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President Bush has chosen Michael Chertoff, who was involved in developing the administration’s legal strategy against the war on terror, to replace Tom Ridge as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
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It’s not his fault. But Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has always reminded me of a particularly ineffective basketball coach at my college. The coach was universally known as a nice guy, and he had this “innovative” way of signaling what play he wanted his team to run by holding up brightly colored cards on the sidelines. Heck, Ridge even looks a little like the guy. Which in my memory is not good. We went 4 and 26 that year.
Read More →Less-lethal OC weapons are now available in a gel form from Mace Security International. Take Down 10-percent pepper gel is a nontoxic, nonflammable, water-soluble gel that contains 1.4 percent capsaicinoids concentration and has more range than Mace stream products.
Read More →Bernard Kerik, former New York police commissioner and an ex-military man, withdrew his nomination as secretary of homeland security in a call to Bush that surprised the president and his administration.
Read More →Mara Salvatrucha, a widespread mostly Salvadoran gang seen by some as a rival in violence to the Mexican Mafia, is now believed to have ties to al-Qaeda.
Read More →President Bush has chosen Bernard Kerik, who served as New York police commissioner when the 9/11 attack happened, to head the Department of Homeland Security.
Read More →In an effort to improve overall security on its trains to prevent terrorism, Amtrak has begun checking passengers’ IDs.
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The first phase of the Iraq War alone cost $79 billion and more than $100 billion may be spent on the reconstruction of Iraq. Back at home, American cities received only a relative pittance to fund their new homeland security duties, despite being deemed the front lines of response to terrorist attacks.
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When times are tough, staffing takes the brunt of the cuts. That's true in business. That's true in law enforcement.
Read More →A student in Pine Bush, N.Y., was arrested and could be expelled because a school security guard saw a replica musket in his car, which the teen says was left over from a weekend Civil War re-enactment.
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