CJ 467 Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric

For this assignment, you should create a consolidated summary of the Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) provided. Discuss who may be planning to carry out
criminal activities, their motivations, and under whose jurisdiction the activities fall. Using the SARs (#1–15), analyze and describe the elements of adversary,
range, motivation, and jurisdiction of the population.
The SARs can be found in the Assignment Guidelines and Rubrics section of the course.
Specifically, the following critical elements must be included:
II. Adversary, Motivation, and Jurisdiction
A. Accurately summarize the intelligence collected from the SARs to date, focusing on the “who, what, when, where, why, and how” of the threat
situation. Information should be annotated with dates and times from relevant SARs, and information from each date should be provided in a
separate paragraph, from inception to most recent. Your summary should focus on connecting the dots, with as much detail as needed to
present all of the relevant intelligence. It should highlight information that would be of particular relevance for the law enforcement agency
doing follow-up in understanding the potential threat.
B. Determine who the adversary is for this potential threat. It may be an individual or a group. You should identify the names of suspects (if known)
and also the type of adversary. For example, is the adversary an international terrorist group, a domestic terrorist group, an organized crime, a
local or international gang, drug traffickers, an extremist or militia group, a hacker, or a white-collar criminal? Support your answer using
relevant information from the SARs.
C. Analyze the range of the adversary’s operations. Are their activities focused within one city or state or across multiple states? Support your
answer with relevant information from the SARs.
D. Analyze what is known about the adversary’s motivation and how that might affect their choice of target (individual or location). Might it affect
whether they choose one target or many, the type of target that they select, or the location of the attack? Support your answer with relevant
information from the SARs.
E. Based on your analyses in Parts A–C above, determine which agency has jurisdiction in following up on the potential threat. For example, should
local or state law enforcement follow up? Should federal law enforcement? Does the adversary’s choice of potential targets fall under a
particular jurisdiction? For example, threats to air travel might involve the FAA or TSA, while terrorist threats would go to the FBI. Be sure to
justify your answer using relevant information from the SARs.
Guidelines for Submission: Milestone One must be two to three pages in length with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.
Separate different sections with headings so that the reader can easily understand your information.
Rubric
Critical Element Exemplary (100%) Proficient (85%) Needs Improvement (55%) Not Evident (0%) Value
Adversary,
Motivation, and
Jurisdiction:
Summarize
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
summary is exceptionally
articulate, modeling language
that would be used in a realworld intelligence report and
expertly balancing detail with
brevity and clarity
Accurately summarizes
intelligence collected to date,
in chronological order from
inception to most recent, with
date and time annotations
from relevant SARs,
highlighting all relevant
information for the agency
doing follow-up in
understanding potential
threat
Summarizes intelligence
collected to date, but
summary is inaccurate,
incomplete, not presented in
chronological order with date
and time annotations, or does
not highlight information of
particular relevance for the
law enforcement agency
doing follow-up
Does not summarize the
intelligence collected to date
20
Adversary,
Motivation, and
Jurisdiction:
Adversary
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
answer is particularly well
supported, expertly balancing
detail with brevity and clarity
Determines adversary for this
potential threat, including
suspect names (if known) and
type of adversary, supported
by relevant information from
the SARs
Determines who the
adversary is and adversary
type, but determination is not
supported by relevant
information from the SARs
Does not determine who the
adversary is or adversary type
20
Adversary,
Motivation, and
Jurisdiction: Range
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
response identifies specific
locations as well as whether
they are confined to a
particular city, state, or
multiple states
Analyzes adversary’s range of
operations, supported by
relevant information from the
SARs
Analyzes adversary’s range of
operations, but analysis is not
supported by relevant
information from the SARs
Does not analyze adversary’s
range of operations
20
Adversary,
Motivation, and
Jurisdiction:
Motivation
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
analysis shows insight into
how adversary’s motivations
affect elements of the threat
beyond the choice of target
Analyzes adversary’s
motivation and how that
might affect their choice of
target, supported by relevant
information from the SARs
Analyzes adversary’s
motivation and how that
might affect their choice of
target, but analysis is not
supported by relevant
information from the SARs
Does not analyze adversary’s
motivation and how that
might affect their choice of
target
20
Adversary,
Motivation, and
Jurisdiction:
Jurisdiction
Meets “Proficient” criteria and
answer considers how
jurisdictional responsibilities
may overlap or affect
operations related to the
specific threat scenario
Determines which agency has
jurisdiction in following up on
the potential threat,
supported by analysis of
adversary and relevant
information from the SARs
Determines which agency has
jurisdiction in following up on
the potential threat, but does
not support using analysis of
adversary and relevant
information from the SARs
Does not determine which
agency has jurisdiction in
following up on the potential
threat
20
Earned Total 100%