The Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI)

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Today in 2017 there are many branches of law enforcement, I’ll be talking about just one out of the many. That is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Also I’ll be talking about the history of the department, duties of certain occupations, the effect the job has on society, and the requirements to join the force.
Firstly, did you ever wonder how the FBI was created or even its origins through today? The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) started in 1908 and was born as a force of Special Agents. A man named Charles Bonaparte who was a General during Theodore Roosevelt's presidency created the FBI. The FBI was first named Bureau of Investigation but, that changed when the name changed in 1935 to Federal Bureau of Investigation. When …show more content…

New agents had limitless training, they were poorly managed and they weren't disciplined for their actions. At first, agents investigated mostly white-collar and civil rights cases, (J Edgar Hoover) Congress wanted them to get future agenda and future intelligences about other crimes. Congress had them take some new, more intense criminal acts. By 1915, Congress had increased Bureau personnel more than tenfold, from its original 34 to about 360 special agents and support personnel. (J Edgar Hoover) Congress passed the Espionage Act and later the Sabotage Act. Congress gave the responsibility of these to the principal national investigative agency which is also called the Bureau of Investigation. The agency was in counterspy business less than a decade into its history. The Bureau had the job of rounding up army deserters and policing millions of “enemy aliens” as well as of enforcing a variety of other war-related crimes. Today the FBI mission is to protect American people and hold up the Constitution of the United States. In the FBI there are many different occupations you can do, special agents, intelligence analysis, surveillance …show more content…

FBI agents are always in a life or death situation unlike normal jobs. FBI agents are trained to protect society from internal threats, to national security. They are one of the ones who make this country safe for citizens like you and me too live in. The FBI protects the civil rights of people in the United States, how? The FBI investigates violations of federal civil rights statutes and supports the investigations of state and local authorities in certain cases (fbi.ov) Many people watch the show Criminal Minds or Special Victims Unit (SVU) but what they do and how they execute things are different than what the actual job requires. On tv they portray FBI as rude and just take over the case, but “Navarro recalled working on a kidnapping in Arizona, where the FBI provided over a hundred agents to assist the local sheriff's department.” (Aine Cain). People portray FBI agents as something not totally different but different than what they actually are. On most tv shows FBI agents only deal with serial killers but that's not true, “Williams, who served as a special agent for 26 years and mainly investigated economic crimes, noted that, while the FBI does investigate serial killers, only a small percentage of agents handle such cases.” (Aine Cain) Not just on tv, the FBI or Feds are portrayed as something they're not. Music today in 2017 portrays the Feds and cops as people who hate on everyone and who

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