A dragnet is any system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects; including road barricades and traffic stops , widespread DNA tests, and general increased police alertness. The term derives from a fishing technique of dragging a fishing net across the sea bottom, or through a promising area of open water.
7-597: Operation FALCON ( Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally ) is the name of several week-long dragnets organized by the United States Marshals Service . FALCON I occurred between April 4 and 10, 2005 (also Crime Victims' Rights Week ), FALCON II during the week of April 17–23, 2006, and FALCON III from October 22–28, 2006. During FALCON I, a total of 10,340 federal fugitives were arrested in all 50 U.S. state , as well as Puerto Rico and Guam, by 3,000 to 10,000 law enforcement officers from such agencies as
14-513: A criminal is traced to a specific location, everyone in that location might be searched for incriminating evidence. Since the 1950s, such "dragnets" have generally been held to be unconstitutional as unreasonable search and seizure actions in the United States. While traditional "stop and frisk" dragnets have largely fallen into disuse, New York's strategy for controlling serious crime by stopping many of those loitering in areas that such loitering
21-411: Is thought to be associated with lesser crimes has been called a dragnet. Similarly, controversy remains over other activities held to be dragnets as well. An active area of legal controversy, for example, is that of warrantless wiretaps. If all cell phones are monitored by machine for certain words or phrases thought to be associated with terrorism, and the results are used to cue focused investigations,
28-640: The ATF , the FBI , the Secret Service , and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development . FALCON netted the largest number of arrests ever recorded during a single operation. This included the arrests of 162 accused or convicted of murder, 638 wanted for armed robbery, 553 wanted for rape or sexual assault, 154 gang members, and 106 unregistered sex offenders. The largest category of arrests (4,291)
35-663: The American Civil Liberties Union argues that to constitute a kind of dragnet. A large, highly publicized dragnet occurred in and around Boston after the 2013 marathon race bombing . A dragnet that caught worldwide attention was conducted by French law enforcement after the Charlie Hebdo shooting , which killed twelve people in January 2015. This crime -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This law enforcement –related article
42-410: The U.S. Marshals Service, which allocated about $ 900,000 to the operation. Dragnet (policing) While a dragnet can refer to any kind of focused police presence, the traditional definition involves defining an area (such as a building or a city block) or category (such as those of a specific ethnic group within an area) and conducting at least a brief investigation of each person within. Thus, if
49-664: Was for narcotics violations. Other large classes of wanted fugitives arrested included 1818 burglary suspects and 1727 assault suspects. In addition to the arrests, 243 weapons, 30 kg of cocaine, 19 kg of heroin, 204 kg of marijuana and $ 373,000 in cash were seized by Operation FALCON teams. Although the Marshals Service coordinated the sweep, most of the manpower for the arrests came from local law enforcement: 206 state law enforcement agencies, 302 county sheriffs' departments, and 366 city police departments were involved, as well as 25 federal agencies and all 83 districts of
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