I very interesting article by Christine Byers of the ST Louis Post Dispatch that fitting with street level red teaming. The concept of researching people their behavior and threats they may pose is the bedrock to the prevention of violence.

“Newton’s laws describe the motion of everything under the Sun and give physics great power in its ability to relate cause and effect. Yet the path of a ball in a pin ball machine seems to defy human control, it seems chaotic.” ~Chaos, Professor Steven Strogatz, Cornell University

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I read a very interesting article on TSA screening  and the SPOT program developed by Paul Ekman they are using in and effort to spot potential terrorist and or terrorist activity. The article “More on Airport Clairvoyance Machines” by Ed Brayton discusses the validity of the technique of using body language and facial expressions in our efforts to make airports and travel safer.

A ½ day Workplace Violence Prevention Seminar to help prevent instances of violence in your workplace. This public training seminar will provide tips to help you manage your risk and avoid liability for any incidents of violence that may occur. This seminar will be presented by employment law expert, Melissa Fleischer, Esq. and law enforcement security consultant, Fred Leland, Jr.

DATE: May 11, 2011

The Evolutionary Goals and Mission of Law Enforcement and Security Consulting, Violence Prevention Workshops is to make manifest the nature of conflict and violence within an organization and to discern a pattern for successful operations at preventing and resolving conflict and violence. To help generalize tactics and strategy to cope with unfolding events via the observation, orientation, decision and action cycles in an effort to establish a basis for a grand violence prevention strategy while building resilient violent free organizations.

I had the opportunity tonight to sit down with Mel Robbins on the NECN show Broadside with Jim Braude. The topic of discussion was on work place violence prevention strategies. Leveraging the lessons learned!

Employers have always had an obligation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (the OHSA), to take all reasonable precautions to protect workers, a duty which is arguably already broad enough to encompass an obligation to protect workers from violence in the workplace. The recent amendments to the OHSA, which come into force June 15, 2010, confirm the extent of this duty, and also outline a number of specific steps employers must take in relation to violence and harassment at work.

Is he a terrorist? Is he linked to an Islamic extremist group? If he is linked, how could he be a member of the United States Military? How could he be right under our noses and no one know whether he was a terrorist planning an attack on those he knew and worked with? All these questions and more surface in the aftermath of the Foot Hood killings; questions that should be asked as part of our efforts to understand and do everything in our power to prevent future acts of violence from occurring.