Homeland Security Chapter Four Summary and Essay.

Chapter 1-3 showed the beginnings of homeland security and the expansion and growth of Homeland Security. Chapter 4 shows the actions of homeland security, and the steps they take toward a problem to access it. The DHS above all needs to realized and understand how to address an attack quickly and efficiently, and have counter measure put into place beforehand. The DHS must be able to access the risks of any situation, and must decipher the potential hazard the situation could cause. When looking at the many functions of the DHS, nothing could be more important than the ability to understand or hinder or stop an attack man made or not. First Homeland Security studies the nature of the risk; this means that they study what is likely to happen in a certain situation. The texted explains risk as what can go wrong. A cigarette smoker takes a risk every time he lights up, and everyone take a risk when getting into a car. The DHS takes what they know from prior circumstances to determine the reality of the risk; the department must also anticipate any attack even without prior knowledge to the circumstance. The main questions of risk assessment are easy to understand, questions like will people be injured or harmed. But when looking at chapter 1 which asks the reader to look further into why terrorist commit terrorism, that’s when its easier to see the DHS skill at risk assessment. For example if you understand that a terrorist attack could be coming from radical Islamist terrorist; then you would understand a risk by understanding their motive behind the attack like their religious holidays. The DHS uses a three-fold method for risk assessment and they are threat, vulnerability and consequence. The Rand organization uses th...

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... must gather information from citizens. The question is how much freedoms are we willing to sacrifice in order to feel safe, when does it become a slippery slope and more is taken from us than we wanted. Is the price of safety is worth the price of freedoms? And do liberties and freedoms outweigh the price of safety? Domestic terrorism is causing more damage than just the exterior of what can be seen immediately, and the difficulty to stop it has brought on some unwanted results. There is no doubt that Radical Islamic domestic terrorism will happen again, and when it does how far will America go to stop it. Will domestic terrorism cause America to lose who we are? Or will we find new ways to combat the evil that it is? Only the future will tell, but one thing is for sure and that is we as citizens can do a lot to help, and we must stand strong on what we belive.