How to Solve the Violence "Prevention" Issue in Our Schools with Scientific Reliability in Just 4-Days!

Hi, my name is Dr. John Byrnes, I’m the Founder and CEO of the Center for Aggression Management.  I realize that you are on this landing page because you are looking for a better solution to the issue of preventing violence and bullying in your schools. But how?

Did you know that all School Resource Officers (SROs) are “Right of Bang?” i.e., they get involved after the shooting has begun! It’s true! Why is this so important to understand?

 
  • When an assailant decides to pull his weapon and start shooting -- the "Moment of Commitment" -- it takes two seconds before the first round is discharged. No SRO, no matter how well trained or equipped, can reliably be on scene in just two seconds.
 
  • We asked that Director of Operations for NASRO (National Association of School Resource Officers) whether any of his SROs could reliably be on scene in just 2 seconds? His response was, “absolutely not!” But what does this mean?
 
  • Sadly, all SROs can do at that point is follow Active Shooter Response training and step over dead, dying and/or wounded victims to get to the shooter.  These victims are students, teachers, coaches, and staff!
 
  • Have you ever experienced an active shooter? Was your SRO, or local law enforcement, forced to step over the dead, dying and/or wounded victims? What did you say to those who were injured; or those with post-traumatic stress disorder; and the families of those who lost their lives? Is this an acceptable outcome?
 
  • There is a better solution!  This solution is founded in science, but it is not for every SRO, Superintendent or Principal!  You must step beyond current thinking/paradigms. Can you step out of your current paradigms and consider a new approach that is founded in science? Ref: Dr. Claire Good, Ph.D (below)
 
  • If you truly wish to prevent assaultive or violent behavior, you must know the behavioral cues (precursors) that lead to assaultive/violent behavior and what to do to stop it. You must get out in front of that horrific Moment of Commitment! We will show you how . . .

If you agree with me, join us for our Free Introduction to our scientifically reliable Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) and our fully functional CAPS Mobile app. We will explain how you can prevent that costly  "Moment of Commitment" and thus prevent the school violence in the first place.  You prevent a victim from becoming a victim and a perpetrator from becoming a perpetrator! Is there any better solution?  Follow this link to register for our next Free Introduction to CAPS.  If you need to read more, please continue reading . . .
 
  • Using techniques that the FBI and the Secret Service refer to as "identifying someone on the path to violence," the Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) and its CAPS Mobile App help you identify the aggression-precursors to violence and thus prevent the horrific Moment of Commitment. Although we all know that there is no absolute (100%) violence prevention, with the help of these aggression-precursors there is scientifically reliable violence prevention.
 
  • These same aggression-precursors also prevent bullying, conflict, abuse, harassment, assaultive behavior, and aggressive behaviors in the classroom. Only the Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) and its CAPS Mobile App offers an unbiased scientifically reliable way to prevent this behavior from occurring. Ref: Dr. Claire Good, Ph.D (below) 
   
  • John D. Byrnes, D.Hum., Founder and CEO of the Center for Aggression Management, Inc., has spent the past 27 years developing the only scientifically reliable violence prevention system, the Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) and their fully functional CAPS Mobile App. Learn these scientifically reliable behavioral cues (precursors) and get certified to teach these skills to others in just 4-days in our Ambassadors' (train-the-trainers) Workshop!
 
  • Dr. Byrnes has trained thousands of participants in Fortune 500 Companies, as well as representatives from over 150 college and university campuses. He has spoken at dozens of professional conferences and trained many in governmental agencies across the United States.  For a more complete list of clients review: https://www.aggressionmanagement.com/client_list.php
 
  • With the Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) and its CAPS Mobile App, you can prevent violence using unbiased, evidence-based Best Practices and thus demonstrate to school district, clients, community leaders and media that you are justified in recording, tracking and resolving aggressive behavior with CAPS .
 
  • As we all begin our journey out from under COVID, what will your journey look like? Are you ready for a new start founded in science?
 


ACTION PLAN:

  • Are you tired of students, teachers, parents and too often staff using subjective references to describe behaviors of concern? The use of subjective references by accusers make it difficult for teachers, coaches, staff, and counselors to act. Unfortunately, these complaints often lead down a rabbit hole that produces claims and counterclaims costing significant human capital without clearly defined outcomes.
 
  • If you truly wish to prevent this kind of behavior and the potential escalation that follows it, you must understand and learn the behavioral cues (precursors) that lead to subjects of bullying, abuse, harassment, discrimination, conflict and even violent behavior and you must know what to do to stop any further escalation toward violence, thus preventing violence. All of this can be found in  our scientifically reliable Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) and our fully functional CAPS Mobile App. 
 
THE PROBLEM:
  • According to the Center for American Progress, the most significant challenges facing school districts today are recruitment of qualified teachers, teacher retention & and school campus culture resulting in maximized student achievement scores.  Said in another way, who is teaching our children?
 
  • Unfortunately, professionals on school campuses are distracted from their priorities by having to spend thousands of dollars and human capital on programs to deal with bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, student conflict, and violence prevention. However, these programs focus on reacting to behaviors of concern not preventing them!  The malicious behaviors described above are also types of aggressive behavior, and our CAPS’s indicators aggressive behavior comes with precursors proven scientifically reliable in preventing bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, and violence. Our CAPS videos (right side of this page) explain how our CAPS system works and how CAPS can make your school campuses "as safe as possible" the hightest form of evidence-based Best Practices.
 
  • One of the greatest losses within any school system is the “loss of trust” between students, parents, teachers, coaches, and staff, which directly diminish essential elements of Teamwork, Leadership and Student Achievement Scores. The solution to this can be found in our scientifically reliable Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) and our fully functional CAPS Mobile App. Select the CAPS Mobile App purchase button for only $49.95!

THE SOLUTION:
  • Stop managing aggressive behavior equipped only with subjective reporting. CAPS Mobile App offers objective, measurable, definable observables that can significantly enhance teamwork, leadership, loyalty, and ultimately increased student achievement scores. CAPS reliably and systematically identifies and raises awareness of behaviors of concern without violating HIPAA, FERPA (on campus), and/or the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 
  • To prevent this kind of aggressive behavior and the potential escalation that follows it, you must understand the behavioral cues (precursors) that lead to bullying, abuse, harassment, discrimination, conflict, and even violent behavior. All of this can be found in the CAPS Mobile App. To learn more about the CAPS Mobile App and how to acquire it, look at the videos to the right of this page.
 
  • The Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) and its CAPS Mobile App enable students, parents, teachers, coaches, and staff to identify the precursors to aggressive, distrustful behavior and prevent it, thus leading to enhanced teamwork, leadership, loyalty, improved performance in the classroom, and improved student achievement scores!

SUMMARY: PREVENT THE NEXT SCHOOL SHOOTING
Scientifically reliable methods overcome systemic flaws and help you prevent violence before it’s too late.
  • Using techniques developed by the FBI and the Secret Service, the Center for Aggression Management can train you and your team to identify the sequential, successive precursors to school violence and thus prevent future violence. These same aggression-precursors also prevent bullying, conflict, abuse, harassment, assaultive behavior, and aggressive behavior in the classroom. Aggression continues to permeate our schools and our Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) offers a reliable solution.
 
  • Most professionals on campus attempt to promote a campus environment characterized by fair treatment of students and staff, open communications, personal accountability, trust, and mutual respect. Aggressive behavior undermines the core principals of a positive campus environment and in worst case scenarios, may lead to violence.  
 
  • Why do students, teachers, coaches, and staff fail to follow the practice of, “see something, say something?” We all tend to do what we believe is in our best interest. Students, teachers, coaches, and staff see getting involved as not in their best interest, so they do not get involved – it is that simple.  
 
  • Too often, students, teachers, coaches, and staff will not act on issues reported to them with subjective references alone. In the end, they do nothing until after an incident occurs, which is always too late. After the fact we frequently hear statements such as, “We knew that Bobby was a problem and it was only a matter of time!”
 
  • CAPS provides scientifically reliable, intuitively based, objective, measurable observables, which do not violate HIPAA, FERPA or the Civil Rights Act of 1964. CAPS offers students, teachers, staff, and parents the ability to reliably “See Something and Say Something” without bias or fear of losing their reputations or jobs.  This means that everyone within a campus environment with CAPS skills will, more readily and reliably, say something about behaviors of concern before they become an incident, or worse yet, violence.
 
  • With CAPS, students, teachers, coaches, and staff see that if they do not get involved early, they will likely become victims of this aggressor. This helps them understand it is in their best interest to report, and so they do! CAPS also helps those on school campuses to avoid using subjective references and provides them with objective, measurable observables to report aggressive behavior they see without violating privacy regulations like HIPAA, FERPA and/or the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
 
  • CAPS will identify what the FBI refers to as “individuals who are on a path to violence” when they exhibit behaviors such as bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, and conflict. When left unaddressed, these lower stages of observed aggressive behavior on the Critical Aggression Prevention System's (CAPS) Aggression Continuum can escalate and increase the potential for assaults or violence. Without CAPS, it requires significant additional effort and intervention to mitigate the increased potential for violence on campus.
 
  • Dr. Claire Good, Ph.D, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs, Dean of Students, and Chair of the Student Assistance & Intervention Team (SAIT) at Eastern Kentucky University, used CAPS to achieve scientific reliable violence prevention on her campuses. This statement validates scientific reliability:
    • "Now that we have had your Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) in place for two years, we have been very pleased with its utility. The CAPS Meter of Emerging Aggression has produced evaluations and results consistent with the observations of those on our Student Assistance & Intervention Team (SAIT), as we work at tracking students on our campus who are behaving in ways that concern faculty, staff or others in the campus community."
 
  • If you truly wish to prevent assaultive/violent behavior, you must understand and learn the behavioral cues (precursors) that lead to assaultive/violent behavior and you must know what to do to stop that behavior.  All of this can be found in the CAPS Mobile App. To learn more about the CAPS Mobile App and how to acquire it, select the CAPS Mobile App purchase button for only $49.95!
 
  • These are all reasons why CAPS training is an essential tool for any School District. CAPS offers the only scientifically reliable way to identify a future assailant before their horrific Moment of Commitment and thus prevent the next school shooting.

 
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  • Retailing at only $595.00, our 2-day Webinar-based Certified Aggression Managers’ Workshop (No Travel or Lodging Expenses) also takes advantage of our 25% price reduction (PromoCode: "ManagersWorkshop25" = $446.25) over the next 30 days, plus your first annual subscription to CAPS Mobile App is included for free! The Certified Aggression Managers Workshop is intended to provide in-house utility, without the cost of travel and lodging. Upon successful completion of this two-day training, participants receive Aggression Managers Certification.
 
  • Retailing at only $995.00, our 4-day Webinar-based Ambassadors’ (train-the-trainers) Workshop (No Travel or Lodging Expenses) also takes advantage of our 25% price reduction (PromoCode: "WorkshopApp25" = $746.25) over the next 30 days, plus your first annual subscription to CAPS Mobile App is included for free! This Ambassadors (train-the-trainers) Workshop provides an in-house training capability for your organization, and/or your commercial application for consultants. Prospective trainers take the two-day workshop and then have two more days of intensive training and exercises including practice teaching and assessment. Upon successful completion of the four-day training, participants receive Center for Aggression Management Ambassador (C.A.M.A.) certified trainer credentials.

If you have questions, call us at 407-718-5637 or e-mail us at JohnByrnes@AggressionManagement.com.
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  1. Current Proposed Solution:

    Hire School Resource Officers (SROs) to protect school campuses.

    Analysis:

    More School Resource Officers (SROs), may seem like a solution until you ask yourself: do we want to reliably prevent, or simply react faster, to the next school shooting? From the Moment of Commitment when an assailant decides to pull his weapon and start shooting to when the first round is discharged is just two seconds. The National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) agrees that no SRO can reliably be on scene in just two seconds. They will do what they have been trained to do as part of Active Shooter Training: step over those dead, dying and/or wounded victims to get to the shooter. Is this an acceptable solution to you? Will it be acceptable to the parents of your students?

  2. Current Proposed Solution:

    Become more diligent in conducting mental health assessments.

    Analysis:

    Increasing the number of mental health assessments conducted on students may improve their mental health, but it hasn’t proven effective at identifying school shooters in advance of their heinous acts. Virginia Tech’s active shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, murdered 33 innocent students and teachers, wounded 23 others, and then he took his own life. He was mental health assessed on three different occasions, and in each he was deemed to be “not at risk of hurting himself or others.” The Parkland Shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was also mental health assessed and deemed to be “not at risk of hurting himself or others.” Pima Community College’s Jared Lee Loughner shot Congresswomen Gabrielle Giffords and others near Tucson, Arizona, on January 8, 2011, and was charged with 19 counts of murder and attempted murder. Loughner clearly had a thought disorder and was probably schizophrenic, one of the scariest of mental illnesses. However, we know that of all schizophrenics only 0.002% have murdered another person. How do we get from the 0.002% of schizophrenics who would murder people, to “this is your next shooter”? We can’t. Are we going to put all individuals with schizophrenia in asylums to protect us from the 0.002%? Not likely. Added to which, federal regulations often forbid the sharing of mental health assessments (HIPAA Regulations) or any assessments that include culture, gender, education and so much more (FERPA and/or the Civil Rights Act of 1964). How can a school district get out in front of the next shooting when incumbered by these regulations? Finally, current methods used are far too subjective, words like scary, strange, weird, and menacing can quickly overwhelm school safety specialists who have been charged with protecting students. These subjective references can take school safety specialists down the rabbit hole of "he said, she said," which can also lead to discrimination and possible lawsuits. In the end, our assessment is that mental health assessments fail us in identifying school shooters before they act.

  3. Current Proposed Solution:

    Create a threat assessment teams.

    Analysis:

    Threat assessment by its very definition is an assessment of an existing threat, you are reacting to a threat, not preventing it. The hope of a Threat Assessment Teams is to identify an initial lessor threat and thus prevent a subsequent greater threat, but there is no assurance that the initial lesser threat will not be a threat to life or limb; which is the case with each of these past shootings. If we are to prevent the next school shooting, we must get out in front of the next threat. There are those who approach Threat with “Threat Management” probing for any indication of future violence, but too often these become mired in controversy due to subjectivity, lack of meaningful application, intuition or fear of HIPAA, FERPA or Civil Rights Act violations.

  4. Current Proposed Solution:

    School districts initiate an effort to fortify their campuses, hardening their targets.

    Analysis:

    Hardening schools like penitentiaries quickly can become extraordinarily expensive, and, as with the Parkland Shooting, these investments can be thwarted easily when students (shooter or co-conspirator) simply pull the fire alarm, and all entrances and exits must open immediately exposing the campus and students.

  5. Current Proposed Solution:

    School districts develop programs to enable select staff members to conceal carry to combat a future shooter.

    Analysis:

    Florida’s Guardian Program, as an example, permits selected individuals with extensive training or credentials to conceal carry in school to respond to a school shooter. This is being rejected outright by most school districts, because local law enforcement does not want a repeat of what happened at the University of Central Florida in 2005. As an off-duty plainclothes UCF campus police officer drew his weapon and fired it up in the air on under-age students tailgate drinking before a UCF game, an Orlando reserve uniformed police officer arrived and shot and killed the UCF campus police officer. An Officer arrives on scene ready to neutralize the threat only to find two individuals with weapons aimed at each other, which person does the officer shoot? You can see the dilemma.

According to the landmark study conducted by the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Department of Education and the National Institute of Justice on Targeted Violence in Schools (2000), there is a significant difference between profiling and identifying a student on the path to violence. “The use of profiles is not effective either for identifying students who may pose a risk for targeted violence at school or – once a student has been identified – for assessing the risk that a particular student may pose for school-based targeted violence.” It continues to offer the answer, “An inquiry should focus instead on a student’s behaviors and communications to determine if the student appears to be planning or preparing for an attack. The ultimate question to answer is whether a student is on a path to a violent attack.” Using techniques referred to by the FBI and the Secret Service, we are able to identify the sequential, successive precursors to school violence and thereby prevent future violence. These same methods can be used to identify the precursors and prevent bullying, discrimination, and the loss of trust. Our Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) offers a reliable solution to the aggressive behavior that continues to permeate our schools as confirmed by the FBI on December 16, 2013. As chief of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit Behavioral Threat Assessment Center, Andre Simmons states their ability to prevent violence is predicated on identifying a person who is “on a pathway to violence.” The Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) provides scientifically reliable, intuitive, objective, measurable, human-based, observables, which do not violate HIPAA, FERPA or the Civil Rights Act of 1964. CAPS offers students, teachers, faculty, staff and parents the ability to reliably “see something and say something” without bias or fear of losing their reputation or jobs. This means that everyone within a school environment possessing CAPS skills will more readily and reliably say something when they see something. John D. Byrnes, D.Hum., Founder and CEO of the Center for Aggression Management can share with you a comprehensive understanding of how and why his Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) works. If you have questions, call 407-718-5637 or e-mail JohnByrnes@AggressionManagement.com.

Bullying represents someone exhibiting bullying behavior, right? So, when you catch someone exhibiting such bullying behavior, you are reacting and not preventing it. Once you realize that bullying behavior begins at the Stage 4 of the Cognitive Aggression Continuum and you learn what Stages 3, 2 and 1 (the precursors to bullying) look like, you will be able to reliably prevent bullying from occurring. With out CAPS’s Cognitive Aggression Continuum this capability does not exist. Bullying, abuse, harassment, discrimination and conflict all begin at the Stage 4 of the Cognitive Aggression Continuum. Once school districts learn that bullying, abuse, harassment, discrimination and conflict are simply aggressive behavior which comes with precursors, they will be able to significantly reduce these malicious behaviors, reduce costs, and enhance student achievement scores. John D. Byrnes, D.Hum., Founder and CEO of the Center for Aggression Management can share with you a comprehensive understanding of how and why his Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS) works. If you have questions, call 407-718-5637 or e-mail JohnByrnes@AggressionManagement.com.

Parents have only one question when it comes to this topic, “What are you doing to prevent the next school shooting?” How are you answering this question? Are you telling them that their children are safe because you have SROs on campus? Are you telling them that you have fortifying your schools, and that you are providing mental health assessment, etc.? What are you telling these parents? CAPS is the only system that provides scientifically validated evidence-based results; thus you can demonstrate to parents in real time that your schools are “as safe as possible” the highest form of evidence-based Best Practices. Our scientifically validated Meter of Emerging Aggression (MEA) -- CAPS’s Central Analysis Tool -- illustrates aggressive behavior from the outset through Stage 9 of the Cognitive Aggression Continuum, the most lethal of all aggressors: the perpetrator of murder/suicide. At the end of a school year, we don’t expect to have a lot of students at Stages 7, 8, or 9. We expect a lot of students at Stages 3, 4, and 5. Obviously, if we diffuse a student at Stage 5, then we are also preventing any subsequent violence by that student. As a hypothetical example, say 100 students go through the CAPS system. Through use of MEA, we determine that 90 of these students no longer have the intent to harm and are back in school producing good academic work. Of the remaining 10, five are in counseling and the other five have been suspended while undergoing a full assessment as to their threat. Thus, we can demonstrate to parents, community and, if necessary, the media, through evidence-based results, that our schools are “as safe as possible.”

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