387 Search Results for Terrorism Response and Local Police
9/11 Terrorism and EMS
On 11th September, 2001, a total of nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists took control of four sky-borne airplanes, using them to carry out suicide attacks aimed at American targets. Two planes were guided directly towards the New York Continue Reading...
Terrorist Attack
On September 11, 2001, 19 Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four United States commercial airliners travelling from the east coast to California. The hijackers forcibly took control of four planes. Two planes were purposefully crashed in Continue Reading...
The other categories of biological weapons which need dispersal devices are regarded as having lower risk due to the sensitivity of the biological agents to heat, light and shock. (Unit 8: Terrorism and CERT)
5. Effectiveness of the Training:
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Terrorist attacks are an ever-growing concern within the United States. Some states have taken a more developed approach to handling potential terrorist threats. Ever since the 9/11 attacks, Florida was the first draft the United States' first compre Continue Reading...
(Brookes, 2001)
Mobile surveillance is when officials are monitoring the cell phone communication of a suspect. A good example of this; is when federal agents are listening in on the cell phone conversations of suspected terrorist leaders. (Brookes Continue Reading...
Department of Education:
The Education Authority provided $5 million for Rehabilitation Services Administration of those individuals who suffered from physical or mental disabilities as a result of collapse of WTC. The department also provided fun Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice
Fusion Centers
State and major urban area fusion centers serve as central points inside the state and local environment for the reception, examination, gathering, and distribution of threat-related information between the federal g Continue Reading...
Terrorist Group's Use Of Cloud Technology
After the 1980s there have been changes on a global scale that included post cold war developments. The changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union coupled with the technological change on the nations of Continue Reading...
Al Qaeda's Next Major Domestic Attack On The United States
The fact that the United States has not experienced a major domestic attack since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 is firm testament to the relentless work by the Western intellig Continue Reading...
Madrid Case Analysis
The Madrid train bombing occurred during the morning of March 11, 2004, significantly occurring close to the general elections. The deadly attack took the lives of 191 people and wounded 1,800. The explosives were placed on com Continue Reading...
National Security Implications of Transnational Organized Crime
The paper deals with three important aspects, one the National Security, second the crime -- organized in many ways, and the third rogue nations that pose a threat. National security is Continue Reading...
Policy Efficacy: Terrorist Activity since 9/
Terrorism
The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 changed the world forever. This one of the most successful and large-scale attacks in the history of transnational terrorism. These attacks sent eff Continue Reading...
National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Weaknesses in the National Incident Management System
There is much controversy with regard to the contemporary idea of terrorism and concerning the actions that are being taken in order to discourage and Continue Reading...
corporations have been increasingly targeted for terrorist activities. Part of the reason for this, is because the traditional targets such as: military and government facilities have become difficult to conduct a successful attack against. As a res Continue Reading...
21). When pressed, the Red Cross said they did not know if any of their recipients had received aid from other agencies, or even actually lived in the affected areas (O'Meara, 2004, p. 21). There was a controversy after the facts became known, and a Continue Reading...
This abuse of Arab-Americans and Muslim-American follows the ritualized sacrifice of the pharmakos, which involved the projection of a specific set of characteristics onto the scapegoated victim, who was then sacrificed in order to restore the healt Continue Reading...
Drone Strikes
Target drone
Legality
International Law and Drone Strikes
Obama Administration
Drone attacks in Pakistan
Drone Strikes in Yemen
Drone Strikes in Somalia
The legality of the drone strikes is a disputed matter. A major challenge t Continue Reading...
Academic Simulation
Describes potential WMD threat from Andean Religious Fighters
Two-Step Operations Plan
Prevent the attack
Threat is nebulous
Threat is well organized
Response to the attack
Response follows the adage that no battle plan su Continue Reading...
The Karzai government adopted a five-point plan for accountability. It refused amnesty for gross violators of human rights abuses. An action plan was created by Afghan officials and the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, with the support of Continue Reading...
Section I: Introduction
The formation of the Department of Homeland Security after September 11 was an organizational and administrative response to the failure of the intelligence community to mitigate the attack. Although it predated the 9/11 Comm Continue Reading...
Emergency management is also a vital part to the planning for a disaster. Training will have to be conducted at periodic intervals to maintain the preparedness of the emergency response team and to evaluate the condition and the operational difficu Continue Reading...
The 9/11 terror attacks is an act of terrorism that has had significant impacts on modern law enforcement and military operations. Etter (2015) contends that the 9/11 attack was a very traumatic event for the entire United States of America. This is Continue Reading...
Community outreach and counterterrorism with efforts towards exploitable weaknesses.
Community Outreach and Terrorism
International and domestic terrorism have reached levels previously believed to be impossible. Whether fueled by profits they get Continue Reading...
Suicide Attackers: Definition of TerrorismIntroductionTerrorism and terrorist are problematic terms because they are so loosely defined; broadly used to categorize individuals, groups and actions; and increasingly politicized (Dombrowsky, 2005). With Continue Reading...
M1D1: Concept of Homeland Security Enterprise
HSE (Homeland Security Enterprise) was designed to better coordinate the resources of all law enforcement functions that fall under the auspices of the DHS. DHA strives to provide law enforcement agencie Continue Reading...
S., is used on events that require drastic recovery processes like floods (natural) or terrorist attacks (man-made). But the MOI would not be in control of the military in such cases (Lindstrom, 2004).
"Today, France has 'a pool of specialized judge Continue Reading...
Law Enforcement
Khalid (2012) describes one incident in the ongoing conflict between American law enforcement and minority communities. Recently, the FBI hired an informant to pose as a Muslim in order to spy on the Iowan Muslim community in search Continue Reading...
Homeland Security Act
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center last September 11, 2001 highlighted the growing need to safeguard domestic security. One of the Bush government's responses was the passage of the Homeland Security Act during the Continue Reading...
Moreover, the media plays a significant role as well in recognizing terrorism. Due to the media tendencies of quickly abandoning the story once it had lost its drama, issues on terrorism becomes any other news story that could be just thrown away a Continue Reading...
Through experience, the FBI has acquired insights into the fact that there are no dividing lines distinguishing foreign intelligence, terrorist and criminal activities. Foreign intelligence, terrorism, and criminal organizations and activities are i Continue Reading...
With the threat of terrorism remaining so strong in this country it is vital to find new and better ways to protect people and to keep them safe from harm as much as is humanly and technologically possible.
Scope of the Study
The scope of this par Continue Reading...
Shared Information in Terrorist Attacks
Many press reports, and to some extent the 9/11 Commission Report, referred to the failure to share information as one reason the U.S. was unable to prevent the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01.
Just days after t Continue Reading...
Non-Traditional Security Threats and the EU
Theoretical Study
Terrorism
Weapons of Mass Destruction and Nuclear Threat
Regional Conflict
Organized Crime
Environmental Degradation
Non-Traditional Security Threats and the EU
Due to the disconte Continue Reading...
Introduction
The most significant terrorist attack on American soil was the September 11 attacks by Al Qaeda terrorists. The attacks changed the perception that America cannot suffer such attacks, considering how far away it is from where terrorist o Continue Reading...
" (Business Wire, 2007) Ms. Osborne states: "The potential of IxReveal is clear to me," Osborne stated, as "it will transform the capacity of law enforcement and homeland security agencies to more effectively analyze data and promote collaboration wi Continue Reading...
Patriot Act
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States by violent fanatics, the federal government passed legislation which was designed to protect American citizens and to prevent further deaths. One piece of legislati Continue Reading...
To an extent, the idea of Cold War nation building has been in evidence in attempts to instill democracy in fronts such as Afghanistan and Iraq. But as a new president seeks to undo the damage of previous security policy conditions, it is apparent t Continue Reading...
Cyber Terrorism
The Internet that we know today and use in our everyday lives was founded in the early 1970s. But all through the Cold War, the apprehension of data theft led to the Internet becoming a decentralized system. But it was not until the Continue Reading...
Political Science
The USA Patriot Act
Congress passed the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act in response to the terrorists' attacks of September 11, 2001. The Act gives federal officials larger authority to follow and seize communications, both for law enforcement Continue Reading...