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Good Morning
I am still having some problems with Hotmail accounts
and as I write this I am thinking that many of the
people that have Hotmail accounts can't read it
anyway, so I will stop pontificating on that subject.
Blackwater had a great show at SHOT in Vegas, it was
really fun meeting many of the people that read the
BTW. We will endeavor to make the BTW an interesting
read. Please do not hesitate to forward to your friends
that might like it.
From a Meghan Skye a reader of the BTW the following
is requested:
"I am doing research for an article which might end up
being two articles because the questions I'm asking
bring up more than one issue and I would appreciate
your help. My main focus is Uniformed Government
Employees, including the Military, and Law Enforcement
(Federal, State and Local ).
If you fit into one of those categories, read on...
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/bt
w2004/articles/0223meghan.html.
Remember you can read old copies of the BTW on-line
at http://www.blackwaterusa.com/new/btwarchive.
html.
Gary Jackson
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
I know not with what weapons World War III will be
fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and
stones.
-Albert Einstein
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The Future of Simulation Technology for Law
Enforcement
Diverse Experience with Realistic
Simulated Humans
By Chris Forsythe, Ph.D.
Placed in a life-threatening, rapidly developing
situation, individuals with true expertise exhibit the
capacity to assess the available cues, interpret events,
and quickly reach a decision concerning an appropriate
course of action. In contrast, when presented with
identical circumstances, a novice will display either
indecisiveness, failing to comprehend events, or reach
a hasty judgment by overlooking or misinterpreting vital
cues. This observation applies to interactions with
suspects, bystanders, and the individual's own team
members. What characteristics underlie expert decision
making? How can simulation technologies be used both
as training and tactical tools to accelerate and
enhance decision making by law enforcement
personnel?
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw20
04/articles/0223simu.html>>>
Book Review: Private Investigation and Process
Serving
by Raymond P. Siljander, Charles C.
Thomas Publisher, Springfield, Illinois, 2001
Private Investigation and Process Serving
contains investigative, protective, and serving
concepts; technical information; and investigative
recording forms to support operations, all presented in
nontechncial language. At the same time, it offers the
extensive mental and physical skills required of an
effective and competent private investigator and
process service representative.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw20
04/articles/0223simu.html>>>
Improving the View of the World
Law
Enforcement and Augmented Reality Technology
By THOMAS COWPER
Written for and published by the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Today's rapidly
changing society is driven by higher and higher levels of
technological advancement. For good or bad,
technology brings change. The events of September
11, 2001, have served to fuel the debate concerning
the role that technology should play in people's lives,
particularly future battles against terrorism in a free
society.
The rate of change itself, however, is changing,
significantly compressing the time that it takes for new
technologies to take hold and alter the way in which
people live and interact with each other. Rapidly
emerging technologies also afford criminals and
terrorists new opportunities for exploiting, disrupting,
and harming society. While human intelligence and
traditional policing methodologies continue as important
aspects of law enforcement, high-tech systems are
becoming a principle, and undeniably necessary, means
of maintaining domestic security. To employ emerging
technologies effectively and thwart their illicit use by
criminals and terrorists, law enforcement officers need
to understand fully the state of current technological
capabilities and how those capabilities will change in
the coming decades.
http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2
004/articles/0223reality.html>>>
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Security Efforts Turning Capital Into
Armed Camp
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 - An antiaircraft missile, ready
for use, sits atop a federal office building near the
White House. Devices that test the air for chemical and
biological substances are positioned throughout the
city. Subway stations are now equipped with "bomb
containment" trash bins. A major highway that runs by
the Pentagon is being rerouted several hundred yards
away. A security wall is going up around the
Washington Monument.
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Bin Laden 'surrounded'
A BRITISH Sunday newspaper is
claiming Osama bin Laden has been found and is
surrounded by US special forces in an area of land
bordering north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan.
http://www.sundaytelegraph.news.com.
au/story/0,9353,8752173-28778,00.html
Supreme Court to rule
on 'combatant' rights
Justices to decide if Padilla's detention was
constitutional
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to
decide whether the Constitution forbids the Bush
administration from holding U.S. citizens indefinitely and
without access to lawyers or courts when they are
suspected of being "enemy combatants."
http://
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4313349/
Japan raises terror alert to highest level
Armed police mobilized to guard against possible
attack
TOKYO - Japan intensified security at
airports, nuclear plants and government facilities Friday
as a precaution against a possible terror attack, a
National Police Agency official said.
The
government's heightened alert sent a shiver through
global financial markets, knocking the Japanese yen to
10-week lows against the dollar.
http://
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4326428/
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Wars and rumors of Wars, Arab v. Israeli, family
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