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CENTER FOR POLICING TERRORISM AT THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE INVITES YOU TO A CONFERENCE
9/11 FIVE YEARS AFTER
First Preventers: The Role of Law Enforcement in the War on Terror
Thursday, September 7, 2006 8:30AM - 2:00PM
Roosevelt Hotel East 45th Street and Madison Avenue New York City
In the five years since September 11th, the public discourse has focused primarily on the federal government’s response to the pervasive terrorist threat. There is a growing understanding, however, that state and local law enforcement have an important role to play. America’s 700,000 state and local law enforcement personnel will always be first responders—but they can and should be first preventers, as well.
The Manhattan Institute, reflecting its longstanding and unique policy focus on urban issues, is committed to developing and disseminating ideas which will make our cities more secure in this dangerous new world. Working closely with the New York City Police Department after September 11th, and now expanding to develop policing strategies for the Los Angeles Police Department and the New Jersey State Police, the Institute’s Center for Policing Terrorism is examining core counter-terrorist issues confronting state and local police as they combat domestic and homegrown threats.
8:30 AM
Registration
9:00 AM
Welcome: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute Opening Remarks: Phil Mudd, Associate Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigations
9:30 AM
PANEL I: The Homegrown Terror Threat and the Importance of First Prevention Policing MODERATOR: Tim Connors, Director, Center for Policing Terrorism, Manhattan Institute PANELISTS: R.P. Eddy, Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism, Executive Director, Center for Policing Terrorism, Manhattan Institute James A. Marks, Major General, United States Army (Retired); Senior Vice President Intelligence and Language Center, McNeil Technologies Judith Miller, Investigative Reporter, The New York Times (1977-2005); Author with Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, Simon & Schuster, 2001
10:30 AM
10:45 AM
PANEL II: Police Executive Panel, Best Practices in Fighting the War on Terror MODERATOR: John Miller, Assistant Director, Office of Public Affairs, US Federal Bureau of Investigation PANELISTS: William Bratton, Chief, Los Angeles, CA, Police Department Mark Delaney, Superintendent, Massachusetts State Police Dean Esserman, Chief, Providence, RI, Police Department Rick Fuentes, Superintendent, New Jersey State Police Sandra Hutchens, Division Chief, Office of Homeland Security, County of Los Angeles John Timoney, Chief, Miami Police Department
12:00 PM
Reception
12:30 PM
Lunch
1:05 PM
Introduction: Dietrich Weismann, Chairman, Manhattan Institute Keynote Address: The U.S. Federal Government's International and Domestic Contributions to the War on Terror The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
2:00 PM
Adjourn
Conference events are to be followed by a briefing which will be open only to law enforcement officers and panel participants
If you have any questions, please contact Taisha Camacho, Event Coordinator, 212-599-7000 or tcamacho@manhattan-institute.org.
