College Stadiums Unsafe

This statement comes from Jim McGee, a former FBI agent who is now part of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Spectator Sports Security Management. According to ...

Will More Staff Members Increase School Safety?

I am sure that anyone concerned with the safety of our children in schools has thought about ways to increase school safety. Though we may not dwell on it everyday, ...

Bus Stop Shooting In Las Vegas - A School Safety Concern?

Is any place safe anymore? Last week, on December 12, six teenagers got wounded when they stepped off a bus in Las Vegas. Here’s the news clip from AFP ...

THE ROLE OF CRISIS MANAGEMENT TEAMS IN THE PREVENTION OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE

In my last post – Toward the Prevention of School Violence: Recognizing and Responding ...

RECOGNIZING AND RESPONDING TO WARNING SIGNS OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE. Part I.

THE FAILURE OF our elementary, secondary and college school systems to recognize and respond to warning signs is one of the saddest stories behind the alarming increase in catastrophic violence.  ...

Pennsylvania Community College Conducts Pennsylvania’s First Ever Disruptive Student Management Training

TOM Barnowski, Director of the Emergency Services Training Center, Northampton County Community College (NCC), Bethlehem, Pa. campus, was troubled by a marked increase in school violence, not only in the ...

X-RAY POWERS: DETECTING THE CONCEALED FIREARM IN THE CLASSROOM

MIGHT be a sad trend, but, fact is today’s teacher (and security specialist) really needs to consider developing X-Ray Powers if he wants to keep his/her classroom safe from the ...

THE WAY NOT TO HANDLE DISRUPTIVE STUDENTS

ODD for me to use a “How NOT To” in a posting title, but I assure you, in this case it fits.  The “case” I speak of involves a local ...

DISRUPTIVE STUDENT VIOLENCE (DSM): SEPARATING FIGHTING STUDENTS, PART III

In Part One I addressed the deleterious affects SNS activation (under combat stress conditions) can have on a student’s ability to see, hear, sense and process consequences. In Part ...

Disruptive Student Management: On Separating Fighting Students. Part II.

In my first posting I discussed the Principles of (Student) Separation, focusing mostly on the psychological and physiological implications of SNS (Sympathetic Nervous System) activation , including the loss of ...