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Department of Justice– New
“President-elect Obama said, “These individuals bring the integrity, depth of experience and tenacity that the Department of Justice demands in these uncertain times. I have the fullest confidence that they will ensure that the Department of Justice once again fulfills its highest purpose: to uphold the Constitution and protect the American people. I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead.”[1]
– BarakObama.com
“Mr. President, we agree. The Department of Justice purpose is to uphold the Constitution and protect the American People. However, the Constitution as well as common sense dictates that creating the laws and enforcing them are the responsibility of 2 separate parties. Since 1870, the Department of Justice has added over 40 different agencies and its powers have broadened to include protecting the Americans from everything from terrorists to pornographers.
The Department of Justice must only be charted to prosecute the laws, not create them nor enforce them. But does the Department of Justice get off claiming they are the “Stewards of the American dream”?
– Bryant Delaney, DOI2.com
This is a summary (yes a long page summary) of the thousands of pages the Department of Justice provides to the public as a review and report card of their performance. The details can be found in a soon to be published book – “FAKE THE NATION” – The Peoples Last Stand.
The federal government reports 80% of federal program are performing when the data represents only 7% of the programs have reported current data and 60% of all programs haven’t reported any results in at least 3 years.
Every agency creates their own programs and provides an annual report of the results of each program. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) sets the parameters for these reports and claims 80% of all government programs are on target. If a private business only reported 7% accurate data, their leaders would be in jail. What about the leaders of the biggest business in America? Shouldn’t they be held accountable to the same rules and principles as private business?
“Fake the Nation” developed out of the frustration of seeing taxes increase year after year with no end in sight. The turning point for writing this book was when the federal government started running private businesses.
For the past 200 years, government has passed more and more rules on business creating a monster with 3 heads that affects every American. First, compliance with the rules and regulations is a cost that businesses pass on to the purchasers of their products. Second, the balance of international trade has regulated many businesses out of business. Third, the laws of Government have created a false sense of security creating the mentality that the Government is watching for bad business practices protecting American’s from corrupt business executives.
We define these basic principles in detail. But unlike most essays on the failure of government, Fake the Nation goes the extra mile to demonstrate proven business practices that will make the government operate efficiently.
To support American we do not need bigger government. We need leadership. It’s been said that “experience equals knowledge, the application of knowledge equals wisdom”. It is impossible to attain wisdom in a vacuum. If our leaders to not have the breadth and depth of experience they cannot apply their experiences to become wise.
The two party political system perpetuates the waste of American tax payer dollars. Fake the Nation tracks of $111 TRILLION of waste created because the federal government leadership doesn’t understand business – yet they now run the financial and automotive industries in America.
Fake the Nation provides proof of the problems and solutions to control the expenses of the federal government through 3 simple principles:
- 1. The federal government has no obligation to provide any service that can be provided by private business and/or state and local government. The federal government’s responsibility is only applied where the services would be duplicated by the majority of the states or where the services are for the protection on one state from the actions of another state.
2. State responsibilities only apply when the services offered by the State benefit all local level governments. State governments will not regulate any aspect of private business except to protect the rights of all citizens within the state.
3. Local governments shall have the responsibility to set the rules and laws for the citizens of their community. No state or federal law, rule or regulation shall dictate to the local governments except where the rules, laws or regulations adversely affect the lives of citizens within other local governments. This is not to be extended to include civil rights, only criminal activities
This can only be accomplished when the American people stop adopting the platforms of political parties and mandate politicians adopt the Peoples Platform. We the People decide the agenda politicians enact the vision of the American people.
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Department of Justice– Current
Stewards of the American Dream:
The American dream is about living and prospering in a secure, lawful, hopeful, and safe society, and it is a dream that for many years has been protected in large part by the actions and the activities of men and women just like you . . . we are the stewards of the American dream.
· -Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales
February 15, 2006
Our responsibility extends beyond providing security from terrorists, however. It extends to making our streets safe for our families; to protecting our children from pernicious predators who exploit the advances of technology and the anonymity of the Internet to achieve their nefarious aims; and to ridding our communities of illegal guns and drugs, which erode our chances to live in a safe society and pursue our dreams. DOJ’s dedicated employees strive to create a level playing field for all Americans, by targeting those who would abuse their power, whether it be in government or the corporate world; they stand as advocates for the American people to protect the American way, whether by preserving the environment, business opportunity, or the stability of the justice system created by our forefathers and preserved by the generations of Americans that followed.
Mission
The mission statement of the Department of Justice reflects the breadth of its responsibility: “…to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.”
Overview
Established July 1, 1870 (28 U.S.C, 501, 503), the Department of Justice (DOJ or the Department) is headed by the Attorney General of the United States. Comprised of 40 component organizations, the Department seeks to protect all Americans while preserving their personal freedoms, and to balance strict, tough enforcement of federal laws with abiding respect for individuals and their Constitutional rights. While the Department vigorously enforces the broad spectrum of laws of the United States (U.S.), since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, defending our Nation and protecting our citizens against terrorist attacks is the primary mission of the Department.
Since 2001, the Department has increased its capacity to investigate terrorism and has identified, disrupted, and dismantled terrorist cells operating in the United States. These efforts have resulted in the securing of 319 convictions or guilty pleas in terrorism or terrorism-related cases arising from investigations conducted primarily after September 11, 2001, and zero terrorist attacks on American soil by foreign nationals from 2003 through 2007. The Department has allocated new resources to the war on terror and in FY 2006 created the National Security Division to further improve our information sharing, coordination, and counterterrorism capacity.
In addition to its counterterrorism mission, the Department remains steadfastly committed to enforcing federal laws in the critical areas of violent crime, including gun, drug and other areas in which offenders must to be brought to justice. In fact, due to the dedication and cooperation of law enforcement, the violent crime rate in the United States continues to remain at its lowest level in 30 years. While this statistic is impressive, there is still much to be achieved. For instance, individual localities have seen some increases in crime recently and the Department has responded appropriately working with our state and local partners to study the problem and to develop strategies to reduce and deter that crime. We are also urging prosecutors to redouble their efforts to vigorously prosecute federal crimes involving guns, gangs, drugs, child exploitation, corporate and public corruption, immigration, and civil rights violations.
The Judiciary Act of 1789, ch. 20, sec. 35, 1 Stat. 73, 92-93 (1789) created the Office of the Attorney General. Originally a one-person part-time position, the Attorney General was to be “learned in the law” with the duty “to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments.” The workload quickly became too much for one person, necessitating the hiring of several assistants for the Attorney General. With an increasing amount of work to be done, private attorneys were retained to work on cases.
In 1870, after the post-Civil War increase in the amount of litigation involving the United States necessitated the very expensive retention of a large number of private attorneys to handle the workload, a concerned Congress passed the Act to Establish the Department of Justice, ch. 150, 16 Stat. 162 (1870) setting it up as “an executive department of the government of the United States” with the Attorney General as its head. Officially coming into existence on July 1, 1870, the Department of Justice, pursuant to the 1870 Act, was to handle the legal business of the United States. The Act gave the Department control over all criminal prosecutions and civil suits in which the United States had an interest. In addition, the Act gave the Attorney General and the Department control over federal law enforcement. To assist the Attorney General, the 1870 Act created the Office of the Solicitor General.
The 1870 Act is the foundation upon which the Department of Justice still rests. However, the structure of the Department of Justice has changed over the years, with the addition of the Deputy Attorneys General and the formation of the Divisions. Unchanged is the steadily increasing workload of the Department. It has become the world’s largest law office and the central agency for enforcement of federal laws.
Before
$23.8B Budget
108,007 Employees
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Strategic Goal 1: $3.85B
Prevent Terrorism and Promote the Nation’s Security
Counterterrorism, National Security, and Intelligence.
The Department’s top priority continues to be the prevention, investigation, and prosecution of terrorist activities against U.S. citizens and interests. The FY 2009 President’s Budget requests $492.7 million in investments to strengthen the nation’s counterterrorism investigative capabilities to identify, track, and dismantle terrorist cells operating in the U.S. and overseas and to fortify the Nation’s intelligence analysis capabilities.
The Department has made significant strides in the global war on terror by identifying, disrupting, and defeating terrorist plots within the United States and ensuring those responsible are brought to justice. Since September 11, 2001, the Department has charged 512 individuals with terrorism or terrorism-related crimes and convicted or obtained guilty pleas in 319 terrorism-related and anti-terrorism cases. Resource needs for counterterrorism and national security will continue to grow in the foreseeable future due to the United and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, and the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD Commission), as well as several programs mandated by Presidential Directives to the Attorney General.
Following, September 11, 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) undertook an historic transformation from operating primarily as a law enforcement agency to serving as an integrated domestic intelligence and law enforcement agency. Among the key operational changes of this transformation were an increased emphasis on threat-based, intelligence-driven investigations and operations, especially in the areas of counterterrorism and counterintelligence, and on internal and external information sharing. Additionally, the FBI’s national security, criminal investigative, and criminal justice service missions have been further expanded over recent years by federal laws, Presidential Directives, Departmental Orders, and Director of National Intelligence decisions.
Counterterrorism Litigation and Oversight.
Since September 11, 2001, the United States Government has implemented numerous counterterrorism strategies that have proven highly effective in disrupting attacks and weakening global terrorist networks.
Many of these policies have drawn legal challenges in courts, including hundreds of lawsuits filed on behalf of alien enemy combatants held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The successful litigation of these cases is necessary to ensure that legal challenges do not strip the United States of critical counterterrorism tools and hinder counterterrorism efforts. U.S. Attorneys offices in each district, in conjunction with skilled attorneys from the NSD, will continue to work together to build strong cases, and coordinate efforts throughout investigations. In certain instances, prosecutors will utilize the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council to coordinate efforts that require the assistance of other law enforcement organizations. With coordinated prosecution strategies, federal and local law enforcement authorities will be better guided toward the strongest most relevant evidence for sound prosecutions.
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Strategic Goal 2: – $12.7B
Enforce Federal Laws and Represent the Rights and Interests of the American People Reducing Violent Crime.
Preventing and controlling crime is critical to ensuring the strength and vitality of our Nation. Due to the hard work of law enforcement, the Nation’s crime rates remain at historic lows. Where small increases in crime are being experienced in some cities, the Department is responding appropriately working with our state and local partners to identify the problem and develop meaningful strategies to reduce and deter that crime. One such strategy is the Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative, implemented in 2001 to eradicate firearms-related crime in our communities by bringing together federal, state, and local agencies. This initiative is returning positive results. PSN reduces gun crime in America by networking existing local programs that target gun crime and providing these programs with additional tools necessary to be successful. In FY 2007, the Department filed 10,079 federal gun crime cases against 12,087 defendants. Over 93 percent of those offenders received prison terms and over 50 percent were sentenced to three or more years in prison. Since 2002, the Department has filed 61,502 federal firearms cases against 74,261 defendants, nearly a 100% increase in cases filed from the prior five year period. Since the inception of PSN, over $2.3 billion in federal resources have been dedicated to providing additional federal prosecutors in U.S. Attorneys Offices and agents and training within the ATF.
Southwest Border Enforcement Initiative.
The Southwest Border of the U.S. is the principal arrival zone for most illicit drugs smuggled into the U.S., as well as the predominant staging area for the subsequent distribution of drugs throughout the country. According to the El Paso Intelligence Center, most of the cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine and Mexico-produced heroin available in the U.S. is smuggled across the Southwest Border. In addition, both the Southwest Border and the smuggling routes and methods used by drug traffickers provide opportunities to support other national security threats facing our country, including alien smuggling and terrorism. To address this ever growing threat the Department proposes $100 million for a Southwest Border Enforcement Initiative.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection expanded from approximately 9,000 agents in 2001 to more than 13,000 by the end of FY 2007; by the end of 2008, there are anticipated to be a total of more than 18,000 agents. DOJ has estimated that the additional Border Patrol agents will double the 1.2 million apprehensions along the Southwest Border and generate over 24,000 new cases over two years. The Southwest Border Enforcement Initiative proposes $12.7 million for the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), including 52 Deputy U.S. Marshals, to address the increased workload and costs caused by stricter immigration enforcement. As the number of illegal immigrants entering America has increased, the USMS has experienced huge prisoner and fugitive workload growth along the Southwest Border. These resources will assist USMS in meeting the increasing demands to improve courthouse security and effectively manage the administrative workload in Southwest Border districts.
Drug Enforcement – $2.2B
The Department’s drug strategy utilizes the collective talent and expertise of several federal law enforcement agencies to identify and target the most significant drug supply organizations and components nationwide, and to attack the financial infrastructure supporting those enterprises. Hence, the Department focuses its drug law enforcement efforts on reducing the availability of drugs by disrupting and dismantling the largest drug supply and related money laundering networks operating nationally and internationally, including those on the Attorney General’s Consolidated Priority Organization Target (CPOT) List. The CPOT List, consists of the “Most Wanted” drug trafficking and money laundering organizations believed to be primarily responsible for the Nation’s illicit drug supply. In FY 2007, the Department dismantled 164 CPOT-linked drug trafficking organizations and severely disrupted 81 organizations. The Department has a long-term goal of dismantling 810 and disrupting 1,260 CPOT-linked organizations through FY 2012. At the end of FY 2007, the Department has achieved 351 of its dismantlement and 778 of its disruption long-term targets.
The Attorney General has designated the OCDETF program to serve as the cornerstone of Department’s drug supply reduction strategy. Centrally managed within the Department, the OCDETF program coordinates multi-agency and multi-jurisdictional investigations targeting the most serious drug trafficking threats. The OCDETF program combines the resources and expertise of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the FBI, the ATF, the USMS, the Internal Revenue Service, the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the litigating forces of DOJ’s Criminal Division, Tax Division, and the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices. These organizations coordinate to identify, disrupt, and dismantle the most serious drug trafficking and money laundering organizations The goal of each OCDETF investigation is to determine connections among related investigations nationwide in order to identify and dismantle the entire structure of the drug trafficking organization, from international supply and national transportation cells, to regional and local distribution networks. The FY 2009 budget includes $532 million for OCDETF. Currently, OCDETF investigations account for approximately 76 percent of all CPOT-linked investigation
Combating Crimes Against Children and Obscenity.
Children are our most vulnerable and most exploited members of society. The criminal victimization of children impacts not only the children but also their families, community and society at large. The protection of our Nation’s children has been and will continue to be, one of the Department’s highest priorities. While signing the Adam Walsh Act into law in July 2006, President Bush said, “Protecting our children is our solemn responsibility. It’s what we must do. When a child’s life or innocence is taken it is a terrible loss — it’s an act of unforgivable cruelty. Our society has a duty to protect our children from exploitation and danger.” The passage of the Act considerably expanded the Department’s legal arsenal to protect our children from sexual predators. The Department has established the Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART) Office site. The responsibilities of the SMART Office include providing states with guidance regarding the implementation of the Adam Walsh Act, and providing technical assistance to the states, territories, Indian tribes, local governments, and to public and private organizations. The SMART Office also will track important legislative and legal developments related to sex offenders and administer grant programs related to the registration, notification, tracking and monitoring of sex offenders. The FY 2009 Budget includes $185 million directed to state and local governments to combat crimes against children and obscenity.
Grants Consolidation.
To improve the Nation’s capacity to prevent crime and build crime fighting capacity in our communities, the Department continuously searches for ways to strengthen the criminal and juvenile justice capabilities of state, local and tribal governments. The Office of Justice Programs (OJP), the Community Oriented Policing Services, and the Office on Violence Against Women administer formula and discretionary grant programs, as well as targeted training and technical assistance on a wide range of criminal justice topics and programs that directly respond to the existing and emerging needs of state, local, and tribal communities. This budget proposes to consolidate more than 70 of the Department’s state and local grant programs in order to provide states and localities with more flexibility in addressing our Nation’s most critical criminal justice needs, including targeting violent crime. Primarily, the Department’s discretionary grant programs will be consolidated into four separate grants: Byrne Public Safety and Protection Program ($200 million); Child Safety and Juvenile Justice Program ($185 million); Violent Crime Reduction Partnership Initiative ($200 million) and Violence Against Women Program ($280 million).
Violent Crime Reduction Partnership Initiative.
Funding for this initiative ($200 million) will be used to help communities suffering from high rates of violent crime to tackle this problem by forming and developing effective multi-jurisdictional law enforcement partnerships between local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Through a competitive grant process, OJP will provide funding and technical assistance to communities seeking to establish partnerships to investigate and reduce violent crime, including efforts to address drug trafficking and criminal gang activity, which contribute to many violent offenses.
Byrne Public Safety and Protection (Byrne) Program.
Funding for this initiative ($200 million) will assist state and local governments in addressing a number of high-priority concerns, such as: (1) reducing violent crime at the local levels through the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative; (2) addressing the criminal justice issues surrounding substance abuse through drug courts, residential treatment for prison inmates, prescription drug monitoring programs, methamphetamine enforcement and lab cleanup; (3) promoting and enhancing law enforcement information sharing efforts through improved and more accurate criminal history records; (4) improving the capacity of state and local law enforcement and justice system personnel to make use of forensic evidence and reducing DNA evidence analysis backlogs; (5) addressing domestic trafficking in persons; (6) improving and expanding prisoner re-entry initiatives; and (7) improving services to victims of crime to facilitate their participation in the legal process.
Improving and Local Law Enforcement Intelligence Capabilities.
The Department’s Regional Information Sharing System (RISS) is the only national criminal intelligence system operated by and for state and local law enforcement agencies. RISS is comprised of six regional intelligence centers operating in mutually exclusive geographic regions that include all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. These regional centers facilitate and encourage information sharing and communications to support member agencies’ investigative and prosecution efforts by providing -of-the-art investigative support and training, analytical services, specialized equipment, secure information sharing technology, and secure encrypted e-mail and communication capabilities to over 6,000 municipal, county, state, and federal law enforcement agencies nationwide. For FY 2009, $34.2 million in total funding is requested and will be used to provide increased intelligence and forensic services for state and local law enforcement.
Strategic Goal 3: -$9.9B
Ensure the Fair and Efficient Administration of Justice
Detention and Incarceration.
The Department protects American society by providing for the safe, secure, and humane confinement of persons in federal custody through the efforts of the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee (OFDT) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). These components ensure that federal criminals and those awaiting trial or deportation are safely and cost-effectively incarcerated and detained. The costs of federal incarceration and detention activities account for almost a third of the Department’s annual discretionary budget. At present, there are over 200,000 inmates in BOP’s custody, of whom approximately 64 percent were convicted of immigration or drug-related offenses. The population of federal detainees in the custody of OFDT has experienced record growth, having increased more than 83 percent in the past decade. The FY 2009 Budget provides $5.5 billion for BOP and $1.3 billion for OFDT. Specific initiatives include: $50 million to fund 4,000 new beds to house minimum and low security offenders in contractor owned and operated facilities, and $17.1 million to fund marginal costs (food, medical care, clothing and inmate programs) associated with the inmate population growth above new contract beds in FY 2009, and $38 million to strengthen OFDT’s resources along the Southwest Border.
Judicial Security and Fugitive Apprehension.
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) maintains the responsibility of ensuring that the federal judicial process operates securely and effectively, a mission that encompasses protection of judges, witnesses, and the public; transporting and producing prisoners for court proceedings; and apprehending fugitives. The increase in the number of terrorist trials, as well as threats against judges and prosecutors, brings perspective to the growing needs for improved courtroom security. The FY 2009 budget provides a total of $933 million for the USMS inclusive of $12.7 million for the Southwest Border Enforcement Initiative. Furthermore, this budget provides the resources needed for the Department to achieve its long-term goal of ensuring that no judicial proceedings are interrupted due to inadequate security through FY 2009.
Additionally, the USMS is charged with conducting and investigating fugitive matters involving escaped federal prisoners; probation, parole and bond default violators; and certain other related felony cases. In FY 2007, through coordinated efforts between federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the USMS apprehended or cleared 33,437 fugitives in FY 2007, supporting the Department’s long-term goal of apprehending or clearing 34,370 primary fugitives by 2012.
Enhancing Immigration-Related Enforcement.
The fight against terrorism is the first and overriding priority of the Department and the Administration. A key component of this effort is the securing of our Nation’s borders and the repair of the immigration system as a whole. The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) performs the adjudication of the Department’s immigration cases. Protecting America requires a multifaceted strategy that must include the effective coordination of investigative, enforcement, legal and adjudicative resources, both within the Department and in cooperation with other agencies. In October 2006, President Bush signed the Secure Fence Act, which will have profound implication for EOIR’s adjudications programs. This budget provides $261.4 million for EOIR including $10 million for the Southwest Border Enforcement Initiative for immigration adjudication which will support the Department’s long-term goal of completing 90% of EOIR priority cases within established time frames each year through FY 2012. Specific initiatives include $8.3 million for the implementation and maintenance of a Digital Audio Recording System for immigration courts nationwide to improve audio quality and eliminate inaudible and indiscernible passages and $1.7 million for the Immigration Review Information Exchange System, which will enable sharing of mission-critical information with DHS and DOJ’s Civil Division.
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Agencies:
· Antitrust Division
· Asset Forfeiture Program
· Attorney General
· Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
· Bureau of Justice Assistance (OJP)
· Bureau of Justice Statistics (OJP)
· Civil Division
· Civil Rights Division
· Community Capacity Development Office (OJP) (includes Weed and Seed and American Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Desk)
· Community Oriented Policing Services – COPS
· Community Relations Service
· Criminal Division
· Diversion Control Program (DEA)
· Drug Enforcement Administration – DEA
· Environment and Natural Resources Division
· Executive Office for Immigration Review
· Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys
· Executive Office for U.S. Trustees
· Federal Bureau of Investigation – FBI
· Federal Bureau of Prisons – BOP
· Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States
· Immigration and Naturalization Service – now part of the
Department of Homeland Security
· U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services – USCIS
· Bureau of Customs and Border Protection – BCBP
· Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement – ICE
· Office of Immigration Statistics
· INTERPOL — U.S. National Central Bureau
· Justice Management Division
· National Criminal Justice Reference Service (OJP)
· National Drug Intelligence Center
· National Institute of Corrections (FBOP)
· National Institute of Justice (OJP)
· National Security Division – NSD
· Office of the Associate Attorney General
· Office of the Attorney General
· Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management
· Office of the Chief Information Officer
· Office of the Deputy Attorney General
· Office of Dispute Resolution
· Office for Domestic Preparedness – now part of the
Department of Homeland Security
· Office of the Federal Detention Trustee
· Office of Information Policy
· Office of the Inspector General
· Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison
· Office of Justice Programs
· Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention – OJJDP (OJP)
· Office of Legal Counsel
· Office of Legal Policy
· Office of Legislative Affairs
· Office of the Pardon Attorney
· Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties
· Office of Professional Responsibility
· Office of Public Affairs
· Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking – SMART (OJP)
· Office of Special Counsel
· Office of the Solicitor General
· Office of Tribal Justice
· Office for Victims of Crime (OJP)
· Office on Violence Against Women
· Professional Responsibility Advisory Office
· Tax Division
· U.S. Attorneys
· U.S. Marshals Service
· U.S. Parole Commission
· U.S. Trustee Program
Challenges
Restructuring the Intelligence Community
* In June 2005, in response to the recommendations presented by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, the President directed the Department to create a National Security Division (NSD) within the Department. In addition, the FBI established the Directorate of Intelligence and is expanding its core of intelligence analysts. On March 9, 2006, President George W. Bush announced the new position of Assistant Attorney General for NSD in the Department. The new Division consolidates the resources of the Office of Intelligence
* Policy and Review and the Criminal Division’s Counterterrorism and Counterespionage Sections in order to strengthen the Department’s core national security functions. These organizational changes reinforce the Department’s efforts to prevent terrorism and other threats to national security. The NSD improves coordination against terrorism within the Department of Justice, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, and other intelligence community agencies. The NSD became operational on September 28, 2006.
* Technology- Advances in high-speed telecommunications, computers and other technologies are creating new opportunities for criminals, new classes of crimes, and new challenges for law enforcement.
* Economy -Possible increases in consumer debt or shortage of commercial credit may affect personal and business bankruptcy filings. Economic growth and contraction, as well as globalization, are changing the volume and nature of anti-competitive behavior. The interconnected nature of the world’s economy is increasing opportunities for criminal activity, including money laundering, white-collar crime, and alien smuggling.
* Government- Changes in the fiscal posture or policies of State and local governments could have significant effects on the capacity of State and local governments to remain effective law enforcement partners.
* Globalization – Issues of criminal and civil justice increasingly transcend national boundaries, require the cooperation of foreign governments, and involve treaty obligations, multinational environment and trade agreements, and other foreign policy concerns.
* Social-Demographic – The numbers of adolescents and young adults, now the most crime-prone segment of the population, are expected to grow rapidly over the next several years.
* The Unpredictable – The Global War on Terrorism requires continual adjustments to new conditions. The Department is determined to proactively confront new challenges in its effort to protect the Nation.