Headlines screamed in the days following Hurricane Katrina: Police Quitting, Overwhelmed by Chaos. Pundits squawked about the flight of the "notoriously corrupt" New Orleans police force. City and emergency planners outside ...
Social Sciences
Aug 18, 2011
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Using iPad mobile devices, emergency preparedness officials and first responders participating last month in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE-11)were able, for the first time, to ...
Software
Aug 17, 2011
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At the site of a terrorist attack, an earthquake or a tsunami, emergency responders are focused on search and rescue, and saving lives.
Social Sciences
Jul 19, 2011
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During the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech, desperate students attempted to text the 911 emergency service.
Telecom
Nov 23, 2010
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A unique disaster-response planning tool takes real-time human decision-making into account to determine effective law-enforcement strategies during evacuations. A University of Michigan researcher contributed to the development ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 5, 2010
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A motorcycle police officer on an urgent call faces huge information processing and decision-making demands. A new European research project aims to prevent potentially dangerous information overload.
Engineering
Sep 1, 2010
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Natural disasters -- like toddlers with crayons -- leave a mess all over the map, spilling across federal, state, and local lines. To clean up, different agencies and jurisdictions must come together and share what they know.
Other
Jan 29, 2010
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(AP) -- Oregon police officers may hear some arguing when they start pulling motorists over for violating a new law banning them from talking on hand-held cell phones while driving.
Other
Jan 4, 2010
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Tom Chirhart knows a lot about radios, but over the last year, he's gotten a real life lesson in supply and demand.
Telecom
Nov 2, 2009
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University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire ...
Engineering
Oct 12, 2009
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