The threat assessment equation that DHS uses to calculate "RISK" addresses international terrorism and not domestic terrorism or natural hazards.. To read more,
click here...EDITORIAL COMMENT: This type of funding used to be evenly split between the states with some high risk regions getting an additional supplement. That approach resulted in a per-capita skew to the funding. Ignoring domestic terrorism and especially natural hazard risks is very short sighted. Although the Bay Area gets its fair share of international terrorism related funding it needs even more funding in this regard because of the earthquake risk. Fortunately the local end users of this funding are beginning to take an all-hazards approach to the actual investments in disaster mitigation, response, recovery and preparation funding ... for example improvements in first responder communication systems helps disaster prepardness for all-hazards.
For more info see the GAO report,
DHS Risk-Based Grant Methodology Is Reasonable, But Current Version's Measure of Vulnerability is Limited, June 2008, GAO-08-852. To downlpoad this report,
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