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thing handled on the scope of the FBI and not by common individu- als, says Mattingly. “For the average building… there’s no tracking them,” he says.
of these things. You might argue that you can harden your target and by being a harder target that they’ll choose another target. There might be some argument to that. It doesn’t mean that another target is not going to get hit. This is going to be the one that stumps the experts. The public safety authorities are not going to want to put that message out. That’s understandable because they don’t want to frighten people. “You may not always know what the triggers are going to be, but
you can have a general awareness of the world and understand that if you’re hosting a particular type of event that there might be a height- ened security concern related to that so that you can take steps or try Mattingly believes that being educated about your own clients is a
your own building,” he says. “But picking up or trying to spot someone who’s been scouting your venue is really hard. I’m looking outside now camera. Those that don’t have an actual camera have a cell phone. high school kids walking down the street carrying boxes and I don’t know what the heck is going on.” Mattingly says the challenge going forward is a unique one of get- ting into the mindset of a lone wolf. “Just try to understand what their next move might be,” he says.
“We were focused on bombs on airplanes and they responded with knives, pistols and assault weapons. “The message I would put out there for people worried about lone
wolf attacks is that you should worry about that and your best way to prepare for that is to prepare for the things that you have to face every day. If you can get good at handling things every day, then the next step is to get good at handling emergencies that happen maybe once a month. The better you get at that then the better you’re going to be in a catastrophic thing that might come along.” FM
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