What steps can law enforcement take to prevent and respond to mass casualty attacks
MODULE 05 DISCUSSION – PREVENTING AND RESPONDING TO MASS CASUALTY ATTACKS
1. first initial post: please use apa format, incite quotes with references: What steps can law enforcement take to prevent and respond to mass casualty attacks in the United States? Should law enforcement be proactive or reactive when it comes to such threats?
Law enforcement is challenged by mass casualty events due to the size, scope and intensity of such incidents. Responses and proactive strategies will depend on how the cause of the casualty is defined. Generally, major accidents are not a part of police preventative measures but that of other companion agencies. Certainly, as first responders law enforcement is prepared to assist and control the site of a mass casualty event and to investigate the cause. At times, intelligence-led policing will assist in preparing for potential criminal or terrorist attacks along with cooperative relationships with local, state and federal authorities and intelligence agencies.
In your discussion, respond to the following questions.
What strategies and actions should law enforcement pursue in the prevention of criminal and terrorist mass casualty incidents?
What actions should law enforcement pursue in the response to mass casualty events in the case of a criminal act and the case of a terrorist act?
On balance, what is your opinion on which is more important: law enforcement being proactive or reactive as they relate to crime and terrorism?
Please make your initial post by midweek, and respond to at least one other student’s post by the end of the week. Please check the for specific due dates.
Respond to this students post* be detailed with response
What strategies and actions should law enforcement pursue in the prevention of criminal and terrorist mass casualty incidents? I would say one area that LE could do to help prevent incidents is being more involved in programs with youth. “Violent extremist groups are also diversifying their recruitment pool, reaching out to women and older and younger generations who are not yet as closely watched by security agencies. Terrorists have already started recruiting children in their pre-teens—a trend that is likely to accelerate—and women are increasingly found in high-profile roles as supporters, mobilizers, and members of terrorist groups.” Not only getting involved in the youth, but also getting involved with the parents, teachers, coaches, peer leaders. Kids look up to these people and are influence in their lives. We need to protect the next generation from being exploited by these groups.
What actions should law enforcement pursue in the response to mass casualty events in the case of a criminal act and the case of a terrorist act? The main action for law enforcement to take at a mass casualty event is for them to show up and hopefully neutralize the threat, make the scene safe, attend to the victims. In the event that a single person is responsible, such as the Las Vegas shooter recently, law enforcement needs to work to neutralize the threat to the public. Their second job would be to work on securing the scene and finally, tending to victims of the event.
On balance, what is your opinion on which is more important: law enforcement being proactive or reactive as they relate to crime and terrorism? My opinion is to be proactive. In Law Enforcement, as cops we can all relate to Gordon Graham’s training and his saying, “if it’s predictable, it’s preventable.” Essentially, he is saying that most crimes and events are preventable, if the right people are paying attention. While it is probably not possible to predict and prevent all mass casualty events, it is reasonable to believe that some can be prevented.
MODULE 05 DISCUSSION – PREPARING FOR CRIMINAL AND TERRORIST MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS
second initial post:
Across all jurisdictions (at the federal, state and local levels), there is a clear need for cooperation from citizens in communities in every part of the country. Many times citizens do not have the information required to prepare themselves to help respond and prevent mass casualty events.
How could the United States better prepare for criminal and terrorist Mass Casualty Incidents? How could you as an individual better prepare yourself?
What strategies and programs can be initiated, by law enforcement to engage individual citizens and communities in the prevention and response to criminal and terrorist mass casualty incidents?
Please make your initial post by midweek, and respond to at least one other student’s post by the end of the week. Please check the for specific due dates.
RESPOND TO THIS PEER POST:
Better preparing for a critical incident at huge event or popular locations. Its like hospitals and schools, they prepare for incidents so that way things go “smoothly” when they day comes. Also give better awareness to the public about watching their surroundings and things that they can do when a mass casualty happens. Try to get people to think about what could happen and not to get complacent.
Well one thing I do is I usually carry my off duty weapon when I go out. If I don’t carry, then my husband is carrying. My son is only 1.5yr old but when he is older we plan on teaching and going over with him, if anything bad happens he will need to do this this and this. Another thing is to not become complacent. Even in our jobs as police we tend to get complacent and it takes a brother or sister in blue to kinda shake you back to reality.
Some things that can help prevent is training. Like doing active shooter events, where teachers are role players in these events. Big event centers having the employees and security guards to training based scenarios. Those big trainings all the way down to neighborhood watch programs, where citizens are the eyes of the neighborhood. People that lives in those areas, know what is normal and what is not.
https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/types-of-emergencies/terrorism.html
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