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    The Defense Intelligence agency is a United States intelligence agency that provides foreign military intelligence operating under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense. According to its website it is “Department of Defense combat support agency that produces analyses and disseminates military intelligence information.” The foreign military intelligence like political assessments, troop movements, diplomatic changes etc. are distributed among the policy makers, defense officials, combat

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    market, coupled with diversification in the types and quantities of securities issued. Credit rating agencies provide these investors with objective analyses and independent assessments of companies and countries that issue such securities through a credit rating. A credit rating is a statistical method used to determine the likelihood of an individual paying back the money borrowed. Credit rating agencies have been in existence since 1900 but it was in 1975 when Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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    components are effective communication, organizational skills, and empowerment. The number one component that will make a law enforcement manager successful and in turn will make the agency successful is communication. Effective communication is the most important element for any successful law enforcement agency. The law enforcement manager must be able to successfully communicate his or her desires, wants, and goals throughout the entire organization. “Many ‘people problems’

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    Change in Law Enforcement Agencies Essay

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    1. Identify and discuss the eight (8) recurring reasons that change occurs in law enforcement agencies. There are many recurring reasons that changes occurs in law enforcement agencies. The book outlines 8 reasons that change occurs. The 8 reasons are as follow: 1. A single catastrophic event, often followed by civil liability litigation, leads to the chief of police being replaced (Swanson, 2012, pg. 650). This forces changes because it addresses a single incident and forces change. A good example

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    technology, there is the constant question of privacy; how does the US monitor its citizens or foreign nations? Edward Snowden, a man who risked himself to bring details about the United States National Security Agency to light; the National Security Agency (NSA) is the government agency responsible for surveillance on foreign countries as well as the US itself. How do these two tie together? Or how did the NSA let Snowden, or others before him, get into through their security and publicize classified

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    The evolution of competing secret intelligence agencies only began to occur during world war one when developing technologies meant gathering information on the enemy was entering new phases of complexity. The need for information became an increasingly more desperate pursuit as new devastating weapons were created which could inflict widespread and catastrophic damage, escalating from chemical weapons, to nuclear warheads. But as the 20th century proved conflicts became increasingly focused on the

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    Edward Snowden Edward Snowden worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) as a security guard. Eventually, he got a job at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) working in the information-technology field. In 2009, Snowden left the CIA to work for Dell. Dell sent him to Japan to work under the NSA and was then stationed in Hawaii. After working in Hawaii for three months, Snowden left Dell and switched over to Booz Allen Hamilton . Snowden started making copies of NSA documents that contained

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    Discussion Although the questionnaire and interview processes are useful in gaining a better understanding of the cultural competence of law enforcement agencies, they are not helpful in improving the cultural competency of those agencies. This is where instituting mandatory cultural competency training comes into play. For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission proposed steps and recommendations to increase cultural competency and one of those steps was to “develop and deploy effective

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    shady practices taking place behind the closed doors of both the U.S. and U.K. governments at the time. The National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence agencies within the United States, were using illegal tactics in order to spy on their own citizens in efforts to determine possible threats. What was so shocking to the world was the fact that these intelligence agencies were doing so on their own terms and were operating without the permission of the public. They were hacking into people’s

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    happens faster than other times. Consequently the interception of information, in other words, the cases of espionage, become one of the biggest worries for the nations around the world. Recently, Edward Snowden, an ex-agent of NSA (National Security Agency) from USA, leaks a largest number of documents containing information about various countries. This leak sparked the warning signal of the countries (Shoichet, 2013). The predecessor of NSA, was created in April 28, 1917, when a code and cipher

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