The Center for Policing Terrorism (CPT) is a national-security think tank formed after 9/11 in New York City.

Founding Personalities

The Center's founders included former National Security Council

National Security Council

A National Security Council is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security...

 Staffer RP Eddy

RP Eddy

Randolph Post “R.P.” Eddy is an American businessman, venture investor, former US government official, and former United Nations diplomat. Currently, he is the CEO of Ergo, an emerging markets strategy and geopolitical intelligence firm headquartered in New York...

 and former White House Counter-Terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke

Richard A. Clarke

Richard Alan Clarke was a U.S. government employee for 30 years, 1973–2003. He worked for the State Department during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to chair the Counter-terrorism Security Group and to a seat on the United States National...

. Policy analyst Mark Riebling

Mark Riebling

Mark Riebling is a U.S. historian, essayist, and policy analyst. He has written on national security, the history of ideas, and Vatican foreign policy during Cold War and Second World War, and is the author of Wedge: The Secret War between the FBI and CIA....

 served as the Center's Research Director. The Center reportedly developed a network of security experts who advised the NYPD, LAPD, and other domestic law-enforcement agencies.

National Counter Terrorism Academy

In 2008, the Center partnered with LAPD Chief William Bratton to create and administer the National Counter Terrorism Academy

National Counter Terrorism Academy

The National Counter Terrorism Academy is a training center for U.S. state and local law enforcement officers. The Academy operates at the LAPD's Ahmanson Training Center, near the Los Angeles International Airport.-Creation:...

, offering local law-enforcement officers a standardized counter-terrorism curriculum.

Intelligence-led policing

The Center has advanced a theory of intelligence-led policing

Intelligence-led policing

Intelligence-led policing is a policing model that has emerged in recent years which is “built around risk assessment and risk management.”...

. The doctrine fuses Israeli counter-terrorist tactics with the Fixing Broken Windows

Fixing Broken Windows

The broken windows theory is a criminological theory of the norm setting and signaling effect of urban disorder and vandalism on additional crime and anti-social behavior...

 theories advanced by criminologist George L. Kelling

George L. Kelling

George L. Kelling is an American criminologist, Professor at Rutgers University, a Research Fellow at Harvard University, and an Adjunct Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He previously taught at Northeastern University....

 and social scientist James Q. Wilson

James Q. Wilson

James Q. Wilson is an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration. He is a professor and senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College....

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Intelligence Support to NYPD

The Center reportedly provided analytical support to NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence David Cohen (intelligence)

David Cohen (intelligence)

David Cohen is the Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence for the New York City Police Department. He was the first to be appointed to this position, created by the city government in response to the September 11 attacks. He previously was Deputy Director for Operations in the U.S. Central...

, a former Deputy Director for Operations (DDO) in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. It is an executive agency and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence, responsible for providing national security intelligence assessment to senior United States policymakers...

. Describing the Center's work in his 2008 book, Crush the Cell, NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Counter Terrorism Michael A. Sheehan

Michael A. Sheehan

Michael A. Sheehan is a United States author and former government official and military officer.-Education:Sheehan graduated from Christian Brothers Academy in New Jersey in 1973 and the United States Military Academy in 1977...

 wrote that the Center "provided a team of intelligence analysts that supported our work with timely and accurate reports on fast-breaking issues."

External links

• Richard A. Clarke
  Richard A. Clarke
  Richard Alan Clarke was a U.S. government employee for 30 years, 1973–2003. He worked for the State Department during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to chair the Counter-terrorism Security Group and to a seat on the United States National...
  
  , Against All Enemies
  Against All Enemies
  Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror is a 2004 book by former U.S. chief counter-terrorism advisor Richard A. Clarke, criticizing past and present presidential administrations for the way they handled the War on Terrorism. The book focused much of its criticism on President George W...
  
  , ISBN 0-743-26823-7
• Mark Riebling, "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies." Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.
• R.P. Eddy, "Be Prepared for Terrorism: How to Survive a Suicide Bombing." Center for Policing Terrorism, 2002.
• R.P. Eddy, "In The End All Terrorism Is Local," The Times, July 8, 2005.