Globalization of Organized Crime and TerrorismThe article, Increased Globalization of Organized Crime and Terrorism: Europol and the EU Perspective, by Patrick Byrne, recognizes the emerging challenges for law enforcement due to globalization. Byrne is the senior representative of Europol, the European Police Agency in Washington, D.C. The author’s experience and position allow him to provide valuable insight from a perspective outside that of the United States.The author notes that local level law enforcement may have to face dangerous situations which are a direct cause of global criminality or terrorism and not connected to any specific local cause (Byrne, 2013). Factors such as Internet, global interaction in trade and services, and travel contribute to an environment where borders begin to dissolve in terms of criminality. As a response to globalization of crime and terrorism, the European Union formed Europol as an effort to effectively coordinate law enforcement and intelligence sharing between different law enforcement agencies within the region and international agencies (Byrne, 2013).The formation of Europol is similar to the United States’ formation of Department of Homeland Security Fusion centers, which serve a similar purpose and intent. “The United States – with more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies and entities” “has faced up to the challenges of coordinating the federal, state, and local resources with the fusion center concept” (Byrne, 2013, p. 1).Both European and U.S. based agencies recognize known organized crime groups and terrorist threats within their respective regions, and release assessments addressing these threats. These assessments address “the convergence of illicit actors or networks between transnational organized crime and terrorism that can make accurate intelligence gather, crime prevention, and detection more difficult” (Byrne, 2013, p. 1). The author addresses the problem by questioning how limited resources should be utilized in order to achieve the most effective result. The article details a variety of resources and operational methods that Europol utilizes to respond to emerging threats.As globalization continues to increase, better organization and coordination between local, national, international, and global entities is needed. Personally, I question the ability of a global effort due to differences in foreign interests, politics, and goals between the worlds many different nation states. However, I can envision an international law enforcement and intelligence sharing partnership between allied countries.ReferenceByrne, P.G. (2013, August). Increased globalization of organized crime and terrorism: Europol and the EU perspective.  The Police Chief, 80, 64-68. Retrieved from http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=3018&issue_id=82013

You are the nurse manager on a large unit that has 14 FTE RNs on staff, 25 FTE LPNs, and 15 FTE nursing aides, orderlies, and clerks. The schedule for the next 2 months is due in administration by next week, and you are beginning to work on it. Various requests have been submitted by personnel for vacations, educational conferences, time to attend a wedding, and long weekends, and a request from one nurse asks not to be rotated to weekend evenings or nights because her husband bowls on weekends, and she has no babysitter for their three young children. Then answer the following questions:

• What types of additional information do you need to complete this schedule?
• How do you honor requests as submitted? What if two of the requests for vacations came from RNs scheduled to work the same weekends, and they both asked for exactly the same days off?
• How do you inform staff whether their requests have been honored? Are they informed by seeing the posted schedule?
• Are requests taken in the order in which they are received? Or do you have another means of honoring requests?

 Provide your responses on an APA formatted paper.

Review the following scenario:You are a Wichita Police Department detective working in the major crimes unit, and you are assigned to a joint federal–state–city crime task force working on a number of major drug cases. Over a period of several months, your task force has been able to gather information and make cases on several of the drug suppliers, drug dealers, and drug buyers in the Wichita metropolitan area. The task force is about to complete its mission by filing criminal charges in the federal district court, the state district court, or the Wichita Municipal Court against these various suspects. These suspects will not be arrested until the warrants are issued.Your job is to make recommendations concerning which jurisdictions should file the charges on which defendants. You will need to evaluate the criminal statutes and penalties in each jurisdiction and even the rules of evidence to determine where your task force has the best chance of obtaining a conviction and in getting the punishment to fit the crime.The memo that you receive from your Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) task force supervisor explains the situation:MEMORe: Charging DecisionsYou are the primary investigator in the cases against Jones, Smith, and Thompson. As I review your reports, it appears that each of these cases has strengths and weaknesses that we should evaluate before we determine whether to file charges in the U.S. District Court, the Sedgwick County District Court for the State of Kansas, or the Wichita Municipal Court. I will summarize those strengths and weaknesses here to make sure I am reading your reports correctly. I need you to give me advice on where you think these charges should be brought.Jones has been working for you as a confidential informant because you have evidence against him for a February 6, 2005 third possession of cocaine after convictions in 1993 and 1994. He appears to have followed the terms of his deal with you to introduce our undercover agents to his dealer. We have promised not to prosecute for any drug offenses he may commit in the presence of our undercover agent while playing the role of our informant. His assistance has enabled us to get sufficient evidence on Smith and Thompson to obtain convictions. Based on Jones’ two prior convictions for possession of cocaine, we would normally want him to go to federal court, where the maximum sentences are available. However, because of his cooperation, we could file the case in the Sedgwick County, Kansas, and district court under state law. We could even change the charge to a drug paraphernalia offense and send his case to the city of Wichita.How do you think we should proceed concerning Jones’ February 6, 2005 cocaine possession? (30%)He will probably plead guilty unless we send him to federal court. Where do you want to file it? (20%)Smith has sold cocaine to our undercover agents on two occasions: July 12, 2005 and August 3, 2005. We have found no prior record on this individual, but we believe that he regularly sells to his friends and acquaintances. Your report indicates it took several contacts between Jones and the undercover agent to persuade Smith to make those two sales. It also appears that although we have tried to make additional purchases from Smith, but he will no longer deal to either Jones or our undercover agents. Based upon the evidence, I do not think we will need to require Smith to testify against his friend, Jones, and we should have enough evidence to convict based solely upon the testimony of our undercover agents.Where do you want to file this case against Smith? (20%)Thompson appears to be a major dealer but not a local supplier to other dealers in the community. Jones brought our undercover agents to him on several occasions, but Thompson appears to be very wary of obtaining new customers he does not know personally. Thompson has never sold directly to any of our undercover officers, but our officers have personally observed Thompson selling cocaine to Jones on five occasions in March and April of 2006. Your undercover officers indicate that Thompson displays large quantities of cash, keeps major quantities of drugs in his hidden safe in the bedroom floor of his house, and has a number of firearms throughout his house. I believe that if we can get Thompson on these five drug sales made to Jones, we could leverage him to help us get to his supplier. The problem is using Jones, with two prior convictions for cocaine possession and working with us only to save himself, as a witness for the prosecution. I would like to obtain the higher penalties for drug sales and drug possession available in federal court, but we must determine whether Jones’ prior criminal record will be allowed into evidence. His credibility is crucial to getting Thompson convicted, but if the jury hears about his entire past, it might be difficult for them to convict Thompson.Where do you think we should file the case against Thompson? (25%)I am going to need you to provide me reasons for each recommendation, and I will forward those to the prosecutors in these courts.I need your help on this.DEA Task Force SupervisorConsult the Web resources on federal, Kansas, and Wichita laws to find information to support your recommendations.Please provide APA citation and references where necessary. (5%)

The mayor of your city wants to allocate funds to open several curbside healthy food markets/ farmers markets based on the hypothesis that people who utilize curbside healthy food markets/farmers markets regularly (defined as once a week) for their groceries have healthier weight and are likely to control of their weight as compared to people who do not utilize them regularly.

As an epidemiologist you request and succeeded in getting a small amount of funds to conduct an epidemiological study to test the above hypothesis. How would you design this study? What are some of the potential confounders and or biases that can influence the results of study? How can you minimize them and report the results objectively?

One of the assignments is dealing with 10 powerpoint slides and the other assignment is an essay. I need someone who is really good at both assignments; and can provide good work because my grade depends on it.