Frida Ghitis: The Department of Homeland Security is too big a bureaucracy with too many missions. She says FEMA was once a Cabinet-level agency with historically decentralized operations. Ghitis says FEMA’s decentralization was its ability to understand threats specific to local geographies and have local expertise. The perceived number-one risk of perceived risk of terrorism versus actual risk, she says, is a classic example of a real risk of actual risk of terror attacks.Ghitis: DHS has also elevated some of its missions anti-terrorism, while enfeebling others like emergency preparedness.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2119167/katrina-and-the-case-for-risk.html