by John Riley | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Toilet Paper Incident between Mother and Son has some lessons. A 26-yr old man physically assaults his own mother over toilet paper (Come on, you knew stuff like this was going to happen!) What conflict de-escalation lessons can we learn from this incident? Click...
by John Riley | Mar 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Are YOU escalating a situation on principle? Do you believe in the right to openly carry a weapon and to make a point, you go open carry at or near a school, or into a police station? Do you believe in your political party and to make a point, you decide to go wave...
by John Riley | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Another sad example of a chaotic situation with a loud, rude, obnoxious person mishandled by aircrew on an airliner. This video was recently uploaded onto Youtube, and it happened onboard a Brussells Airlines aircraft on March 11th, 2020 apparently during flight. ...
by John Riley | Mar 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
This incident happened in Florida when a teen tried to leave his high school for a dental appointment. He apparently wasn’t even suppose to be at the school that morning but had decided to give a friend a ride to school before going to his appointment....
by John Riley | Mar 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
I created a training program in 2017 for armed church security personnel, and call it Decision Making Drills. I had observed that a vast majority of armed church security personnel go to the range a lot, and they shoot, and shoot, and shoot, and shoot some more…...
by John Riley | Feb 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Do you get so offended that you react emotionally? If you do, you are going to struggle greatly when it comes to trying to de-escalate a stressful encounter with an agitated, often times offended, person. Because when YOU are offended, and you allow yourself to...
by John Riley | Feb 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Social media may be creating, and driving, implicit bias. The phrase implicit bias has started to appear more and more in the media and internet, and I think I began to notice the phrase about 10 years ago when I attended a class as a police officer. Basically,...
by John Riley | Jan 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Church Security – Have you thought through what you will do? It is a very natural reaction for people to gravitate to all the “action” and “excitement”, and everyone “wants” to be where all the action is, but what if you are...
by John Riley | Dec 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
Do you find yourself fixating and creating your own tunnel vision? Maybe you have noticed a “suspicious” person, are you now so fixated on that person that you don’t notice people walking by and greeting you? This is actually a common phenomena when...
by John Riley | Dec 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Do you let your guard down when someone claims to be a “veteran”? This is applicable to everyone, but with a special emphasis for church security personnel – First, let me say that I am a proud US Army veteran, 7 years in the infantry, and a Desert...
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