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Prepare and Defend

Keep Yourself and Others Safe from Mass Murder Attacks

von: Robert L. Snow
35,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	08.05.2020
ISBN/EAN:	9781538129210
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	216

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Titelbeschreibung

Prepare and Defend: Keep Yourself and Others Safe from Mass Murder Attacks 
gives readers the insider knowledge unavailable anywhere else that could ultimately save their lives.
 Mass murders, though they may seem to be a recent phenomenon, actually have a long history in America. Snow gives a short history of mass murders in the United States, showing while mass murders may be more common today; they were hardly unheard of in the past. Almost weekly, it seems the national news media reports another mass murder: a school shooting, a massacre at a country music concert, a rampage at a nursing home. Why is this happening; who carries out these mass murders; how can we survive if caught up in one; and what can be done by our nation to stop them? In 
Prepare and Defend: Keep Yourself and Others Safe from Mass Murder Attacks
 Robert L. Snow answers these tough questions by examining the psychological make-up of mass murderers, allowing the readers to see into the many motivations behind these crimes. He also discusses the various strategies that communities can use to lessen the chances of such events occurring, and what the United States needs to do to prevent these tragedies from continuing. An important aspect of 
Prepare and Defend
 is showing readers how to spot a likely mass murder before it happens, and how, if caught up in one, to survive it with the right tactics. Because of the increase in the number of mass murders during the past few decades, police departments everywhere have become equipped and trained on how to respond to them. Readers need to know this information as well so that they can be rescued quickly and safely if ever in the face of this kind of situation. Depending on what kind of mass murder event occurs, there are a number of strategies that can significantly lessen a person’s chances of becoming a victim. With the benefit of many years as a police office, as well as response training for mass murder episode, Snow shows readers important strategies and how to use them.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

When citizens see the near weekly news reports of mass murders in our country they likely shake their heads and wonder if anything can be done. 
Prepare and Defend
 will show readers that indeed something can be done and how to look at the situation with the eyes and awareness of a police officer.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 
Mass Murders in the United States
 
 
2 
Who Are the Mass Murderers?
 
 
3 
Weapons of Mass Murderers
 
 
4 
Tactics of Mass Murderers
 
 
5 
The Motivation behind Mass Murder
 
 
6 
Secondary Victims of Mass Murder
 
 
7 
Communiqués and Manifestos
 
 
8 
Police Response to Mass Murder Scenes 
 
 
9 
How to Spot and Survive a Mass Murder
 
 
10 
The Future: What Can We Do?
 
 
Notes
 
 
Bibliography 
 
 
About the Author

Autorenportrait

Robert L. Snow
 served as a police officer with the Indianapolis Police Department for more than thirty-eight years, retiring in 2007 with the rank of captain. During his time at the police department he served in such capacities as Captain of Detectives, Police Department Executive Officer, Commander of the Homicide Branch, and Commander of the Organized Crime Branch. Snow has also been a published writer for almost forty years. He has had more than one hundred articles and short stories published in such national magazines as 
Playboy
, 
Reader’s Digest
, the 
National Enquirer
, 
Action Digest
, 
Police
, and many others. In addition he has written twenty books, including 
Finding Runaways and Missing Adults 
(R&L, 2012); 
Policewomen Who Made History 
(R&L, 2010); 
Protecting Your Life, Home, and Property
 (1995); 
SWAT Teams
 (1996); 
Family Abuse
 (1997); 
Stopping A Stalker
 (1998); 
The Militia Threat
 (1999); 
Looking for Carroll Beckwith
 (1999); 
Deadly Cults: The Crimes of True Believers
 (2003); 
Murder 101
 (2005); 
Sex Crimes Investigation
 (2006); 
Technology and Law Enforcement
 (2007); 
Child Abductions: Prevention, Investigation, and Recovery
 (2008); 
Slaughter on North LaSalle
 (2012); 
Killers in the Family
 (2014); and 
Love and Greed in the Heartland
 (2017).

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