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How to Get a Rescue Task Force Off the Ground

There are two clocks running from the moment an active shooter begins; the shooter’s clock and the victim’s clock. One clock is concerned with living; one clock is concerned with dying. The shooter has to shoot as many people as possible before he’s stopped. The victim (casualty) has a period of time, depending on their trauma, where they can still be treated and live. The idea behind rescue task forces is to start working on the victim’s clock.

Warning About Plot to Blow Up Universal City Station Prompts Heightened Security Across L.A.

An overseas tip about an imminent bombing of the Metro Red Line’s Universal City station has forced federal and local law enforcement in Los Angeles to swiftly ramp up security across its sprawling transit system, authorities said Monday.

An anonymous man warned of a potential attack on Tuesday and provided the information on a tip line abroad, according to Deidre Fike, the assistant director in charge of the FBI's office in Los Angeles.

Report Warns of ISIS Developing Drones for Chemical Attacks

Terrorist groups like ISIS are looking for new ways to employ drone technology that could one day deliver chemical weapons or unleash similar catastrophes, according to a new report.

Ushering in a New Generation of Low-Cost, Networked, Nuclear-Radiation Detectors

A DARPA program aimed at preventing attacks involving radiological “dirty bombs” and other nuclear threats has successfully developed and demonstrated a network of smartphone-sized mobile devices that can detect the tiniest traces of radioactive materials. Combined with larger detectors along major roadways, bridges, other fixed infrastructure, and in vehicles, the new networked devices promise significantly enhanced awareness of radiation sources and greater advance warning of possible threats.

The Response to This Weekend’s Terror Attacks Showed Willful Blindness in Real Time

In the all too familiar pattern, things are going boom, Americans are under attack, and the American political class is already busy playing the “See No Jihad” minuet.

NY, NJ Bombings: Suspect ID'd, Terror Cell Likely Involved

Bombings in New York and New Jersey over the weekend -- as well as the discovery of several unexploded devices -- have led authorities to believe there may be a terror cell at work in those two states, law enforcement officials told CNN Monday.

And a manhunt is under way for 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami after New York police identified him as a suspect in connection with the bombing Saturday night in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, which wounded 29 people.

Responding to Large Scale Events and Mass Demonstrations

The COPS Office works alongside law enforcement to support agencies experiencing extraordinary circumstances. Through many research efforts, COPS has invested countless resources to channel best and proven practices and distribute those throughout the field through publications. Many of these large-scale incidents are unique to the departments that experience them; however, the COPS Office continues to work with other agencies that have previously encountered similar circumstances to document best practices and lessons learned so that others can benefit.

How EMS and Fire Processes Must Change During Dynamic and Active Threat Situations

It's taken years to get crews into a standardized mindset to practice incident command (IC) and mass casualty incident (MCI) management in a non-chaotic and coordinated manner.

Progressive systems now routinely set up MCI operations at incidents that tax their available resources, request pre-arranged MCI waves/levels of units or task forces, and refrain from scooping up the first patients that come to them.

The New American Cop: Smarter, More Diverse, Better Equipped and Scared

On July 6, Nakia Jones, a police officer in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, was awakened by her teenage son bursting into her room, on the verge of tears. “Did you see the shooting?” he asked. The day before, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, someone had filmed two police officers tackling and then shooting to death a black man named Alton Sterling. The video showed in bloody detail how quickly an officer can take a life at point-blank range.

DHS S&T to Develop Universal Control for Explosive Disposal Robotic Platforms

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) recently awarded a 12-month project for $422,330 to JGW International Ltd. based in Reston, Virginia, to develop a universal operator control unit (OCU) system for four separate robotic platforms used for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD). In fall 2015, DHS S&T’s First Responders Group (FRG) requested proposals from vendors with rapid technology solutions to help solve critical capability gaps identified by first responders across the country.

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