Public Safety Signals

Dean Tiffin, faculty, Capella staff, and I thoroughly enjoyed our experience at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) 2010 conference, held at the Orange County Convention in Orlando, Florida, October 23-27, 2010.
Over 150 education sessions were offered to attendees. Law enforcement executives presented on current issues and trends while sharing lessons learned. Topics [...]

I am very pleased to join the Public Safety Signals team of contributors. My hope is to provide relevant commentary on current and important issues in the exciting, rapidly growing, and broad field of public safety.
Go well and stay safe! – Steven

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Capella-Sponsored Documentary Receives Recognition
“The Next Mission,” a documentary sponsored by the Capella University research study “Joining Forces America” about the mental health needs of members of the military returning from combat duty, has received a regional Emmy award in the category of Topical Documentary. Capella conducted its research to more [...]

Greetings and I hope all is well.
The significance of today’s date is etched in the collective memory of just about everyone in the United States and conjures up just about every available emotion and feeling.
In Public Safety, after emotionally grappling with the sheer enormity of losses of life that day in but a [...]

Parts of the southern U.S.A. are in a state of emergency after the explosion, and subsequent sinking, of the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform. Unfortunately the explosion and sinking has resulted in a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the likes of which we have never witnessed. Aside from the multiple deaths from [...]

What Influences Forensic Science?
The ebb and flow of forensic science is influenced by several variables: politics, policy, technology, and culture just to name a few. While these variables act independently, each as a cog in the machine, they interrelate as well. Politics has a tremendous influence on forensic science in that the legislature of each [...]

The terrible earthquake that devastated Haiti could be felt around the world. This was possible because of the media. The prior socioeconomic problems that plagued the poor country of Haiti exacerbated the consequences from the disaster and rippled through every facet of the county’s fragile structural and nonstructural infrastructure. The media was there, and we [...]

As the shock wears off on what may be the worst disaster in recorded history to strike the Western Hemisphere in terms of loss of human life, the Public Safety infrastructure in Haiti is currently in shambles.
There are two Pillars of Public Safety, Health and Security. The primary mission and objective [...]

On Tuesday at 5:00 PM local time, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter magnitude scale devasted the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The country is currently in a state of shock, given that there are an estimated 100,000 people feared dead and there is no power throughout the afflicted area.
Key health infrastructure, such [...]

While I am sure most of you already know this information I felt I should post anyway. This is a reminder that self deployment to a disaster is strongly discouraged!!! Those who self deploy often become the disaster after the disaster and often take valuable resources from those that desperately need it. The proceeding e-mail [...]