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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, Touché) by oakgrove on Monday June 05 2017, @01:06AM (9 children)
Subtract the gun violence perpetrated by non-whites and the US is one of the safest countries in the world. Ahead of many European countries including places like Finland.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday June 05 2017, @03:18AM (1 child)
So, those bullets, fired by those "non-whites": do they only kill "non-whites", or are "whites" just as dead, after being shot?
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @12:45PM
Take a look at the weekly crime statistics for Chicago, the majority of the violent deaths as black-on-black.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 05 2017, @06:30AM (5 children)
Is there any source on that? sounds interesting.
(Score: 1) by oakgrove on Monday June 05 2017, @09:15AM (4 children)
It's tough to find all the numbers since the doj has a habit of lumping Hispanics in as white but according to this [fbi.gov], in 2013 non-hispanic and whites of a non-determinant ethnicity (which actually overinflates the real number) committed 2,473 murders with a population (in 2012) of 197,243,423 [wikipedia.org] for a rate of about 1.25 per 100,000. According to this [wikipedia.org], the 2013 murder rate in Findland was 1.66 per 100,000.
Hopefully I got all the numbers right as I'm tablet posting in bed.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 05 2017, @11:20AM (3 children)
Those numbers speaks volumes.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @12:56PM (2 children)
I know, right?
That works out to 99.998% of whites who are not murderers. That's pretty good, right?
Ooops, my bad, its actually 99.998% of non-whites.
For whites it is 99.999%.
HUGE difference, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @01:44PM (1 child)
You are a fucking idiot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @02:37PM
Do you feel better now?
(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Monday June 05 2017, @09:01AM
Where did you get that from?
1. subtract the crimes perpetrated by a third of the population in a European country, and suddenly that country is one of the safest in the world.
2. Is "gun violence" the one thing that makes things unsafe in the USA?
You'd have no worries about knives, or just about a group without weapons ganging up on you?
3. Safe for whom?
4. Wouldn't this be a reason to regulate guns?
You're arguing that guns end up in the hands of the wrong people.... the obvious fix to that is to prevent that from happening as much as possible.