"An urgent read that illuminates real possibility for change."
-John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood For
the first time, a story about the specialized teams of forensic
psychologists, FBI agents, and other experts who are successfully
stopping mass shootings-a hopeful, myth-busting narrative built on
new details of infamous attacks, never-before-told accounts from
perpetrators and survivors, and real-time immersion in confidential
threat cases, casting a whole new light on how to solve an ongoing
national crisis. It's time to go beyond all the thoughts and
prayers, misguided blame on mental illness, and dug-in disputes
over the Second Amendment. Through meticulous reporting and
panoramic storytelling, award-winning journalist Mark Follman
chronicles the decades-long search for identifiable profiles of
mass shooters and brings readers inside a groundbreaking method for
preventing devastating attacks. The emerging field of behavioral
threat assessment, with its synergy of mental health and law
enforcement expertise, focuses on circumstances and behaviors
leading up to planned acts of violence-warning signs that offer a
chance for constructive intervention before it's too late.
Beginning with the pioneering study in the late 1970s of
"criminally insane" assassins and the stalking behaviors discovered
after the murder of John Lennon and the shooting of Ronald Reagan
in the early 1980s, Follman traces how the field of behavioral
threat assessment first grew out of Secret Service investigations
and FBI serial-killer hunting. Soon to be revolutionized after the
tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech, and expanded further
after Sandy Hook and Parkland, the method is used increasingly
today to thwart attacks brewing within American communities. As
Follman examines threat-assessment work throughout the country, he
goes inside the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit and immerses
in an Oregon school district's innovative violence-prevention
program, the first such comprehensive system to prioritize helping
kids and avoid relying on punitive measures. With its focus
squarely on progress, the story delves into consequential tragedies
and others averted, revealing the dangers of cultural
misunderstanding and media sensationalism along the way.
Ultimately, Follman shows how the nation could adopt the techniques
of behavioral threat assessment more broadly, with powerful
potential to save lives. Eight years in the making, Trigger Points
illuminates a way forward at a time when the failure to prevent
mass shootings has never been more costly-and the prospects for
stopping them never more promising.
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