ABSTRACT
These two forces require conducting threat assessments from two separate angles. In this context, we define assessment as the intellectual evaluation of information, including balancing what is known against what is not known. The evaluation process uses several analytical models to facilitate the mental evaluation. These models include “instinctive evaluations” conducted while continuously monitoring events and four formal assessments conducted periodically:
1. Using the Need to Knows within the context of the situation; 2. Weighing what is at stake for the subject from the subject’s point of view; 3. Applying the path to violence to ascertain if the subject is acting like a hunter; and 4. Determining if the subject is acting like a howler.
