BostonMarathonBombingCase Study (1)

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Background Following the devastating Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, numerous organizations and sectors had to act quickly and cooperatively. The coordination and collaboration between various sectors and organizations were instrumental in handling the crisis and improving the community's ability to pool resources and plan coordinated responses. Marathon event preparation involves a collaborative network of public, private, and nonprofit organizations representing the medical, law enforcement, and emergency management fields. Decades of collaborating on the marathon event have led to institutionalizing a collaborative culture among these agencies, in which they train and work together before, during, and after the marathon (DHS, 2013). The Boston Marathon is an annual city event that draws tourists and marathon runners from all over the world. The 2013 event marked the marathon's 117th year. Approximately 24,000 runners representing 92 countries and each U.S. state participated in the 26.2-mile course through the city's heart (MEMA, 2014, After Action Report for the Response to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings). Twenty-seven thousand runners registered for the race that day (MEMA, 2014); when no more runners were to pass by security and medical staff vacated their stations as the runners finished the course. An explosion shook the finish line at 2:49 p.m. Another explosion happened about 180 yards up the course 13 seconds later (MEMA, 2014). IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, were the source of these explosions. They had been hidden in backpacks in the areas designated for spectator viewing along the course. Following the second explosion, it was discovered that 264 people had been hurt, 16 of whom needed amputations, and three people had died (MEMA, 2014). In the days that followed the emergency response at the scene, law enforcement had pictures of the people they believed to be the attackers. Following the public

release of these images, a press conference was arranged to address the public and urge them to come forward with any tips they may have for law enforcement (MEMA, 2014). This information sparked the ensuing manhunt for the two brothers who carried out the bombing. After the bombings, the two brothers attempted to steal a police officer's weapon and killed him. Following this, they carjacked a resident of Boston's Allston neighborhood. After managing to get away, the victim reported the carjacking to the police. The victim was aware of the brothers' plans to carry out a second bombing in a different city (MEMA, 2014). Subsequently, the stolen SUV parked on the side of the road was identified by the Watertown Police Department. One brother started shooting as the police drew near the car, while the other brother threw bombs at them. During this gunfight, one of the brothers was shot; the other brother, who was unharmed, drove the stolen SUV toward the group while the police tried to capture him. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was run over and dragged by the SUV while the police officers managed to get away from the car (MEMA, 2014). On Friday, April 19, at 1:06 a.m., the injured brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was declared deceased (MEMA, 2014). This prompted efforts to find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the other brother. A resident was inspecting his boat at 6:42 p.m. when he discovered a body and a blood-stained tarp inside. Police officers were dispatched to the scene as soon as the resident called them. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured after a brief gunfight with the police in which he emerged from the boat. Following that, he was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center because of the multiple injuries he had received during the shootout with police. In order to reduce the likelihood that a catastrophic event like this one will occur again in the future, this case study aims to 1. Identify and assess the key issues that significantly influenced the critical incident management plan to respond to the bombing,

2. Outline the lessons learned from the analysis and offer recommendations for better critical incident management execution and 3. Offer and assess the valuable applications from the analysis. Key Issues Even with everything that went well during the bombings, certain things still needed to be improved. The absence of an integrated public safety plan was the first of these. Although each of the specialized teams had separate plans in place to handle possible calamities, these plans needed to be integrated into one, resulting in the absence of a shared operational framework (MEMA, 2014). Assistance may be delayed because of this lack of a shared operational picture since organizations will need to consult with one another to identify parts of the plan that could have been examined in advance. Although the level of law enforcement presence at previous events was adequate, it could be increased going forward. Increasing the number of law enforcement officers may discourage would-be terrorists from carrying out attacks. Future research will also examine what can be brought to specific locations during the race, such as big backpacks close to the finish line (MEMA, 2014). Despite the goal of keeping the event family-friendly, both participants and spectators need to have a certain level of security. Another critical issue related to the bombing was the level of intelligence received about the two suspects. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) provided information about the brothers to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). Tamerlan Tsarnaev had left the country to go to Dagestan in order to associate with people who raised suspicions among Russian intelligence. The FBI registered him in the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database following warnings from Russian intelligence, but they took no further action

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