Terrorism Prevention and Response
Because American cops are on the front lines in counterterrorism, the Terrorism Prevention and Response topic page is updated with news and information to protect the homeland from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Police departments must prepare to use proven team tactics for crowd control to ensure demonstrations remain peaceful and lawful assemblies
Sovereign citizens fancy themselves outside of the laws of the land and don’t recognize the legitimacy of the U.S. government
After enduring 13 hours in the World Trade Center rubble, Will Jimeno’s story of survival and Dominick Pezzulo’s ultimate sacrifice led LAPD officer Joe Cirrito into law enforcement
Nicholas Young is the first law enforcement officer in the U.S. ever to be charged with a terrorism offense
It is time to train 100 percent of police officers nationwide in the team tactics of crowd control
Sand-filled sanitation trucks and police sharpshooters will mix with glittering floats and giant balloons at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Sayfullo Saipov, 29, faces several charges including eight counts of murder
Authorities said a device was also rigged inside a SpongeBob SquarePants lunchbox
Agencies around the country are honing their responses, trying to balance free-speech rights with public safety and comparing notes to see which tactics work best
The investigation has already revealed instances where the suspect had contact with other people who had drawn law enforcement scrutiny
About half of the individuals came into contact with law enforcement during the planning and preparation stages of their attacks
The executive director of Transportation Alternatives said the barriers are an an “ill-advised and unacceptable solution”
After his trail of terror was halted by a police bullet, he asked to display the Islamic State flag in his hospital room
The charges against 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov could bring the death penalty
The NYC attack is a horrible reminder that the United States continues to face the ongoing threat of terrorism from both ideological organizations and lone individuals
Sayfullo Saipov, 29, left a handwritten note referring to the Islamic State group and was radicalized in the U.S.
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Federal officials called David Wright’s conviction a victory for America in its fight against terrorism
Prosecutors said Ahmad Khan Rahimi considered himself “a soldier in a holy war against Americans” and was inspired by ISIS and al-Qaida
Michael Christopher Estes is charged with leaving a homemade bomb near a terminal and later telling investigators he sought to “fight a war on U.S. soil”
Kirstjen Nielsen formerly served as John Kelly’s chief of staff when he held the position of Trump’s first DHS secretary
The Tunisian man who carried out last year’s deadly truck rampage could have been detained and possibly deported months before the attack
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Three Islamic State group sympathizers plotted to cause bloodshed at New York City concert venues, subway stations and Times Square
A man who fatally stabbed two women outside Marseille’s main train station had been detained for shoplifting and released the day before the attack
Prosecutors on Monday filed charges including attempted murder against a man suspected of ramming his car into a cop, stabbing him and then injuring four people
The complex, carefully coordinated attacks of 9/11 have been replaced with a new kind of violence that is significantly harder to detect
Stephen Paddock opened fire on a country music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino
The extremist group has a history of exaggerated or false claims
Paris prosecutor’s office said that a counter-terrorism investigation has been opened
A car and knife attack on a cop outside a football game and a pursuit of a moving van that left four people injured appear to be the work of a single suspected terrorist
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