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07/11/2021

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07/11/2021

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07/09/2021

Targeted Workplace Violence And City Offices

Warning Signs Abound, Even As Motivations Remain Foggy

Joe Delia, U.S. Security Consulting Services for GardaWorld, has decades of law enforcement experience. He explains, “Law enforcement, they do a pretty good job reconstructing an event afterward. What they tend to find out is one person knew that John was struggling at home. Another person knew that John was talking about su***de. Another person knew John was drinking too much. And another person knew John had started carrying a gun.” The warning signs are all there, “But nobody tells anybody.”

Even after months of investigation, we still don’t entirely understand the Virginia Beach attack. Investigators seem to have found that warning signs were present, if sparse.

Targeted Violence in the American Workplace

As we regularly point out, in general, violent crime is down in America. In many regards, we are safer every day. But in some pockets, violence—often extreme violence—has increased. And often, this is targeted violence: attacks aimed at specific groups or individuals and driven by non-economic factors (such as ideology, politics, family and domestic issues, workplace disputes, etc.)

In contrast to armed robbery, targeted violence is much harder to deter. Someone desperate for money goes for the easiest target with the highest payout. If they see that a convenience store has a bulletproof barrier in place, they go down the street to the next store.

A terminated employee who has decided that violence is the answer isn’t going to be satisfied going into some other office and yelling at someone else’s boss. They are laser-focused on their former employer, on the manager or HR representative who they feel wronged them. They’re going to return to the site of their frustration, start shooting, and keep doing so until they get to the person they believe “has it coming.”

We’re often quick to attribute this to “mental health” issues. Delia, who has a great deal of experience with workplace violence, is hesitant to do so. These acts are almost always premeditated long in advance. “This is targeted violence,” Delia emphasizes. “Somebody is mad at somebody specific, has a complaint, has been through a divorce, lost a job. … It’s more than mental health.”

07/09/2021

Funds Available To Local Governments Under The American Rescue Plan

Guaranteed Funds for Every City, Village, Town, and Township
As passed by Congress, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP)—overseen by the U.S. Department of Treasury—includes $350 billion in “emergency funding for eligible state, local, territorial, and Tribal governments . . . to fill revenue shortfalls among these governments, and support the communities and populations hardest-hit by the COVID-19 crisis.” Of that $350 billion total, $65.1 billion is specifically earmarked for local governments. This “Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund” is completely separate from the state and county monies. In fact, language in the ARP protects Fiscal Recovery Fund money from all state or county interference. States are absolutely compelled to distribute funds to communities and will be penalized for failing to do so. They cannot put additional limitations on how/when/where those funds are spent by local governments, or penalize communities for receiving those funds (for example, by using the existence of Fiscal Recovery Funds as justification for withholding other state aid).

Most importantly, these are not competitive grants. In contrast to most other programs, Red House, NY (population: 38) doesn’t have to compete with New York City (population: 8.3 million) to get a grant. All 19,000 municipal governments in the United States are entitled to their fair share of the Fiscal Recovery Fund. There are no applications or certifications to justify the need. Funds for large “metropolitan cities” (like New York City) are being distributed based on the existing formula used for Community Development Block Grants. For units of local government with populations under 50,000—called “non-entitlement units” under ARP—each receives a portion of their own separate $19.5 billion pool of money on a per capita basis.

Fiscal Recovery Fund Frequently Asked Questions
While local governments have many questions about this program, there are three that top the list:

1. What do we need to prepare and send to receive our funds?
In theory, nothing. You don’t have to apply for these funds or submit a detailed spending plan.

For practical purposes, you need to make sure you are ready to receive the funds. For metropolitan cities, that means being sure you have both a valid DUNS number and an active and up-to-date SAM registration. (Funds for metropolitan communities come directly from the federal government through the SAM system.) For communities smaller than 50,000 people, you just need a valid DUNS number to meet reporting requirements. Your states will distribute funds to you.

2. When will cities need to report how funds were used? What details will they need to include?
The reporting for this program is fairly lightweight. Large metropolitan cities will need to submit an interim report by August 31, 2021. That interim report is a summary of spending from the date of award (early May 2021) through July 31, 2021, listing expenditures by category.

After that, large metropolitan cities need only submit quarterly project and expenditure summaries. These must be submitted through the end of 2026 (the official end of the award period).

Smaller local governments (population below 50,000) are only required to submit quarterly summaries.

Experts believe it’s likely that Treasury will perform spot audits of recipients through 2030 (or later). For that reason, it’s important that local governments (and especially smaller communities) keep detailed records. Newly elected or appointed staff members in ten years from now will need to be able to suitably account for how these funds were used.

3. What is the spending deadline?
The U.S. Department of Treasury has yet to clarify this, but the ARP legislation itself states that funds will “remain available through December 31, 2024.”

That said, do not obligate every dollar immediately. Fund your most vital programs and projects now, but keep some money in reserve so that you have room to pivot as new challenges and opportunities arise.

07/09/2021

Hardening Security For Courthouse Buildings

Several states recently boosted their courthouse security measures for the first time in years – some in response to serious breaches. Others are making upgrades just to stay ahead of the game. Either way, administrators recognize the critical need to protect citizens, employees, judges, and defendants in what can often become a volatile environment.

Take Tennessee, for example. The Administrative Office of the Courts launched a $2 million grant program last year to improve security at courthouses across the state. Security breaches, including one where an inmate shot two deputies at a Coffee County courthouse, compelled the state to make security upgrades for the first time in two decades.

Prior to the grant program, nearly half of Tennessee counties failed to meet minimum security standards. Now, courthouses will be equipped with panic buttons, bulletproof benches, armed guards during court sessions, hand-held metal detectors and more.

Other states and counties have followed suit. The Minnesota Supreme Court provided $1 million to bolster security at 57 of the state’s county courthouses. The awards have funded projects such as security screening stations, bullet-resistant glass at public service counters and staff security training.

In Morgan County, Alabama, the courthouse recently installed an X-ray inspection system to scan for drugs, bombs and metal objects. The facility also features new surveillance cameras and tempered security glass to protect employees.

Overall, these projects outfit existing facilities with much-needed upgrades, but hardening security in new courthouse buildings encompasses a much bigger scope.

07/08/2021

Retail Security And Workplace Violence: Retail Workers Face “More Aggression In General”

Over the last few years, retail security has made an increasing number of headlines. The work has become disproportionately dangerous—and disproportionately violent.

A traditional “dangerous” job is dangerous because of the nature of the work itself. Think about agriculture, construction, lumbering, trucking, or commercial fishing. These are outdoor jobs. Those workers deal with large vehicles, dangerous weather conditions, and a significant risk of experiencing a fall or being struck by a falling object.

By contrast, retail work is indoors and usually low-impact. Yet retail worker deaths now account for roughly one-third of all workplace fatalities. And these are much more violent injuries and deaths. In traditional “dangerous jobs,” like construction, most fatalities come from vehicle accidents or falls. Most retail workplace deaths are homicide.

In the past, the most common instances of retail workplace homicides were during robberies. While that fact alone is awful, at least it lent itself to a clear survival strategy: if a worker remained calm and handed over money quickly, they would usually survive.

But conditions have changed.

Speaking at the ISC West security conference in April 2019 Lynn Mattice (managing director at security consulting firm Mattice and Associates) noted that “there may be a small [general] increase in [workplace violence], but the probability is still quite remote—except in the retail industry. In the retail industry, it is quite high.”

The Changing Nature of Retail Violence
A recent study out of Eastern Connecticut State University highlighted how retail security risks and fatalities had changed in recent years. Mitchell Doucette and his team analyzed 1,533 instances of firearm-related workplace homicides between 2011 and 2015, comparing them to earlier workplace homicides. Prior to 2000, they found that 65% (or more) of all workplace homicides stemmed from a robbery. During the 2011–2015 period that the study focused on, robbery-related attacks decreased while non-robbery attacks increased. By 2015, the numbers had practically reversed, with most workplace homicides arising from some sort of personal conflict. (They ultimately published these findings in the journal Injury Epidemiology in 2019, under the title “Workplace Homicides Committed by Firearm: Recent Trends and Narrative Text Analysis.”)

According to Doucette, these personal conflicts included “arguments between employers and employees, arguments between customers and employees, as well as other types of crimes [like] intimate partner violence, mass shootings, and other types of circumstances.”

Doucette also noted that “immediate and ready firearm access was commonly observed in argumentative workplace deaths.” This is especially concerning, given that we know the pandemic has flooded the country with more guns that are being handled less safely.

Doucette’s findings don’t surprise most people working in retail or loss prevention. Larry Hartman is director of risk management, loss prevention, and safety at Goodwill Industries of Central Florida. He has decades of experience in loss prevention, which generally sees the ugliest side of retail. In 2019 he told Loss Prevention Magazine, “These days it … takes less to put people off, to rub someone the wrong way. It’s a more sensitive environment now.”

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07/08/2021

City Building Security Enhancements: Bulletproof Windows For Government Offices

There are three questions you need to be able to answer when adding bulletproof windows and enhanced security features to a city building — and none of them have to do with gun types or bullet calibers.

When they think about security, most county supervisors and city managers focus on what they want to stop. That’s usually whatever style of assault weapon has most recently dominated the news.

But this isn’t the best way to approach city building security upgrades.

First and foremost, it’s an expensive approach. Assault rifle rounds are engineered to pe*****te. Stopping them requires materials that are heavier, more expensive, and more difficult to work with.

Second—and equally important—stopping an assault rifle is almost certainly entirely unnecessary. Mass mayhem with assault rifles is heavily reported because it is rare (and thus newsworthy). Meanwhile, a few common handgun calibers account for almost all of the shootings in America.

But most importantly, by focusing on what bullets you want to stop during a disaster, you may distract yourself from addressing the interactions you want to facilitate on a daily basis.

These are the three key questions you want to ask as you begin your project:

How do we communicate with visitors?
What do we need to pass between staff and the public?
What do we need to secure?

Answering these questions now allows you to enhance safety and security in an active city building while also improving the workplace environment and visitor experience.

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07/08/2021

Decreasing The Risk Of Robbery For Non-Bank Financial Service Providers

Over the past several years the United States has seen a dramatic growth in small-dollar/”payday” lending, as well as other non-bank financial services like check cashers, pawn shops, and money services businesses (like Western Union). And while we know bank robberies have been on the decline for years–especially as the use of physical security has increased to near-universal in the banking industry–it’s much harder to tell what’s happening with non-bank financial service provider security. Based on news reports, these businesses may be seeing a sharp increase in armed robberies.

While the FBI has long tracked bank robberies as a separate category of violent crime, non-bank financial services are scattered throughout several “Miscellaneous” categories–primarily “Speciality Stores” (a sub-category that also includes furriers, jewelry stores, and dress shops). Interestingly, while the overall “Miscellaneous” category has seen a trend of decreasing robberies in the past several years, assaults on “Speciality Stores” has been increasing. Nonetheless, Total Security Solutions has not seen a marked spike in interest from jewelers, fur shops, or women’s fashion boutiques–but does continue secure many money transfer offices, payday lenders, check cashers, and pawn shops.

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