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In 1996, the Secret Service interviewed Russell Weston after he made paranoid accusations about President Clinton. While they found that he had a history of mental problems, had access to weapons, and held many bizarre delusions, their assessment concluded that he posed no immediate threat to the president. This proved to be an accurate prediction for their situation at the time, but it did not apply to other potential targets for Weston as time progressed. Two years later, he shot his way into the U.S. Capitol Building, killing two Capitol Police officers and wounding a tourist.

In the end, MAPP does four very important things: it documents the issues that were evaluated or considered in your case, it informs and confirms your intuition, it prepares a comprehensive report written in language non-experts can understand, and it provides on-going interactive training. When you are tasked with the protection of public figures, no other aspect of a security program is more important than accurately assessing and managing safety hazards. Due to the high stakes of violence by individuals, accurate threat assessments are more needed now than at any time in our history.

Figure 1: The Template Cells (4 of the 40+ Areas of Inquiry in MAPP)

Figure 2: Detailed Cell View.

Figure 3: Resource Material

Figure 4: Video Library

Figure 5: All Questions View

Figure 6: Preparing Final Report

Figure 7: Finished Report View

The Development Team, MOSAIC for Assessment of Public-figure Pursuit (MAPP)

Gavin de Becker

Captain Robert J. Martin
served 28 years with the Los Angeles Police Department before becoming Vice President of Gavin de Becker & Associates. During his law enforcement career Captain Martin served as Commanding Officer of a number of specialized detective divisions, including Commanding Officer of Detective Headquarters Division. In 1990, he founded the LAPD's Threat Management Unit, the first of its kind in the nation and is a founding member of the Association of Threat Assessment Professionals. Captain Martin pioneered the first police use of the MOSAIC system used for evaluating threats to public figures, and became a lead developer for all of the systems that followed.

Lieutenant Thomas A. Taylor

Sergeant Stephen W. Weston, Esq.
is a 23-year veteran of California law enforcement. Since 1991, he has been the supervisor of a specialized unit with the California Highway Patrol, which is responsible for the investigation of threats against California State officials and judges. This unit assesses inappropriate contact with state officials to determine the approach/threat capability of the involved individual and intervenes when necessary.

Andrew L. Vita
was the Assistant Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms until his retirement in 2000. Mr. Vita has 30 years of law enforcement experience from criminal investigator through the executive level. He directed all field and headquarter activity/personnel to implement the mission of ATF. In 2001, he became Executive Vice President of Armor Holdings, Incorporated.

Frederick S. "Ted" Calhoun
has written four books on various aspects of threat management. During the 1990s, he served as the principal architect in designing the threat management process used by the United States Marshals Service in protecting federal jurists. More recently, Mr. Calhoun helped craft the architectural courthouse security guidelines for Ontario, Canada, courthouses and designed the process for conducting building threat assessments on Ontario courts. Mr. Calhoun is also the national Program Manager for the Transportation Security Administration's Workplace Violence Prevention Program.

Chief James A. Perrotti
has been a member of the Yale University Police Department since 1973 serving in the capacity of Patrol Officer, Detective, Sergeant, Commander, Assistant Chief, and now Chief of Police. Chief Perrotti possesses a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice, and is a graduate of the New Haven Police Academy and the FBI National Academy. Chief Perrotti is responsible for managing a full service police agency of 80 sworn officers and 20 civilian staff. He has been a MOSAIC user since 1994.

Dr. James McGee
was the Director of Psychology and Director of Law Enforcement and Forensic Services at Sheppard Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is Chief Psychologist of the Baltimore County Police Department and he directs the Critical Incident Response Program for the Maryland State Police. Dr. McGee is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Basic and Advanced Hostage Negotiations Training Program and he is a special consultant to the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group.

Stephen R. Morrow
was the Director of National Investigations and lead the Bank One Corporation's Violence-Free Workplace Committee, composed of representatives from the Corporate Legal, Corporate Human Resources and Corporate Security departments. He was instrumental in designing and implementing the Violence-Free Workplace Program for Bank One Corporation, which has 92,000 employees and over 2000 locations nationwide. Since the inception of the Program, Mr. Morrow directed the response to hundred's of situations involving potential violence in the workplace. He is now with JP Morgan-Chase.

Anthony Stanley
is a member of the Security Operations Center for the Central Intelligence Agency.

Special Agent William Zimmerman
is a key member of the threat assessment unit of the United States Capitol Police.

Matthew D. Slatoff
is a Project Manager in the MOSAIC Threat Assessment Systems & Advanced Training division of Gavin de Becker & Associates. He has assisted with the development of the MOSAIC for the Assessment of Domestic Violence for the State of California (CAL-DV), MOSAIC for the Assessment of School Violence (MAST and MAST-U) and MOSAIC for the Assessment of Violence in the Workplace (MAT-W). Mr. Slatoff is currently Director of Gavin de Becker & Associates' Threat Assessment and Management Division.

Appendix 14

Advantages of Private Aircraft Over Commercial Aircraft

Declaration Regarding Benefits of Private Air Travel

Gavin de Becker, being duly sworn, declares and says:

1. For thirty years, I have been a consultant on the prediction of violence and prevention of violence. My services are provided through Gavin de Becker & Associates, a two-hundred-and-fifty person firm. My office advises clients on the assessment and management of situations that may pose a hazard to their safety or privacy. As a consultant to many major media figures, government agencies, and Fortune-500 companies, I have overseen the assessment and management of more than 36,000 cases of inappropriate pursuit. My firm maintains the world's largest library of threatening and obsessive communications, consisting of more than 400,000 pieces of material.

2. My book
The Gift of Fear
addresses violence and safety in America. It spent five months on the New York Times bestseller list. In 2008, the book was featured on an hour-long Oprah Winfrey Show celebrating the tenth anniversary of its publication. My second book,
Protecting the Gift,
is about protecting children from violence. My most recent book is
FEAR LESS: Real Truth About Risk, Safety, and Security in a Time of Terrorism.
These books are now published in fourteen languages. I have written introductions for several books, including
To Have or to Harm,
the first major book on stalking. In addition to contributing chapters written for many other books, I have written several dozen papers related to safety and the predictions of violence, and I have had more than thirty articles published on related subjects.