Capitol Special Patrol

03/31/2020

Police departments across the nation are finding it increasingly difficult to respond to the almost overwhelming number of calls coming from alarm events. Technology deployed today can be very complex. Security systems have commissioning protocols that demand application specific professional attention and earnest calibration during regular maintenance. In 2016, the International Association of Chiefs of Police reported that over 98 percent of all alarm calls in the United States were false.


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Reference: https://www.securitymagazine.com/blogs/14-security-blog/post/89812-reducing-false-alarms-with-audio-as-a-secondary-verification-source

We must progressively act towards capturing sound, viewing audio as an equally essential component as video.

03/29/2020

Training people to deal with violence is never easy, or comfortable. It makes us talk about things we’d rather not think about, and makes us confront the darkest side of human nature. But ensuring our audience walks out with a clear understanding of what an active shooter is, and also what they are not, needs to become part of our lesson plans.


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Reference: https://www.securitymagazine.com/blogs/14-security-blog/post/90026-when-an-active-shooter-isnttalking-about-violence-when-training-civilians

I was in law enforcement prior to the term ‘Active Shooter’ became an accepted way to describe someone bent on hurting people, and before Columbine forever changed how police will respond to acts of mass violence.

03/28/2020

Whenever an organization has an inadequate security program, and therefore takes a “security by chance” approach to protecting their employees and customers, what they are really doing is trying to off-load the internal risks that they should be properly mitigating on to the backs of public safety.


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Reference: https://www.securitymagazine.com/blogs/14-security-blog/post/90889-what-the-government-can-and-cannot-do-about-mass-shooting

Mass shootings, like the one that occurred at the Walmart Supercenter on the east side of El Paso, Texas on August 3, 2019, are sadly becoming more common.

03/25/2020

The new coronavirus has been a bonanza for scammers and spies, who are exploiting the global thirst for information about the outbreak to make money and steal information, government officials and cybersecurity experts say.

Criminal hackers, scammers and even governments have been sending fake coronavirus-themed emails designed to trick people into opening attachments that download malicious software, allowing access to their data, experts told NBC News. Some messages have impersonated the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while others have masqueraded as communications from health authorities in other countries, including Ukraine, Vietnam and Italy.

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Reference: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/coronavirus-scammers-are-seeking-profit-deadly-virus-n1156126

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03/23/2020

Even in normal times, many patrol officers typically have hundreds of “contacts” with the public every week — on calls, in hospitals, at traffic stops. They eat in crowded restaurants and use public bathrooms. They work alongside firefighters, paramedics and other medical personnel. And they often share police cruisers with officers who work different shifts, all of which make their vehicles into what some officers call “moving petri dishes.”

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Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/coronavirus-police-jails-courthouses.html