Left of Bang Academy

Learning new skills requires practice. Public safety and homeland security professionals need a safe place to develop their situational awareness abilities and hone their decision-making. Affordable and asynchronous access to the tools, resources, and exercise shouldn’t be a challenge that professionals face in their jobs.

The “Left of Bang Academy” is where subscribers can develop expertise in behavioral assessments, master the process of establishing baselines, and put into practice the observations taught in the book Left of Bang and Tactical Analysis Course.

Active Threat Response Articles

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Articles that provide guidance and lessons learned for public safety professionals developing active threat response and recovery articles.

• Comprehensive Planning for Active Threat Incidents

Practice Exercises

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Where professionals pursue mastery in the science of reading behavior, establishing baselines, and getting left of bang.

Baselining Exercises

Exercises that put the hasty and deliberate search into action.

• Conduct A Hasty Search In An Outdoor Mall

• Personas At The Movie Theater

• Making Time Slow Down In The Hasty Search

• Personas In A Doctor's Office

• Communication Exercise: How To Use Real Life Events – Part 1

• Communication Exercise: How To Use Real Life Events – Part 2

• A Practice Video – A Robbery In A Mall Food Court

Assessing Individual People

Exercises that deepen your file folders for assessing people as being in the Dominant, Submissive, Uncomfortable, and Comfortable Clusters.

• Assessing Dominance in the Airport

• Distinguishing Between Comfort and Discomfort

• Identifying Discomfort While Waiting In Line

• Being Aware Of the Stressors You Provide To Others

• Identifying Triggers To The Escalating Intensity of Behavior

• Exercise: Assessing Individual People Using a Bottom-Up Analysis

• Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 1

• Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 2

• Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 3

• Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 4

• Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 5

• Reading Behavior In Conversation: Part 6

• Behavior of the Boston Marathon Bomber

• Who Is Aware Of Their Surroundings - Uncovering Good Guys And Bad Guys

Assessing Groups of People

Exercises to practice assessing and identifying the four relationships observed in groups: intimate, personal, social, and public in real settings.

• Assessing Groups in the Airport

• Assessing Group Dynamics During A Conversation

• Assessing Groups In Emergency Conditions

• Assessing Groups and Mapping An Organization

• Close Proximity Limits Reaction Time

Assessing the Environment

Exercises to better understand whether the area you are observing is a habitual area or an anchor point.

• Identifying The Criteria For An Anchor Point

• Mapping A Restaurant

• Identifying Anchor Points and Insiders With Violent Intent

• Identifying people who are familiar and unfamiliar with their surroundings

Exclusive Content

Articles reserved for Left Of Bang Academy subscribers.

• Hand-to-Hand Combat and The Danger of Entering Condition Red

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