A good book to read on threat assessment is Johnathan Giiliam’s. Sheep No More. Remember no one hunts deer in the mall. Take stock of your surroundings always. South east Asia taught a lot of us viet nam era types age isn’t a measuring stick for killing.
I am reading an excellent book titled: “The Gift of Fear”.
The negative about the book was apparent to me in the first chapter when the author compared homicide rates in the USA (the most ethnically and racially diverse country in the world) to homicide rates in Japan (one of the most homogeneous countries,large or small in the world)
He makes that comparison while talking about violent crime and its usually unconscious detection in advance by our “intuition”.
There is other good information in it, though.
The basic premise is that we deny our intuition and prefer logic, but our intuition is among the most finely tuned aspects of our minds.
The author gave an interesting example: We value a dog’s intuition over our own. He talks about a woman who had a contractor come to give an estimate on a job, and her dog growled at the guy the entire time. She found out later the estimates he gave her were dishonest, but said to the author “I should have known...my dog is a good judge of people, and he didn’t like the guy, growling at him.”
The author told her that her dog certainly knew nothing about contracting practices or charlatans, but her dog was most definitely an astute observer of her, and was picking up on her dislike of the guy and his process that she didn’t even realize she was feeling, much less transmitting in any way that her dog could pick up on.
Thanks for the book recommendation.
L