SpecBN's video: What other nations do when security threats are everywhere

Website: http://specbn.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/specbn Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/specbn Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClBUFAGGHFcyCC4RKP_g-HA News link: http://specbn.com/world/what-other-nations-do-when-security-threats-are-everywhere/464/18/03/18/10/11/2018/CB/ [USA TODAY] It can be the person you stood next to in line while getting your morning coffee. It can be your neighbor or co-worker. It can be your friend. Security threats are everywhere and nowhere – in America and around the world. Security experts agree that the menace from terrorism, hate crimes and other forms of extreme violence can’t be fully eradicated any more than the threat from, say, armed robbery. Vulnerability is hard-wired into the human experience. But the attack on the dance floor of a California nightclub late Wednesday that left 13 dead, the 11 worshipers killed by a gunman Oct. 27 at a Pittsburgh synagogue and the Oct. 26 pipe bomb suspect’s arrest for targeting prominent Democrats – raise profound questions about what if anything can be learned from other countries used to dealing with radical domestic terror and violence. In Israel, it's hard to enter a supermarket or ride a bus without passing through a metal detector. Britain responded to years of politically motivated bombing campaigns by Northern Ireland's paramilitaries by installing closed-circuit television cameras on every street corner. Today, the country has a CCTV camera for every 11 people. Armed guards, police security patrols, safe rooms and sophisticated surveillance systems are now routine measures deployed by Jewish synagogues, schools and restaurants in France following a wave of anti-Semitic attacks that began decades ago. Hungarian synagogues are linked by a centralized, rapid "early warning system" that alerts Jewish prayer houses in the rest of the eastern European nation of an attack. Japan removed trash cans from subway stations and local parks following a Sarin gas attack by one of its citizens that killed 13 people and sickened thousands. Its security officials concluded they were a good place to hide incendiary devices. High cost of security Ophir Revach, the CEO of a security center attached to the European Jewish Congress, a Brussels-based group that represents Jewish communities across the Continent, said it would take more than a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars before American houses of worship — synagogues, mosques, churches — or private firms, which includes nightclubs, would be able to match the security arrangements in Europe. "It takes a lot of effort to analyze each building and see what type of security it needs," he said. "We started this in Europe over 50 years ago and we’re still not finished," Revach said, noting that American synagogues and minority communities, in general, could take an easy, first step: ensure their entrance doors are closed. Robert Bowers, the truck driver charged with shooting 11 Jews to death in Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, burst through an open door. Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white supremacist who was convicted of the 2015 murder of nine African-American worshippers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. walked straight into the building. Details about what happened Wednesday night at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, outside Los Angeles, are still emerging. Eyewitness accounts suggest former Marine Ian David Long threw