Public Safety
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Iowa City and Johnson County are taking part in a pilot program that will aim to develop a protocol that will serve as another response to 911 or other crisis line calls typically handled by local law enforcement. -
The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week.
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By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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In Miami, after an Army veteran ambushed and shot 12 Dallas police officers earlier this month, killing five of them, police were outfitted with 687 new steel-plated vests capable of repelling rifle fire.
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In a July 8 video, Long suggested that if 'anything happens to me … don't affiliate me with anybody.'
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While some local departments called meetings to address new protocols or implemented new safety measures, others kept with their usual routine, reminding their officers to be even more vigilant than usual.
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At least 84 people were killed and dozens more injured, French officials said, with many children among the victims.
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There were shots fired during the attack, but it was not immediately clear if the shots were fired by people in the vehicle or by police.
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About a year after the city authorized a three-year, $37,000 contract with California-based PredPol Inc. for predictive policing software, the department pulled the plug, citing minimal benefit that did not justify continuing costs.
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Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said that in light of the shooting death by police of Philando Castile last week in suburban St. Paul, Minn., body cameras would increase transparency.
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Pittsburgh EMS has 13 medics embedded with the SWAT unit.
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An opportunity to give DHS staff real world experience
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The city's technology was finally converted to handle the digital capabilities last week.
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Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming?
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FEMA’s public assistance program can help, but it’s a reimbursement program that only covers 75 percent of the cost.
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Chief approved the plan to send in a robot armed with a pound of C4 explosives.
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Firefighters still put out fires, but also they must have training in emergency medical response, rescue techniques on land and on water, personal safety education, building construction and more.
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Less than a month after 49 people were killed in an Orlando nightclub, hospitals across Dallas found themselves preparing for the worst.
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When a localized desert convection thunderstorm hit, what happened next took only minutes to form a destructive force that would wreak havoc on everything in its path.
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An approach for communicating information
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A consensus has been reached about the immediacy of live video: This is the new normal, and it's going to control how these horrific events play out from now on.
