Communication Discipline Under Stress: The Operational Skill Most Teams Overlook
In protective operations, communication is often where problems arise. At PGI, we see communication failures surface in small ways before they become operational problems. A message [...]
Medical Readiness: The First Minutes
In the days after high-profile incidents, much of the discussion centers on security presence, threat recognition, and response capability. Those elements matter, but they rarely tell [...]
Planned Violence: Understanding the Increasing Threat Environment
Introduction The volume of Planned Active Violence has continued to trend upward over the past six years. We, meaning PGI, have increasingly discussed behavioral trends that [...]
Teen Takeovers, Crowd Escalation, and the Emerging Public Safety Threat
What is developing across parts of the United States should not be dismissed as a simple [...]
Safe Havens: The Pre-Identified Options That Buy Time
PGI Protective Intelligence Brief #4: Safe Havens: The Pre-Identified Options That Buy Time In protective operations, [...]
When Controlled Spaces Breakdown
PGI Protective Intelligence Brief #3: When Controlled Space Breaks Down: The Hidden Failure Point in Executive [...]
What Escalation Looks Like in Real Time: A Direct Alignment Between Behavior and Action
This article is a follow-up to our recent piece, When Reaction Replaces Reflection, which examined how [...]
When Reaction Replaces Reflection: The Shift in How We Treat One Another
Across our communities, patience is thinning, and reactions are happening more quickly. Everyday disagreements are more [...]
Five Incidents. Five Pathways to Violence. Understanding the Emerging Threat Environment
The Prologue Over the past several days, multiple violent incidents reported in the United States have [...]