American Policing: Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
Department of Agriculture
U.S. Forest Service
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Export Enforcement
National Marine Fisheries
Administration
Department of Defense
Air Force Office of Special
Investigations
Army Criminal Investigation Division
Defense Criminal Investigative Service
Naval Investigative Service
Department of Homeland Security
Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center
Federal Protective Service
Transportation Security Administration
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
(CBP; includes U.S. Border Patrol)
U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE)
U.S. Secret Service
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Land Management
Fish and Wildlife Service
National Park Service
U.S. Park Police
Department of Justice
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
and Explosives
Bureau of Prisons
Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal Buerau of Investigation
U.S. Marshals Service
Department of Labor
Office of Labor Racketeering
Department of State
Diplomatic Security Service
Department of Transportation
Federal Air Marshals Program
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service-Criminal
Investigation Division
Treasury Inspector General for Tax
Enforcement
U.S. Postal Service
Postal Inspection Service
Other Offices with Enforcement
Personnel
AMTRAK Police
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police
Department of Energy
Environmental Protection AgencyCriminal Investigations Division
Food and Drug Administration
Tennessee Valley Authority
U.S. Capitol Police
U.S. Mint
U.S. Supreme Court Police
Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police
Department
American Policing: State Law Enforcement Agencies
Alcohol law enforcement agencies
Fish and wildlife agencies
Highway patrol
Port authorities
State bureaus of investigation
State park services
State police
State university police
Weigh station operations
American Policing: Local Law Enforcement Agencies
Campus police
City/county agencies
Constables
Coroners or medical examiners
Housing authority agencies
Marine patrol agencies
Municipal police departments
Sheriff’s departments
Transit police
Tribal police
1. ¿Por qué existen tantos niveles y agencias de la aplicación de la ley en los EE.UU.?
2. ¿Qué problemas pueden surgir o existen debido a tal diversidad de agencias?
3. Al mismo tiempo, existen agencias privadas para la seguridad y aplicación de la ley.
¿Cuál será el papel que jueguen estas agencias en el futuro en los EE.UU.?
Tarea para el próximo lunes:
Scientific studies in law enforcement
2001 Boston’s Operation Ceasefire Evaluation
1999 National Evaluation of Weed-and-Seed Programs
1998 Community Policing in Action (Indianapolis)
1994 Kansas City Gun Experiment
1992 New York City Police Department’s Cadet Corps Study
1992 Metro-Dade Spouse Abuse Experiment Replication (Florida)
1991 Quality Policing in Madison, Wisconsin
1990 Minneapolis “Hot Spot” Patrolling
1987 Newport News Problem-Oriented Policing (Virginia)
1986 Crime Stoppers: A National Evaluation
1986 Reducing Fear of Crime in Houston and Newark
1984 Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment
1981 Newark Foot Patrol Experiment
1977 Cincinnati Team Policing Experiment
1977 Patrol Staffing in San Diego
1976 Police Response Time (Kansas City)
1976 Police and Interpersonal Conflict
1976 Managing Investigations
1976 Kansas City Peer Review Panel
1974 Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment