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As someone who because of work and family spends a great deal of time in Buckhead, I shudder when thinking how pervasive crime has become. It is understandable and yet regrettable why citizens and merchants alike feel as if when it comes to equable justice in the greater Buckhead area they are being “short-sheeted” by…

Type 1 Workplace Violence: The Harvest venue massacre in Las Vegas tragically occurred within proximity of the Mandalay Bay Hotel this past October three years ago. It’s often a challenge for Academicians, Clinicians, and Threat Managers to intellectualize with precision through troubled people’s criminal and threatening behavior. However, this event remains both a marvel and…

As you likely know last month’s newsletter was “Corona Virus Happenstance or Engineered”. I don’t say this in a boastful way or to infer I have some prophetic attributes but, the United States Government is now saying that the virus whether intentional or accidental likely came from a “Chinese biological weapons lab” ergo the very…

I’m not into conspiracy theories. I’m not a xenophobe.  I find no value in dangerous ideologies that unnecessarily stoke unsubstantiated fear. It’s only my curiosity that begs this question, if Coronavirus originated in China – how and why China?  Was it some quasi-natural pandemic phenom? Was it the byproduct of some unique “wet market” culinary…

Churches are the tenants or outcroppings of one of our finest and most sacred of institutions – “Religion”. It is where worshipers meet, interact and enjoy a cathartic and redemptive religious experience. It is to that end, some mentally or emotionally maligned and discombobulated individual with or without cause may experience some perverse exhilaration extracting vengeance…

Way too often we see instances where bullying plays an integral part in recompensing for the unjust actions of another. It does not require someone to be professionally trained and developed in threat management to understand the agonizing behavior of being bullied. Bullying is revolting!  We should not tolerate bullying in domiciles, schools or the workplace, given…

Attacks on our churches and its parishioners has become all too common, Charleston South Carolina, Sutherland Springs, Texas and most recently the West Freeway Church of Christ near Fort Worth Texas to name just a few. Quite often, if violent behavior can’t be attributed to a “grievance, mental health issue or terrorism” the occurrence often…

By: Kathy Mercer, Managing Partner Tis the Season, so let’s make a slight departure from Jimmy’s timely and informative threat awareness information and focus on family, faith and friendships with a touch of personal mindfulness this holiday season. We often ask others “What do you want for Christmas” or “What do you want Santa to…

Heretofore, I’ve devoted time and attention to various symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorders. In this edition I want to discuss impulsivity as a pathway to violence. Not all impulsive behavior manifests itself in dangerous behavior but, some do. When impulsivity promulgates risky or self-destructive behavior therein lies the problem. Even though the behavior may be counterintuitive it is…

The Centers for Disease Control has what’s called the “Adverse Childhood Experiences ” a process, wherein an ACE template score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect and other hallmarks of childhood trauma one experienced. The higher the risk score the higher one’s risk for subsequent health issues.  Poor physical or mental health begets a sundry…