The Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD) Security Subcommittee is meeting to plan security for the upcoming Democratic-Republican National Convention (DRNC) in Miami, Florida. Major Louis Warren proposes using $300,000 of the $1.9 million homeland security grant to purchase an unmanned drone for aerial surveillance during the event. Warren argues this would be more cost effective than manned helicopters and allow for continuous monitoring. However, FBI Assistant Special Agent Felicia Fontaine opposes using the funds for a drone. The subcommittee must decide whether to recommend purchasing the drone to aid in DRNC security planning and operations.

1. AAA
Miami River
I-
9
5
First
Amendment
Zone
Hotel Row
G
P
Key
Fenced in
Exclusionary Zone
Maritime
Exclusionary Zone
First Amendment
Zone

2. American Airlines Arena
Miami Police Headquarters
Miami-Dade Government Center
First
Amendment
Zone
AAA
300’ Wide Buffer Zone (Deep Water)
Close-up View of the
American Airlines
Arena and
Surrounding Areas
DRNC Host Committee Task
Force
Host Committee Membership
Horace
Copeland

3. Chairperson
Charles Pope
President
Miami Chamber
of Commerce
Miguel Herrera
Miami-Dade
County Manager
Cassandra
Armand
DRNC
Committee on
Arrangements
Melanie Duncan
MDPD Director
Penelope Johns
Director of the
Miami-Dade
Tourism Council
Robert Waters
MDFRD Director

4. Harold Johnson
Director of the
Port of Miami
Jean-Louis
Joseph
City of Miami PD
Chief
Horace
Copeland
Chairperson
Don Lundberg
Miami-Dade
Transportation
Authority
Felicia
Fontaine
FBI Miami
Office
Gregory
Jameson
ATF Miami
Office
Samantha

5. Salerno
U.S. Secret
Service
Subcommittees
Host Committee
Chairperson
Horace Copeland
Security
Samantha Salerno ASAC, US
Secret Service
Media & Public
Relations
Jamie Thrumston
Hospitality
Tia Delaney
Transportation
Don Lundberg, Miami-Dade
Transportation Authority
Liaison to the DRNC
Committee on
Arrangements

6. Cassandra Armand
County & City Govt.
Liaison
Gus Orton
Security Subcommittee
Chairperson & Lead
Federal Coordinator
Samantha Salerno ASAC,
US Secret Service
Felicia Fontaine, ASAC
FBI Miami
Melanie Duncan,
Director
Miami-Dade Police
Department*
Gregory Jameson, SAC
ATF Miami
Robert Waters, Director
Miami-Dade Fire-Rescue
Department

7. Jean-Louis Joseph,
Chief Miami Police
Department
Geoff Goldman, Chief
Miami Beach Police
Department
* MDPD has been designated as the lead local agency for
security.
Information and Collaborative
Networks
For the Democratic-Republican
National Convention
Information Network: South Florida Joint
Terrorism Task Force & Fusion Center
JTTF
FBI
Miami-Dade
Police
Broward
County

8. Sheriff’s
Office
Miami Police
Palm Beach
County
Sheriff’s
Office
Florida Dept.
of Law
Enforcement
(FDLE)
U.S.
Attorney’s
Office
Internal
Revenue
Service (IRS)
U.S.
Immigrations
and Customs
Enforcement
U.S. Secret
Service
ATF

9. Fusion Center
The Intelligence Cycle
Planning and
Direction
Collection
Processing
Analysis and
Production
Dissemination
Source: Central Intelligence Agency
Information Flow
Data:
is gathered, mined, or collected
Information:
Data that has been organized, categorized , stored, or retrieved
Intelligence:
Information that has been analyzed and is used to make
decisions

10. Effective Information Flow
Predictable, Simple, Orderly
(Actionable Intelligence)
Chaotic
Information
Uncertain
Information
Complex
Information
Robust
Filtering and
Vetting
Errors due to “Stovepiping”
Chaotic
Information
Uncertain
Information
Complex
Information
Weak

11. Filtering and
Vetting
Unfiltered information reaches policy makers
Super Bowl XLI EOD / Canine Workgroup
Co-
Chairpersons
MDPD
FBI
MDPD
Bomb
Squad
FBI
ATF
Miami PD
Bomb
Squad
Broward
County SO
Bomb
Squad
MDPD
Canine Unit

12. Palm Beach
SO
Bomb
Squad
Fla Nat.
Guard
44th Civil
Support
Team
US Dept. of
Energy
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http://www.odmp.org/agency.php?agencyid=1309
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:US-DeptOfEnergy-
Seal.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:US-DeptOfAgriculture-
Seal.png
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http://www.pbso.org/index.cfm?fa=drugoverdose
Coordination – Collaborative Networks
• Regional Domestic
Security Task Force
(RDSTF)

13. • Regional JHRT Teams
• 44th Civil Support Team 5
7
4
6
1
2
3
DRNC
Convention
(Public Policy)
Human
Resource
Management
Corrections
Management
Criminal and
Civil Law
Financial
Management

14. Forensic and
Crime Scene
Investigations
Information
Resource
Management
Terrorism &
Homeland
Security
Critical
Incident
Operations
Management
Risk
Management
Overarching Theme
Partial List of Stakeholders
For the Democratic-Republican
National Convention

15. MDPD
Tourists
Residents
(Unincorporated)
Residents
(Incorporated))
Motorists
(Commuters)
Chambers of
Commerce
Tourism
Industry
Agriculture
Industry
Import/Export
Industry
Banking
Industry
Transportation
Industry
Small
Businesses
Criminal
Courts

16. Public Defender’s
Office
State Attorney’s
Office
County
Commissioners
Team Metro
Crime Victims
Jails
Juvenile
Assessment
Advocate Groups
(ACLU)
Independent
Review Panel
ATF
Region 7
FDLE
FBI
Dept. of
Homeland Security

17. Immigration
U.S.
Coastguard
U.S. Central
Command
Air Force Base
Energy
Industry
U.S.
Secret Service
Sports
Industry
Entertainment
Industry
FHP
Municipal
Police Departments
Map of Miami-Dade Police Department stakeholder interests
Hospitals
Metropolitan
Fire Rescue
Federal Governmental Quadrant
Public Quadrant

18. Local Governmental Quadrant
Private Business Quadrant
Claimant Stakeholders
Miami-Dade Police
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue
Miami-Dade Corrections
District Court
City of Miami PD
City of Miami Fire
Miami-Dade Government
State Attorney’s Office
Public Defender’s Office
Metro-Rail
DRNC Committee on
Arrangements (COA)
Miami-Dade Host Committee
Miami-Dade Chamber of
Commerce

19. Port of Miami
Miami Int. Airport
American Airlines Arena
Jackson Memorial Hospital
FBI
ATF
FDLE
U.S. Secret Service
Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF)
FHP
U.S. Coast Guard
U.S. DHS
RDSTF (Region 7)
44th Civil Support Team
U.S. Dept. of Energy
Florida DOT
Southeast Florida Fusion Center

20. Florida Power & Light
Bayside Shops
Intercontinental Hotel
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Miami-Dade College
Downtown Miami Businesses
Influencer Stakeholders
ACLU
Independent
Review Panel
Greenpeace
Amnesty
International
AFL-CIO
Teamsters
Opposition
Political Party

21. Anarchists
al Qaida
Al-Shabaab
Ruckus Society
Aryan Nations
NBC
CBS
CNN
FOX News
ABC
Miami Herald
Written Exercise 7 - DRNC Case Analysis Scenario for CRJ 575
Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice
Background

22. The following story is a fictional account of planning and
preparation leading up to the mythical Democratic-
Republican National Convention (DRNC) event in Miami,
Florida. The story is loosely based on an amalgamation of
real life occurrences in the lead up to the Free Trade Area of the
Americas conference in Miami, Florida in 2003. The
names of all the characters in the story are fictional.
As you read the story, keep in mind what contemporary criminal
justice issues are likely to arise. At the end of the
story, you will be asked to respond to several questions related
to this scenario.
Miami-Dade Police has been designated as the lead local agency
and lead operational planner for the event security.
This policy differs significantly from the 2003 FTAA in which
the City of Miami was designated as the lead local
agency. Director Melanie Duncan is the head of the Miami-Dade
Police Department.
Since this event meets the criteria of a National Special
Security Event (NSSE), the U.S. Secret Service has been
designated as the lead coordinating agency with overarching
statutory authority for the planning and execution of the
event. Supervisory Special Agent Samantha Salerno has been
appointed as the lead agent in-charge for the event.
Organization charts of the Security Subcommittee are provided
for your reference.
Case Study – Surveillance Drones for the Police
It was early Tuesday afternoon, and the Security Subcommittee
of the DRNC Host Committee was meeting for fourth
time. The DRNC was still seven months away, but pace of the

23. meetings had picked up considerably since it was first
learned that Miami-Dade was going to host the event. Clearly,
there was considerable trepidation on the part of the
Security Subcommittee members as to what they were about to
embark on. At the last meeting, the subcommittee
members had been briefed by a Major from the Tampa Police
Department about their experiences with the
Republican National Convention in 2012. They had also been
briefed about the turmoil that the police agencies in
Minneapolis, Minnesota had experienced during the 2008 RNC.
Director Duncan had her own memories of the FTAA in Miami,
Florida (2003) to contend with. At the time, she served
as one of several Mobile Field Force commanders on the front
lines in the clashes with the Black Bloc tactic
protestors. This was nothing new to Duncan, but for
subcommittee chair Samantha Salerno, this would be a quick
tutorial on what to expect from the anti-globalization protestors
that were expected to amass in Miami for the DRNC.
Accompanying Director Duncan at the meeting today was Major
Louis Warren. Warren had asked to be allowed to
address the full subcommittee regarding a request that had been
made by some of his Mobile Field Force
lieutenants. Recently, Miami-Dade County had been awarded
$1.9 million from the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security to partially defray the cost of security for the event.
Warren and his lieutenants wanted to use part of that
$1.9 million to purchase a $300,000 unmanned helicopter drone
so that they could have a nearly continuous and
indefatigable “eye in the sky” during the week of the
convention.
Warren and his lieutenants wanted to explain to the
subcommittee members how the purchase of the drone would
save considerable costs associated with the regular police

24. helicopters. It was estimated that to keep a regular
manned police helicopter flying costs approximately $320 per
hour. This estimate includes fuel costs, as well as other
related expenses necessary to operate the aircraft. By contrast,
the cost to operate the drone aircraft amounted to
only $50 per hour… a fraction of the cost of the manned
helicopter.
But it was not just a cost issue. There was also the matter of
pilot fatigue associated with manned surveillance
aircraft. During the FTAA Conference civil disturbances in
2003, Major Warren and his lieutenants had seen for
themselves how effective the aerial surveillance of the
protestors had been in predicting their next moves. The police
helicopters had played an instrumental role during the event by
providing timely “real time” information on the
movements of the protestors to the police commanders on the
ground.
Having that eye in the sky proved to be one of the most
important factors for the success of the police during the
FTAA disturbances; however, there simply were not enough
pilots and aircraft to keep a constant watch over the
protestors during the entire week of the event. In 2003, there
were many coverage gaps as the manned helicopters
had to refuel regularly and the pilots had to rest. Major Warren
remembered that from his own experiences, and he
wanted to purchase the unmanned drone in order to fill those
coverage gaps. Moreover, Warren had been a
commander of a tactical unit prior to his current assignment,
and he knew full well how important it was to keep the
high ground surveillance of suspects during hostage and

25. barricaded subject calls. The drone helicopter would be
used by the MDPD Special Response Teams (SRT) long after
the RNC had concluded. Or at least, that was the
proposed plan.
Unfortunately for Major Warren, he faced an unexpected barrier
to his proposal from FBI Assistant Agent in Charge
(ASAC) Felicia Fontaine, who was one of the main members of
the subcommittee. It appeared that ASAC Fontaine
had a different use for the Homeland Security grant money.
Fontaine had not said what she wanted to spend the
grant money on, but clearly she indicated that she was opposed
to the purchase of the $300,000 drone aircraft.
The ultimate decision on whether to purchase the unmanned
drone aircraft for the DRNC event was going to be
made by policy makers associated with the Miami area Urban
Area Security Initiative (UASI) group, but the
recommendation of the subcommittee would carry considerable
weight for making the final determination on how to
spend the $1.9 million grant money.
There were many factors to consider before the final decision
would be made. Costs alone would not be the only
determining factor.
Assignment Instructions
For the purpose of this assignment, you are to play the role of
U.S. Secret Service ASAC, Samantha Salerno. Your
job is to weigh the risk and cost-benefit factors associated with
the purchase of the unmanned drone. Consider all
sides (the pros and cons) associated with the purchase of the
drone aircraft. Take into consideration a broad array of
stakeholder concerns with the use of unmanned drone aircraft
for law enforcement purposes. Do not limit your

26. analysis to cost variables only. Your recommendations will
likely be heeded by the policy makers at the Miami UASI.
In a narrative essay not to exceed 1,200 words, explain how you
arrived at your conclusions. Your report is important
because it will form the basis for planning the DRNC and the
implementation of policy.
Post your essay in the Assignment Dropbox no later than 11:59
p.m. on Sunday.
Additional Resources: (Links for these resources are available
from within Module 7)
• PDF PowerPoint of the DRNC Convention – Overarching
Theme
• PDF PowerPoint Org Charts for the DRNC Host Committee
and Subcommittees
• PDF PowerPoint of the Stakeholders for the DRNC
• PDF PowerPoint of the Information and Collaborative
Networks for the DRNC
• PDF PowerPoint of the DRNC Layout in Downtown Miami

27. Case Analysis Rubric (70 points)
CRITERIA RATINGS
0 Novice
1-53
Basic
54-60
Proficient
61-66
Exceptional
67-70
Critically examines the
case synthesizing the
supplementary materials
while integrating the
class text, lectures,
outside sources,
scholarly journals and/or
publications. Posits new
ideas, “outside the box”
theories as well as
assessing the value of
theories in real world

28. situations by predicting or
drawing conclusions
based on reasoned
arguments. Stays within
the parameters of the
case fact pattern.
Research is examined
critically, researched
scholarly and
implemented realistically.
Case
analysis not
submitted.
Case analysis poorly
written with no to little
research. No graduate
level theories or ideas
are presented. Rehash
of familiar ideas with
no new thoughts
presented. The fact
pattern presented is
not followed or not
used. Supplementary
materials are not used
or ignored No or few
sources used and/or
referenced. High
percentage of copied
and pasted work. No to
poor APA formatting.
Numerous spelling and

29. grammatical errors.
Case analysis
shows basic
research.
Student
provides few
unique ideas or
theories.
Analysis does
not adequately
predict
outcomes.
Sources are not
sufficient for
graduate
research paper.
Minimally uses
fact pattern and
supplementary
materials.
Findings and
conclusions do
not connect to
the topic itself.
Formatting does
not always
comply with
APA standards.
Some spelling
and grammatical
errors.
Case analysis
provides good

30. theories and
ideas which draw
good conclusions
and posit unique
theories. Ideas
and theories
presented are
reasonable in
real world
situations and
have clearly been
thought through.
Research adds to
the fact pattern
producing
reasonable
conclusions
relative to what is
given. Sources
are good and
sufficient for the
research
presented. APA
formatting is solid
with complete
and correct in-
text cites.
Spelling and
grammar are
correct. Paper is
well edited.
Well researched
case analysis with
unique theories and
ideas that draw

31. unique conclusions,
predict outcomes
and present
reasonable
"outside the box"
thinking.
References are
specific to theories
and fact pattern. In-
text cites point
reader directly to
supporting
documents.
Research adds to
the fact pattern
producing good
conclusions relative
to what is given.
APA formatting,
spelling and
grammar are
correct. Paper is
well edited
incorporating only
those ideas,
comments and
research that
connect to the
initial hypothesis.
Assignment Grading Ratings
CRITERIA RATING
Performance is outstanding; significantly above the

32. usual expectations
Exceptional
Skills and standards are at the level of expectation
of a graduate student.
Proficient
Skills and standards are at the minimal
acceptable graduate level but
improvements are needed.
Basic
Performance is not of a graduate level; the skills
or standards are not sufficiently demonstrated at
this time.
Novice
Assignment not submitted. 0