Terrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report Initiative

Download or read book Terrorism Information Sharing and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Report Initiative written by Mark A. Randol and published by DIANE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 9/11 Commission cited breakdowns in info. sharing and the failure to fuse pertinent intelligence as key factors in the failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks. Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) contain info. about criminal activity that may also reveal terrorist pre-operational planning. The Nationwide SAR Initiative (NSI) is an effort to have most law enforcement org. participate in a standardized, integrated approach to gathering, documenting, processing, and analyzing terrorism-related SARs. This report describes the NSI, the rationale for the sharing of terrorism-related SARs, and how the NSI seeks to achieve this objective. It also examines the privacy and civil liberties concerns raised by the initiative.