Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- PART I NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
- PART II STRATEGIES FOR INTERVENTION
- 7 Is Crime Prevention Relevant to Counterterrorism?
- 8 Implications of Opportunity Theory for Combating Terrorism
- 9 Soldiers and Spies, Police and Detectives
- 10 Community Policing and Terrorism
- 11 Go Analyze!
- 12 Managing the Fear of Terrorism
- 13 Should Profiling Be Used to Prevent Terrorism?
- 14 Federal-Local Coordination in Homeland Security
- 15 Liberty and Security in an Era of Terrorism
- 16 Regulating Terrorism
- PART III THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW
- Index
- References
9 - Soldiers and Spies, Police and Detectives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction and Overview
- PART I NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
- PART II STRATEGIES FOR INTERVENTION
- 7 Is Crime Prevention Relevant to Counterterrorism?
- 8 Implications of Opportunity Theory for Combating Terrorism
- 9 Soldiers and Spies, Police and Detectives
- 10 Community Policing and Terrorism
- 11 Go Analyze!
- 12 Managing the Fear of Terrorism
- 13 Should Profiling Be Used to Prevent Terrorism?
- 14 Federal-Local Coordination in Homeland Security
- 15 Liberty and Security in an Era of Terrorism
- 16 Regulating Terrorism
- PART III THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW
- Index
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
Successful, effective, mutually beneficial military participation in what we would call civilian law enforcement is not unknown in history. Ancient Rome and the contemporary French Gendarmerie – who have an excellent working relationship with the rural population of France – might be included on a list of good examples. Unfortunately, the list of oppressive, abusive, even genocidal examples seems infinitely longer, and this list is surely a source of our national apprehension about using our military forces for standard police work.
Our founding fathers were, of course, sensitive to this issue and sought to minimize the possibility that the American public would suffer oppressive use of the military by unethical government leaders. Indeed, although military resources have been utilized countless times in response to domestic disasters and catastrophes, we tend to focus our collective memory on the tragic results of hostile encounters like the New York draft riots, Kent State, or the Texas border country, where military force has been used in response to civilian behavior with tragic results. We simply do not want our military involved in law enforcement in civilian environments, or controlling civilian behavior of any type, especially when the use of force might be deemed necessary. It might be worth noting that the bright line that separates the military and civil sectors is less clearly drawn in most other advanced Western societies, largely because the insulation against invaders provided by two vast oceans is a luxury that European nation-states do not share.
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- Criminologists on Terrorism and Homeland Security , pp. 183 - 207Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011
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