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Jeffrey Bryan "Jeff" Davis (born October 6, 1973) is an American actor, comedian and singer. He is most famous as a guest star on the improve comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? He also appears in Drew Carey's Green Screen Show as one of the major actors. He was also used quite a bit in the singing games, most notably with Wayne Brady singing operatic songs.

Jeff Davis was born in Los Angeles and raised in Whittier, California. He began his acting career at the age of four at the Groundlings Theater in Hollywood; playing Linus in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Davis started in commercials when he was four years old, and at age 11 was cast as Louis in the Broadway production of The King and I withYul Brynner. A national tour followed and, after 750 performances, Davis returned home to attend school.

Davis began performing with various improve troupes. He also worked with the short video website Channel 101.com and was in the Dan Harmon series Laser Fart. Soon after, he landed a recurring role on the improve series Whose Line Is It Anyway? His comedic timing won over comedian Steve Martin and the other producers of The Downer Channel, earning Davis a spot in the cast of the comedy sketch/reality series in 2001. He also has appeared in the television series The Norm Show, The Drew Carey Show and The Jamie Kennedy Experiment. Davis appeared in the acclaimed telefilm ¨Tuesdays with Morrie¨ and was a series regular in Happy Family, opposite Christine Baranski and John Larroquette, in the fall of 2003. He played the role of an attorney in the October 9th, 2008 episode of The Sarah Silverman Program.

Davis currently resides in Los Angeles and he has toured with the Drew Carey's Improve All-Stars alongside fellow Whose Liners Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Chip Esten, Brad Sherwood, Kathy Kinney, Kathy Greenwood, Julie Larson, Jonathan Mangum, Sean Mastersonand Greg Proops. Davis has also been part of two USO tours. Davis, along with Greg Proops, Ryan Stiles and Chip Esten is part of the improve comedy team, "Whose Live Anyway?" sitting in the second seat as he did on "Whose Line".

Beginnings: The Bureau of Investigation

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. 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. The FBI grew out of this force of special agents created on July 26, 1908 during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Its first official task was visiting and making surveys of the houses of prostitution in preparation for enforcing the "White Slave Traffic Act," or Mann Act, passed on June 25, 1910. In 1932, it was renamed the United States Bureau of Investigation. The following year it was linked to the Bureau of Prohibition and rechristened the Division of Investigation (DOI) before finally becoming an independent service within the Department of Justice in 1935. In the same year, its name was officially changed from the Division of Investigation to the present-day Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency. The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime. Its motto is "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity", corresponding to the FBI initials.

The FBI's headquarters, the J. Edgar Hoover Building, is located in Washington, D.C. Fifty-six field offices are located in major cities throughout the United States as well as over 400 resident agencies in smaller cities and towns across the country. More than 50 international offices called "legal attachés" are in U.S. embassies worldwide.

In the fiscal year 2008, the FBI's total budget was approximately $6.8 billion, including $410 million in program increases to counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence, cybercrime, information, security, forensics, training, and criminal programs.

The FBI was established in 1908 as the Bureau of Investigation (BOI). Its name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935.

The FBI's main goal is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.

Currently, the FBI's top investigative priorities are:

1. Protect the United States from terrorist attack (see counter-terrorism);

2. Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage (see counter-intelligence);

3. Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes (see cyber-warfare);

4. Combat public corruption at all levels;

5. Protect civil rights;

6. Combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises (see organized crime);

7. Combat major white-collar crime;

8. Combat significant violent crime;

9. Upgrade technology for successful performance of the FBI's mission.

In August 2007, the top categories of lead criminal charges resulting from FBI investigations were:

1. Bank robbery and incidental crimes (107 charges)

2. Drugs (104 charges)

3. Attempt and conspiracy (81 charges)

4. Material involving sexual exploitation of minors (53 charges)

5. Mail fraud – frauds and swindles (51 charges)

6. Bank fraud (31 charges)

7. Prohibition of illegal gambling businesses (22 charges)

8. Fraud by wire, radio, or television (20 charges)

9. Hobbs Act (Robbery and extortion affecting interstate commerce) (17 charges)

10. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)-prohibited activities (17 charges)

Behavioral Analysis Unit

The Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) is a part of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is one component of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC). The mission of the BAU is to provide behavioral based investigative and/or operational support by applying case experience, research, and training to complex and time-sensitive crimes, typically involving acts or threats of violence

§ Crimes Against Children

§ Crimes Against Adults

§ Communicated Threats

§ Corruption

§ Bombing and Arson Investigations

§ Sexual Crimes

The BAU receives requests for services from Federal, state, local, and international law enforcement agencies. Responses to these requests for BAU assistance are facilitated through the network of field NCAVC coordinators. BAU services are provided during on-site case consultations, telephone conference calls, and/or consultations held at the BAU with case investigators. However, contrary to popular belief, there is no such position in the FBI called "profiler", a position commonly seen on television and in cinema.

BAU assistance to law enforcement agencies is provided through the process of "criminal investigative analysis". Criminal investigative analysis is a process of reviewing crimes from both a behavioral and investigative perspective. It involves reviewing and assessing the facts of a criminal act, interpreting offender behavior, and interaction with the victim, as exhibited during the commission of the crime, or as displayed in the crime scene. BAU staff conducts detailed analyses of crimes for the purpose of providing one or more of the following services: crime analysis, investigative suggestions, profiles of unknown offenders, threat analysis, critical incident analysis, interview strategies, major case management, search warrant assistance, prosecutive and trial strategies, and expert testimony.

In addition to the above services, the BAU staff produced the Child Abduction Response Plan to assist investigators faced with these investigations. Recently, the BAU released "The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective" report to guide school administrators, teachers, parents, and law enforcement in identifying and evaluating threats in schools. The BAU maintains a reference file for experts in various forensic disciplines such as odontology, anthropology, entomology, or pathology.

Aboout Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American police procedural drama series that premiered September 22, 2005 on CBS created by Jeff Davis. The series follows a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit(BAU) at Quantico, Virginia. Criminal Minds differs from many criminal system procedural dramas by focusing on the criminal rather than the crime itself. The show is produced by The Mark Gordon Company in association with CBS Television Studios and ABC Studios. The original title for Criminal Minds was Quantico, and the pilot was filmed in Vancouver. In the Quantico script, Jason Gideon was named Jason Donovan.

On May 20, 2009, CBS officially renewed Criminal Minds for a fifth season, which premiered on September 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM EST. A spin-off to the show, Minds 2.0, has also been announced, and is set to premiere September 2010, when Criminal Minds is renewed for a sixth season.

CBS announced in October 2009 that Legacy Interactive will develop a video game based on the show. The game will require players to examine crime scenes for clues to help solve murder mysteries.

Criminal Minds proves actor Moore than pretty face

One would think that a chiselled hunk who regularly pops up on those lists of "TV's Sexiest Men" would have earned camera-hog status by now. But on this drizzly day in San Francisco's Russian Hill neighbourhood, Shemar Moore emerges from a black SUV on the set of Criminal Minds to utter just one scripted line.

Or three words, to be exact. "How's the mom?" he says to costar Thomas Gibson, referring to a character at wit's end following the abduction of her teen daughter.

Yes, just three measly words. Nice work if you can get it. "And the Emmy goes to . . ." Moore jokes as he ducks into a garage, where he hoists his T-shirt to allow a technician to remove a hidden mike and, in the process, provides a quick flash of his oft-photographed abs. Are those prolonged sighs we hear from the women in the crew?

Criminal Minds, the CBS drama about a team of profilers from the FBI's Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU), has come to the Bay Area for a two-day location shoot. And while the trip hardly seems worth the trouble for Moore, considering his brief scene, he's not complaining. It is, after all, a homecoming for the 39-year-old actor who was born in Oakland, Calif., attended high school in Palo Alto, Calif., and played baseball for the University of Santa Clara.

He's using the trip to catch up with old friends and his mother, Marilyn, a San Francisco resident who has accompanied her son to the set. It's also a chance to spend more quality time with fellow actor Forest Whitaker, making a highly anticipated Criminal Minds guest appearance.

"I'm a huge fan with much respect. I love watching him work," Moore says, after snapping off a couple of iPhone photos of Whitaker mugging with Mom. "He has the most unique and powerful presence."

If things go as planned, Moore and Whitaker will become Criminal Minds brethren of sorts. CBS has chosen this episode to introduce Oscar-winning Whitaker and a new set of BAU characters before potentially spinning them off into their own show next fall.

Moore, a former print model who launched his television career in 1994 on the daytime soap The Young and the Restless, admits that, for him, acting used to be more about the "fame and the parties." Now, it's about the work.

"I've had a lot of success in 16 years, but in some ways it still feels brand new because there's still so much I haven't done," he says. "I treat my career like school. The soap opera days were like high school. Now I'm in college and hopefully I'll go to grad school (feature films) and catch the bus with Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith and the others . . .

"The more I evolve as an actor, it's proof that I'm evolving as a person," says Moore. "Because the only way I can find the colours of a character I play is to allow myself to dig within myself and find those qualities."

And be so much more than just that "pretty boy."

"If how I look helps me get a date or makes you want to see the movie, I'll use it. I'm not crazy," he says with a sly smile. "But being cute doesn't keep you in the game for 16 years. I had to bring something else to the table because there's a lot of eye candy out there. Plus I'm getting older. My little six-pack has probably turned into a two-pack and eventually it's going to be a keg."