Safety Is our Priority

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There were bombing in Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, which killed several people and injured many others. Even though there was security, bombs were still blasted. Safety is one of the biggest problem at large gathering events such as cultural festivals, music concerts, marathons, and churches. There have always been mass shootings, terrorist attacks. People have been afraid of going to the large gathering events since terrorist attacks of September 9th 2001. “For events like ours we’ve been updating our security since 9/11”, said Less Smith (Fenton and Nayan). People have been scared of going to the event with large gatherings because of these terrorist attacks. The biggest thing for police is to make sure that people are safe, and are enjoying their time at the event. “The biggest thing for police department is we want people to enjoy the event. We want to do our part to make sure it’s safe” (Fenton and Nayana). This shows that police department always tries its best and make sure that everybody is safe and having a great time, enjoying the event. Safety is one of the biggest obstacle at large gatherings and events, in order to make these large gatherings safe, there is a need of more security, such as police officers, searches of personal items, such as backpacks, and public itself also plays a big role by cooperating with police department in any condition.
Safety is the most important thing at the big events such as concerts, marathons or any other events that have hundreds of people in it. In this case, it is really important to have large amount of police force so people can feel safe and enjoy the event without any doubt and can have a great time. This will also increase the trust of people on police department and mo...

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...thon race say that, “You will see added security out there: Police will be checking the course overnight Friday into Saturday morning. Police dogs will do bomb sweeps of local streets before the runners take off”’ (Cohen). Searching the event area before the event and during the event makes it safer, and it eliminates doubts of the people and the police department itself. Public has always played a big role in the large gathering events. When public cooperates with police department, it makes it easier for police department and for public too. So in order to make a large gathering event more successful and safer, public and police has to work together and make sure that everyone is safe and having their great time. This is also the revenge of attacks such as Boston Marathon bombing, Beirut bombing, and other bombings that took place in different parts of the world.

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