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Message
from the
Editor
From the Editor:
The 61st NECUSA Conference in Poughkeepsie is now history but it was a great
conference. Not only were all of the presentations excellent but the topics were
very relevant to campus security and safety, timely and well presented. In addition, several vendors attended and displayed a variety of products that could
help make our jobs a little better.
Our host, John Gildard and Marist College, went above and beyond to make
sure our time away from the conference was also interesting and enjoyable.
Several photos from the conference are included in this issue and you can see
the enjoyment on the faces of the attendees as they enjoyed their “off-duty”
activities. I am sure that everyone who attended will attest to the success of the
conference. Great job, John.
We would also like to extend our thanks to the following for all of the hard work
they contributed to make the conference a success:
Dennis J. Murray, President, Marist College
Geoffrey L. Brackett, Executive Vice President, Marist College
Sodexo Dining Services, Marist College
Tara Kaywork and the entire staff at the Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel
Dutchess County Sheriff’s Department Color Guards
Officer Mike Bennett, City of Poughkeepsie Police Department
(National Anthem)
Ed Freer, Ann Littlefield and Donna Watts, Marist Security
Captain Nor and the crew of the Spirit of the Hudson
Hobie Armstrong, our DJ
JTR Bus Company
We will be holding a Professional Development (PD) training program on November 14, 2014 in Albany, New York. It will be held at the Desmond American
on Wolf Road, which is easily accessible from the interstate highways and also
very close to the Albany airport. Two training sessions will be offered: one for
line officers and another for supervisors. More information on this program will
be forthcoming.
Larry
John
Lawrence BrittJohn Gildard
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Message from the President
James Bonner
Well, it’s almost that time again. Yes, for the majority of our members, the return
of the athletes, orientation staffs, resident assistants, are the prelude to the “freshman (first year student) move-in followed by the massive return of the upper class
students.
It seems like yesterday that we were cleaning up from commencement events and
we just returned from our annual conference was last week, although it was 6-7
weeks ago. Oh well, the hiatus is quickly coming to an end.
Each new academic year has challenges. Some are the golden oldies of campus safety and security, what
I call the standard board of fair; from the complexities of move-in to staffing requirements of the many
activities and special events that are scheduled.
Those of us who have been in “le business” for five, ten, fifteen or more years have seen a steady growth
of our responsibilities. HOWEVER, with the new “requirements” of both Clery and Title IX, the business
has seriously taken on a new dimension. Speaking of the GROWTH of our collective responsibilities and
duties, very few in our profession have seen a GROWTH of administrative staff.
For the most part I’ve never met a Director or Chief that had all the foot soldiers we’d like. We have and
will continue to get the job done in creative ways (overtime, hiring temp staff for major events, et cetera).
However, the “administrative” side is another issue. Many of my colleagues are fortunate to have an assistant or some other “#2”, an assistant, associate, captain, et cetera. However, if the #2’s are anything like
the #1’s (Directors’ or Chiefs), they are also stretched to the max. Add to the equation, that both are in an
“exempt” status* the 40 hour week is, to be kind, NON EXISTENT.
Clery and Title IX were keystones at our annual conference. This information/training is also being “advertised” via the WEB, other professional organizations and soon to be found on the inside of match books
covers (that is something for our older members). The new and improved Clery and Title IX requirements
are monsters that need to be fed and are going to eat your time. However, “woe be” to the responsible
person when the “Greeting and Salutations” letter** from the Department of Education falls on your President’s desk. (** ask a male baby boomer what that comes from). All of the sudden, the question gets
asked “who’s got this” and your name is jotted at the bottom of the letter with a note to “give me a call”.
BOTTOM LINE: We are stretched already. The new and improved Clery and Title IX are extensive. Responsibility is high and the consequences are great; professionally, institutionally and most importantly,
personally. The Clery and Title IX is a job unto itself. The requirements REQUIRE the utmost attention and
dedication of resources and cannot be listed on a job description along with 25-35 other “duties”.
GOAL: A designated, full time “Clery/Title IX” compliance administrator. Placement on the organizational
chart is also of critical importance to show its importance and priority.
*”Because of their duties, responsibilities, and salaries, employees in exempt jobs are not covered by the
overtime provision of the FLSA. “Exempt” is not a title, but a legal classification.”
Jim
Jim
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NECUSA Officers & Members of the
Board of Directors for 2013-2014
NECUSA
Mission Statement
The mission of NECUSA is to provide
information, training resources,
and assistance in maintaining a
safe and secure environment that
enhances the educational process,
and supports its membership in the
pursuit of higher education.
In This Issue:
Editor’s Message..................... 3
President’s Message................ 4
Board Members...................... 6
Treasurer’s Message................ 8
James J. Bonner, Jr., President
Life Member
Director of Public Safety (Ret.)
Arcadia University
450 South Easton Road
Glenside, PA 19038-3295
(610) 832-1330
[email protected]
Cindy Burger, Vice President
Director of Safety and Dispatch Services
Messiah College
1 College Avenue, Suite 3026
Granthan, PA 17027-7027
(717) 691-6005 Fax (717) 796-5206
[email protected]
John F. McAloon III, Treasurer
Security Operations Manager
Princeton Theological Seminary
64 Mercer Street
Princeton, NJ 08540
(609) 252-2108 Office
(609) 430-0282 Fax
[email protected]
News “Clips”........................ 13
Sheep, Wolves and
Sheepdogs.......................... 14
Conference Attendees........... 20
Membership Application...... 26
Award Winners..................... 27
David Meyer, Secretary
Director of Public Safety
Wesleyan University
208 High Street
Middletown, CT 06459-0208
(860) 685-2809 Fax (860) 685-2346
[email protected]
Conference Pictures.............. 28
John T. Gildard, Director-At-Large
Director of Safety and Security
Marist College
3399 North Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845) 471-1822 Fax (845) 575-3366
[email protected]
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NECUSA Officers & Members of the
Board of Directors for 2013-2014
Bill Lafferty, Director-At-Large
Gettysburg College
Associate Dean of College Life
Executive Director of Public Safety
300 N. Washington Street
Campus Box 399
Gettysburg, PA 17325
(717) 337-6912 Fax (717) 337-6945
[email protected]
Larry Britt, Director-At-Large
Associate Director of Campus Safety
Skidmore Campus Safety Department
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
(518) 580-5567 Fax (518) 580-5565
[email protected]
Donald Reichling, Director-At-Large
Administrative Captain
Princeton University
200 Elm Drive
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 258-9701
[email protected]
Amanda M. Guthorn, Director-At-Large
(formerly Warman)
Director of Campus Safety/Adjunct Faculty
Keene State College
229 Main Street
Keene, NH 03435-3701
(603) 358-2766 / 24-hour Dispatch (603) 358-2228
[email protected]
Timon Linn, Life Member Representative
Chief, St. John’s College
Campus Police and Security
PO Box 2800
Annapolis, MD 21404-2800
(410) 626-2533 Fax (410) 626-2885
[email protected]
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about our Members to pass on to
the Association. We are interested
in promotions, job changes, births,
passings, interesting personal
endeavors or other information to
publish in The Clipboard. Please
submit your news to either Larry
Britt at [email protected] or
John Gildard at john.gildard@
marist.edu.
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Message from the Treasurer
John McAloon, Treasurer
Hello, Everyone!
As you can see by the abbreviated Treasures report that was presented at the
membership meeting in June, we remain fiscally strong. Membership invoices
(dues) for 2014 continue to roll in and we are in the process of closing out the
books on our 2014 conference. Although the numbers have not been finalized
yet we are well on the road to being very close to our income goal for this
tears conference. We are currently projecting about an $8,000.00 profit but
final numbers will be forth coming.
We have seen a slight down turn in membership and conference attendance/support. You can all assist us
with this by reaching out to colleges and vendors to not just support our events but to becoming partners
with our organization.
Stay safe and have a good move in.
John McAloon III, MS
Treasurer, NECUSA
Security Operations Manager
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, NJ 08542
[email protected]
(609) 252-2108 (office)
(609)430-0282 (fax)
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TREASURER’S REPORT 2014
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TREASURER’S
REPORT
2014
Treasure’s Report
2014
Gettysburg 2013
Conference Financial Report
–Expenses
$47,668
–Total Income
$50,230
–Profit
$2,562
•Spent $8,941 more in 2013 than 2012
•Largest losses in Membership ($5,710), Vendors ($4,400)
•Largest changes Entertainment ($1,445) and Equipment rental
($3,097) meals ($4,168)
2014 Professional Development
–Cost
$800.00
–Total Income
$0
–Profit
($800)
There were only 5 registered attendees for the 2014 Winter PD
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TREASURER’S REPORT 2014
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20142014
2014 Operating Budget Year to Date
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The next Professional Development training will take place on November 14, 2014 in Albany, New York. We will have two training tracks; one for line officers and one for supervisors.
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From the Book . . . On Combat by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
ON SHEEP, WOLVES AND SHEEPDOGS
“Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally,
about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high
cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as
always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending?What is worth dying
for? What is worth living for?”
- William J. Bennett
In a lecture to the United States Naval Academy’ November 24, 1997
One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me: “Most of the people in our society are
sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident.” This is
true. Remember, the murder rate is six per 100,000 per year, and the aggravated assault rate is four per
1,000 per year. What this means is that the vast majority of Americans are not inclined to hurt one another.
Some estimates say that two million Americans are victims of violent crimes every year, a tragic, staggering
number, perhaps an all-time record rate of violent crime. But there are almost 300 million Americans, which
means that the odds of being a victim of violent crime is considerably less than one in a hundred on any given
year. Furthermore, since many violent crimes are committed by repeat offenders, the actual number of violent
citizens is considerably less than two million.
Thus there is a paradox, and we must grasp both ends of the situation: We may well be in the most violent
times in history, but violence is still remarkably rare. This is because most citizens are kind, decent people
who are not capable of hurting each other, except by accident or under extreme provocation. They are sheep.
I mean nothing negative by calling them sheep. To me it is like the pretty, blue robin’s egg. Inside it is soft and
gooey but someday it will grow into something wonderful. But the egg cannot survive without its hard blue shell.
Police officers, soldiers and other warriors are like that shell, and someday the civilization they protect will grow
into something wonderful. For now, though, they need warriors to protect them from the predators.
“Then there are the wolves,” the old war veteran said, “and the wolves feed on the sheep without mercy.” Do
you believe there are wolves out there who will feed on the flock without mercy? You better believe it. There are
evil men in this world and they are capable of evil deeds. The moment you forget that or pretend it is not so, you
become a sheep. There is no safety in denial.
“Then there are sheepdogs,” he went on, “and I’m a sheepdog. I live to protect the flock and confront the wolf.”
Or, as a sign in one California law enforcement agency put it, “We intimidate those who intimidate others.”
If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen: a sheep. If you have a capacity
for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath--a wolf.
But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? Then you are a sheepdog,
a warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the
universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.
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The gift of aggression
“What goes on around you... compares little with what goes on inside you.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has been given a gift in life. Some people have a gift for science and some have a flair for art. And
warriors have been given the gift of aggression. They would no more misuse this gift than a doctor would misuse
his healing arts, but they yearn for the opportunity to use their gift to help others. These people, the ones who have
been blessed with the gift of aggression and a love for others, are our sheepdogs. These are our warriors.
One career police officer wrote to me about this after attending one of my Bulletproof Mind training sessions:
“I want to say thank you for finally shedding some light on why it is that I can do what I do. I always knew why I
did it. I love my [citizens], even the bad ones, and had a talent that I could return to my community. I just couldn’t
put my finger on why I could wade through the chaos, the gore, the sadness, if given a chance try to make it all
better, and walk right out the other side.”
Let me expand on this old soldier’s excellent model of the sheep, wolves, and sheepdogs. We know that the sheep
live in denial; that is what makes them sheep. They do not want to believe that there is evil in the world. They can
accept the fact that fires can happen, which is why they want fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire alarms and fire
exits throughout their kids’ schools. But many of them are outraged at the idea of putting an armed police officer
in their kid’s school. Our children are dozens of times more likely to be killed, and thousands of times more likely
to be seriously injured, by school violence than by school fires, but the sheep’s only response to the possibility of
violence is denial. The idea of someone coming to kill or harm their children is just too hard, so they choose the
path of denial.
The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity
for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, cannot and will not ever harm the
sheep. Any sheepdog who intentionally harms the lowliest little lamb will be punished and removed. The
world cannot work any other way, at least not in a representative democracy or a republic such as ours.
Still, the sheepdog disturbs the sheep. He is a constant reminder that there are wolves in the land. They would
prefer that he didn’t tell them where to go, or give them traffic tickets, or stand at the ready in our airports in
camouflage fatigues holding an M-16. The sheep would much rather have the sheepdog cash in his fangs, spray
paint himself white, and go, “Baa.”
Until the wolf shows up. Then the entire flock tries desperately to hide behind one lonely sheepdog. As Kipling
said in his poem about “Tommy” the British soldier:
While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind,”
But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir,” when there’s trouble in the wind,
There’s trouble in the wind, my boys, there’s trouble in the wind,
O it’s “Please to walk in front, sir,” when there’s trouble in the wind.
The students, the victims, at Columbine High School were big, tough high school students, and under ordinary
circumstances they would not have had the time of day for a police officer. They were not bad kids; they just had
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nothing to say to a cop. When the school was under attack, however, and SWAT teams were clearing the rooms
and hallways, the officers had to physically peel those clinging, sobbing kids off of them. This is how the little
lambs feel about their sheepdog when the wolf is at the door. Look at what happened after September 11, 2001,
when the wolf pounded hard on the door. Remember how America, more than ever before, felt differently about
their law enforcement officers and military personnel? Remember how many times you heard the word hero?
Understand that there is nothing morally superior about being a sheepdog; it is just what you choose to be.
Also understand that a sheepdog is a funny critter: He is always sniffing around out on the perimeter, checking
the breeze, barking at things that go bump in the night, and yearning for a righteous battle. That is, the young
sheepdogs yearn for a righteous battle. The old sheepdogs are a little older and wiser, but they move to the sound
of the guns when needed right along with the young ones.
Here is how the sheep and the sheepdog think differently. The sheep pretend the wolf will never come, but the
sheepdog lives for that day. After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in
America said, “Thank God I wasn’t on one of those planes.” The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, “Dear God, I wish
I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference.” When you are truly transformed
into a warrior and have truly invested yourself into warriorhood, you want to be there. You want to be able to
make a difference.
While there is nothing morally superior about the sheepdog, the warrior, he does have one real advantage.
Only one. He is able to survive and thrive in an environment that destroys 98 percent of the population.
There was research conducted a few years ago with individuals convicted of violent crimes. These cons were in
prison for serious, predatory acts of violence: assaults, murders and killing law enforcement officers. The vast
majority said that they specifically targeted victims by body language: slumped walk, passive behavior and lack
of awareness. They chose their victims like big cats do in Africa, when they select one out of the herd that is least
able to protect itself.
However, when there were cues given by potential victims that indicated they would not go easily,
the cons said that they would walk away. If the cons sensed that the target was a “counter-predator,”
that is, a sheepdog, they would leave him alone unless there was no other choice but to engage.
One police officer told me that he rode a commuter train to work each day. One day, as was his usual, he was
standing in the crowded car, dressed in blue jeans, T-shirt and jacket, holding onto a pole and reading a paperback.
At one of the stops, two street toughs boarded, shouting and cursing and doing every obnoxious thing possible
to intimidate the other riders. The officer continued to read his book, though he kept a watchful eye on the two
punks as they strolled along the aisle making comments to female passengers, and banging shoulders with men
as they passed.
As they approached the officer, he lowered his novel and made eye contact with them. “You got a problem,
man?” one of the IQ-challenged punks asked. “You think you’re tough, or somethin’?” the other asked, obviously
offended that this one was not shirking away from them.
“As a matter of fact, I am tough,” the officer said, calmly and with a steady gaze.
The two looked at him for a long moment, and then without saying a word, turned and moved back down the aisle
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to continue their taunting of the other passengers, the sheep.
Some people may be destined to be sheep and others might be genetically primed to be wolves or sheepdogs.
But I believe that most people can choose which one they want to be, and I’m proud to say that more and more
Americans are choosing to become sheepdogs.
Seven months after the attack on September 11, 2001, Todd Beamer was honored in his hometown of Cranbury,
New Jersey. Todd, as you recall, was the man on Flight 93 over Pennsylvania who called on his cell phone to alert
an operator from United Airlines about the hijacking. When he learned of the other three passenger planes that
had been used as weapons, Todd dropped his phone and uttered the words, “Let’s roll,” which authorities believe
was a signal to the other passengers to confront the terrorist hijackers. In one hour, a transformation occurred
among the passengers--athletes, business people and parents--from sheep to sheepdogs and together they fought
the wolves, ultimately saving an unknown number of lives on the ground.
“Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself after that?”
“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Here is the point I like to emphasize, especially to the thousands of police officers and soldiers I speak to each
year. In nature the sheep, real sheep, are born as sheep. Sheepdogs are born that way, and so are wolves. They
didn’t have a choice. But you are not a critter. As a human being, you can be whatever you want to be. It is a
conscious, moral decision.
If you want to be a sheep, then you can be a sheep and that is okay, but you must understand the price you pay.
When the wolf comes, you and your loved ones are going to die if there is not a sheepdog there to protect you.
If you want to be a wolf, you can be one, but the sheepdogs are going to hunt you down and you will never have
rest, safety, trust or love. But if you want to be a sheepdog and walk the warrior’s path, then you must make a
conscious and moral decision every day to dedicate, equip and prepare yourself to thrive in that toxic, corrosive
moment when the wolf comes knocking at the door.
For example, many officers carry their weapons in church. They are well concealed in ankle holsters, shoulder
holsters or inside-the-belt holsters tucked into the small of their backs. Anytime you go to some form of religious
service, there is a very good chance that a police officer in your congregation is carrying. You will never know if
there is such an individual in your place of worship, until the wolf appears to slaughter you and your loved ones.
I was training a group of police officers in Texas, and during the break, one officer asked his friend if he carried his
weapon in church. The other cop replied, “I will never be caught without my gun in church.” I asked why he felt
so strongly about this, and he told me about a police officer he knew who was at a church massacre in Ft. Worth,
Texas, in 1999. In that incident, a mentally deranged individual came into the church and opened fire, gunning
down 14 people. He said that officer believed he could have saved every life that day if he had been carrying his
gun. His own son was shot, and all he could do was throw himself on the boy’s body and wait to die. That cop
looked me in the eye and said, “Do you have any idea how hard it would be to live with yourself after that?”
Some individuals would be horrified if they knew this police officer was carrying a weapon in church. They might
call him paranoid and would probably scorn him. Yet these same individuals would be enraged and would call for
“heads to roll” if they found out that the airbags in their cars were defective, or that the fire extinguisher and fire
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sprinklers in their kids’ school did not work. They can accept the fact that fires and traffic accidents can happen
and that there must be safeguards against them. Their only response to the wolf, though, is denial, and all too often
their response to the sheepdog is scorn and disdain. But the sheepdog quietly asks himself, “Do you have any idea
how hard it would be to live with yourself if your loved ones were attacked and killed, and you had to stand there
helplessly because you were unprepared for that day?”
The warrior must cleanse denial from his thinking. Coach Bob Lindsey, a renowned law enforcement trainer, says
that warriors must practice “when/then” thinking, not “if/when.” Instead of saying, “If it happens then I will take
action,” the warrior says, “When it happens then I will be ready.”
It is denial that turns people into sheep. Sheep are psychologically destroyed by combat because their only defense
is denial, which is counterproductive and destructive, resulting in fear, helplessness and horror when the wolf
shows up.
Denial kills you twice. It kills you once, at your moment of truth when you are not physically prepared: You didn’t
bring your gun; you didn’t train. Your only defense was wishful thinking. Hope is not a strategy. Denial kills you
a second time because even if you do physically survive, you are psychologically shattered by fear, helplessness,
horror and shame at your moment of truth.
Chuck Yeager, the famous test pilot and first man to fly faster than the speed of sound, says that he knew he could
die. There was no denial for him. He did not allow himself the luxury of denial. This acceptance of reality can
cause fear, but it is a healthy, controlled fear that will keep you alive:
“I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about
my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always
alert in the cockpit.”
Brigadier General Chuck Yeager
Yeager, An Autobiography
Gavin de Becker puts it like this in Fear Less, his superb post-9/11 book, which should be required reading for
anyone trying to come to terms with our current world situation:
“..denial can be seductive, but it has an insidious side effect. For all the peace of mind deniers
think they get by saying it isn’t so, the fall they take when faced with new violence is all the more
unsettling. Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme, a contract written entirely in small print, for in
the long run, the denying person knows the truth on some level.”
And so the warrior must strive to confront denial in all aspects of his life, and prepare himself for the day when
evil comes.
If you are a warrior who is legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then
you become a sheep, pretending that the bad man will not come today. No one can be “on” 24/7 for a lifetime.
Everyone needs down time. But if you are authorized to carry a weapon, and you walk outside without it, just take
a deep breath, and say this to yourself... “Baa.”
This business of being a sheep or a sheepdog is not a yes-no dichotomy. It is not an all-or-nothing, either-or
choice. It is a matter of degrees, a continuum. On one end is an abject, head-in-the-grass sheep and on the other
end is the ultimate warrior. Few people exist completely on one end or the other. Most of us live somewhere in
between. Since 9-11 almost everyone in America took a step up that continuum, away from denial. The sheep
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From the Book . . . On Combat by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
took a few steps toward accepting and appreciating their warriors, and the warriors started taking their job more
seriously. The degree to which you move up that continuum, away from sheephood and denial, is the degree to
which you and your loved ones will survive, physically and psychologically at your moment of truth.
BIOGRAPHY: LIEUTENANT COLONEL DAVE GROSSMAN
LT. COL. DAVE GROSSMAN, U.S. Army (Ret.) Director, Warrior Science
Group, www.killology.com: Member, American Board for Certification in
Homeland Security; Member, American College of Forensic Examiners Institute
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier, and
speaker who is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of human aggression
and the roots of violence and violent crime.
Col. Grossman is a former West Point psychology professor, Professor of Military
Science, and an Army Ranger who has combined his experiences to become the
founder of a new field of scientific endeavor, which has been termed “killology.” In this new field Col. Grossman
has made revolutionary new contributions to our understanding of killing in war, the psychological costs of war,
the root causes of the current “virus” of violent crime that is raging around the world, and the process of healing
the victims of violence, in war and peace. He has presented papers before the national conventions of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the
American Academy of Pediatrics.
He has presented to over 100 different colleges and universities worldwide, and has trained educators and law
enforcement professionals, in the field of school safety, at the state and regional level, in all 50 states and over a
dozen foreign nations.
He helped train mental health professionals after the Jonesboro school shootings, and he was also involved in
counseling or court cases in the aftermath of the Paducah, Springfield, Littleton, Virginia Tech, and Nickel Mines
Amish school shootings.
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Skidmore College
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AWARD WINNERS
Robert Bunker Award for Outstanding Performance - Officer Robert Pierce,
Skidmore College
Off. Pierce responded to a medical call in a campus lab for a student feeling faint. The student did
not feel she needed transport to the hospital and was escorted to her residence hall by of the officer.
About an hour later, still not feeling well, the student went to the hospital and was treated and
released 2 hours later. The following day, Off. Pierce went to check in on her at the beginning of his
evening shift. The desk attendant call ahead and the student said she could not get out of bed. When
Off. Pierce arrived at her apartment, he found her in her room soaked in blood. She was transported
(L-R) Off. Robert Pierce and Associate Director Lawrence Britt, Skidmore, Amanda
to the hospital for emergency treatment which included receiving 8 units of blood. The student’s
Guthorn, Awards Committee Chair
physician called Off. Peirce the following day to let him know if he had not found her, she would
have bled to death in a matter of hours.
Robert Bunker Award for Outstanding Performance - Sgt. Brendan Bosquet,
Officers Audrey Dunne, Charlie Smith and Diane Steves, Keene State College
Sgt. Bosquet and Off. Dunne were the first on the scene when a College employee was electrocuted by
a downed power line at the Keene State College athletic complex. Off. Smith dispatched Off. Steeves
to the area in addition to fire, police and EMS. As the incident continued and a brush fire ignited, the
officers on the scene maintained the perimeter, keeping numerous pedestrians and onlookers away
from the worker’s body and the power line which was in an area saturated with snowmelt and recent
heavy rains. Off. Smith coordinated radio and phone communications including numerous calls from
the media ensuring contacts and responses were tracked.
(L-R) Officers Charlie Smith and Audrey
Dunn, Sgt. Brendan Bosquet. Standing,
Director Amanda Guthorn, Keens State and
Awards Committee Chair. Not pictured:
Diane Steves
Lawrence W. Joy Award for Outstanding Service - Alan Stormann, University
of Maine
(L-R) Alan Stormin, Amanda Guthorn,
Awards Committee Chair
Police officer for 32 years, attaining the rank of Major. Has been the Director of Parking Services
and Security at UMaine for the last 5 years. Alan has been a loyal member of NECUSA for over 25
years, served on the Board of Directors for 4 years, published articles for the NECUSA Clipboard and
has volunteered his services to assist the NECUSA Board preparing for conferences. This is the same
willingness to help he displays in his every day activities at the University of Maine. Alan has served
as a loyal ambassador for NECUSA over the years.
The Inaugural Presentation of The Judy Jackson Award for Exemplary
Performance - Chief Judy Jackson, Springfield College.
Two nominations were received, one from John Mailhot, Senior VP, Finance and Administration and
Springfield College and the other from Amanda Guthorn, Director of Campus Safety at Keene State
College
Chief Jackson served as Chief of Police at Springfield College for 40 years and has been in law
enforcement for 42 years. Retiring in June 2014, “the Chief” as she is affectionately known, transformed
a small fledgling security department in a 15 person police department with an additional security staff
(L-R) L. Judy Jackson, Amanda Guthorn,
of 30. The Chief also oversees emergency medical services, transportation and SC’s Respite Program Awards Committee Chair
which she developed to provide medical monitoring and care for intoxicated students not incapacitate
to the extent of protective custody of transport to an emergency room. Most recently, the Chief successfully transitioned her command
and police staff to armed status after a 25 year process.
In the campus law enforcement community in New England and beyond, the Chief has mentored numerous professionals in a field that
is demanding and many times, unforgiving. Her honesty, straightforward style and integrity have been a model for others.
(NOTE – This award was previously known as the Award for Exemplary Performance and was renamed in honor of Chief Jackson after a unanimous vote of
the NECUSA Board.)
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BOAT CRUISE
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NECUSA’s 61ST ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Two Civil War Veterans Standing by the Statue of General John Sedgwick at West Point
The Hudson River as Seen Looking North from West Point
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