Latest Episodes
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A Use-of-Force Doctrine in Policing
Reports of police use of excessive force appear weekly in the media and have generated outrage in many communities. Officers actions are currently judged...
7
A New Model for Incident Management
David Flamm (CHDS Master's cohort 1401/2) discusses the inefficiencies, conflicts, and misinterpretations that are created by emergency responders who rely on different approaches to...
6
How Critical is Critical Infrastructure?
In this podcast, David Riedman, Captain of the Montgomery County MD Fire and Rescue Service (cohort 1401/1402), speaks about how the critical infrastructure club...
5
Adaptive SOPs
Standard operating procedures (SOPs) guide emergency responders in a crisis, providing predetermined steps to manage anticipated events. However, modern disasters often manifest as complex...
4
Quantifying The Negative
For most homeland security agencies, success is measured by preventing events. However, when it comes to budgets it can be hard to quantify what...
3
Sovereign Citizens
Michelle Mallek (CHDS cohort 1401) is legal counsel at FEMA and decided to study ‘Sovereigns‘ because much of the terrorist discussion in mainstream media...