Funding for Emergency Communication Systems is vital for public safety. These systems alert people about disasters, emergencies, and urgent situations. But many lack enough funding, which makes them less effective. Improving their funding is essential to ensure people get timely, accurate information during crises. This article explores ways to get more funding, like using grants, … Read more
When considering whether our first responders are properly equipped for the hundreds of thousands of emergencies they respond to each day, we tend to talk a lot about the physical equipment. Do our officers have enough body armor and tools in their belts? Are their vehicles equipped with the right laptops and radios? These are … Read more
As first responders like to point out, all emergencies are local. State and city governments are still our first line of defense. Making real-time emergency decisions is not a trivial responsibility for local governments, as the State of Georgia and City of Atlanta discovered recently during the Great Southern Ice Storm of 2014. Their experience … Read more
February 28, 1997, was a day of mayhem and miracles in North Hollywood. A pair of gunmen, clad in ski masks and full body armor, swaggered into the Bank of America shortly after it opened for business, spray-painted the lobby with bullets from AK-47 and M-16 assault rifles, and launched what was to become one … Read more
Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) could be one of the most promising data sources for effective threat analysis in the coming years, and under the NSI program (National SAR Initiative), law enforcement agencies can submit local reports for analysis by participating agencies as well as compare their local reports to the broader database to find matches … Read more