AIRED: March 19, 2018– 11 am PST
SPECIAL GUEST: Alon Stivi
www.directmeasures.com
www.actcert.com
www.safety4students.org
We live in a 911 society where we expect help to always be a phone call away. This approach has repeatedly failed and does not work during critical incidents. We need to think about the recurring threat of mass violence differently if we expect different results.
Understanding the root causes of the problem and asking why these shootings keep occurring is important but is not enough.
There are some effective solutions available today to prevent mass violence. They can be categorized into two types. The first type is about hardening the school campus and second is about engaging people as active participants in their own security.
Alon Stivi states that expecting law enforcement to respond immediately is unrealistic and relying solely on outside assistance is ineffective. In our interview, he shares solutions that are both self-evident and successful because we must be prepared to protect ourselves until help arrives and become empowered to know what to do and how to respond in a crisis situation.
ABOUT ALON STIVI
Alon Stivi is the CEO of Direct Measures International (DMI), a provider of in security consultancy, tactical training, and protective services to the private and public sectors. He is a recognized authority on security, dignitary protection, travel safety, counterterrorism, mass violence prevention, and survival.
Alon is the founder and developer of ACT Cert ® (Attack Countermeasures Training Certification) online learning university and the developer of the Mass Violence Prevention & Active Shooter Survival course, the only training program of its kind certified and funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Alon has emigrated to the U.S. from Israel after serving in an elite unit of the IDF. He is a combat veteran of the 1982 Lebanon War and has trained troops for combat in the areas of small unit tactics, airborne operations, close combat and emergency medicine.
Alon has taught close combat tactics to law enforcement, the US Navy SEAL CQB Instructors and serves as an advisor and trainer to federal, state and local government since 1998. He teaches university-accredited workshops on violence management and is involved in research on school security since 1999. He has conducted audits and designed security programs for schools, places of worship, and hospitals in support of the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) from the DHS Office of Infrastructure Protection.
Alon is a member of FBI InfraGard®, the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS); is a Training Advisor for the International Association of Counter-Terrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP) and a Board of Advisor member of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) at the University of California Irvine (UCI). He currently serves as a Terrorism Liaison Officer (TLO) and a Reserve Deputy with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) Criminal Intelligence Bureau (CIB).
Alon has been featured on network television, radio, film and national print publications.
He is fluent in English, French, and Hebrew.
For more information please contact: alon@directmeasures.com or call (949) 355-4885
