what is The statutory authority for the creation of federal law enforcement agencies?
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Federal Law enforcement generally falls under the interstate commerce clause of the US constitution.  That gives Congress the ability to create them.  The FBI and ATF are good examples of this.  The commerce clause has been stretched pretty far so that almost anything can be investigated by the FBI.  This started when Hoover wanted to hunt down an escaped convict.  The FBI wasn't allowed to look for him because it didn't involve interstate travel.  Hoover said that the prisoner was in violation of the Selective Service Act, which mandated that all males over 18 had to inform Selective Service when they changed residences.  The convict didn't inform the SS of his change of address, which was a federal crime, so the FBI went after him for that.  As funny as it sounds, it worked and today the FBI and ATF don't even bother to make excuses.  They know that they can always come up with something if they are challenged in court.
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There is no agency that regulates business websites. Esentially, if there is some type of fraud or other illegal activities comitted by the business online, then the Cybercrimes division of the FBI would handle that. \n\n* I hope that is what you meant. Your question was a bit vague.
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I THINK IT STANDS FOR FEDERAL BERAU OF INVESTIGATORS. THEY TAKE CARE OF CRIMINAL CASES THAT GO ABOVE THE STATE'S HEAD. DON'T KNOW WHO CONTROLS IT.
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I think you mean posse comitatus. This prohibits military personnel from acting as law enforcement in the US, unless authorized by Congress
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It will depend on what HS was doing it,  most medium and large police departments have Homeland Security officers appointed in it.  All of the state police units I know, including some of the larger college police units all have homeland secuity officers also.\n\nIf the officer has been sworn in as a state, county or city police yes they may.\n\nMany times the vechiles have specific names and the officers assigned to varouis units, but this will not mean they don't have other powers of arrest.\n\nin general those that work at the Federal level would not be doing traffic stops
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The answer about the FBI is good.  There are also Federal Marshals, DEA, and other agencies which act in crimes crossing state lines too.\n\nAnd the "state lines" portion is critical.  America is a Federation of Sovereign States.  Each state is subordinate to the Federal government, but is allowed to, usually, make its own laws inside the state and trade agreements with other states in the Federation.\n\nAs such, each police force is different in their training, "rules of engagement", procedures, and authority.  With a country as large and diverse as the USA, this has worked well. The differences in the needs to police coastal cities verses areas in "fly over country" alone make a single police force unwieldy and cumbersome.\n\nJapan, South Korea, and Germany are relatively small, relatively homogeneous (though Germany is increasingly diverse) nations with long histories of central government control.  A central police force makes sense for them.  It does not make as much sense for an independently minded, large country such as the USA.\n\nAs for making up enemies or the "need" to have an enemy, the enemies we are fighting are the same ones defined by the Clinton Administration.  Was he making up enemies to cause “bloodlust” too?  Ohio thought they had no jihadists either, but caught several last month.
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I would think the federal governmnet. You have the FBI, Secret Service, US Marshals, the Border Patrol, and many others.
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It starts with Congress, though the general process works the same for state legislatures creating state agencies.\n\nThe legislature passes what is called an "enabling law" which creates an agency and grants the agency certain powers. These must be within the type of laws that Congress itself could pass.  [See Article I of the Constitution.] Essentially, Congress is delegating some of its rule-making power to the agency, usually with specific guidelines and a specific purpose.\n\nThe agency then goes through whatever their established procedure is, as determined by the enabling statute. Because they have been delegated quasi-legislative powers, the agency regulations have the same effect as if the laws had been passed directly by Congress.\n\nFor more specific detail on the step-by-step process, see the Wikipedia link below.
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The FBI, because more than any other group - they operate outside the bounds of the law.  I'm not sure there's much oversight of this group and they can pretty much do whatever they want.
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State and Local g-ments are to manage conflict.  Feds are to provide functions (defense, etc.), to set guidlines and oversee state and lcoal g-ments.
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Created within the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it’s scope has encompassed and administers the Equal Pay Act (1963), the Age discrimination Act of 1967, the Disabled rights Act of 1990, and the Civil Rights Act of 1990.  The Commission answers directly to the legislative branch. It is a stand alone commission with the power to supply informations (requests for indictment) to the U.S. Attorney for prosecution in the event of violations. It maintains it’s own investigatory division, but can in some cases utilize the FBI and U.S. Marshals office to also investigate violations. \n\nA large portion of it’s responsibility is the administration of the Act as it applies to government (Civil Service) employment.
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The United States Government would not be able to train and hire that many FBI agents. There are over 300 million people in this country.\n\nAnd besides, we still have the 1st Amendment.
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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was created by act of Congress and subject to laws passed by Congress. However, it also creates its own regulations within those laws.
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The United States Codes (which is the official name of federal laws) is available on many websites.\n\nFindLaw is one of the easier to navigate.
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Governments and any agencies are protected by soverign immunity.  This means unless the government consents to be sued it can not be sued.  Also in your case since it involves policy they would be protected since they would not be able to make policy if they had a fear of being sued.
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Not all of the state statutes are written the same way. Definitions differ as to what is and isn't sodomy. What is and isn't consent. What private means. Just to give some examples. It is likely that the state statutes will have to be challenged one by one and tested against the standard in Lawrence v. Texas. There is statutory law and case law and they are not treated the same by enforcement agencies.\n\nAlso, in many states the time and effort to get the law off the books, especially if there is likely to be controversy is just not worth it. It is easier simply to tell law enforcement not to enforce and prosecutors not to prosecute.
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Usually the authority to provide police and fire starts with the founding of the city when the state grants a charter to the city.  Read your city charter.  It sets up the departments of the city and the duties of the chief officers.