In a federal system like America where there three levels of government, the major problem is coordination of government agencies which manifests largely during crisis like Katrina or the Boston Marathon bombing. These two crises differed in terms of response rate, coordination of concerned government agencies and Katrina was used as a lesson for future crises.
The United States creates more government agencies to respond to the demand of a growing population. However, the government experiences the mammoth task of coordinating these agencies on a daily basis, let alone during the crisis periods like Katrina and Boston Marathon bombing. In August 2005 hurricane Katrina struck America during President W. Bush’s administration. President Bush’s administration encountered the problem of coordinating all the agencies that could respond on time to the crisis. The resources were there, but the problem was how to organize them in order to attend to the crisis.
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Their effective response showed that they had learned a lesson from previous crisis like Katrina. They had practiced and worked together as emergency agencies for crisis like that. There was coordination of agencies at every level of government (federal-state-local-private-public-nonprofit-civilian) that is why their response rate was a success. To show how organized they were, they quickly turned field stations set up to treat dehydrated runners into triage stations during the crisis (Kettl, 2015). The leader executed orders quickly to respond to the crisis unlike what had happened during the Katrina crisis. The unity of command was superb in that crisis. This showed that the emergency teams had learned from the Katrina crisis and build their team of experts to be ready for whatever
The United States creates more government agencies to respond to the demand of a growing population. However, the government experiences the mammoth task of coordinating these agencies on a daily basis, let alone during the crisis periods like Katrina and Boston Marathon bombing. In August 2005 hurricane Katrina struck America during President W. Bush’s administration. President Bush’s administration encountered the problem of coordinating all the agencies that could respond on time to the crisis. The resources were there, but the problem was how to organize them in order to attend to the crisis.
The White House was confused whether it should deploy federal troops for assistance or rely on …show more content…
Their effective response showed that they had learned a lesson from previous crisis like Katrina. They had practiced and worked together as emergency agencies for crisis like that. There was coordination of agencies at every level of government (federal-state-local-private-public-nonprofit-civilian) that is why their response rate was a success. To show how organized they were, they quickly turned field stations set up to treat dehydrated runners into triage stations during the crisis (Kettl, 2015). The leader executed orders quickly to respond to the crisis unlike what had happened during the Katrina crisis. The unity of command was superb in that crisis. This showed that the emergency teams had learned from the Katrina crisis and build their team of experts to be ready for whatever