RIP Conventional Information Sharing Model:

25+ Years of Failures & Hundreds of Millions in Lawsuits

  • $800M settlement for mass shooting in Las Vegas.
  • $127.5M settlement for school shooting in Parkland.
  • $27 Billion class action lawsuit filed for school shooting in Uvalde.
  • $100M lawsuit filed for school shooting St. Louis.
  • $100M lawsuits filed for two different sexual assaults in schools in Boise.
  • $40M lawsuit filed for school shooting in Newport News.
  • *(see list of lawsuits and links below)

The list goes on as lawsuits, and precedents for future lawsuits, are soaring upward.

What are the common underlying failures leading to soaring lawsuits?

The deeply flawed conventional “Information Sharing Model”.

The lawsuits and settlements that plaintiffs (victims and victims’ families) are filing and winning show pre-incident information was available BEFORE the tragedy occurred, but the information was not collected, not shared, and not acted on by existing resources.

The pre-incident information (red flags, warning signs, concerning behaviors, history of behaviors, leakage, assessments, etc.) that almost always one or more community sources observed was NOT shared with available community resources. When community resources do not see the bigger picture of concerning behaviors, they are not able to take timely and effective actions to help at-risk individuals onto a “Pathway to Prevention”.

Why is existing pre-incident information not shared?

There are many barriers including biases, egos, turf wars, confidentiality, and privacy concerns as well as silos and disconnects between departments, agencies, and third-party resources (such as HR, Security, Legal, Law Enforcement, Mental Health, Judicial, Executive Protection, and numerous others). Other barriers with conventional information sharing efforts include politics, race, religion, geopolitics, missed meetings, and many others.

For 25+ years, research data exposes thousands of examples of “Information Sharing Model” failures occurring every year. School shootings, mass shootings, politician / political attacks, terrorism, lone wolf attackers, workplace violence, domestic violence, gang violence, suicides, homicides, murder / suicides, ambushes on law enforcement, drug overdoses, sexual assaults, human trafficking, bullying, hazing, sextortion, and other incidents and tragedies where prevention failed due to information sharing failures, so proactive prevention actions were not taken.

The HUGE costs are NOT just soaring lawsuits.

Did you know the average cost of ONE HOMICIDE is $15M in taxpayer dollars? Preventing ONE incident / tragedy can deliver 10X to 40X+ ROI and save millions of dollars as well as lives, trust, reputations, and more.

Responding costs millions, prevention doesn’t.

The proven visionary model to connect Community Sources, Information, and Community Resources is the Information Collecting and Connecting Model delivered by Awareity’s First Preventers Framework.

Be a hero and lead the way in preventing and saving MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars that are spent on responding to PREVENTABLE incidents, tragedies, and soaring lawsuits.

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