Half life 2 episode one
While I was in the elevator, I felt the building shake. STRAUB: I was working about six blocks south of the World Trade Centre complex. I then joined the National Police Foundation.ĬOOK: Where were you on the morning of 9/11? What do you remember from that day? After doing that, I went up to a small community about thirty miles north of New York, where I was the Public Safety Commissioner and was there for about nine years and then left and went out to Indianapolis, Indiana, as the Public Safety Director for the city, and then out to Spokane, Washington, where I was the Police Chief. I served in that position for about six months and then I was asked to help stand up the counter-terrorism division in the New York City Police Department. In 1993, when the first attack on the World Trade Centre happened, I ended up becoming involved in that investigation as a result of an individual that we had arrested on bribery charges.Ībout two weeks after the 9/11 attack, I joined the NYPD as the Deputy Commissioner of Training. I left and then joined the US Department of Justice Inspector General’s office with the intent of working on public corruption cases. Early in my career, I worked in the counter-terrorism, counter-extremism space with the US State Department, and the US Naval Investigative Service. I joined the Police Foundation approximately five and a half years ago, after spending thirty years in federal, state and local law enforcement in the United States. Can you please introduce yourself to our audience?įRANK STRAUB: I’m the director of the National Police Foundation’s Center for Mass Violence Response Studies. Warning: This story contains graphic details related to the events of 9/11. Below is a transcript of the interview, which has been shortened and adapted for publication. You can listen to Counter-Terrorism After 9/11 using the audio player below or through your favourite podcast player ( Spotify, Apple, Google, Breaker, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic). Joana Cook, an ICCT Senior Project Manager and Editor-in-Chief of the ICCT Journal. Looking back, we go through his experience of the day and his perspective on how counter-terrorism in policing changed after the attacks. Twenty years ago, Frank was a first responder on the scene of the attacks in lower Manhattan. In our premiere episode, we speak to Frank Straub, Director of the Center for Mass Violence Response Studies at the US National Police Foundation.
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By comparison, the earliest iteration of Alyx's Stalker train-related dialogue is still present in the game's files.Counter-Terrorism After 9/11 is a podcast series exploring how counter-terrorism has changed in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. In addition to this line also being removed in releases after the preload version, it is located among the closed captions, its string is blanked out however. Ultimately, through "rewrites and rigorous testing", the team found the right tone for the scene - a simmering anger level that was more in tune with the situation. Fletcher mentions early versions of this new idea didn't work out since Alyx's transition from generally upbeat to blind rage was too sudden.
In the second revision, Alyx expressed anger at the Stalkers' predicament. This didn't work since it clashed with her earlier reactions to Stalkers in the Citadel. In very early versions, Alyx was frightened by the Stalkers. As Bill Fletcher mentions in the developer commentary, her reactions to the Stalkers went through a number of iterations. Unlike the fucking soldiers who volunteer for what they get.Īlyx has a small number of unused pieces of dialogue involving the Stalker train that she and Gordon ride to get out of the Citadel, where she expresses fear for the Stalkers.