Life in the
Federal government imitates TV;
Federal Bureau of Investigation officials
are in a turf battle with other federal law-enforcement agencies over
perceived attempts to muscle into what the FBI considers its territory:
fighting violent crime.
In the past
year, 61% of the FBI's 56 field offices have run into "severe" or
"moderate" conflicts with other federal law-enforcement agencies,
according to an internal survey conducted by the bureau's Criminal
Investigative Division. A summary of the survey was included in a memo
circulated to managers in July and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The
memo provides a rare public look at the tensions that simmer beneath
the surface as federal agents from an alphabet soup of three-letter
agencies try to make big arrests and win prestige and congressional
funding. It shows the FBI fretting that smaller agencies—particularly
Homeland Security Investigations and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives—are taking over cases the FBI should handle,
sometimes causing confusion.
Bold by HSIB in the above. But, there's a lesson in that for all those who reflexively turn to the government to solve society's ills.
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