Describe some of the recent technological innovations in bomb detection

What will be an ideal response?


Often, additional tools are needed to help responding officers determine if an explosive threat truly exists. Some of the methods are low-tech, such as using dogs to sniff out compounds used to build bombs. Dogs have become increasingly useful in bomb detection and in searches for evidence following explosions.

Other techniques employ highly advanced equipment and technology to detect explosive material. Sometimes law enforcement relies on what is referred to as "sniffer" technology—the use of a portable device that pulls in an air sample and passes it through a chemical analyzer to calculate a profile of the elements and compounds, including explosives that are present in the ambient environment. Bomb squads in larger departments are using robots to approach and detonate suspected packages. Robots can be equipped with disrupters, devices that use gunpowder to fire a jet of water or a projectile at a particular component of an explosive to make it safe.

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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The assumption that rather than deterring homicides, they actually increase following executions.

A. Brutalizing effect B. Death penalty C. Deterrent effect D. None of these

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