Federal Police Ranks Swell to Enforce a Widening Array of Criminal Laws - WSJ

BY LOUISE RADNOFSKY said:

For years, the public face of federal law enforcement has been the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Today, for many people, the knock on the door is increasingly likely to come from a dizzying array of other police forces tucked away inside lesser-known crime-fighting agencies.

They could be from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Labor or Education departments, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management or the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the agency known for its weather forecasts.

Agents from NOAA, in fact, along with the Fish and Wildlife Service, raided the Miami business of Morgan Mok in ...

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WSJ said:

Convictions from cases where investigation was led by agencies other than Justice, Treasury, Defense and what became Homeland Security, FYs 1986-2010
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• Agriculture
• Commerce
• Education
• Energy
• Health and Human Services
• Housing and Urban Development
• Interior
• Labor
• Postal Service
• State Department
• Transportation
• Veterans Administration
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Small Business Administration
• Social Security Administration

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