Verbal De-escalation of the Agitated Patient
Consensus Statement of the American Association for Emergency Psychiatry Project BETA De-escalation Workgroup ABSTRACT: Agitation is an acute behavioral emergency…
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GAO recommends limiting funding for TSA Behavior Detection Activities
In November 2013, GAO reported that (1) peer-reviewed, published research we reviewed did not support whether nonverbal behavioral indicators can…
LAX Active Shooter Report and Recommendations
Incident Background: On November 1, 2013, a man carrying an assault rifle opened fire inside Terminal 3 on a busy…
National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
Created to improve the quantity and quality of crime data collected by law enforcement, the FBI UCR Program’s National Incident-Based…
Federal Security Officers lacking Active Shooter Training
“Several of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Protective Service’s (FPS) guard requirements are generally comparable to those of…
Normal Crime Levels
Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, suggested that crime was not indicative of a pathology or illness in society, but at certain levels…