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Amplifying School Security With Gunshot Detection Systems

Security Industry Association

Solutions Can Speed Response to the Threat Rich Onofrio is the chief technology officer for Shooter Detection Systems. Preventive measures should be priorities, including security practices and technologies, and resources should be provided to help students and staff deal with mental health and anger issues before they escalate.

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In Memoriam: Charles Darsch, Director, Corporate Relations, System Sensor

Security Industry Association

Darsch, an active participant in SIA for many years, proudly served in the U.S. Darsch entered the electronic security profession following a tragic event in which a neighbor suffered an intrusion gone wrong, when he realized technology could provide earlier detection and save lives. Army and the U.S.

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SIA New Member Profile: Elite Interactive Solutions

Security Industry Association

Aria Kozak, founder and CEO, Elite Interactive Solutions Aria Kozak : I founded Elite Interactive Solutions in 2007, and for that I am referred to as “The Father of Remote Guarding.” First is our leading-edge technology. Those that do not adjust to this new, technology-enabled future will wither on the vine and eventually fade away.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

In the last decade there has been a massive and utterly profound change in the way that modern, technological channels of information dissemination are used. Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. Register 2007. The result, negative as it is, can be seen in Figure 1.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Whereas it is not possible to stop earthquakes, it is possible to construct anti-seismic buildings and to organize human activities in such a way as to minimize the risk of death. Activism is much more common than fatalism (this is the so-called "therapeutic community"). Myth 30: Technology will save the world from disaster.