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Behavioral Threat Assessment Units: A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement to Prevent Targeted Violence
Guidance for Law Enforcement
Behavioral Threat Assessment Units: A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement to Prevent Targeted Violence

The National Threat Assessment Center recently published a scalable 6-step framework for law enforcement agencies to prevent mass violence and other targeted attacks.

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Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting: A Toolkit for Strengthening K-12 Reporting Programs
School/Campus Attacks
Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting: A Toolkit for Strengthening K-12 Reporting Programs

New NTAC resource offers strategies for K-12 schools to enhance bystander reporting programs

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Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: 2016-2020
NATIONAL THREAT ASSESSMENT CENTER
NTAC releases latest report, "Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: 2016-2020"

The report analyzes 173 targeted attacks that occurred from 2016-2020 in public or semi-public locations in the U.S. 

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The National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) was established as a component of the Secret Service in 1998 to provide research and guidance in direct support of the Secret Service protective mission, and to others with public safety responsibilities.

The center’s staff is composed of a multidisciplinary team of social science researchers and regional program managers who support and empower our partners in law enforcement, schools, government, and other public and private sector organizations to combat the ever-evolving threat of targeted violence impacting communities across the United States.

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  • Hot Yoga Tallahassee: A Case Study of Misogynistic Extremism

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Guidance for Law Enforcement

Behavioral Threat Assessment Units: A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement to Prevent Targeted Violence
Behavioral Threat Assessment Units: A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement to Prevent Targeted Violence

School/Campus Attacks

Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting: A Toolkit for Strengthening K-12 Reporting Programs
Improving School Safety Through Bystander Reporting
Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools
Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools
Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence
Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence
Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model: An Operational Guide for Preventing Targeted School Violence
Enhancing School Safety Using a Threat Assessment Model: An Operational Guide for Preventing Targeted School Violence
Campus Attacks: Targeted Violence Affecting Institutions of Higher Education
Campus Attacks: Targeted Violence Affecting Institutions of Higher Education
Prior Knowledge of Potential School-Based Violence: Information Students Learn May Prevent a Targeted Attack
Prior Knowledge of Potential School-Based Violence: Information Students Learn May Prevent a Targeted Attack
The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States
The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States
The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States
Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates

Mass Attacks in Public Spaces

Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: 2016-2020
Mass Attacks in Public Spaces: 2016-2020
Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2019
Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2019
NTAC Mass Attacks in Public Spaces 2018
Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2018
Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2017
Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2017

Behavioral Case Studies

Hot Yoga Tallahassee: A Case Study of Misogynistic Extremism
Hot Yoga Tallahassee: A Case Study of Misogynistic Extremism
The Congressional Shooter: A Behavioral Review of James Hodgkinson
The Congressional Shooter: A Behavioral Review of James Hodgkinson
Exploring the Effect of Stressors in Threat Assessment Investigations: A Case Study on Bart Allen Ross (2014)
Exploring the Effect of Stressors in Threat Assessment Investigations: A Case Study on Bart Allen Ross
Using a Systems Approach for Threat Assessment Investigations: A Case Study on Jared Lee Loughner
Using a Systems Approach for Threat Assessment Investigations: A Case Study on Jared Lee Loughner
Investigating Ideologically Inspired Violent Extremists: Local Partners Are an Asset: A Case Study on Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad (2014)
Investigating Ideologically Inspired Violent Extremists: Local Partners Are an Asset: A Case Study on Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad

Attacks Against Government

Attacks on U.S. Federal Government 2001–2013: Threat Assessment Considerations
Attacks on U.S. Federal Government 2001–2013: Threat Assessment Considerations
Assassination in the United States: An Operational Study of Recent Assassins, Attackers, and Near Lethal Approachers
Assassination in the United States: An Operational Study of Recent Assassins, Attackers, and Near Lethal Approachers
Protective Intelligence & Threat Assessment Investigations: A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement Officials
Protective Intelligence & Threat Assessment Investigations: A Guide for State and Local Law Enforcement Officials

Photo Gallery

    • NTAC Chief Dr. Lina Alathari and Supervisory Social Science Research Specialist Steven Driscoll present the findings from NTAC’s "Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2018" report in Washington, D.C.
    • NTAC Chief Dr. Lina Alathari and Supervisory Social Science Research Specialist Steven Driscoll present the findings from NTAC’s "Protecting America’s Schools" report in Chicago, Illinois, in 2019.
    • NTAC Chief Dr. Lina Alathari participates in a press conference for NTAC’s "Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2018" report in Washington, D.C.
    • Director James T. Murray participates in a press conference for NTAC’s "Protecting America’s Schools" report at Secret Service Headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 2019.
    • Deputy Director Leon Newsome introduces NTAC’s "Protecting America’s Schools" report in Chicago in 2019.
    • Supervisory Social Science Research Specialist Steven Driscoll presents NTAC's research, "Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2019," at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2020.
    • NTAC Chief Dr. Lina Alathari announces the team's latest research, "Mass Attacks in Public Spaces - 2019," at a press conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2020.
    • NTAC Supervisors Steven Driscoll and Diana Drysdale accept the 2019 DHS Secretary’s Award for Excellence on behalf of the NTAC team.
    • Deputy Director Leon Newsome introduces NTAC’s “Protecting America’s Schools” report in Chicago in 2019.
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