals disguising themselves in sunglasses to protect identification. Cameras are used solely for identifying the criminal mastermind, and tracking where they were seen last; however, an intellectual wouldn’t gawk in awe for mere seconds, seductively posing at whomever is on security duty.

The Rotten Apple Theory. Police departments use the ‘Rotten Apple Theory’ to describe police deviance, police gratuity, kickbacks, bribery, and shakedowns of business owners (Police Crimes, 2005). According to the Christopher Commission’s (1991) article on police crimes, it stated that white police officers were somewhat more likely to use excessive force against African Americans and watchdog groups like the American Civil Liberties Unions (ACLU, 2016).

People’s feelings and mental health play a large role in crime being committed today in Canada. Most crimes done in Canada are involved with the use of guns, drugs, abuse and theft. Also the main reasons crimes are being committed can be because of depression or other mental disorders, family conditions (poor parenting skills) discrimination based on racism, politics and poverty. To lower crime rates we can firstly get guns & drugs out of the streets and into the hands of the government but also convert criminals into civilized citizens, Apply different punishments other than jail time, send ex offenders to certified rehabilitation centers.