by John Riley | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
Could a social worker have stopped Ma’Khia Bryant? A very large number of people have been reposting the attached image on instagram, and it is just further proof that just because a person has PhD or a Masters degree it absolutely DOES NOT mean they know...
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 | 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 | 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...
by John Riley | May 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
Do you REALLY know how to De-escalate a situation? What do you base your confidence and assurance on? From training? From experience? From a combination of both? In the last 2 years as I go around conducting Conflict De-escalation training workshops and talking to...
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