ARE WE GETTING IT RIGHT? MEASURING THE EFFICACY OF INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD THROUGH A POLICY ANALYSIS OF THE NYPD’S OPERATION SENTRY
Authors
Mercado, Christopher
Subjects
New York City Police Department (NYPD)
Domestic Intelligence Community
Program Evaluation
Sentry
Policy Analysis
Performance Analysis
Law Enforcement
Domestic Intelligence Community
Program Evaluation
Sentry
Policy Analysis
Performance Analysis
Law Enforcement
Advisors
Morag, Nadav
Miller, Patrick
Date of Issue
2013-03
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
This thesis examines Operation Sentry—an NYPD intelligence collection and inter-agency collaboration platform networking law enforcement and other agencies to investigate crime and terror threats to New York City. This thesis is a policy analysis (through structured interviews) to determine Sentry’s effectiveness, accomplishments, and applicabilityfor homeland security. Large cities like New York remain tempting targets for terrorist groups. A great deal of preparation, planning, and implementation occurs outside the target area. Sentry is a force multiplier enlisting multiple agencies. As fusion centers demonstrate a positive step towards better domestic intelligence collaboration, a recent U.S. Senate report raises serious questions about fusion centers. This thesis demonstrates how state and local law enforcement are not necessarily relegated to the brick and mortar building of a state-run fusion center. Sentry is an effective and highly responsive intelligence tool easily replicated (either regionally or nationally) and adaptable enough to expand and contract based on law enforcement’s mission. Sentry’s success is in its interdisciplinary approach to collaboration. It is a laterally structured business model, comfortably coexisting within a large police departmenttwo differing operational designs that have proven difficult to manifest and sustain in large government bureaucracies.
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Thesis
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National Security Affairs (NSA)
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89 p.
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