Mass Casualty Attacks
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“Good medicine can sometimes be bad tactics and bad tactics can get everyone killed.” As a consequence of the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized in the movie...
Terrorism
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In April 2009, the H1N1 virus was at the peak of its first outbreak, and state and local partners were anxious to understand the local impact of the national outbreak and its implication for homeland ...
Terrorism
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The newest challenge facing the law enforcement profession is unlike any other it has seen before. Incident planning and event intelligence in conventional times were straightforward. The local crimin...
Mass Casualty Attacks
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After the tragic events of September 11, 2001, in New York and Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon, cities and states across the United States took a hard look at their current crisis management plans (C...
Mass Casualty Attacks
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Fort Hays State University (FHSU), a picturesque academic institution on the plains of northwest Kansas, was created as a special act of Congress. Congress deeded the grounds of Fort Hays, a frontier ...
Mass Casualty Attacks
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, New Yorkers watched a blazing sunrise illuminate the twin towers of the World Trade Center, which represented the heart of U.S. commerce. In less than two hours, ...
Education & Training
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Editor’s note: The author was the police incident commander for the 2003 TOPOFF2 full-scale terrorism response exercise in Seattle and served as a controller and evaluator for the 2005 Marine Terror...
Leadership
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Homeland security-namely, the protection of lives, the critical infrastructure, and the economic well-being of the state from terrorist attacks-has become part of the everyday vernacular of the CHP. T...