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11: Police Programs and Homeland Security/Hometown Security

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    An interesting feature to remember in this discussion is that Homeland Security cannot happen without Hometown Security (IACP, 2009). This sections material examines programs at the federal state and local level. A point of interest at this juncture in this discussion is to call upon your own knowledge as to who provides Homeland and Hometown Security. What may come to mind at first blush is the military and the police. Yet in reality there are several divisions within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) alone that support security efforts on a state and local parameter. Although it was initially conveyed that private information is considered personal, to what degree might one consider their personal information private, albeit it may have been cut loose though some form of social media.


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