Today, in a first of its kind virtual event, the Secret Service will share with more than 12,000 people their latest research on mass attacks. This event is to report on the findings of their newest report entitled “Mass Attacks in Public Spaces 2019.”
Transcript
Thanks, Jamming. Good afternoon, everyone. I’m glad so many of you are able to join us virtually for the release of our report for 2019 mass attacks in public spaces or map social here called over and over again today. Thank you very much for taking the time and making the effort to join us and for your willingness to participate in this very important conversation about the prevention of targeted violence. I’m excited for you to hear from all of our presenters, and I have no doubt that you’ll benefit from their experiences and their analysis. I do want to take a moment to recognize some of our guest speakers, all of whom worked very closely with the Secret Service and intact joining us today our Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. Down in Florida, Sheriff Gualtieri also serves as the chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. Likewise, we’re joined today by Chief Richard Beal of the Dayton, Ohio, Police Department, as well as lieutenants Brandon Clarkson and Joshua Biscoe of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. All four of these gentlemen represent communities that have been directly impacted by the horrors of mass attacks. What’s more than each responded two tragedies such as these and then subsequently led their communities through and beyond these crises? Today they give very generously of their time and their expertise. And I’m particularly grateful for them for coming out today to help make all of our organizations community safer. In addition to our operational ex experts we are fortunate to have with us today Governor Greg Abbott of Texas Congressman Mario Diaz Balart and Congressman Ted Deutch, both of Florida. I am very appreciative of these gentlemen for letting their voices to this cause, and I’m grateful to them for the leadership they’ve shown with regard to prevention targeted violence on the national scene. The mass report that will be examining in discussing today is actually just the latest in a vast number of products that intact has researched and published over the past several decades in an effort to mitigate and learn more about this prevented targeted violence issue we have in our country in doing so intact, carefully studies the tactics that backgrounds and the pre attack behaviors of the fenders so that they can best equipped our public and private partners with the information and the tools they need to identify warning signs and hopefully stop these attacks before they occur. It is my hope in my expectation that after today’s discussion that you too, will be able to apply the same proven tactics and techniques in order to help you prevent and deter such incidences within your own organizations, communities and schools. As part of the Secret Service is ongoing effort to help proactively address the threat of targeted violence intact regularly uses his research findings as a foundation to then go out and conduct training and consultations all over the country and all over the world. Training sessions just like the one we’re having virtually here today, I’m eager for you to hear from our chief of intact Dr Lena Al Afari, who along with Steve Driscoll, will be leading today’s conversation. Lena and her team do a fantastic job, and I strongly encourage everyone to take full advantage of Intacs. Resource is concentrations and training opportunities. After today sessions over. I do think it’s important and very encouraging to note that currently there are more than 3 13,000 of us joined together right now, engaged in this discussion, I would submit to you that it will be as a result of ongoing dialogue like this. And then application of these lessons learned that we’re gonna hear about from Antec that we will be able to stay one step ahead of the next attack and prevent the tragedy before it occurs. I thank you again for investing your time and energy in today’s session. Turn it back over to your chanting Thank you, Sack Urban and thank you, Director Murray and other other esteemed speakers for your opening remarks and your support off the work of the National Threat Assessment Centre. I would also like to thank all of you for taking time out of your schedules to join us. You represent the sectors that we work with the most and that are the partners of the Secret Service, including law enforcement, the federal state, local level government agencies, schools, colleges, universities, mental health, community, faith based communities as well as the private sector. All of you are impacted by these types of attacks. And so I’m really heartened to see that this community is coming together to get this information. I won’t take too much time making opening remarks because we need to get to the actual findings and the information that is useful for you, So I’m going to now share my slides.