MILITARY AND CIVILIAN BOTH POLICING

Military and civilian Policing and the War on Terrorism

Military and Civilian Policing and the War on Terrorism

The ethical restrictions to law enforcement be different when dealing with suspected terrorists than that which is established when dealing with American citizens should be different. America has had to make changes to our current laws to detain terror suspects. The terrorists used our own system and laws against us. Among the investigative tactics, police in civilian clothes is unique in that it allows the police to shape the events they are investigating. Yet, this common feature of undercover investigations produced very different academic controversy in the United States and Europe (Blum, 1995). European researchers fear the consequences of legalizing the tactics which had been tolerated, if any, on the margins of legality. In contrast, American commentators seeking to destabilize what they see as complacency about a tactic that is used much more widely in the United States and Europe. Because of their interest in the defense of entrapment, American academics are primarily focused on the criminal responsibility of targets, and uncooperative. More recently, American and European researchers have changed their interest away from the criminal law, which focuses on the individual criminal responsibility of targets and undercover agents, to exploring new means of distribution of responsibilities between complementary institutional actors such as police, prosecutors and judges. Secret police has become more a problem of criminal procedure, in which undercover tactics came to be framed as threats to privacy, freedom of association, right to a trial, and other freedoms civilians. As criminal investigations increasingly transnational criminal procedure provided a common framework of criticism and a familiar repertoire of solutions, to facilitate national comparisons and sometimes muting differences in national regulatory standards and approach. (Hoge, 2007)

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