After voicing her concerns about a client, Stephanie Ross was sent to his house anyway for his face-to-face hospitalization risk assessment, and he stabbed her to death.
As all security experts know, one of the basic principles utilized in securing buildings or institutions is controlling access onto the property and into building by using basic security measures such as security officers, fencing, bars on windows or electronic access control systems.
Recent incidents of ricin being mailed to the White House and members of Congress are a chilling reminder that the mail system continues to be used by those wishing to do harm.
It is valuable to seek out answers to safer schools. Government and community leaders are looking at a variety of options that include armed guards, stronger gun control, regulation of the video game industry, and identifying better mental health initiatives, among others.
Government employees experienced a rate of nonfatal workplace violence that was more than three times the rate for private-sector employees during 2011.
Alaska, Louisiana and Montana had the most gun deaths of any U.S. states in 2010, and they fall among the states with the weakest gun laws, according to the Center for American Progress.
62 percent of workplace violence involved Maryland healthcare workers in 2010, despite the fact that these workers only make up 16 percent of the state's workforce.