(address of one of
the authors of the project):
The
question is rather not to established professionals, but to those who are still
at the beginning of the path, who are interested in mastering new and
non-standard, enthusiasts, who have not yet been swallowed up by routine or «star
disease», who still have creative aspiration.
If
briefly and essentially: I need a co-author for an article (not scientific, but
applied), the direction - criminal psychology, behavior analysis (profiling),
the theme of the article – «Ensuring the safety of schools, other educational
institutions and places with a mass stay of children from threats of criminal
and terrorist nature», the section for co-authorship - (the name is still
conditional) «Development, implementation and effective use of behavioral
analysis techniques in the activities of patrol units of specialized police
services».
A
"small" preface to make it clear what we are talking about.
I
started studying this problem a long time ago. I did not try to look for
social, moral, medical, philosophical, religious or conspiracy reasons and
sources of this threat (I will leave it to political scientists), for two
reasons, first: in my opinion, in this case we are dealing not with the rule
but with exceptions to it, this is not part of a system, each "school
shooter" is unique in its own way and each such tragedy should be treated
as a separate case, I fully share Dr. Peter Langman's opinion that there is no
single psychotype of a «school shooter» and finding one is a utopia. The second
reason: while specialists are searching for the «root of the problem» in the
field of high materia medica, murders and other types of crimes against
children continue, which means that it is necessary to develop a system of
measures to prevent, deter and directly suppress these threats until the source
of their occurrence is not (if ever) found and eliminated. I have focused my
efforts on exploring the possibilities of directly countering these threats.
I
looked at statistics, the specifics of the perpetration, as well as the
dynamics of similar cases in other countries, read police reports, expert
opinions, other analytics, compared, analyzed. The results did not inspire
optimism; the situation turned out to be much worse than I had originally
thought. The main conclusion was that in the 21st century, schools, other
educational institutions (including universities and kindergartens), as well as
places where children are present in large numbers, have become high-risk
objects, where the number of threats, their level and the degree of danger are
constantly growing, while meeting virtually no resistance. Then I turned my
attention to developments in the field of countering these threats. I was
particularly interested in the approach to solving the issue of ensuring the
security of educational institutions in the U.S., and more specifically in two
megacities: New York and Los Angeles, despite the fact that these are the two
largest cities in the U.S. (taking into account agglomerations, they are home
to almost 10% of the country's population), over the past 20 years (according
to FBI surveys) there have been almost no serious attacks on educational
institutions there, there have been isolated incidents (1 in each city), in both cases
there were no fatalities. In my opinion, this is the result of a special
approach to security in educational institutions in these cities, I will not
tell you for a long time .
Taking
these two units as a basis, I tried to adapt the principles of their activities
to the realities in Russia,
also supplemented with some of my own suggestions and developments. As a
result, I got a draft model of "Integrated security system of schools,
other educational institutions, as well as other organizations and with mass
attendance of children, from threats of terrorist and criminal nature.
I
analyzed the situation in this direction, my forecasts and proposals in my article,
which I first published in May 2019. After that, I supplemented it several
times, taking into account new tragedies. The last change I made in January
2022, after which I decided not to make additions to the existing publication,
and began to work on a new, more extensive in the level of materials for
analysis, and most importantly, concrete proposals for prevention and
suppression of not only existing but also future threats, covering more areas
of possible effective use of the proposed model through its improvement and
flexibility. Here I finish with the preface and come to the point.
What
kind of help do I need? I briefly described the situation in my already
published article,
Part 2, section «Some issues of staffing and training of school security units»,
where I propose to improve the professional level of officers of one of the
units serving on the streets by training them in the methods of behavioral
analysis. However, here we are talking about a completely different tactic of
its use, it should be a kind of express-method, allowing employees, by certain
signs and actions, to identify in the flow of people those who have plotted to
commit a particularly dangerous crime, such as a mass murder or terrorist act.
Immediately
I want to get ahead of the arguments of skeptics that filtering the flow of
people in order to identify persons with suspicious behavior, using methods of
behavioral analysis is ineffective, and an experienced criminal can easily
bypass it. I will not object, it is really true if we are talking about a
professional. Here, however, we are dealing with completely different subjects,
those for whom this crime is the first, and in most cases, the last in their
lives. If it is a «School Shooter», the final action he planned is usually
suicide. If it's a terrorist attack, the perpetrator will, in most cases, also be
a suicide bomber. Simply put, in both cases we are dealing with amateurs. Accordingly,
we cannot speak of any professional equanimity and self-control of these two
categories of criminals. Often it is just the opposite - their behavior
contains a large number of external signs of what they are up to. And if on
their way there are people who are able to recognize these intentions, it will
significantly increase the chances that the threat can be neutralized without
victims, and this is the main goal.
The
main question is: Is it realistic to develop a methodology for such behavioral
analysis that can be used to filter the flow of people? It is clear that we are
not talking about 100% efficiency, but at least about «with a high probability».
If yes, this is the subject of the article, which I will insert as a separate
section in the main publication with obligatory indication of authorship (and
if necessary other requisites).
I
tell you right away that I do it only for myself, on a voluntary basis, I have no
sponsors, no one pays me royalties (and I actually do not ask), so I can not
pay for your work, so all on bare enthusiasm.
Thanks
for reading, if you have any questions on the substance of the post, write in
the comments.
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