Where do FBI Agents work?

FBI agents generally work in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and in some related agencies and organizations, which can lead to work in a lot of different areas. The FBI maintains field agencies in larger cities and communities across the country, with agents dispatched to those areas. But once an agent gets to their department, they may work in a variety of areas. There's a section of the FBI focuses on technology and scientific work. These workers take on roles similar to those seen on popular crime shows on television such as C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation. They collect evidence in the field and return that evidence to the lab. These are typically the larger jobs that cover multiple jurisdictions or more serious cases such as a serial killer. There are also FBI agents working in the laboratory. Their jobs involve analyzing the evidence and determining different things. For example, they run fingerprints in one case against prints from other cases to find links. They also run ...  more