by Dr. Gary S. Aumiller<\/span><\/p>\n Enough is enough!\u00a0 In fourteen days, there has been a wholesale killing of people in a concert in Manchester, at a tourist site in England, and a guy with a hammer attacking people in Paris, in the shadow of the Cathedral of Notre Dame.\u00a0 My wife said after the second attack that our 10-year old will never be able to visit Europe like we did without thinking about danger.\u00a0 She\u2019s at the age where she would be at an Ariana Grande concert and we would have taken her there.\u00a0 And we certainly have been on the London Bridge when we were in London and at the Basilica when we were in Paris.\u00a0 These sites are only about 200 miles apart.\u00a0 It\u2019s like 3 attacks from New York to Baltimore, or San Francisco to Fresno, or Miami to Orlando.\u00a0 How do we Stop the Murder!<\/span><\/p>\n Obviously, allowing Sharia courts of law (the UK has at least 85) and setting up their own government is not going to help terrorism.\u00a0 Allowing open borders doesn\u2019t seem to help terrorism, circa 2017.\u00a0 And constantly repeating statements like \u201cwe are all immigrants\u201d does not help terrorism.\u00a0 What is the secret, and where do we go from here?\u00a0 I mean other groups have assimilated into American culture.\u00a0 I can\u2019t remember a story about an Amish person killing people or knocking down a building.\u00a0 The European Jews, Chinese, French, and Italians seem to have assimilated well, sometimes even into their own separate neighborhoods.\u00a0 As far as home grown, Mormon religions are non-violent, as are the Jehovah\u2019s Witness.\u00a0 They may be annoying proselytizers, but really we can shut a door on them without worrying about being blown up.\u00a0 \u00a0What is the difference and can police psychology<\/u> help us understand how to handle this new terrorism better?<\/span><\/p>\n I go back to an article I co-authored<\/a> with the Australian terrorism expert Dr. Geoff Dean.\u00a0 We said you have to consider mental health as important factor, the abuse of women, the type of extreme thought, radicalization, and being disenfranchised and disengaged.\u00a0 It would seem that true vetting would take these items into consideration.\u00a0 But the big consideration that needs to be evaluated is the attitude of the people in a country and of the immigrant attitude.\u00a0 When people go to any country, they need to see that there are set rules and laws that the country operates under. \u00a0\u00a0If you don\u2019t respect the rules you shouldn\u2019t be let in.\u00a0 If you lose respect for those rules, you should be let out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We have laws against making threats against others.\u00a0 When someone has the means to follow through on the threat and it causes fear, it is called a criminal threat.\u00a0 The person\u2019s lawyer will argue that it is a first amendment \u201cright\u201d and it is just words, but most states have a criminal threat law and it definitely is not a \u201cright.\u201d\u00a0 If an immigrant is found guilty of making a criminal threat, they can be deported.\u00a0 If they are found guilty<\/em><\/strong> and the court acts the way it should.\u00a0 It frequently doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 (Imagine someone making a threat to blow up the White House to get rid of a certain president on National TV and nothing happened other than a little criticism \u2014 couldn\u2019t happen right?<\/em>).\u00a0 The question becomes more what happens when someone knows about a criminal threat and doesn\u2019t report it. \u00a0This is where the law is more shaky.<\/span><\/p>\n Many say you don\u2019t have to report if you know of a crime to be permitted or having been committed.\u00a0 Again, it can easily be argued away by a good attorney.\u00a0 This has to change in my opinion.\u00a0 It is interesting that in New York, psychologists are mandated reporters if there is a child abuse situation, or an elder abuse situation, but if someone threatens to blow up Madison Square Garden full of little girls, I can just walk away (I wouldn\u2019t by the way).\u00a0 \u00a0That doesn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0 We need to establish with our own citizens a mandated reporter sensibility.\u00a0 Have a well-publicized hotline for criminal threats (not just the local police department), and let\u2019s put some serious limits on what people see as acceptable.\u00a0 It should be a crime to not report a criminal threat.\u00a0 People should not use their judgement as to whether it is a viable threat, particularly if it is a family member.\u00a0 That\u2019s what juries are for.\u00a0 That much is plain and simple.<\/span><\/p>\n Regarding immigrants, it should be a felony and deportable crime to know of someone making criminal threats and not reporting it.\u00a0 Every immigrant or refugee should know that is the rule in this country, there is no Sharia law here.\u00a0 When this attitude is communicated and understood, and becomes part of the culture, we will be much better off.\u00a0 Police psychology could help in this area.\u00a0 When Donald Trump or his speech writer wrote \u201cDrive them out of your places of worship. Drive them out of your communities. Drive them out of your holy land, and drive them out of this earth.\u201d\u00a0 That is the attitude of reporting that we need to have in every neighborhood, whether it is Christian, Muslim or Amish.<\/span><\/p>\n I know a few Muslims, Americans and otherwise, and frankly they are very patriotic and stand fast with America and with me as a Christian friend.\u00a0 With some, I have different political beliefs but we respect the others right to stand strong with their beliefs.\u00a0 I find it interesting none of my Muslim friends called for a Facebook ban on anyone that voted for Clinton or Trump.\u00a0 Many of my other friends eliminated people by who they voted for.\u00a0 If some of the craziness doesn\u2019t stop in America with the constant political news, made up stories and halting of government tasks, we are not going to be giving the right message to anyone.\u00a0 Both sides are extreme, and yet we are critical of extremism with ISIS.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at ourselves first.\u00a0 Maybe this will finally get us working together at least on the few things we agree upon.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Site Administrator:\u00a0 Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D. ABPP<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Please share this article from down below.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Please join the email list on the top of the sidebar and you can get these sent to your email.\u00a0 Also follow me on Twitter (https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThinBlueMind<\/a>) for other articles and ideas, and YouTube at\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfjNw0510ipr3bX587IvAHg<\/a> .<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police Psychology:\u00a0 Stop the Murder! by Dr. Gary S. 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