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...
by John Riley | Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
How Jazmine Headley incident could have gone differently. My team and I were in NYC last year with a client when this incident happened. Everything I read at the time pointed to the security guards on scene actually ESCALATING the situation before they called the...
by John Riley | Oct 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
Are your staff turning off and turning away people? I was having a conversation with a former colleague yesterday, he is still on the force and we were catching up on the latest and greatest. The conversation came around to church security and the people who make up...
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