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If it seems like every week, there's another terrorist attack – well, you're not wrong. According to one crowdsourcing map, there have been over 500 attacks around the world since the start of 2017, with over 3,500 fatalities. For a period in 2016, ISIS-initiated attacks were occurring, on average, every 84 hours.
Despite improvements in methods and coordination among law enforcement agencies over the past 25 years, they're still hamstrung in a number of ways. With large public gatherings of people becoming more attractive targets for terrorists, what are the best strategies moving forward?
[...] But despite huge budgets and the presence of thousands of added security personnel, it's virtually impossible to prevent a determined terrorist, or guarantee absolute safety. While security efforts for events like the Olympic Games have escalated, terrorists today no longer wait for major events that draw global interest.
[...] The odds are in favor of terrorists. All they have to do is succeed once, no matter how many times they try. For public safety professionals to be fully successful, they have to prevent 100 percent of the terror attempts. It's a number to aspire to, but even the most experienced countries fighting terror – such as Israel and the U.K. – can't measure up to this standard.
[...] These days, it's necessary to consider any place where crowds congregate as vulnerable "soft targets" for the attackers. To better prepare for securing soft targets (and this isn't to say threats against "hard targets," like planes, buildings and infrastructure, have diminished) law enforcement agencies must improve coordination among one another, whether it's via intelligence, information sharing and training. And then there's the need for deconfliction, which refers to avoiding self-defeating behavior – from interagency rivalries and poor communication to insufficient coordination – by people who are on the same side.
[...] Given that there is no way to guarantee complete safety, and that the threat assessment expects more attacks, there are two more elements that ought to receive more attention: community resilience and community policing.
https://theconversation.com/how-can-we-better-protect-crowds-from-terrorism-78443
[Related]:
1996 Atlanta Olympic Games: https://www.britannica.com/event/Atlanta-Olympic-Games-bombing-of-1996
Secure Airport Design: https://skift.com/2016/07/04/how-smart-airport-design-can-make-spaces-more-secure/
Do you agree with this assessment of the security situation ? What do you think could be done to mitigate the effects of such asymmetric warfare ?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday June 04 2017, @10:55PM (4 children)
Oh, come on, the Cubans were hijacking planes long before the Arabs and Muslims.
Today's Europe reminds me of Spain's Moorish invasion. I don't know why EU leadership volunteered to be invaded like this, but it has happened, and unless deportation is an option, there's going to be a ethnographic shift across Europe just like Spain had with the Moors. Will Europeans with at least one white ancestor start calling themselves royalty next?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @11:56PM
The Cubans were largely non-violent when they hijacked a plane. They'd have whatever weapons and they'd demand that the plane be flown to Cuba and at that point everybody would disembark the plane and ultimately wind up back in the US. Apart from being inconvenienced it wasn't really that big of a deal. The Cubans weren't known for blowing up entire planes full of people and more.
And that's a large part of why the 9/11 attacks were successful. Nobody on those first 3 planes thought to conclude that they'd be part of a kamikaze mission to blow up entire buildings full of people.
The reason why Islamic extremism has been such a huge problem is that they by and large don't have the military forces and were trained and armed by the CIA to go after groups that we were worried about at the time. If we stop interfering in the region it's going to get increasingly hard for them to recruit. But, every time we go in there and murder innocent civilians it just makes it that much easier for them to radicalize and recruit.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 05 2017, @02:22AM
Well, if you're going to be honest, the Cuban hijackings help to verify what Original stated. The US took over a sizeable chunk of Cuba, to establish a military base, then the US decided that it didn't like the Cuban government, etc ad nauseum, Bay of Pigs, etc, etc.
The US has a history of establishing Banana Republics throughout the Caribbean, as well as South and Central America. Cuba decided that it didn't want to be a Banana Republic.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday June 05 2017, @11:06AM (1 child)
The population of the EU is 500 million people. The entire Middle East, including Egypt, is 200 million. Even if the entire Middle East were to move to Europe, they would still be heavily outnumbered by white people. White genocide is not a possibility even if the Middle Eastern folk tried with all their might and every man, woman, and child.
The numbers of Muslims worldwide don't start to tip that balance vis-a-vis white Europeans until you throw countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Indonesia into the mix. None of those places is trying to flood Europe with immigrants.
If European society is so fragile that a 1% change in their population, with those newcomers being penniless and desperate, can destabilize them and throw them into anarchy, then they ain't the great shakes they make themselves out to be. Hell, they ought to be grateful to have a group of people who don't mind keeping their delis open on Sundays and Christian holidays when the rest of the Germans have knocked off but damn aunt Helga forgot the sour cream for the Kartoffeln again can somebody please run out to the store and get some?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 05 2017, @01:02PM
Europe hasn't dealt with penniless and desperate in a long time... they will need to adjust a few things to keep the 1% from doing damage equivalent to 10% of the population being soccer hooligans and welfare punks.
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