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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 04 2017, @11:20PM (3 children)
Even if that did work, it would violate basic rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion, so it wouldn't be acceptable. It wouldn't even work, though, because you'd just anger even more people than before and the types of people who already were would-be terrorists would just become even more determined.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 05 2017, @02:35AM (2 children)
Islam is not a religion. Islam is a totalitarian regime that dictates every aspect of life. Islam is a government, a judiciary, a police force, everything. No aspect of life exists that Islam doesn't rule. Totalitarianism, at it's most extreme. In the home, at work, on the streets - there is no vacation, no escape.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/10/islam-a-totalitarian-ideology [jihadwatch.org]
"Islam is a totalitarian ideology that aims to control the religious, social and political life of mankind in all its aspects — the life of its followers without qualification, and the life of those who follow the so-called tolerated religions to a degree that prevents their activities from getting in the way of Islam in any manner. And I mean Islam. I do not accept some spurious distinction between Islam and “Islamic fundamentalism” or “Islamic terrorism.” The terrorists who planted bombs in Madrid on March 11, 2004, and those responsible for the death of approximately 3000 people on September 11, 2001 in New York, and the Ayatollahs of Iran, were and are all acting canonically. Their actions reflect the teachings of Islam, whether found in the Koran, in the acts and teachings of the Prophet Mohammed, or in Islamic Law that is based upon them."
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @04:22AM
Dude! TMI!
The only people who read a a site like jihadwatch are people who masturbate to terrorism news coverage.
We don't need to know about your sad, obscene kinks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 05 2017, @06:04AM
Actually, it's not radical islamist terrorists you need to be afraid of. If you live in the US, it's radical white terrorists and the christian taliban that pose a greater threat to you - they've killed a substantially higher number of people than islamists over the decades and centuries since arriving in the Americas, or even if you look over the past decade. They will slash you in the neck or string you up from a tree if you even speak up.
And of course, your chances of dying at the hands of gun-wielding police (the vast majority of whom are white) are 700% higher. In 2016 armed cops killed nearly a 1000 people. Islamist terrorists are laughably unsuccessful by any metric.
In fact, you should be more worried about armed-to-the-teeth mentally-ill veterans like Runaway1956 going crazy and offing you... who knows what may trigger them... after all, they have no sympathy or empathy for their fellow humans, lack basic reasoning skills, live off the public teat (free VA healthcare, anyone? man, I would love me some free healthcare), imagine monsters where there are none, protect monsters (i.e., the rightard leadership) when they actually find them ...