Awareity’s Connecting The Dots Blog shares news and insights to help threat assessment teams, community, and organizational leaders, etc. prevent incidents.


Symptoms of Fear, Distrust, Lack of Accountability, and Rising Concerns for Safety

Symptoms are important warning signs that must be recognized and acted on before things get worse.  Symptoms reveal whether you have a cold, flu, covid, ...

“We failed to connect the dots.”

Do you know the most common excuse/reason cited after almost every tragedy? Most of us have heard it hundreds and hundreds of times. “We failed ...

The Profile of Failed Preventions: Validated By Data, Dangerously Common, and Fixable

Since Columbine in 1999, many government agencies, experts, and authors have been searching for the “profile of mass shooters”, however the data has shown the ...

It’s Time to Make Student Safety A Higher Priority Than School/Campus Security

Facts, lessons learned, student surveys, and lawsuits expose why priority changes are urgently needed for making Student Safety a higher priority than School/Campus Security. School/Campus ...

School Safety: If you needed surgery for a tumor, which surgeon would you choose?

Curious how a tumor and a surgeon relate to School Safety?  Let me explain… Would you choose a foot surgeon, a heart surgeon, or oncology ...

Early Detection in Cancer, Shooters, and Other At-Risk Individuals

Would you rather detect cancer (and shooters) at Stage 4 or Stage 1? Detecting cancer at early stages increases your risk of surviving cancer. For ...

Improving Safety Depends on Knowing What You Don’t Know, What Others Know, and Need to Know…

If you are looking for safer schools, workplaces, and communities consider this… After nearly every mass shooting in schools, workplaces, and communities, post-incident reports reveal ...

We Have Lots of Laws, Why Are We Experiencing Record Levels of Shootings and Violence?

Did you know a federal law targeting murder was passed in the Crimes Act of 1790? It stated: "If any person or persons shall, within ...

A Better Way: Pre-Incident Prevention

What if there was a better way to identify and disrupt at-risk individuals before they attack? As I review headlines from stories in mainstream media, ...

Artificial Intelligence is “Shiny and New” But Don’t Overlook Human Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new shiny object that has a lot of people talking about it and trying it out for a lot of ...

Prevention Gaps Leave Communities Vulnerable to More Shootings and Violence

Prevention gaps are leaving schools, higher education, workplaces, and communities vulnerable to more shootings, violence, suicides, corruption, sexual assaults, human trafficking, bullying, and more. What ...

Do you want to be a CHAMPION to save lives, futures, millions of dollars, and reputations?

If you were aware of a proven solution that is currently helping communities, schools, and workplaces to stop shootings, violence, suicides, and numerous other unwanted ...

Record levels of shootings, violence, suicides, and other incidents… WHAT IS MISSING?

Allow me to get straight to the point with the facts on what is missing and why we are (but should not be) seeing record ...

14 Reasons Why Forward-Looking Leaders Are Implementing The First Preventers Program

#1 Almost everyone in schools, higher education, workplaces, and communities (except the evil doers) prefer preventing incidents over responding to incidents.  Preventing incidents from happening requires ...

Bad News, Good News, and Better News

I've got some bad news, good news, and even better news... They say bad news gets more clicks, but good news and better news is ...

Lawsuits and Settlements Trending Sky High

In the aftermath of tragedies, families and victims often have no other recourse but to sue the organization (school, business, government, etc.), the shooters/family, or ...

Oklahoma State Department of Education Launches Awareity’s Prevention Platform & Tools

It is a great honor to share this press release from the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) as they are proactively bolstering safety, security, ...

A Screw In Your Tire & Pre-Incident Prevention

I was recently out shopping and as I returned to my truck parked in the parking lot, I noticed something shiny in one of my ...

When You Don’t Know What Others Know…Bad Things Can Happen (and are happening)

This message is probably the most important message for LEADERS of schools, higher ed, organizations, and communities that I've ever shared in any of my ...

Reactive and Proactive Prevention Do You Know The Difference?

Acts of violence and acts of evil are increasing across the nation. Why? The short answer points to the soaring numbers of at-risk individuals (due ...
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