What was the real cause of the Civil War?
Money. As usual. This is also where the State Rights thing came into place. The South was knocking out all of this agriculture AND cotton for fabric. The North had gone almost strictly industry. The North had all these empty factories and the huge costs for purchasing raw materials from the South. Great Britain and Europe was more than willing to pay these costs for export of these raw materials, namely cotton. Therefore making these Southern property owners very wealthy. The wealthy business owners of the North took steps to legally change that practice so they would get the raw materials at a cheaper cost and control the commerce. When they tossed the ethical problem of slavery......they brought with them a winning argument over to their side. If the Southerners had no slaves, they wouldn't be able to produce these raw materials in such a quantity, thereby taking the commercial power away from the South and giving it to them, the wealthy businessmen, in the North. It is always about money, honey. Money and control.
U.S. Marshal Service dress code?
Can U.S. Marshals wear what they want on duty? For instance; say a marshal wore clothes like Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke...would he get in trouble? Can they wear their own gun? Just curious.…
Is the Federal Air Marshal program a good program?
If I was an Air Marshal, my response would be "Futile, useless, and I'm ashamed at how much I've wasted taxpayers.." A dire waste of money. The US Air Marshall program has never prevented a terrorist attack. The US government puts up ~$1 Billion a year to pay for air marshals. I remember a few years ago the average arrest rate was ~4. Many of those arrested were behaving in a disorderly fashion on a plane either from being drunk or slightly mentally insane. Essentially, US taxpayers paid $200M per an arrest. Needless KillingIn 2005, Air Marshals shot and killed Rigoberto Alpizar over a petty altercation. Poor Training, Recruitment, and CoverageAir Marshals go on ~5% of flights last time I checked. In some cases, Air Marshals have prior convictions or have training as baggage scanner attendants. Ex-marshal: Air marshal training 'a national disgrace'Until 2006, we were easy to spot on planes. DHS Gets Rid of Dress Code, Hotel Regulations for Air Marshals
If a US military veteran becomes a police officer, can he/she wear their military service ribbons on their uniform?
In Australia. Federal and state police / Ambulance/ Fire/ Emergency Services to name a few may wear their military service ribbons in order of priority (There is a manual on this subject and each service has a dress code) on certain types of uniforms. On occasions such as ANZAC day, they wear their medals. Other citations and such are worn on the right breast. Most of our Border Force and Federal Police are ex military who have served and have completed active service so wear their campaign medals/ ribbons together with long service medals.
With the current budget and manning issues the military has, is there any good reason for not eliminating military bands, sports sponsorship, window dressing roles such as the White House Sentries, or at least convert them to retired service members.
The military doesn’t have a budget ‘issue’ — look at all the extra money Trump is throwing at it — and if the military really had a manning issue, it would cut down on some frills such as it did mostly eliminating live buglers from military funerals.Military bands are good for morale. Sports sponsorship is a recruiting tool and comes out of the marketing budget. There are no real ‘window dressing’ roles when it comes to White House sentries and the like—such guards are very highly trained and perform a very real role.Converting to retired service members would not save any money, and they likely would not be in a physical or mental state to take on the sorts of roles that would be needed.
What would be the coolest place to work: The CIA, FBI, NSA, Secret Service, or some other agency (TSA perhaps)?
The CIA has one field agent for every 294 desk jockeys. Your chance at being the next James Bond with a super secret device in Algier are about as high as being picked for the lead role in the next Bourne movie from a phone book. That means you'll likely spend your years driving into work every day with a packed lunch and plans for dinner. If that's "cool" to you, there you go. The NSA isn't that different. Your toys are bigger and hum louder, but unless applying math to massive amounts of anonymous data is your thing, every day, while being extremely restricted in what you can do and say outside you won't be happy there. I had a friend who got recruited into the NSA at a young age and our most favorite game around him was to mention various political and social events in the world and watch when he would have to go debrief again because someone mentioned "Afghan nurses" or some other random term.With the FBI you're in actual law enforcement more than data management and gathering - at least in your first years. Your chances at strapping on a weapon and walking the streets are highest, but so is your risk. If you enjoy that more, there's your agency. Your dress code will be the most strict and you'll be likely schlepping boxes at white collar raids or interviewing victims of white collar crimes more than joining a task force or becoming the next Dr. Spencer Reid, but it is a more active, world facing, job.If I had a choice it would be the U.S. Marshalls which are much, much, more involved in daily law enforcement and street presence. The USMS has many jobs that put you in a car and out in the field, analysts are often all-rounders with well trained defense and weapon skills, and you're more likely to be recruited into one of the above as a field role if you excel with this agency for ten years.
Does the FBI have agents that aren't special? Are there any just plain "Agent" or "Ordinary Agent" titles used for the FBI?
In the U.S., the term “special” has been used in law enforcement for some time and is intended to indicate that the bearer has specific and limited law enforcement powers.Examples include:Special Agents of the FBISpecial Agents of a Railroad (also known as Railroad Police)San Francisco Patrol Special PoliceNew Jersey Special Law Enforcement OfficersNew Orleans Police Special OfficersThe reason why FBI agents have the word “special” in their title is meant to indicate that they do have law enforcement powers, but that their powers are not the same as a state-commissioned peace officer, such as a police officer, constable, marshal or sheriff. In their case, their law enforcement powers are specifically for enforcing federal laws and investigating federal crimes. They may have additional police powers if a state grants it to them.Federal agencies do not have to call their agents “special agents” and many agents have different titles. The FBI uses the title Special Agent for its law enforcement officers.Agents of the FBI that do not have arrest authority may be called “investigators,” “background investigators,” “compliance officers,” etc. But they lack the law enforcement powers a special agent has. This is similar to how a police department may hire people to work in the office who are not commissioned peace officers.So, not all employees of the FBI are Special Agents, but all FBI employees with law enforcement power have the word Special in their titles, such as Special Agent, Supervisory Special Agent or Special Agent in Charge.