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==History and organization==
==History and organization==
[[File:FBI and JTTF at Boston bombing.jpg|thumb|[[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]] JTTF members addressing news media during the investigation into the 2013 [[Boston Marathon bombing]]]]
[[File:FBI and JTTF at Boston bombing.jpg|thumb|Boston, [[Massachusetts]] JTTF members addressing news media during the investigation into the 2013 [[Boston Marathon bombing]]]]
The first JTTF was established in 1980 in [[New York City]], with ten FBI [[special agent]]s and ten [[New York City Police Department]] (NYPD) [[detective]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec04/jttf120114.htm |title=Protecting America Against Terrorist Attack – A Closer Look at the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces |publisher=FBI |date=December 1, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225050733/https://www2.fbi.gov/page2/dec04/jttf120114.htm |archive-date=December 25, 2016 }}</ref> In 1999, the United States had 26 JTTFs; shortly after the attacks, [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI Director]] [[Robert Mueller]] instructed all [[List of FBI field offices|FBI field offices]] to establish formal terrorism task forces.<ref name=Bjelopera/> By December 2011, there were more than 100 Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationwide, the vast majority established after the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name=Bjelopera/>  There were 113 JTTFs as of 2013,<ref name=Price>Michael Price, [https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/NationalSecurity_LocalPolice_web.pdf National Security and Local Police],  [[Brennan Center for Justice]] at the [[NYU School of Law]] (2013).</ref> and approximately 200 JTTFs as of 2022.<ref name=DeVine>Michael E. DeVine et al., [https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/2022-09-01_R47229_6489ffa6eaf640d2ade53f0973c079f2651e4eb9.pdf Intelligence Coordination on Domestic Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Background and Issues for Congress], Congressional Research Service (September 1, 2022).</ref>
The first JTTF was established in 1980 in [[New York City]], with ten FBI [[special agent]]s and ten [[New York City Police Department]] (NYPD) [[detective]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec04/jttf120114.htm |title=Protecting America Against Terrorist Attack – A Closer Look at the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Forces |publisher=FBI |date=December 1, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225050733/https://www2.fbi.gov/page2/dec04/jttf120114.htm |archive-date=December 25, 2016 }}</ref> In 1999, the United States had 26 JTTFs; shortly after the attacks, [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI Director]] [[Robert Mueller]] instructed all [[List of FBI field offices|FBI field offices]] to establish formal terrorism task forces.<ref name=Bjelopera/> By December 2011, there were more than 100 Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationwide, the vast majority established after the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref name=Bjelopera/>  There were 113 JTTFs as of 2013,<ref name=Price>Michael Price, [https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/NationalSecurity_LocalPolice_web.pdf National Security and Local Police],  [[Brennan Center for Justice]] at the [[NYU School of Law]] (2013).</ref> and approximately 200 JTTFs as of 2022.<ref name=DeVine>Michael E. DeVine et al., [https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/2022-09-01_R47229_6489ffa6eaf640d2ade53f0973c079f2651e4eb9.pdf Intelligence Coordination on Domestic Terrorism and Violent Extremism: Background and Issues for Congress], Congressional Research Service (September 1, 2022).</ref>