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U.S. Law Enforcement: Shifting Priorities and Focus Post-9/11

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I need help with a list of the relative merits and disadvantages of law enforcement's shifting priorities and focus after the 9/11 attacks. I have to do a 5 page research paper and I am not understanding exactly what it is I am suppose to be discussing. Would someone please help guide me in the right direction.

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A brief response dicatating some notable advantages and disadvantages to Law enforcement deviation from the 9/11 terrorism attacks in the US.

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What's centrally important to this concept is the method behind the 9/11 attacks: international terrorism on US soil. Before this incident, it was completely unheard of for foreign actors to undertake effective terrorist attacks with major attritional damage. Therefore, significant weight behind ...

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