College & University Campus Security and Safety

USSARM, LLC in coordination with one of our resource partners, has developed a prevention and response system that includes a data gathering and organization platform that empowers institutions, communities, and businesses with the ability to intervene before a violent incident takes place. Our platform helps you identify the “gaps” that blind you from seeing the complete picture of a developing violent event or “connect the dots” that provide a full view of a potentially violent intentions. The lament following a violent event is often that, “we failed to connect the dots.”

Along with academic, financial and geographic considerations, the issue of campus safety is a vital concern. In 1990, Congress enacted the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 (Title II of Public Law 101-542), which amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). This act required all postsecondary institutions participating in HEA’s Title IV student financial assistance programs to disclose campus crime statistics and security information. The act was amended in 1992, 1998, 2000 and 2008. The 1998 amendments renamed the law the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act in memory of a student who was slain in her dorm room in 1986.

On March 7, 2013, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA) (Public Law 113-14) was signed into law. VAWA includes amendments to the Clery Act. These changes require institutions to disclose statistics, policies and programs related to dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, among other changes.

These unacceptable problems exist at community, campus, and business levels. There is no safe space. We must take offensive not only defensive action. A football team with only a defensive line is sure to fail. Offensive intervention means attacking the problem and overwhelming it with resources before it gains momentum to cause you harm. But, if the pieces of the puzzle (events and signals) are missing (no or fragmented data) intervention is relegated to post incident response. Our system resolves this problem.

The problem with the past and present approach is that PREVENTION requires far more than dissemination of information. Prevention is offensive, response is defensive. You must have a system that allows you to “connect the dots” (events and signals) that are always identified in post-incident investigations. The results are overwhelming that organizations and communities will continue to fail at preventing incidents, shooters, attacks, and tragedies as long as their focus is almost entirely on First Responders, Responding, and Security (reactive products and assessments). The “COSTS” associated with RESPONDING are enormous – lost lives, millions of dollars in immediate responses, millions of dollars in ongoing recovery costs, ongoing trauma/PTSD challenges, lawsuits, reputation damages, and ongoing of questions about the safety of your environment. Our new challenge is changing our focus from First Responders to First Preventers. This will allow our prospect to become as clear as our retrospect.

Change begins with three fundamental shifts of paradigm:

• Leaders from organizations, communities, states, and nations must immediately realize First Responders are very different from First Preventers.
• Leaders from organizations, communities, states, and nations must make (not talk about) immediate changes to establish First Preventers and equip First Preventers to stop and prevent violence BEFORE evil and radicalized individuals escalate and execute their plans of violence.
• Leaders from organizations, communities, states, and nations need to realize preventing violence pays the highest dividend for every penny of investment, and yields the most desirable results in nullifying human tragedy.

We have painstakingly crafted our platform and follow-up system to make it many times more cost effective than the average budget expended on response tools. The time has arrived for us to take a greater measure of control over violent acts that result in so much tragedy and loss in our workplaces, schools, and businesses.

We can help you identify the “gaps” that blind you from seeing the complete picture of a developing violent event. Contact USSARM at 912-659-1421 to begin your first preventer program.