ALPR Systems and How They Grew
Jay Kehoe
May 18, 2005
Crime-fighting goes high-tech with the introduction and increasing use of affordable, relatively
compact, and user-friendly OCR and ALPR technology. Today, speeders are the most likely target. Tomorrow
and the day after it will be known criminals and/or s
A Long Tradition of Voluntary National Service
Brent Bankus
May 18, 2005
The recent spate of articles and commentaries about the “Minuteman” group that, without invitation,
helped the U.S. Border Patrol apprehend over 300 illegal migrants is a timely reminder that other
citizen groups have provided significant homeland-defense
"The Week That Was" in Washington, D.C.
James D. Hessman
May 18, 2005
Orders to “Run for your life!” were followed in short order by the announcement of new
port-security grants and the Pentagon’s latest list of base closings, consolidations, and realignments.
All three became major national stories, and all are related – i
The Detection and Prevention of Suicide Bombings
Neil C. Livingstone
May 18, 2005
The suicide bomber – low-cost, easy to train, and totally expendable – has become Al Qaeda’s weapon of choice in its Global War on Capitalism. He (or sometimes she) is impossible to stop, and usually not easy to detect. There are, though, some telltale signs.
DomesticPreparedness.com Welcomes Neil C. Livingstone
Martin D. Masiuk
May 11, 2005
SEVERNA PARK, MD–(MARKET WIRE)–May 9, 2005 — www.DomesticPreparedness.com announces that it has added Neil C. Livingstone, one of the world’s preeminent experts on terrorism and Homeland Security, to its roster
Office of the Inspector General Report on the FBI's Efforts to Hire, Train, and Retrain Intelligence Analysts
Domestic Preparedness
May 9, 2005
This review found that “the FBI lacked the capability to prepare a strategic or ‘big picture’ threat assessment.” http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a0520/final.pdf
GAO Report - Preventing Nuclear Smuggling, DOE Has Made Limited Progress in Installing Rediation Detection Equipment at Highest Priority Foreign Seaports
Domestic Preparedness
May 9, 2005
“Gaining the cooperation of foreign governments has been difficult in part because some countries have concerns that screening large volumes of containers will create delays that could inhibit the flow