Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker announced awards of more than $56 million in grant funding awarded last month through the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) to enhance state, local, and tribal law enforcement safety and wellness.
47% of emergency decision-makers said severe and extreme weather events are their leading concern when it comes to emergency communications and response, outpacing other events such as active shooters (23%), cybersecurity attacks (13%), IT outages (10%) and workplace violence (6%).
New Jersey is considering requiring most hotels to provide employees with panic buttons they can use to summon help if they are threatened or attacked while working.
Despite the U.S. experiencing its highest number of billion-dollar disasters in 2017, a new survey found two-thirds of American homeowners are still unprepared in the event of a disaster.
A new study has found that gun deaths worldwide total about 250,000 yearly and the United States is among just six countries that make up half of those fatalities.
Nearly 7 in 10 (69 percent) U.S. travel buyers believe that female travelers generally face greater risk when traveling for business, according to new research by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA).
One in five deaths among adults aged 25-34 is due to opioid-related causes, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).