Public Safety
Public Safety is a top priority for local and state government agencies, encompassing the protection of citizens through law enforcement, emergency response, and crime prevention strategies. Effective public safety measures are essential for maintaining order and ensuring the well-being of communities. This directory offers articles on public safety and related topics like Emergency Management, which focuses on preparing for and responding to natural disasters, public health crises, and other emergencies that impact community safety.
“It’s kind of like living out an episode of ‘Cops’ every day,” Police Technician Supervisor Austin Simayo said
The deployment allows officers to use their smartphones as both mobile and desktop workstations to reduce reliance on traditional laptops
A Firehouse Subs grant helped Pittsfield Township firefighters replace one old camera and place new ones on every truck in the fleet
The bulk of the borrowing proposal would go toward reducing wildfire risk throughout the state. It also includes money to protect farmland from climate change, bolster the state’s scarce water sources and help coastal communities plan for sea level rise.
The court found him guilty of 136 counts of rape, 13 counts of sexual assault, eight counts of attempted rape and two counts of assault by penetration
Police leaders say witnesses are simply too scared to cooperate. In Kansas City, 70% of people who survive being shot refuse to name their assailant
An Emergency Medical Services official said the county could not rule out carbon monoxide in the recent deaths of two infants at the complex until autopsies are done.
The need for the training is high. The former chairwoman of the state Human Trafficking Commission said North Carolina is thought to have one of the top rates of human trafficking in the nation.
According to the DOJ, “the link between academic failure and delinquency, violence and crime is welded to reading failure.” Over 70% of inmates in America’s prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level
From Tampa to Philadelphia and San Francisco to New York, protesters carried signs and chanted anti-war slogans.
The nonprofit Blue H.E.L.P. reported 228 officer deaths by suicide this past year.
The destructive cyberattacks on U.S. targets ebbed when Tehran reached a nuclear deal with the Obama administration in 2015. The killing early Friday in Iraq of Quds Force commander Gen. Qassam Soleimani — long after Trump scrapped the nuclear deal — completely alters the equation.
In a statement, the city credited new investments in street outreach efforts, data-driven policing strategies and strengthened community partnerships for the decline in violence to the lowest levels since 2015.
Officer Charles Starks was fired after shooting at Bradley Blackshire at least 15 times through the windshield of a car last February; a spokeswoman for Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott said the city will appeal the ruling
When a school system wants to remove a violent disabled child from those classrooms, the layers of documentation and data-keeping required under the law can take months -- and during that time, other children have been severely injured.
“I have a positive outlook, and I believe in the kindness of strangers,” Officer Peme Canas said. “I knew all we needed was a spark and people would step up and help. I know the officers in Savoonga are moved by the kindness of people they will never meet.”
The ShotSpotter system was tested in early December and went live on Dec. 11. Without the technology, police never would have learned about dozens of incidents. Police say that’s a problem.
What hurts the most, said Kellee Fernandez, sister to one of the victims, is knowing how much her brother had to offer to others
The Iowa City Council in August declared a “climate crisis” and called for a 45 percent reduction in carbon emissions from 2010 levels by 2030 and for reaching net zero by 2050.
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