July 22 2008 03:10PM by Philip A. Tegtmeier

Best security
Make stricter sell laws, transfer laws, carry laws, ownership testing and refresher requirements, and impose harsh penalties for failure to report lost or stolen weapons.
Enforce existing laws.

Best crowded places.
Require those who are carrying weapons to carry a transponder of some sort that will alert officials, identify them to police officers. Failure to comply should result in the same stiffer penalties as the failure to disclose lost or theft.

Eduction education education, enforced requirements and prosecute where applicable.

July 22 2008 04:38PM by Andy J

so all we do is police people who will be law abiding? the police will focus on everyone without a transponder.

best crowded places is that cities need to a security plan from the ground up. if we can integrate the different technologies into everyday life then we will be a whole plain safer. but no police force has the money to do this.

July 22 2008 08:51PM by richard selters

i think the police/MI5 should just look at the technologies that commercial sector uses: TESCO loyalty programme is already better at collecting and predicting people's behavior than MI6!

Richard

July 29 2008 07:44PM by Antonio Rodriguez (djangelt@yahoo.com)

I cannot enter the contest due to economic issues keeping us working many hours in manual labor just to keep up in the U.S.A. financially. Instead, I have decided to share a winning idea with you all. First, start with a smaller city and allow the concept to grow. All cities and CROWDED PLACES have a "Heartbeat". Why shouldn't we give them "SENSES". Spying on people in public or in private is just plain rude. BUT, we CAN "SENSE" everything public in ways that people can feel safe and supportive of the Security measures. For instance, putting electronic sniffing devices on every lamp post, roof top, telephone pole, and other common structures throughout a city. USE SMALL SOLAR PANELS FOR THE POWER. Linking them all with a government program can allow agencies to find anything anywhere anytime. Imagine that a child has just been taken from a playground- Giving an article of the child to the local police and allowing them to scan this scent, they can now look at a digital map of the city and follow smells in the wind and possibly see the strongest scent of the article and where it's located on a map. Same methods should locate strong areas of nuclear, gun powder, infectious gasses, etc., and locate with "Wind Trails" the location area. This is a CITY SENSE that the public may be O.K. with due to the non-invasive method being used, and the reasons for using it. Stadiums and real crowded areas simply have More Electronic Sniffers to further Pinpoint to a smaller location. The greatest thing about this "CITY SENSES" is smell is only 1 sense that can be NON-invasively implemented. Metal detectors in common places like concerts and stadiums could be under seats with light emitting alarms. Infrared in hallways. Sound travels in waves throughout cities and some sounds may be more distinct than others. THE MOST POWERFULL WEAPON WE CAN USE AGAINST TERROR WILL BE KNOWLEDGE. Just let's respect the amount of watching we do, because as a species Humans don't enjoy PEEPING TOMS. Let's allow our crowded areas to combine all other more reliable senses that aren't offensive. We don't need a magic weapon to combat against a terrorist, and cannot know what they are thinking, but can have a smarter city to always be listening, smelling, feeling, and measuring to ensure the quickest possible response time to possible threats and lost ones, etc...