An updated guide to threat assessment approaches for law enforcement, this guide is meant to define, provide resources, and also help you identify threat assessment training and resources that might help you, your officers, or your community.

An updated guide to threat and risk assessment approaches for security professionals, this guide is meant to define, provide resources, and help you identify threat assessment training and resources that might help you and your personnel.

Lethal and non-lethal violent acts on school property are becoming more and more common, ranging from the most horrific shooting events to schoolyard fights. In this post, we will describe school threat assessment and the challenges associated with school safety. Also included are resources on critical topics. Lastly, we describe how active threat assessment and situational awareness training can help school personnel prevent violence.

Are there training programs that focus on proactive safety and threat recognition for law enforcement and security professionals? We built our training around a structured, four-step observation process, not intuition or guesswork, that equips law enforcement, security, and safety professionals to recognize meaningful behavioral deviations and make defensible decisions before situations escalate.

Preventing a mass attack is an achievable goal. The FBI's 2025 data shows nearly 68% of active shooter incidents involved identifiable planning and preparation beforehand, and for the first time, the Bureau documented cases where observation and reporting likely prevented an attack. We explain "left of boom," and why structured, prevention-focused observation, not tactical response training, is what gives law enforcement, security, and workplace personnel the chance to intervene before an incident begins.