Underground Radar To Provide “Tunnel Vision”
Agents discovered this tunnel in Nogales, Arizona. It ended up on the Mexican side of the U.S. -- Mexico border. Five drug trafficking suspects were arrested and the tunnel destroyed.
Criminals of all kinds are digging tunnels along the U.S. border at a fast and furious pace. Of every tunnel ever discovered by U.S. border patrol agents, 60 percent have been found in the last three years. Agents spot a new one every month.
“All of them have been found by accident or human intelligence,” said Ed Turner, a project manager with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). “None by technology.”
To battle these secret burrows in the 21st century, S&T thinks this will have to change. (more…)
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Robotic Ferret Will Detect Hidden Drugs, Weapons and Human Trafficking
A new type of robot being developed will make it easier to detect drugs, weapons, explosives and illegal immigrants concealed in cargo containers.
Dubbed the ‘cargo-screening ferret’ and designed for use at seaports and airports, the device is being worked on at the University of Sheffield with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The idea for the project emerged from an event organised by EPSRC, the British Home Office Scientific Development Branch and the UK Borders Agency.
The ferret will be the world’s first cargo-screening device able to pinpoint all kinds of illicit substances and the first designed to operate inside standard freight containers, according to a news release issued today. (more…)
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Columbine Shootings and the Manufacture of Fear
David Altheide, Arizona State University regents' professor in the School of Social Transformation, speaking on "Creating, Framing and Amplifying Fear" at the World Social Summit in September 2008.(World Social Summit photo)
Decades spent studying mass media messages of fear led noted Arizona State University scholar David Altheide to examine how the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999, were originally portrayed in the media and how those messages changed after 9/11 and leading up to the war in Iraq.
Altheide, a Regents’ Professor of justice and social inquiry in ASU’s School of Social Transformation, describes his findings in “The Columbine Shootings and the Discourse of Fear.” His article will appear, along with others by noted scholars in the field, in a special two-part edition of the journal American Behavioral Scientist this April and May with the theme “Lessons of Columbine.” (more…)
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