Adjusting to Terrorism

Adjusting to Terrorism

Pamela Bloom

CJA/454

August 19, 2013

David P

Adjusting to Terrorism

The criminal justice system needs to change thing in the way it is run and in the actions they take. The justice system is ill prepared for a terrorist attack or the possibility of one taking place in America. The first thing to change is a part of the administration level of the criminal justice system. This will allow for a way for the system to be better prepared for a possible terrorist attack and for the after math if one should take place.

The changes to the administration level would start with a computer program that would flag all person of interest in any criminal justice system. This would allow officer to know that the person they have in front of them is on the “FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) project to share fingerprint and other biometric information” ("Office of Inspector General", n.d.). This system would also allow for the law enforcement personal to know that they are on the terrorism watch list and to make sure there is nothing with them, on them or in the vehicle that can be used for a terrorist attack.

A primary example of how, when and why this system would help with counter terrorism is that one of the Boston bombers received a parking ticket. According to "Marathon Bombing Investigators Ask What Attracted Terror Suspects to Boston Suburb" (2013) the parking ticket, obtained by ABC News, was written on a car registered to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at 2:10 a.m. on February 18, 2011 on the 200 block of Boylston Street. If the criminal justice administration had equipped all persons of interest on the terrorism list with heir drives license and added identification the officer at the time of the ticket may have done a little more investigating as to why the car was parked illegally or been advised that they had a person of interest in the area.

In America the “ federal government defines homeland security as: a concerted national effort...