Due to increase in Global Terrorism and Threat to US, the Budget of Criminal Justice Department should be increased

Abstract

US government and people are very concerned about the global terrorism and threats faced by United States. Safeguarding against another incident of 9/11 is important. In order to do so, US government adopted a holistic approach, which encompasses four pillars: (1) measures taken to deal with conditions conductive to the terrorism spread; (2) measures to combat and prevent terrorism; (3) measures to build capacity to combat and prevent terrorism and strengthen the system of US in this regard; and (4) measures to assure the rule of law and respect for human right for everyone as the basis to combat terrorism. This paper argues that by strengthening the US criminal justice system is one of the best ways to prevent and combat global terrorism, which is a significant threat to US. Strengthening US criminal justice department calls for the increase in its budget to decrease the threat of terrorism as the major funding of terrorists came from drug trafficking, money laundering, illegitimate bank operations, extortion and others. All these activities can be eradicated only with an effective criminal justice department. Thus, the results of this study concluded that budget of criminal justice department must be increased.

Due to increase in Global Terrorism and Threat to US, the Budget of Criminal Justice Department should be increased

Introduction

Undeniably, terrorism across the globe is increasing day by day, which increases the threat to the lives and security of US people and government. The recent attack of Boston Marathon bombings is the noteworthy example that highlights the significance of the global terrorism problem, in which around 180 people died and 3 were injured (Capaccio, 2011).

Terrorist organizations vary in their structure and ranged from large state like organizations to small, self-directed and decentralized networks. Financial requirement of terrorists imitate this difference, based on the size of the organization, and not only to meet broader organizational costs of maintaining and developing a terrorist organization, as well as to create an environment essential to sustain terrorism. Terrorist organizations use a range of methods to raise their funds via drug trafficking, illegitimate bank operations, money laundering and extortion, and move funds within and between organizations, including the movement of goods via the trade system, the physical movement of cash by couriers, and the financial sector. Terrorists are able to carry out these illegal activities because of flaws and lack of criminal justice department. This flaw of criminal justice department is mainly because of inadequate budget and finances.

On the other hand, US has provided $27.1 billion with decreased 0.4% of criminal justice department's budget in discretionary funding as compared to FY 2012 level. For the year 2013, the Budget of Criminal Justice Department outlined by the group is grants (6 percent); technology/ administration/ other (2 percent); prison and detention (32 percent); litigation (11 percent); and law enforcement (49 percent). Additionally, it is estimated that department of criminal justice in FY 2013 will receive ...