Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction, 6th Edition Chapter 16
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Law enforcement bureaucracy and homeland security
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1978 Civil Service Reform Act | A federal law designed to prevent political interference with the decisions and actions of governmental organizations. |
| actionable intelligence | Information that law enforcement agencies, military units, or other security forces can use to stop an attack or operation. |
| bureaucracy | Governmental, private-sector, and nonprofit organizations. It assumes that people organize in a hierarchy to create an organization that will solve problems. |
| emergency-response plans | Preparations from any agency to deal with natural, accidental, or human-made disasters. They involve controlling the incident through an organized response-and-command system and assigning various organizations to supervise the restoration of social order. |
| Government Management Reform Act of 1994 | A federal law designed to prevent political interference in the management of federal governmental organizations and to increase the efficiency of management. |
| intelligence product | Any outcome or output of analyzed information that can be used by law enforcement agencies, military units, or security forces to take an immediate action. |
| National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) | An organization designed to filter information from the intelligence process, synthesize counterterrorist information, and share it with appropriate organizations. |
| posse comitatus | A clause in the second article of the Constitution that forbids the government to use military force to enforce law. (Do not confuse this with the right-wing extremist group Posse Comitatus.) |
| pre-incident indicators | The criminal and social actions of individuals and groups before a terrorist attack. |
| task orientation | As used in this text, the ability to stay focused on the primary mission of an organization. |
| Terrorism Screening Center (TSC) | A multiagency operation in West Virginia that evaluates information gathered from a variety of governmental sources. |
| threat analysis | The process of examining a community to determine the areas that might be subject to attack and the criticality of those areas to the functions of the community. |
| Max Weber | (1864\-1920) One of the major figures of modern sociological methods, studied the organization of human endeavors. Weber believed that social organizations could be organized for rational purposes designed to accomplish objectives. |
| working group | A term used in the federal government for a group of subject matter experts who gather to suggest solutions to common problems. |
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