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The purpose of this assignment is to explore how homeland security is defined, constructed, and delivered in your local jurisdiction at a strategic level. Create a policy memo of 7501,000 words that summarizes the major topics listed below. Your memo should outline your research findings on the major topic areas and research questions. You may consider your local jurisdiction as a town or city, county, or state of your choice. You are encouraged to interview local homeland security practitioners, either in person or via e-mail to complete this assignment.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 7501,000 words:
What jurisdiction did you choose for this assignment?
How is homeland security defined by your jurisdiction?
Is there a written definition or strategy?
Is this document public? If not, why not?
If there is not a written definition at the local level, consider the findings of your research in the context of the definitions and environment outlined in resources provided (e.g., the National Strategy for Homeland Security).
How does your local strategy differ from the national strategy?
How is it similar?
Are these differences appropriate?
What is the scope of the strategy? Explain.
Does it define the key participating agencies and disciplines?
Does the local strategy include participation by the private sector? Does it include nongovernmental organizations?
How are the state and federal government incorporated into the strategy? Explain.
If they are not, should they be?
Who (what agency) wrote the strategy?
What agency provides primary HS leadership? Is there more than one?
What are the platforms for interagency coordination of HS strategic issues (e.g., meetings, conference calls, and task forces)?
Has the focus on HS as a metadiscipline, wavered in the years since 9/11 in your jurisdiction?
Is the level of strategic focus on HS at the local level appropriate for the HS environment that the nation and your jurisdiction find themselves in today?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

For each scenario below, identify if the search is illegal or legal. Also explain why it is illegal or legal in a few sentences.

1.Officer Jones is trying to find a convict who escaped from a nearby jail. Going door-to-door in the neighborhood surrounding the jail, he asks permission to enter each house and search it. The Nguyen\’s allow him to enter their house. Once in the house, the officer sees and seizes an unregistered firearm that is on a bookshelf.

2.In a neighborhood well known for producing methamphetamines, the police have a warrant to search the basement of one home to find a production lab. Finding nothing in the basement, they perform a protective sweep search on the rest of the house.

3.While chaperoning a high-school football game, police in Mississippi see a gun on the front seat of a parked car. Opening the car door, they discover not only the gun but also bullets and a knife.

4.Jody and Chandra attend a keg party where all of those drinking were under age. The police break up the party without arresting anyone. They seize Jody\’s purse. Inside, they find marijuana and arrest Jody for possession.

5.Late for work, Diego was driving five miles over the speed limit when pulled over by the police. Ordering Diego out of the car, the police proceed to frisk him and find a small weapon in his jacket pocket.

The purpose of this assignment is to explore how homeland security is defined, constructed, and delivered in your local jurisdiction at a strategic level. Create a policy memo of 7501,000 words that summarizes the major topics listed below. Your memo should outline your research findings on the major topic areas and research questions. You may consider your local jurisdiction as a town or city, county, or state of your choice. You are encouraged to interview local homeland security practitioners, either in person or via e-mail to complete this assignment.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in 7501,000 words:
What jurisdiction did you choose for this assignment?
How is homeland security defined by your jurisdiction?
Is there a written definition or strategy?
Is this document public? If not, why not?
If there is not a written definition at the local level, consider the findings of your research in the context of the definitions and environment outlined in resources provided (e.g., the National Strategy for Homeland Security).
How does your local strategy differ from the national strategy?
How is it similar?
Are these differences appropriate?
What is the scope of the strategy? Explain.
Does it define the key participating agencies and disciplines?
Does the local strategy include participation by the private sector? Does it include nongovernmental organizations?
How are the state and federal government incorporated into the strategy? Explain.
If they are not, should they be?
Who (what agency) wrote the strategy?
What agency provides primary HS leadership? Is there more than one?
What are the platforms for interagency coordination of HS strategic issues (e.g., meetings, conference calls, and task forces)?
Has the focus on HS as a metadiscipline, wavered in the years since 9/11 in your jurisdiction?
Is the level of strategic focus on HS at the local level appropriate for the HS environment that the nation and your jurisdiction find themselves in today?
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.
Compile your answers into a final Word document, and submit it to your instructor.

You are the emergency manager in a city with a population of 250,000 in the northeastern United States. You are seeking grant funding from the Department of Homeland Security for your municipality to aid in the protection of critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR). Before the City Council will approve your grant proposal, it has requested a briefing on the citys CIKR.

Your assignment is to create a 750-word informational memorandum that fully defines, explains, and provides practical local examples of critical infrastructure and key resources in general and the most significant (top 5) infrastructure and key resources in your city. You should ensure that you address each of the 16 critical infrastructure sectors detailed in PPD21 and NIPP 2013.

Assignment Guidelines

Address the following in a memorandum of 7501,000 words:
For each of the 16 Critical Infrastructure sectors, identify 12 local examples of critical infrastructure.
Briefly describe the examples, and explain how they are operated and utilized.
Provide any information that you feel is unique to each sector.
Identify the 5 most significant critical infrastructure assets and key resources in your locality.
Explain why they are the most significant to your locality.
What could be impacted if one of the sectors were compromised? Explain.
What if most or all of the sectors were compromised? Explain.
Would it be possible to rebuild these key assets and resources? Why or why not?
Compile your responses into your final memorandum, and submit the file to your instructor.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA style.

NOTE: It\’s and Informative Memorandum

In this essay, define economic globalization, and analyze its impact on trends of inequality, economic stability, economic sustainability, and the exercise of macroeconomic policy. Use this analysis to consider whether economic globalization should be restrained or promoted by public policy

Instruction is attached, include a Bibliography (only if you use footnotes or endnotes) or Works Cited (only if you use MLA in-text notes).
You MUST use at least 2 books, and 2 articles (articles MUST be ONLY from scholarly journals (you may use JSTOR or other online database, BUT no encyclopedias, no websites, no matter how scholarly they may look)
Use the Craig text

Read Slack and Wises chapter on Assemblage and Articulation. They argue that this model gives us a methodology to study culture that includes important elements such as politics and economics as well as technology. Importantly, it allows us to not simplify things down to mere technological determinism. In an essay of 1500-2000 words, explain their theory of articulation and assemblage and then use this framework to explain the development and social uses of one of the following communication technologies: landline telephones, television, Facebook, or YouTube.

For each scenario below, identify if the search is illegal or legal. Also explain why it is illegal or legal in a few sentences.

1.Officer Jones is trying to find a convict who escaped from a nearby jail. Going door-to-door in the neighborhood surrounding the jail, he asks permission to enter each house and search it. The Nguyen\’s allow him to enter their house. Once in the house, the officer sees and seizes an unregistered firearm that is on a bookshelf.

2.In a neighborhood well known for producing methamphetamines, the police have a warrant to search the basement of one home to find a production lab. Finding nothing in the basement, they perform a protective sweep search on the rest of the house.

3.While chaperoning a high-school football game, police in Mississippi see a gun on the front seat of a parked car. Opening the car door, they discover not only the gun but also bullets and a knife.

4.Jody and Chandra attend a keg party where all of those drinking were under age. The police break up the party without arresting anyone. They seize Jody\’s purse. Inside, they find marijuana and arrest Jody for possession.

5.Late for work, Diego was driving five miles over the speed limit when pulled over by the police. Ordering Diego out of the car, the police proceed to frisk him and find a small weapon in his jacket pocket.