Impacts of combined technological and social changes since the terrorist attacks on September, 11 in 2001 were enormous for the American citizens and whole world. These events, except social, legal changes, brought significant moral changes in people’s minds and thoughts. Since September 11, 2001, terrorism has become the most active subject in law enforcement. Primarily due to funding sources available through the Federal Government, cities and towns across the country have been focusing on anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism efforts.
Many of the technological advancements used by law enforcement have produced questions of Constitutional Rights versus National Security, as Muslim male could be in the situation of being unreasonably detected, suspected or searched without sufficient grounds for that from their point of view. Dealing with this situation it is essential to realize that all the measures to fight terrorism are being taken to provide security of the whole nation, including the security of particular citizen, who probably faces unreasonable charges, and his family. That is why it is important to be patient and provide additional assistance for those in charge; to realize that they are doing important and very difficult job for the population of the United States, and are interest to detect terrorists and not an innocent person.
Justice is a balancing act. Those who follow criminal justice issues are well-aware that debates on justice policy often reflect fundamental disagreements about the extent to which we should emphasize either the rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution or the crime-fighting mission of some of our justice agencies (Riley, J., 2007). Some authors believe that because of protection of interests of high number of people, fight against terrorism can interfere into the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution. That is why some actions prohibited by law are justified during war on terrorism (e.g. use of secret evidence and witnesses, questioning of privacy rights, etc). But such interference has to be justified by law, certain circumstance, and that is why it must be strictly limited. The most important is that all antiterrorism investigations in the United States, whether of foreign or domestic groups, should be conducted pursuant to criminal rules, with the goals of arresting people who are planning, supporting, or carrying out violent activities and convicting them in a court of law. Law enforcement must stop framing terrorism investigations in political, religious, or ethnic terms (Riley, J., 2007).
References
Heather J. Davies, Gerard R. Murphy with Kareem Irfan, Linda M. Schmidt, Barbara B. McDonald, Gil Kerlikowske, James D. Sewell. (2004). Protecting Your Community From Terrorism. Strategies for local law enforcement. Volume 2: Working with diverse communities. Police executive research forum. US Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. Washington, DC 20036.
Riley, John. (2007). Review Essay: Terrorism and the Constitution: Security, Civil Rights, and the War on Terror. Alaska Justice Forum 23(4): 2–5. Online. Available at: http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/23/4winter2007/b_terrorism.html.
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