FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

Fraudulent Online Hotel Booking

Identity theft and credit card fraud represent multifaceted problems with farreaching consequences, including Web-based crime targeting the travel industry. Together, these attractions swell the city's population daily-Anaheim's residents seem to disappear compared with the 10.2 million overnight visitors per year staying at one of the 153 hotel properties.3 Another one-third of the lodging facilities appeal to clientele seeking luxurious amenities, and most are located in the hotel district...

The Social Security Card Application Process: Identity and Credit Card Fraud Issues

Organized groups of individuals have presented counterfeit, altered, and fraudulently obtained identification (ID) documents at district offices of the SSA to obtain genuine social security cards ultimately used for credit card fraud. Further technological enhancements involve having die SSA computer equipped with the ability to interface witii the U.S. Department of State for concerns pertaining to visas and witii ICE regarding departure records and employment authorization documents becaus...

Bulletin Reports

Highlights include the following: from July 1, 2004, tiirough June 30, 2005, 21 homicides of youths ages 5 to 18 occurred at school; in 2003 to 2004, teachers' reports of being threatened or attacked by students during the previous 12 months varied according to their school level; and the percentage of public schools experiencing one or more violent incidents increased from 71 to 81 percent between the 1999 to 2000 and 2003 to 2004 school years. Drugs The Office of National Drug Control Poli...

Corrections

Vicap Alert

Wanted for Aggravated Murder: Robert Brent Bowman

Bowman bound her hands and feet witii drapery cord and men tied her ankles to her neck with telephone cord. Alert to Law Enforcement Any agency with information on die whereabouts of fugitive Robert Brent Bowman is asked to contact Sergeant Steve Forrester at 419-245-1594 or steven.forrester@toledo.oh.gov; or Detective Bart Beavers at 419-245-3118 or bart.beavers@ toledo.oh.gov of die Toledo, Ohio, Police Department.

Leadership Spotlight

Eagles Flock Together

John C. Maxwell In their latest book A Leader's Legacy, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner assert that "leadership development is first and foremost self-development." Successful law enforcement leaders also know that building the skills of the players on the team and establishing a deep leadership bench are vital to their organizations' long-term viability.

Book Review

Test Validity in Justice and Safety Training Contexts: A Study of Criterion-Referenced Assessment in a Police Academy

The book has five compelling aspects. 1 a list that identifies numerous guidelines for developing valid test questions with appropriate test distracters; 2 an 8-page rating instrument (assessment tool matrix) covering law enforcement administration, investigation, patrol operations, legal aspects, patrol and advanced skills, firearms, and defensive tactics; 3 a 13-page matrix that outlines the curriculum objectives on those areas mentioned in the rating instrument; 4 a 12-page matrix of essen...

Legal Digest

Time, Place, and Manner

A complete ban on protest activity that effectively silenced dissent in a public forum would be a presumptively unconstitutional prior restraint on speech and, accordingly, is rarely encountered in actual practice.18 Much more commonly presented are government efforts to regulate protest activity through a permitting or licensing process whereby officials are put on notice of the planned activity and then seek to impose an alternative date or time or a different location or route than that re...