{"id":65208,"date":"2021-09-08T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/?p=65208"},"modified":"2021-09-03T14:06:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T18:06:29","slug":"chasing-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.policechiefmagazine.org\/chasing-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Ghosts"},"content":"protected_content","excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Almanac of American History,<\/em> historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote, \u201cThe genius of America lies in its capacity to forge a single nation from peoples of remarkably diverse racial, religious, and ethnic origins.\u201d<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The United States is always on the move and changes often, always building anew. This is a way of life in the country. Some occasions create a monumental change, and the ability to challenge and change one\u2019s country becomes very hard. For those who lived it, the attacks of September 11, 2001, will always have profound and lasting consequences, particularly in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>For most people, those consequences have faded over the past 20 years, but for one group, they are always present. As the 20th anniversary approaches on September 11, 2021, it\u2019s safe to say that no group had their expectations, equipment, and methods changed more drastically and dramatically than law enforcement. The attacks of 9\/11 were unprecedented, not only in terms of terrorism against the United States, but also in the kind of change that the country and its people were about to experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4042,"featured_media":51735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,147],"tags":[1892,792,289,701,426],"class_list":["post-65208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bonus-online-article","category-terrorism","tag-9-11","tag-change","tag-law-enforcement","tag-reform","tag-terrorism"],"acf":{"subtitle":"Law Enforcement, Terrorism, and the Impact of 9\/11","post_author":"Daniel O\u2019Connor, HsX Founding Scholar of Innovation, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval Post Graduate School","main_category":"Terrorism","legacy_article_id":"","legacy_issue_id":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site 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