Anti-Terrorism Grants for Cities at Risk
In the midst of last month’s manhunt to find the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Massachusetts police received a tip about a trail of blood leading to a resident’s covered boat.
Read More →City of Atlanta losing UASI grants despite its high profile
The city of Atlanta is losing DHS grant money used to strengthen the city’s ability to protect against a terrorist attack. Despite being home to recent high profile events such as the NCAA’s Final Four, federal records show the amount of money allocated to Atlanta through urban area security grants has dropped from $13 million [...]
Read More →Homeland Security Grants to States Gutted
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, the state of Massachusetts, the city of Boston and federal authorities quickly joined together to respond to the emergency. But in recent years, federal funding for state homeland security efforts to respond to emergencies has been gutted.
Read More →Measuring the Effectiveness of UASI Equipment in Real Time
Like everyone else, I am glued to MSNBC watching the events unfold in Boston. What I am seeing is living proof in real time that the money spent on coordinated anti-terrorism, on command and control, and on police equipment to combat real terrorist threats was in fact very well spent. Congress may think otherwise and [...]
Read More →Boston 10th in Funds Received for ‘High Threat’ Urban Areas
Terrorism has been in the headlines in Boston before. Ten al-Qaida hijackers departed from Boston’s Logan airport on Sept. 11, 2001. And in 2012, Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Mass., a Boston suburb, was convicted of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida. But when the Department of Homeland Security originally assessed the threat of terror to 65 [...]
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