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WELCOME TO THE CRISIS INTERVENTION SECTION!
WE ARE WORKING ON NEW AND EXCITING THINGS FOR OUR MEMBERS. PLEASE STAY TUNED!
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where it will take you.”
FBI Special Supervisory Agent and Hostage Negotiator Dwayne Fuselier
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Dear Readers:
Core to a sound negotiation strategy is the “what-if” -- the team’s best guess as to what will happen next and how to plan for it. But it’s the ones they never thought of that have provided some of the transforming moments in the history of crisis negotiations.
In this Special Law Enforcement Issue, Crisis Intervention News looks at three what-if’s from FBI incidents and how negotiators strategized around them. Included is a rare look at notes from one negotiator’s diary.
Some of the moments are almost surreal. Two occurred on a spring day in Montana, a little more than a decade ago, after Edwin Clark and the Freemen declared themselves a sovereign people and seceded from the United States. Dwayne Fuselier was there. A retired FBI negotiator involved in every major FBI hostage incident but one, Fuselier tells us about it in our special feature, “The Rest of the Story.” The third moment took place during a negotiation with the last two members of the Texas Seven, when a Colorado Springs PD negotiator used his active listening skills to turn the standoff into a peaceful surrender.Another feature highlights a new element in school violence, a profile nicknamed the Classroom Avenger by the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group. Before the shooting at Columbine, a profile of violent incidents in schools showed that they tended to occur suddenly and spontaneously, in an inner city school, in a struggle over drugs, money or gang membership. The incidents perpetrated by the Classroom Avenger are disturbingly different: meticulously planned over a long period of time, the killing is not about drugs or money, but about self-esteem, humiliation, and revenge.
For this reason, we were pleased to obtain an interview with Det. Lt. James Maher, Commanding Officer of the Suffolk County (NY) Hostage Negotiation Team, who, in addition to fulltime hostage negotiation work, takes time to educate school officials in the dynamics of the Classroom Avenger. In this issue, we learn some of the indicators to watch for, and some of the guidelines for hostage negotiators who work in this fragile, explosive scenario.
Lynne Kinnucan
Immediate Past Chair
Past Editor, Crisis Intervention News
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