Introduction
The United States seeks foreign cooperation to stop terrorism because it lacks the expertise to deal with criminals from various nations. After the September 11, 2001 attack, contemporary violence has been marked as a dramatic escalation of the destructive extremism trend (Brennan, 2018).
Discussion
The event proved that terrorism does not discriminate when choosing targets and that most victims are civilians. Differentiating a potential extremist from the rest of the population has been challenging because most international criminals interact with civilians and become part of them. When executing suicide bombings, international extremists present law enforcement agencies with a challenge to identify for unprecedented scope and destruction.
The United States has developed an intelligence community to improve the operation intensity and formalize dealing with terror planning organizations. In most cases, the loosely affiliated extremists require a paralleled shift in tactics and methodologies that yield the highest casualties. All the threats from international extremism present a significant challenge because they do not have a foreseeable future pattern (Reichel, 2018). At the same time, American law enforcement agencies encounter threats from domestic terrorism, which are hard to distinguish from international ones. All these threats represent a significant challenge, especially when criminals refine their methodologies.
Conclusion
Prosecuting international terrorists has been a challenge because their advanced methods of communication prevent evidence recovery. Criminals engage in serious criminal activities, yet law enforcement agents cannot access the critical evidence that allows them to prosecute a specific extremism activity. At the same time, delayed evidence discovery poses severe public safety consequences, given that the criminals go scot-free (Sinnar, 2018). Seizures warranted by the American constitution are shallow and do not allow the gathering and processing of encrypted evidence that could be valuable in a case. At times, domestic and international criminals engage in joint attacks.
References
Brennan, A. M. (2018). Transnational Terrorist Groups and International Criminal Law. Routledge.
Reichel, P. L. (2018). Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: A Topical Approach – 7th Edition. Pearson. Web.
Sinnar, S. (2018). Separate and Unequal: The Law of Domestic and International Terrorism. Michigan Law Review., 117, 1333.