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2. I just want to be an FBI "Profiler," where do I begin the application process?
You first need to realize the FBI does not have a job called "Profiler." The tasks commonly associated with "profiling" are performed by Supervisory Special Agents assigned to the NCAVC at Quantico, Virginia. These FBI Special Agents don't get vibes or experience psychic flashes while walking around fresh crime scenes. Rather, it is an exciting world of investigation and research — a world of inductive and deductive reasoning; crime-solving experience; and knowledge of criminal behavior, facts, and statistical probabilities.
In addition to constructing "profiles" (descriptions of the traits and characteristics of unknown offenders in specific cases), the NCAVC staff provides many services to law enforcement agencies around the world. These services include major case management advice; threat assessment; and strategies for investigation, interviewing, or prosecution.
Dr. O’Toole worked as an FBI agent for 28 years, spending more than half of her Bureau career in the organization’s prestigious Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU)—the very unit that is the focus of the hit crime series “Criminal Minds.”
Behavioral Analysis
The mission of the Behavioral Analysis Units (BAU) is to provide operational support for complex and time-sensitive cases and other matters through the application of investigative case experience, education, specialized training, and research. Each unit has distinct responsibilities:
Behavioral Analysis Unit 1 (counterterrorism and threat assessment): Resources are focused on matters involving terrorism, threats, arson, bombings, stalking, cyber-related violations, and anticipated or active crisis situations.
Behavioral Analysis Unit 2 (crimes against adults): Resources are primarily focused on serial, spree, mass, and other murders; sexual assaults; kidnappings; missing person cases; and other violent crimes targeting adult victims. BAU 2 also provides assistance in potentially non-violent investigations, such as white-collar crime, public corruption, organized crime, and civil rights matters.
Behavioral Analysis Unit 3 (crimes against children): Resources are focused on crimes perpetrated against child victims, including abductions, mysterious disappearances of children, homicides, and sexual victimization.
Behavioral Analysis Unit 4 (ViCAP): Resources are focused on actual and attempted homicides—especially those that involve an abduction, are apparently random, motiveless, or sexually oriented, or are known or suspected to be part of a series; sexual assaults, especially those committed by a stranger, or those known or suspected to be part of a series; missing persons where the circumstances indicate a strong possibility of foul play; and unidentified human remains where the manner of death is unknown or suspected to be homicide. BAU-4/ViCAP also develops and maintains ViCAP Web, the national repository for these criteria cases.
Services provided by the behavioral analysis units include:
Crime analysis;
Profiles of unknown offenders;
Linkage analysis;
Investigative suggestions;
Multiagency coordination;
Threat assessment;
Interview strategies;
Media strategies;
Search warrant affidavit assistance;
Prosecution and trial strategies;
Expert testimony;
Critical incident analysis; and
Geographic profiling (provided through an agreement with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives).
I guess FBI "Profiler" is just the lazy way of saying it since its more recognizable thanks to tv and movies. Damn dumbing down, again.
Originally posted by DAVID64
Terrorist is starting to mean anyone who doesn't bow to DHS and the nanny state.
"How dare you believe in the Constitution! WE decide what you should think"
Originally posted by Swills
reply to post by jimmyx
Our govt is only getting bigger while restricting more rights & they aren't slowing down. DHS may not be directly affecting you yet but that doesn't mean the nanny state isn't in full swing with its own long term goals well in effect.
Originally posted by jimmyx
Originally posted by DAVID64
Terrorist is starting to mean anyone who doesn't bow to DHS and the nanny state.
"How dare you believe in the Constitution! WE decide what you should think"
c'mon, you know they can't decide what you think....how has DHS made people bow, they haven't affected me, or any of the people I know, .....and nanny state??.......I bet the families of those dead firefighters in west, Texas wish there had been more of a nanny state in regards to regulating the scumbag owner of that fertilizer plant. if Texas had more tough regulators riding that owners ass, there would be people alive today. you want a reason for government?...there it is in red blood reality