This is Part II of my post concerning our educational workplaces and the seemingly unending spate of ISIS-inspired massacres. In this post I thought I would talk a bit about ...

PRACTICING FOR LIFE OR DEATH ON AMERICA’S CAMPUS!

RESEARCH isn't really required here, but it helps.  I stay hard-wired to the proverbial Law Enforcement Loop, so I know that in the last decade we have averaged something like 355 (active) shooting incident ...

ISIS AND OUR EDUCATIONAL WORKPLACES

Friday, November 13, 2015, ISIS terrorizes Paris by almost simultaneously hitting six soft targets, slaying over 153 innocent citizens (and scores of seriously wounded, many of whom may be added to the ...

PARIS MASSACRES: ARE WE NEXT?

Before you dismiss the above question as, Wait a second, Hammer, no schools were attacked in the Paris Massacres of Friday the 13th, consider the following: Every one of the five ...

SURVIVING AN EDGED WEAPON ATTACK IN AND OUT OF THE SCHOOL

There have been a spate of edged weapon attacks in the news in the past month or so.  Attacks against police, sure, but, worse, in my mind, are attacks against ...

SAFELY SEPARATING SPARRING STUDENTS, PART II

IF YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING MY POSTS ON KSS - and, if you have been, thank you - my most recent post was on the dangers of stepping in between ...

Managing Aggressive Students in and Outside the Classroom

 (SAB CONTROLI FIGURE, since I will be conducting a DSM (Disruptive Student Management) this summer, why not discuss one of the most vexing issues teachers, administrators, security staff and others ...

Active Shooter In Your Face – A Few Thoughts

Several things.  Since an Active Shooter Event explodes - literally - in our faces in the United States about every three months, and workplace violence is becoming an all-too familiar ...

WOULD YOU KNOW IF A RAGE SHOOTER IS CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON?

"Could you be able to detect if a person is carrying a concealed firearm?"  Not a question I think you should take lightly or pass over gently, especially if you ...

DAMMIT! REVISITING THE ACTIVE (RAGE) SHOOTER ISSUE

NOT THAT I AM SHOCKED, but, here we are, less than a month after I posted about the FBI Study concerning active shooters in America and maybe three months after I ...