Essay - Criminal Justice - Homeland Security Managing Homeland Security 1. Explain...

Criminal Justice - Homeland Security

MANAGING HOMELAND SECURITY

1. Explain the four phases of emergency planning (i.e. mitigation, preparedness, response, recovery) in detail. Practically speaking, which phases do you think most emergency managers spend time thinking about? Which phases should they ***** the most time ***** about? How, if at all, has 9-11 changed where the emp*****es ***** lie?

***** is ***** process ***** devising appropriate strategies and procedures to reduce the foreseeable impact of ***** situations and to limit their consequences as much as possible. Preparedness relates to establishing the capabilities of emergency managers to respond as efficiently and effectively as possible to ***** situations.

Response refers to the operational implementation of ***** processes ***** strategies comprised by the ***** and preparedness stages, and recovery relates to the process of renormalizing property and life affecting directly by emergency situations. All four phases are tremendously important, but generally, mitigation is the most important phase of emergency ***** because r*****k mitigation directly reduces the comparative circumstances necessitating the other three *****s of ***** management.

The terrorist attacks of 9-11 could not have been reasonably foreseen by local emergency management authorities, although evidence that surfaced shortly thereafter established ***** various federal law enforcement agencies ***** executives within the Bush administration could indeed have mitigated the risk of such attacks significantly by heeding the specific warnings of several individuals and by better coordinating and sharing the information collection and analysis of intelligence that was available prior to those attacks. Especially, in New York City, the ***** attacks highlighted the need for improved emergency prep*****dness, particularly ***** relation ***** Fire Department communications and jurisdictional authority between the NYFD and the NYPD.

*****. ***** in detail ***** process of ***** analysis? In light ***** the read*****gs and your own experience, how would you define risk? How would ***** weigh it? If you were the city manager or police chief in a small town with limited resources, ***** ***** ef*****t would you put into risk analysis? Would ***** simply "eyeball" risk ***** give it your best guess, ***** would you be inclined to conduct an actual assessment? The targeting of risk analysis consists ***** ***** specific components: (1) external general, (2) external *****, (3) internal *****, and (4) internal specific. External general risks consist of those ***** pertain to prevailing circumstances outside of the geographical area of emergency ***** responsibil*****y that bear not direct *****ship to that area. External ***** risks consist of those that are geographically remote from ***** ***** of responsibility but *****ly related to that *****a. Internal general risks ***** of ***** that arise within the geographic area or responsibility that are otherwise un***** to ***** area. ***** specific risks are those *****iginating ***** the area of responsibility and also directly related to that area.

Risk can be defined as the degree of likelihood ***** circumstances requiring ***** ***** and ***** magnitude of the harms anticipated to be associated with those *****. In principle, emergency management priority is determined ***** the following matrix