Welcome to the secured podcast. I'm Mike Matranga. Today, we have Tracy, Teekay Keel, He is a independent consultant with M6 Global Defense, former chief of police for Clear Lake Shores, and, captain Patrol Captain for Galveston County Sheriff's department. He has well over thirty years of experience in the law enforcement and now has entered the physical security space and as a consultant for M6 Global. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. I got a question for you. So today, we went to a conference and we, we listened to Michelle Gay, whose daughter, Josephine, was a victim in the Sandy Hook shooting. And You know, we learned some very tragic news, some very heartfelt things, from that conference, that we pulled away being a father, being a security professional that I know that we can do better. And so, you know, with your career in law enforcement and now transitioning over to physical security space, what do you feel or what were some of the takeaways that you took from today's conference and then in then moving forward in the K-twelve security space, what do you think that we're missing? Well, I think, the the thing that jumped out at me today was And even though, that particular event at Sandy Hook, premeditated well over six months in planning, you know, the the Sandy Hook School itself had prepared themselves and their students for some type of an event trying to, you know, drill the students and what to do in an emergency. And no matter what we do, it it kinda jumps out at you that. All the planning in the world isn't gonna fix things. There's there's several components involved in school security and k twelve security that you have to address behavioral. Health is one. Police officers is a component, but it's not the answer. And I think we get locked into well, we'll just put police officers in schools or we'll harm the teachers or you know, we'll put more more protection in the event something does happen. And there's a lot of things we could do beforehand. There's there's data available to lead us to intervene, before things happen. And I think we're missing the point and we're missing the opportunity to eliminate any possibility of those things t taking place. And it's a tragedy that it's sitting right there in front of us, and we're not taking advantage of that. The data. Yeah. Right. So the data's there. We're just not sifting through that data and then processing that data to see you know, who it is that's on this what the the National Threat Assessment Center has said is is this pathway to violence. And so, you know, at M6 Global, I know that you understand the philosophy is that the foundational component is in the behavioral analysis, is breaking down those patterns of behavior. You know, I always tell people that people's lips will lie but their behaviors and actions will always tell you what their intent is. And so, you know, today's conference to me confirmed or affirmed what we're doing in the space is right by putting the foundational piece first of identifying these patterns and behaviors, in these individuals. And it's not just kids. You know, I mean, you know, violence knows no race, no boundaries. Right? Gender, whatnot, no sexuality, violence is violence. And we've seen the gamut of it in the in the United States culture, you know, dating back to even prior to Columbine. You know, you go back to the Whitman shooting in in at the University of Texas, and then and that's just one of the the ones that kinda put this level of violence on on the the radar of Americans. And and, those were things that we, you know, back in in those days in the sixties, seventies that were an anomaly. Now, you know, we're in the year twenty twenty three. We're a hundred and something days in. We have at least a hundred shootings in the United States. These have become commonplace. And so I appreciate you joining us. The comments were great, and, appreciate you joining the team. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
