Assignment 4 Law Enforcement Challenges

There are many challenges law enforcement agencies face when investigating Internet exploitation, cyber stalking, and obscenity. A few challenges include the overlapping effort, lack of law enforcement and funding, overlapping jurisdictions, and priority. The purpose of this paper is to explain in detail the greatest challenge law enforcement agencies investigating exploitation, cyber stalking, and obscenity, the specific challenges with overlapping of jurisdictions and solutions for overcoming these challenges, and to discuss if states should have the ability to work with one another when a cyber-crime is carried out across state lines. Challenges are confronted within the law enforcement agencies when it comes to investigating exploitation, cyber stalking, and obscenity. I feel like the greatest challenge law enforcement agencies face in investigating exploitation, cyber stalking, and obscenity is issues with evidence and detection. “Data on the computer can be deleted, modified, or destroyed” (Taylor, Fritsch, Liederbach, and Holt, 2011). It is very important for evidence to be collected, preserved, and examined right away. In most cases, 24 hours proves to be too late to recover non-tampered evidence. Another great challenge is the “Lack of law enforcement and attention” (Taylor, Fritsch, Liederbach, and Holt, 2011). Law enforcement agencies are not