Writer Choice

40641Task 1: Considering that offenders (e.g., arsonists, active shooters; or may be negligent corporations, as what occurred with Grenfell Towers fire) use weapons and/or fire to harm the public, select ONE incident (e.g., Mandalay Bay Las Vegas Shooting) that occurred from 2009-2019. BEFORE YOU SELECT an incident, you must be sure that no one else is covering it. N.B. If you choose the same incident as someone else, you will not get credit. For this assignment, you do not have to use a high-rise building incident. BUT if you do not, you will have to ADD a few sentences to explain the risk assessment and effectiveness of LEA actions “if it was a high-rise building” knowing that these structures pose unique problems.

a. First, briefly describe who the offenders (e.g., active shooter), what weapons were used (e.g., bombs, automatic rifles) and the results (e.g., gunshots led to 59 dead and 527 injured, fire led to 168 dead and 680 injured).

[Use approximately 3 sentences and cite the news source you used]

b. Next, apply the 5 step risk assessment for the building (Craighead, 2009d) as outlined in chapter 4 [Please do NOT give definitions or describe each step, instead APPLY each step to the situation.]

c. Discuss the effectiveness of the actions taken by Law Enforcement Agents and Private Security in the buildings, indicating what improvements or alternative actions that you would recommend. For example, did security see the perpetrator doing surveillance and casing as described in the Cushman and Wakefield, Inc. article? Also consider the City of Roseville after action report to determine effectiveness in your incident. [You must use these two sources to support your answer.]

N.B. You may include any of the other readings/materials from this week and last week as additional supports.

Instructions for submissions:

To maximize your points earned in your answers, make sure that you:

• use a separate Discussion thread for your answer [click on “Create Thread”]

• paste a copy of each task before each of your corresponding answers

• adhere to requirements for use of incidents (2009-2019), # and type of specified sources (i.e., required readings, enrichment materials),

include sources as in-text citations, and each source cited must appear in the reference list at the end of the completed answer.

• include 500 minimum # of words

• use APA style for in-text citations and reference list

• submit by Thursday at midnight

REFERENCES [REQUIRED READINDS]

City of Roseville (2010.). Westfield Galleria arson. After-action Report.

(Chapter 4): Craighead, G. (2009d). Risk assessments. In High-rise security and fire life safety (Burlington, MA: Butterworth and Heinemann), pp. 185-234.

Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. (2007). Building security: Effective and visible measures are key to protecting commercial properties against terrorist attacks. Business Brief.

References [enrichment materials]

FEMA (2015). Safe rooms for tornadoes and hurricanes: Guidance for community and residential safe rooms, 3rd ed. International Code Council, Inc., Washington, D.C.3.

Greenfacts Org (2014). Hazard, risk & safety – Understanding risk assessment, management and perception. [Video].

Lee, J. (2013). Threat assessment basics. [Video].

NIST (2013). High rise field experiments. [Video].