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.
The new law eliminates provisions that reduced benefits for retired first responders and other public servants, offering retroactive and future payment increases
Access targeted strategies to mitigate vehicle-borne attacks
A new law to keep bystanders from interfering with first responders goes into effect in 2025
The conference, to be held November 5-7, 2019 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, features industry leaders, FAA experts and practitioners from several states and offers demonstrations, presentations, industry panels and networking opportunities.
A dispatcher trainer and a police chief offer tips that can help first responders consider bias and stay within fourth amendment rights when receiving or following up on suspicious person calls.
In the proposed deal, the Sackler family would sell Mundipharma and turn proceeds of up to $4.5 billion over to compensate state and local governments that have filed lawsuits. The first Federal opioid crisis trial is five weeks away.
Each year SAFECOM provides guidance on applying for emergency communications grants. The agency provides advice on the federal government’s five priorities for interoperable emergency communications projects.
It started as a social media joke, but the Storm Area 51 -- an event so large local governments and public safety agencies normally request 6 months to plan -- is pressing Lincoln County Fire Protection District to be ready in 5-6 weeks.
Out in the field, wireless communications and data on building layouts can be critical incident command and officer safety challenges. Cutting edge broadband and cloud-based technologies offer solutions.
An evaluation and tabletop exercises of LA’s primary public health and public safety efforts to reduce violent extremism explored the basic steps and gaps cities may encounter in establishing secondary prevention programs
Grand Rapids police have been unnecessarily dispatched after 911 calls were made due to implicit bias or discrimination. As part of a larger human rights ordinance, the city has made bias crime reporting a civil infraction with penalties up to $500.
An integrated strategy includes cleaning up graffiti, prosecuting vandals, working with the community and decoding threats
FirstNet officials attended individual engagements, workshops and summits with first responders to ensure the roadmap meets responders’ communication needs.
South Bend shares strategies and lessons learned in keeping on track with group violence intervention, improving efforts and creating impact with those at highest risk for violence.
Mass shootings are defined by the number of those that are killed and injured. Find out which were the worst mass shootings of 2018 and the deadliest so far in 2019
Public safety leaders praised their FirstNet transformations, citing reliability, redundancy, cost savings and improved field operations at APCO 2019.
The city worked with New York University School of Law’s Policing Project to create the policy with input from the ACLU-NJ and the local Fraternity of Police
Learn how to reach police officer candidates, conduct training and engage new police recruits with their communities.
After six Philadelphia officers were shot in a crime-related gun battle, Mayor Jim Kenney responds that officer safety is enough cause for local leaders to seek gun control.
