Posts by Kathy Mercer

Life is precious and treasured. Short of staying at home and lessening one’s exposure and interactions with others we invariably create risk to ourselves, often precipitously and unnecessarily. The way we project ourselves in the presence of onlookers can dissuade a “would be offender” from doing something nefarious. Victim avoidance is essential; given that prevention…

If knowledge is power how do, we keep our employees empowered and performing at optimum levels throughout our companies? Why is it when purse strings are tightened at our respective companies, for many, employee training becomes expendable?  Although I’m speaking in terms of liability when this occurs, we invariably pay a steep price with “negligent…

  Guns, Radical-Feminism & Ethnocentrism: Intolerance, Human Malware as destabilizers contributing to social angst… When this topic came to mind, it did so almost “tongue and cheek” but, my opinions soon evolved into how extremisms we subtly embrace, can be causes for perpetual injustices and when left to their own devices may contribute in the…

  Bullet Proofing Your Interviews and Other Lawful Investigative Techniques Business Investigations Conducted in Culturally Sensitive Landscapes. Investigations can be and often are arduous and time consuming. They potentially present an interruption in productivity while taxing resources.  However, investigations are seldom optional.  For all intents and purposes, investigations are a fundamental way of identifying, addressing…

Imagine if you will, your administrative assistant knocks on your closed door, gingerly stepping in, only to say… “excuse me, sorry to bother you but there is an attorney in the lobby asking to see you”.  It can be a moment of anxiousness However you feel about attorneys it’s likely predicated on one’s personal experience,…

There’s solace in knowing your home is your castle. It’s our sanctuary away from work and the place we ultimately seek refuge from the world’s encroachments. Home is where we invariably control the ingress of those outside of family and friends into our own little abode. Therefore, it stands to reason when someone has entered…

It’s that gleeful, robust time of the year when we have the occasion to be festive and celebratory over the upcoming weeks.  Often that entails more than normal shopping, outings and travel. Here’s to wishing everyone the safest and happiest of holidays. Let’s be careful out there. From a crime and social perspective, this year…

In light of recent, tragic occurrences JWM & Associates, LLC is now offering and scheduling  Instructor Based Training classes for church’s of all denominations who are interested in optimizing safety for their parishioners and staff.  Courses are dynamic, intensive  and chocked with valuable information to include best security practices on how to lessen violent occurrences…

It seems our social environs are saturated with irresponsible, sometimes persuasive rhetoric. Using a woodsman’s vernacular, “it’s an open season”. Why so much emotional turmoil? It is not a natural occurrence nor is it some phenom that exist in a vacuum. Often, such friction is generated by a variety of beguiled, emotionally charged, vested actors.…

Preface:  This Blog was written days before the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Festival massacre. While a motive is yet to be determined, at this juncture the incident appears devoid of what many times is foretelling ideology or a religious component. Was there some underlying organic mental disorder or perhaps some financial nexus given Paddock…