Policing in the Future

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TerrorismIn this paper on terrorism, our team will be writing about the effects that terrorism has had on our cities of New York, and Washington DC. A good example of this would be to look back on September 11, 2001 when the Al-Qaeda terrorist group hijacked three of our airlines where one flew into the heart of the Pentagon and injured and killed thousands of people, the second one flew into the World Trade Center and destroy both of the towers and also injuring and killing thousands of people. The third plane, which was also, hijacked crash into a field in the state of Pennsylvania. The next thing our team would like to do is to define terrorism. Terrorism is systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular objective. The act of terrorism has been practiced by many political organizations with their many views.

Terrorism could also be defined as narcoterrorism which is financed by profits from illegal drug trafficking. We will also be discussing police management along with ways to combat terrorism. One of the most important ways that we can do this is to keep a watchful eye out for anything that seems suspicious or out of the ordinary to report immediately to the local law enforcement might be able to investigate, for if we do not support any suspicious activity that we see going on it gives terrorists the terrorists the perfect timing to do more harm to us. And it shows to them that we as Americans are too busy to care what is going on right in front of us let alone our surroundings in which we live, work, and play in everyday.

Another way that we can help prevent terrorists attacks...