Public Safety Signals

Jose Padilla, who was arrested for conspiring to detonate a radioactive “Dirty Bomb” as part of an al-Quaida terror attack was sentenced yesterday to 17 years and 4 months in prison . Mr. Padilla was convicted in August with two other defendants for conspiring to support worldwide al-Quaida initiatives.
This case, a primary [...]

Ironically, on the day after
the four 2005 London bombers were sentenced to life in prison, a report by the National Intelligence Estimates found that al-Qaeda is still very capable of a serious attack upon the United States. This one day turnover, closure on a heinous attack, and then a stark and gloomy report [...]

As the investigation into the series of attacks in the United Kingdom last week unfolds, it is becoming apparent that seven of the eight terrorists involved in last weeks attacks were physicians. This is in stark contrast to the terrorists depicted as extremists and firebrands on the margins of the globalized world. [...]

Republic Presidential Candidate Rudolph Giuliani recently critized former President Bill Clinton regarding then President Clinton’s policies on terrorism after the first attack on the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993.
That attack on the World Trade Center consisted of a rental truck exploding in an underground parking lot that killed six (6) [...]

The initial entry on this blog, “The Daunting Task of Public Safety” posted on May 13, 2007; we discussed the tragic event at Virginia Tech University and the evolutionary changes in Public Safety. One of the changes in the Public Safety and how Public Safety functions are dependent on external societal expectations in the [...]