by John Riley | Jul 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Missteps and bad decisions by everyone in this recent incident almost created a fatal outcome. To summarize, on July 1, 2020, in Michigan, a pregnant white woman was leaving a restuarant as a 15 year old black juvenile female and her mother were walking in, and the...
by John Riley | Jun 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Common basic body language in confrontational situations, it’s automatic and primal, it didn’t need to be taught to any human being, it just manifests itself when a person is agitated and stressed. Studies have shown that there are some universal body...
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...
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