An article in The Olympian discusses a recent shooting at Bite of Seattle, one of the city’s biggest summer events. Police had a smaller presence at this year’s festival compared to last year. Seattle’s leaders are looking at various factors connected to the shooting as part of a formal review of the incident. The reporting has revealed it is very difficult to estimate what an adequate number of police should be.
Jack Rozdilsky, professor of Disaster & Emergency Management in The School of Administrative Studies, comments in the article, stating limitations to what police can do in an open, public festival with limited screening in place. The article discusses how public events in the United States can never be completely safe because of gun violence.
Rozdilsky's research and practice interests include interdisciplinary emergency management and Homeland Security. He performs field-based qualitative research at locations that have been impacted by disasters of natural, technological or social origins.
Read the full article in The Olympian.