Second Edition of Active Shooter: A Handbook on Prevention Released
ASIS International, the leading organization for security management professionals, has published a new security book, Active Shooter: A Handbook on Prevention, 2nd Ed, by Dr. Joshua Sinai, Ph.D.
A byproduct of the author's more than 30 years' work in national security, this new edition of Active Shooter: A Handbook on Prevention features extensive new material useful to those tasked with countering active shooter events.
Specifically, the new edition's governing matrix adds three new phases that characterize an active shooter event ("Triggers," "Responding to an Active Shooter," and "Post-Incident Consequence Management") to the first edition's five phases.
Other new sections include a discussion of the similarities and differences between active shooters and workplace violence; how to preempt potential active shooters by monitoring their postings in social media, including examples of best practices in such preemption; and a discussion of the "Hot," "Warm," and "Cold" zones that are established by law enforcement responders during and after an active shooter event.
Other new additions include a discussion and table, based on past incidents, that provides approximated timeframes for potential active shooters to transition from their initial triggering "fantasy" phases to acquiring their weaponry and "going operational."
