Preparing Your Workplace for an Active Shooter Crisis
In wake of an uptick in mass shooting events, many businesses and institutions have become forced to think more preemptively about how to keep themselves safe from such crises. As security loopholes continue to be exploited and safety culture continues to subsequently...
Digital Evidence Management: Key Considerations
With the world around us becoming increasingly digitized and video surveillance becoming more prevalent, security and law enforcement personnel have become faced with a growing level of digital evidence; in fact, some would suggest that effective investigations, loss...
Following Pittsburgh, What is the Future of Religious Security?
Not even a week after the tragic Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that claimed 11 lives, the faith-based community and other gathering places have found themselves left with an almost unfathomable, but inevitably relevant question: “what if a shooting happens here next?”...
Passion and Control: Maintaining Public Safety in Times of Protest
The past few months have seen political and moral discourse reach dangerous new boiling points on a variety of fronts, and now, a series of suspicious devices have been sent to politically prominent people, congressional offices have been vandalized and increasing...
Performing a school security audit the right way
As school districts and college campuses across the nation enter the 2018-19 year, there are likely many important thoughts on the minds of students, faculty members, and parents alike. In wake of recent mass shooting incidents like the ones at Marjory Stoneman...
Three common school security myths, and why they are incorrect
On its surface, the job of those specializing safety & security should be a simple one; to keep bad things from happening by securing an environment from accidental and/or intentional incidents that may cause injury, loss or even death. However, when you add in...
Behavior alteration: the first step to strong security
There are numerous key components that make up a functional security program, but arguably the most important one is a necessary alteration of behavior; which is the willingness of all parties involved to embrace new ways of thinking and acting to ensure that general...
(From the Daily Caller) “FENTANYL — ESCALATING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC INTO A PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY EMERGENCY”
The following excerpt is taken from a Daily Caller article in which Ariel Benjamin Mannes discusses the opioid crisis -- namely its escalation into a public safety emergency. "In October 2017, President Trump declared a “national health emergency” in response to an...
Security Magazine: In a Day’s Work – The Fight to End Workplace Violence
In Diane Ritchey’s recent piece for Security Magazine, Ariel Benjamin Mannes shares his thoughts on how corporations can effectively approach enterprise security.
Security Magazine: Las Vegas Lawsuit Raises Security Liability Questions
In his July 19, 2018 piece for Security Magazine, Ariel Benjamin Mannes analyzes the lawsuit filed by MGM Resorts in their effort to use a 9/11-based federal terrorism law as a liability shield from the tragic October, 2017 shooting at the Mandalay Bay Hotel &...