You May Not Always Get What You Pay For
Whether you are a freelance protection specialist, corporate security manager or a training officer in a law enforcement agency, there are far more training opportunities out there than there are dollars in the training budget. Determining which course or provider is the right one for you is an age-old challenge and, unfortunately, making the right [...]
Adopting the Proper Mental Attitude
When it comes to perfecting driving skills, everyone agrees that there is no substitute for practice. As most everyone’s won experience shows, repetition builds muscle memory and improves response time; what initially feels unnatural or uncomfortable becomes automatic, second nature. Just as turning into an oversteer-induced skid, perhaps because you hit a patch of ice, [...]
Why Case Studies are Such a Vital Tool
s security professionals, we have a duty that extends beyond the actual protection we provide, one that encompasses a need to scrutinize even the most minute details of an incident, whether it was a threat which was interdicted or an attack that was successful, and glean those lessons learned that will ultimately ensure that similar [...]
Doing it Right the First Time and Every Time
One of the many challenges that corporate security professionals face is maintaining adequate security for their executives and other key personnel as they go about their daily business. Often times, these challenges are far greater when those folks are traveling beyond the umbrella of protection that has been established for them in and around their [...]
An Objective Look at Recent Vehicle Ambushes
Just how important is it for a Protective Detail Leader or Security Manager to be able to recognize the indicators and warnings associated with various threats and understand the capabilities of potential attackers? The answers can be found by taking a closer look at two recent attacks. One was unsuccessful and not very widely publicized [...]
Ed Gein “Serial Killer”
Gein was born August 8, 1906, in LaCrose, Wisconsin, but his family soon moved to a farm outside Plainfield. His father held jobs as a tanner and carpenter when he wasn’t working the farm, and Gein’s mother emerged as the dominant parent, settling most family decisions on her own. Though George could be brutal when [...]
Andrei Chikatilo
Chikatilo was born in the Ukrainian village of Yablochnoye in 1936. His childhood was quite traumatic, particularly as the USSR was soon at war with Germany which also caused a devastating famine. At age 5, his mother told him she suspected that his older brother had been kidnapped and eaten by neighbors seven years earlier. [...]
Albert Fish “Serial Killer”
Hamilton Fish, in 1870, America’s most notorious 20th century cannibal was the product of a respected family living in Washington, D.C. A closer examination, however, reveals at least seven relatives with sever mental disorders in the two generations preceding Fish’s birth, including two members of the family who died in institutions. One suffered from religious [...]
Dennis Rader “BTK Killer”
Serial killer. Born in March 9, 1945, in Kansas. From the 1970s to the 1990s, the BTK killer—which stands for “bind, torture, and kill”—terrorized the Wichita, Kansas area. In 2005, he was finally caught and revealed to be Dennis Rader, a seemingly average married father of two. The oldest of four sons, Rader grew up [...]
Borderline Personality Disorder
BPD; Often diagnosed among women, it is a controversial mental health diagnosis. Borderlines are characterized by stormy, short-lived, and unstable relationships – matched by wildly fluctuating (labile) self-image and emotional expression (affect). They are impulsive and reckless – their sexual conduct is frequently unsafe, they binge eat, gamble, drive, and shop carelessly, and are substance abusers. [...]
