The Pros And Cons Of The Boston Marathon Bombing

April 15, 2013 hundreds of innocent Americans were traumatized forever. The 117th annual Boston Marathon was hit with an act of terrorism. Two-hundred-sixty people lost their legs while three people lost their lives. On this day Americans realized how important security is. One thousand federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel sat down and watched surveillance footage for hours tracking the terrorist that caused the Boston Bombing to occur. April 18, 2013 the FBI released footage and images of suspects whose identity was once unknown to gain more knowledge. Due to security footage the men who committed the monstrous act were brought to justice. Without the public surveillance these terrorist would have never been found. (Boston Marathon Bombings.History.com Staff.History.com.2014.Boston Marathon Bombings.)

The bombing of the Boston Marathon is one of the least deadly terrorist attacks against our county, but has brought to light many lessons that need to be learned. The Boston Marathon Bombing took place on April 15, 2013 at 1449 hours. Two men planted bombs near the finish line of the event which killed three spectators and wounded 260 others. The bombs were pressure cooker bombs packed with shrapnel and other materials hidden in backpacks that were maliciously placed amidst the crowd (History.com Staff, 2014).

This event happened on April 15, 2013 in Boston Massachusetts. Two brothers by the names of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev decided to place two pressure cooker bombs amidst the crowd of marathon runners. Only two seconds apart, the two bombs went off along the finish line on Boylston Street. Leading up to the event there was the conflict in the middle east, which is where both the brothers were born, and they wanted a way to get back at the United States. There was no anticipation to this event because there hadn’t been any sort of threat or previous attack on this

On April 15, 2013, at the Boston Marathon finish line two bombs went off at 2:49 about 12 seconds apart. 264 people were wounded and 3 spectators were killed, 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, 8-year-old Martin Richard, and 23-year-old Lu Lingzi. At least 16 people lost their legs the youngest amputee being 7-year-old Jane Richard (“Boston Marathon Bombings”). The two responsible for this horrible act are the brothers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokar Tsarnaev.

On April 15,2013 during the Boston Marathon two brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar planted two bombs by the Marathon finish line killing 3 people but injuring more than 260 people and later after the bombing they went and they attempted to robbed a police officer named Sean Collier which led to the officer getting shot down by the two brothers and while the police were on a manhunt to find the shooters of the murder of Sean while still on the hurt for the bombers while the police were looking for those people the brothers went and carjacked a Mercedes SUV while making the hostage go to ATM and take money out and when the brothers went to go stop for gas the hostage manage to get away and call the police and reported the car stolen and when the

On April 12, 2013, it was a special day in Massachusetts. Many people gather to watch runners for an iconic run through Boston. Today would be the change of many people’s life. An eight-year-old would lose his life along with two other people. Almost twenty people would go on to become an amputee. The Tsarnaev brothers studied “how to” videos and documents showing them how to construct a homemade bomb. In the description, there was a statement telling them to trust in Allah. Two homemade bombs were placed near the finish line, probably a block apart. The first one going off closer to the finish line. As soon as the bomb goes off, all there is to see is a giant area, behind the fencing, of blood, people screaming and an immediate panic. The next couple days were a race to get the suspects apprehended before more carnage could happen. The city was locked down. The brothers were linked

It has been six years since the NTAS was created in 2011, and there is not very much to show for it. A wide variety of terrorist attacks have taken place in many of the states since the NTAS’s creation, such as the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Connecticut (Sandy Hook shooting, n.d.), the 2012 Aurora shooting in Colorado (Colorado theater shooting, 2017), and the 2016 Orlando Pulse Nightclub Shooting (Lotan et. al, 2017). Not one of these terrorist attacks caused an alert or a bulletin to be posted by the DHS. Although many terror incidents in the past six years have been lone wolf terrorism attacks, and therefore extremely difficult to predict, several attackers were on the FBI’s radar, such as the Boston Marathon Bombers, and therefore could have been prevented by the FBI if they had been more present in their investigations (Winters, 2017). If the FBI could not completely prevent the terrorist attacks, the FBI and DHS could have minimally surveyed the attackers closer, issued an alert regarding a terror event that they knew was potentially going to happen, and saved hundreds of lives and millions of dollars.

The bombing that happened in Boston during marathon was delivered with the use of 2 pressure cooker by the finish line where the spectators were watching. The problem that came about was the many video recordings from the city surveillance and video recordings from eye witness would have to be combed through to verify every detail leading up to the actual denotation to find the culprit. Even video on the explosion can provide details on what type of bomb it may have been, the white smoke suggest that the bomb was created using a common chemical called acetone peroxide. Being that the bomb was poorly made would suggest at the moment of the bombing that it couldn’t have been a major militant terrorist organization but instead maybe a radical

Suspects are charged with attempted murder on Saturday’s bombings in New York and New Jersey. The incident was found in a garbage can at Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Park. There were 2 more unexpected bombs near by the previous explosion, luckily no one was hurt or wounded during the explosions. That same night another blast occurred at Chelsea neighborhood injuring 29 people. The explosive seem to be a cellphone connect with dark coloured wiring and silver duct tape. Among all the wiring of the explosive seem to be a package which had note with a list of recent terrorists including the Boston Marathon bombers. Surveillance cameras in the streets showed a man dragging a duffel bag near the site of the West 23rd street, 40 mins before

Boston marathon bombing required instant dissemination of information to the audience once essential information are gathered, helpful information on the description of the suspects needed to be disseminated so as to help the law enforcement identify and consequently locate the suspects. Doing this would help calm public fears and thus manage their expectations. When people know and understand what to expect, there is tendency for them to follow instructions provided, hence allow emergency responders to perform their tasks (Federal Emergency Management Agency, 2014). In addition, it is essential to make sure information is disseminated through reliable media such as: Television broadcast, press conference, different social media, and radios to reach as many people as possible. The main concern here is to get accurate information to the public in a timely manner since disaster increases public media consumption (Janoske, Liu, & Sheppard,

A friend of one of the attackers had seen a familiar face on the news, however did not report that he might possibly know the identity of the attackers. Later on Thursday night a police officer was shot and killed which was expected to be the terrorists attempting to flee. However it wasn’t until Friday that police had gotten into a gunfight with the terrorists and shot and killed Dzhokhar Tsarnev, and wounding Tamerlan. The city of Boston was put on lockdown until the last standing attacker was caught after fleeing and escaping authorities. By the end of the night, authorities were notified about the whereabouts of Tamerlan. He was hiding in a boat in someone’s backyard with various wounds. He was later caught where he could face trial for the horrific acts that he and his brother had committed.

Information sharing is critical in emergency situations, in a large scale events like floods, earthquakes, hurricanes. According to U.S. Department

Responding, protecting, and preserving are few of the many tasks the first responders have to undergo when dealing with any type of situation. Whether it be natural or man-made disasters, or acts of terrorism, first responders have to prepare themselves for any issue that could arise during their response. After the attacks on 11 September 2001, issues with communication where highlighted and addressed by congress. Congress adopted “legislation to accelerate and increase the assignment of radio spectrum for public safety purposes” (Carafano & Weitz, 2007). In doing so, television broadcasters had a portion of communication available to emergency responders. Effective communication between responders is not the only type of communication that is important. Being able to communicate with

Disasters never happen because of a single factor. It usually involves a chain of unfortunate events on many levels of the system that allowed the accident to happen: machinery malfunction, operator’s mistake, unauthorized departure from a standard procedure, communication failure, or design flaw. A delay or a total lack of public information about the danger is common to all accidents. It also appears that the first responders often are not timely

In the past authorities have acted immediately after a widely publicized disaster showing that there has been complacency in the disaster planning and preparedness. During the Hurricane Katrina, the U.S government was blamed for poor crisis management and slow response, particularly the authority’s failure to provide adequate personnel during the rescue missions. After the Katrina disaster, the U.S government learned a lot after the analysis of the whole event was conducted. First, the U.S government agreed that it was not prepared for a disaster of that magnitude. The government also learned that there were complacency and inefficiency in leadership that resulted in delays and logistic problems. The U.S government failed to share information with the public during the evacuation (Gutmann, 2011).