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...

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...

Buffalo News Publishes Mannes’ Piece on School Security

On June 19, 2018 the Buffalo News published my piece; “The Risks of Oversimplifying the School Security Issue” on their Another Voice pages. If you haven’t read this valuable analysis on school security in Security Magazine; it’s important that...