Why was the Federal Bureau of Investigation originally formed?

Answer 1

During the so-called "war on crime" of the 1930s, FBI agents apprehended or killed a number of notorious criminals who carried out kidnappings, robberies, and murders throughout the nation, including John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, Kate "Ma" Barker, Alvin "Creepy" Karpis, and George "Machine Gun" Kelly. While this campaign, as well as the campaign to build-up the FBI, was carried out in response to a national crime wave, most historians now believe that if there was a crime wave at all, it was grossly exaggerated during the Great Depression[citation needed]. (source: WIkipedia)

Answer 2

The FBI was organized in the year 1908, with the first director J Edgar Hoover at the top. The FBI is a division that operates inside the DOJ, (Department of Justice) and are basically federal police.

Answer 3

As the 20th century progressed criminals became more sophisticated. Faster cars, larger guns, and the power of organizations of criminals such as the Maffia demanded a more agressive and sophisticated agency that was not bound by state lines. Prohibition brought a boom in illegal liquor and the Great Depression brought out the desperation in men like John Dillinger and Clyde Barrow. In the 21st century the FBI deals with many different types of crime, from postal fraud to kidnapping and serial murder.

Answer 4

In 1886, the Supreme Court, in Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Company v. Illinois, found that the states had no power to regulate interstate commerce. The resulting Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 created a Federal responsibility for interstate law enforcement. The Justice Department, which had hired few permanent investigators since its establishment in 1870, made little effort to relieve its staff shortage until the turn of the century, when Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte reached out to other agencies, including the Secret Service, for investigators. But the Congress forbade this use of Treasury employees by Justice, passing a law to that effect in 1908. So the Attorney General moved to organize a formal Bureau of Investigation (BOI or BI), complete with its own staff of special agents. The Secret Service provided the Department of Justice 12 Special Agents and these agents became the first Agents in the new BOI. Thus, the first FBI agents were actually Secret Service agents. Its jurisdiction derived from the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. (Wikipedia)

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Answer 5

The organization that eventually became the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was originally formed to raid radical headquarters looking for evidence of a Communist conspiracy.

Answer 6

The FBI was created because of the high level of crime.

Answer 7

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formed in 1908. It is a governmental agency that belongs to the United States Department of Justice who is in charge of criminal investigation.

Answer 8

FBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was created to look into the terrorist activities.