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FBI Agent

            
             What would it be like to live as an FBI agent? The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the chief investigating branch of the United States Department of Justice. The FBI is responsible for investigating 260 kinds of federal offenses. The agents collect information about individuals or groups that the agency believes to be a threat to our nations security. The investigators that compile the information are called FBI agents.
             The agency is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has sixty (60) offices located through out the United States and Puerto Rico.
             FBI agents are responsible for investigating crimes such as assaults on the President, bank robberies and kidnappings. Additionally, they investigate other crimes such as stolen property, stolen vehicles and crimes against victims when state lines are crossed. The bureau fights organized crimes and pursues criminals who cross state lines while fleeing capture. They work closely with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to curb drug trafficking and curtail distribution of illegal drugs. The main function of an agent is to gather information.
             Many of the agents work long hours performing mundane tasks such as interviewing people, conducting computer research and spending hours on the telephone. At other times, agents place themselves in life threatening situations while trying to stop crime. Many times the work can be confrontational in places like seedy bars or high crime areas where police are targeted. An elite group of agents are assigned to protect the President against assassins. Agents put in late hours and endure many hardships.
             To become an agent, an applicant must be a graduate of an accredited law school or a college graduate with a degree in accounting, engineering or computer science. College graduate not possessing a specialized degree must have three (3) years of full-time work experience. . Agents must be citizens of the United States and be between the ages of 23 and 35.


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1. FBI

On July 26, 1908, the Attorney General appointed ten Special Agents to the Bureau of Investigation and called them the Special Agent Task Force. ... As of January 31, 2002, the FBI had approximately 11,000 Special Agents and 16,000 Professional Support Personnel. ... In some instances, Special Agents may have to use deadly force when trying to arrest a suspect. When the Special Agent has a reasonable belief that the suspect poses an imminent danger or serious physical injury to the Special agent or another person, they then use deadly forces. If possible, a verbal warning to submit to the a...

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2. Joe Pistone

Pistone had been an FBI agent since July of 1969 and served undercover for the first time in Florida. ... Over the following few weeks, Pistone gathered enough information on hijackings, burglaries and robberies to bust the group he was working with, but he and his case agent decided that there were oppurtunities to dig a little deeper and try to infiltrate the Mafia itself (something never done before by an FBI agent). ... On July 28, three FBI agents from the New York office walked into The Motion Lounge and gave Sonny Black the bad news about his friend Donnie Bra...

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3. Is Torture Ever Warranted?

FBI agents cannot obtain information through conventional means ________________________________________C1. FBI agents must resort to non-lethal torture P3. FBI agents may face prison sentences for torture P4. Torture warrants protect FBI agents from prison ________________________________________C2. FBI agents require torture warrants when dealing with ticking bomb cases In my reconstruction of the argument I came across the problem of whether or not the argument was who should have the power to grant these warrants, the FBI's lack of power when it comes to information gathering thr...

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4. Freedom To Kill

Basically the whole novel is about terrorism and how an FBI agent single-handedly tried to stop it. ... FBI agent Mike Devlin came up with the plan when he said, " Let the media interview me as the agent in charge of the investigation. ... The terrorist kidnapped one of the FBI agents when the agent came to his house to question him as a possible suspect. During a phone conversation between the kidnapped agent and FBI agent Mike Devlin, "Devlin was certain the killer was standing over LoFranco, willing to kill him at the utterance of the first syllable of the first wrong word. The torture...

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5. College Application Essay - Criminology and Investigations

But the one that I am most interested in becoming is a Police Officer and then eventually becoming an FBI agent. ... The requirements for becoming an FBI agent are broader then becoming a Police Officer. ... The FBI is a government job that investigates the violations of over 200 categories of the federal law and conducts national security investigations. ... By starting out as a Police Officer I will learn valuable tools to help me progress into an FBI agent. ...

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6. Mississippi Burning

Right after the killings the FBI comes in and from then on it's like the FBI show. The director of the film makes it out to be that the FBI agents are the heroes in this situation. ... The movie puts a lot of emphasis on the work that the FBI did. ... The FBI agents are made out to look like white liberal men who want nothing less than the equality of minority people, when in fact the FBI Director J. ... The fact of the matter is that the FBI agents weren't the good guys. ...

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7. Compare and contrast the 2 films Matrix and 7even

It begins with the FBI trying to find out a telephone number. ... In "The Matrix", the main characters are Trinity, the agents, and the FBI. ... Trinity is seen as the bad person, as she has both the FBI, and the agents after her. ... In the opening scenes of this film, the FBI are trying to catch Trinity to arrest her. ... The agents are seen as above the FBI in terms of control in the film, as they seem to know more, "no lieutenant, your men are already dead", this statement was made by an agent, talking to a member of the FBI. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

8. Criminal Profiling

The FBI frequently uses an inductive approach to criminal profiling. ... Some researchers say that the FBI may even be making unverifiable claims regarding the accuracy of their profilers. The reason the claims are unverifiable is because the FBI will not share it's data publicly. ... Most FBI profilers recognize that profiling is more of an art than a science. ... The FBI's own, agent McNamara commented on the accuracy of FBI profiling. ...

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