Analyze and Planning
Policing organizations that do not analyze and plan for the future based on past and present trends would allow the criminals to continue on their criminal endeavors. It is vital that policing organizations analyze the past to prevent devastating attacks such as the World Trade Center bombing in 2001 and the recent Boston Marathon attacks. After the World Trade Center bombing New York City has 13 attacks planned against the city. New York City is aware they will always be a targeted city which has prompted the entire department to prepare for future attacks. “The NYPD has attempted to build the kind of deterrent needed to defeat both homegrown threats and those that originate abroad.” (Kelly, 2011). New York City Police Department has been complemented on the way they have analyzed and plan against threats against New York City. “In January 2002, we became the first police department in the country to develop our own counterterrorism bureau. We established a division within this bureau responsible for training and equipping every one of our 35,000 police officers for counterterrorism duties.” (Kelly, 2011).
Although it is unfortunate that terrorist continue to plan and commit massive murders, it appears that policing organizations have learned from the past by critically analyzing ways to prevent and stop these terrorist. The recent Boston Marathon Bombing demonstrated how first responders and citizens work together during a crisis. The use of technology is an effective tool in helping capture criminals, there appears to be cameras everywhere. The suspects involved in the Boston bombing were seen on cameras which helped investigators in closing in the individuals in short matter of time. “Investigators have spotted a Boston Marathon bombing suspect from security video taken before two blasts ripped through central Boston on Monday, a U.S. law enforcement source said on Wednesday, in what is potentially the biggest break in the case yet.” (Hosenball & McLaughlin, 2013, p. 1).
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Policing organizations across the country have done a successful job in analyzing and planning against future attacks by all working together for the safety of the country and the citizens.

Kelly, R. (2011, September). 10 Years after 9/11: Lessons Learned by the New York City Police Department. The Police Chief: The Professional Voice of Law Enforcement, 78(), 20-25.
Hosenball, M., & McLaughlin, T. (2013, April 17). Boston Marathon bombing suspects caught on video, officials said. The Christian Science Monitors, p. 1.