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.
If we don’t keep pace with the current threat, we’ll be no better off than we were on September 10, 2001
Your first mission is to ensure you are always aware of your surroundings – even when you are at your own house
White supremacy has moved from the dark corners of the internet into American streets, bringing the threat of violence along with it
Authorities say the suspect, a man in his early thirties who was living on a disability pension, fired about 20 shots Wednesday night
They were arrested Saturday after officers with a search warrant discovered a plastic container with 7 grams of HMTD
Republicans are believed to have planted a bomb under the constables car with the intent to kill
Each year, the department assigns thousands of extra patrols to the festivities — in ways seen and unseen — to control the crowd
Safety experts and school boards say there’s a huge difference between an officer who becomes part of the school family and a guard with a gun
Instruction featuring plastic guns is set to begin at noon Thursday inside a conference room
Mass shooters sometimes plan their clothing and prepare by target practicing, but most who make threats don’t act
“Guns and armed guards will not help students resolve important issues or problems in their lives”
Maine law enforcement has trained for active shooter scenarios and learn from shooting incidents across the country
A ninth-grader was taken into custody after fellow students reported he made threatening statements
The NRA’s executive vice president says, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”
The remote town is 30 minutes from the nearest police station, so school board voted to let teachers bring guns to school
About 1,000 cameras will be live-streaming and accessible from patrol laptops
Police have arrested a high school student for allegedly planning a mass shooting
Prosecutors have asked the judge to sentence Shaker Masri on Tuesday to more than nine years in prison
Police caught Turkish men requesting uranium, the material for a nuclear bomb
The 5 attacks just over a year ago were an attempt to shame straying members
News of the execution was widely cheered in India, with public celebrations and firecrackers
Two of the men converted to Islam less than two years ago and the third, an American-born Vietnamese Muslim, drifted into the orbit of the alleged terror cell as recently as September
Two of the men arrested told a confidential FBI informant they would consider American jihad
The judge ruled that the men should be sentenced as terrorists, making them subject to harsher prison terms
Reporters should stop embroidering the facts to fit their preconceived notions of truth
Residents can call sheriff’s office to have explosives, ammunition, weapons, bomb materials or military ordnance removed from their property
Says strategy involved creating conversations about jihad or terrorism, then capturing response to send to police
Early yesterday a self-professed al Qaeda associate from Bangladesh tried to explode what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Bank
A former Pa. state trooper rose through the ranks of the FBI while developing an expertise in counterterrorism investigations
Suspect parked a van filled with what were believed to be explosives and tried to detonate it in a suicide mission
During the past two years, the Joint Counterterrorism Awareness Workshop Series (JCTAWS) Project has been conducting tabletop exercises in selected urban areas
DHS wants to give every cop in the country ready access to information, intelligence, and analysis to prevent attacks by extremist individuals and groups
Man said he wanted to test police response to a fake terrorism call
