Public Safety Signals

Hello everyone, I intended to mention in my last post that development of Capella’s public safety degree portfolio continues. Yesterday saw the announcement of a new BS degree in Homeland Security and a new BS degree in Security Management.
The field of Homeland Security is evolving and is a source of national attention. Just earlier [...]

Joy, you highlighted an important issue that intersects the domains of public health and public safety with your comments to Joe on the MRSA super bug. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) this bacterium may be responsible for more annual deaths in the U.S. than AIDS.
I believe that a widespread outbreak with numerous [...]

In a stunning twist of events, Dr. Charles Hirsch, the New York City Chief Medical Examiner concluded that New York City Detective James Zadroga did not die as a result of working at the World Trade Center during the rescue and recovery effort.
Detective Zadroga had toiled at the World Trade Center during the [...]

Hello everyone! Joe and I just returned from a trip to New Orleans attending the IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police) conference. Our public safety program had the honor of being one of the sponsors for the event, which hosted 17,000 chiefs and law enforcement executives from around the world. We had the pleasure [...]

The White House today updated the National Strategy for Homeland Security. This was the first update to the strategy since the original report was published in 2002. Unsurprisingly, one of the report’s major findings was that Al Qaeda remains the nation’s number one domestic threat. One surprise was the concern over the [...]