Intervention: Getting There
About this ebook
What if there was a “system” that
identified who was likely to plan and carry out a mass shooting? What
if the government employed a team to intervene and stop the act
before it occurred? Could such a system be developed? The rules just
changed and the gloves are off. The team leader Max Martin must find
a way of “getting there” before the shooting starts.
In the midst of increasing invasion of
citizen’s privacy the “GT” intervention team takes on the test
to see how many such teams would be needed nationwide. Doc, Tag, VJ
and Christy give you a glance at what it might look like if the
technology were there. Of course this is a fictional story. Extension
of such a program would be impractical. Or is it?
Reports say the FBI Behavioral Threat
Assessment Center works with all levels of law enforcement to assess
contemplation of violence and they claim successes. Can anything be
done?
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About the author
Michael Widmer retired from Tucson Police after twenty six years as a Sergeant and after nine years in the US Air Force Security Police as a Police Supervisor. He supervised Violent Crimes Detectives, a DEA Task Force, narcotics and special investigations and specialized in surveillance and in-progress arrests.
After retiring Michael served as the Training Director and Law Enforcement Liaison for Knowledge Computing and “i2” now an IBM Company. He travelled to police departments nationwide, in England and the Bahamas as an intelligence software advocate.
Michael hopes that dialogue surrounding mass shootings and active shooters, particularly regarding grade and middle schools changes from “response” to “prevention”. He wants districts nationwide to take each school and concentrate on prevention first, response second. Evaluating the mental makeup of a would-be shooter has merit but it is well below the priority of physically stopping the access of the gunman to the school children. At the conclusion of the story he offers some alternatives to the way we approach trying to eliminate these attacks as we know them.
Michael resides with his wife in Vail Arizona and his son and youngest daughter proudly wear the Tucson Police badge today.
