Times are changing for many islands across the Caribbean, where escalating arms races between criminal gangs are turning previously peaceful neighborhoods into free-fire zones. The two-island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis, with a population of 50,000 people, has tallied 31 homicides already in 2011, marking their deadliest year on record. Gangs with names like [...]
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Honduran authorities believe that Friday’s massacre of six people at San Pedro Sula’s international airport was the result of a turf war between organized criminal gangs. “This was a battle between two delinquent factions”, said Security Secretary Pompeyo Bonilla. He denied that it had anything to do with the recent deaths of nine prisoners in [...]
Mexico’s General Prosecutor’s Office for Morelos is warning against criminal groups specializing in robbery and “express kidnapping”, operating both inside and outside of Cuernavaca nightclubs. Ministerial Police coordinator Jose Robles Quintana said that bands are most active on weekends on Playa de Ayala and Teopanzolco Avenues, targeting youngsters, tourists and people with luxury vehicles. “Early [...]
This document was published by the criminology scientists Charalampos Doulaverakis, Nikolaos Konstantinou, Thomas Knape, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and John Soldatos. Doulaverakis was the keynote speaker at the EISIC 2011 SecuAll scientists are related to three institutions: a) Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas in Thessaloniki, Greece b) the Autonomic and Grid Computing [...]
2011 Sep 14 | Posted in
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The U.S. Government agency that manages airport security shifts its strategic emphasis from stopping weapons to finding people. It’s a potential $4 billion market for private industry, based on what the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, currently spends on aviation security. “Businesses that are good at data analysis, behavior-pattern recognition, big data handling, data-visualization — [...]
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Boston’s Logan International Airport will be the testing ground of a new technology of airport security, aimed at screening passenger behavior. The test will start next Tuesdat. During the new development, officers of the TSA Transportation Security Administration working at the Logan Airport will train screeners on having more conversations with passengers at the security [...]
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The U.S. government is spending about $500 million on “cyber technologies” to fight back. A portion of this is set aside for a virtual firing range of sorts to test out what they develop. This would also allow military personnel to simulate attacks in order to train security personnel to be ready for when an [...]
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Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST), a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) programme designed to spot people who are intending to commit a terrorist act, has in the past few months completed its first round of field tests at an undisclosed location in the northeast, the online magazine Nature has learned. Like a lie detector, [...]
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According to a survey of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Mexico) and consultancy Kroll, 92% of companies with American capitals , Japanese or Canadian based in Mexico, considers that the security has not improved in 2011 compared to 2010. On a disaggregated basis, 67% answered that they “feel less safe”, 25% “as safe” and [...]
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Recently, and due to the drug war in Mexico two new developments are happening in the U.S. border region of Rio Grande Valley and the north of Mexico. The first new development at the border is that more and more elite Mexicans look to foreign investment in the rio Grande Valley as a way to [...]
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