Cj407 Crisis Management Assignment

CJ407: Crisis Management
Prof. Matthew Tobias
Unit 5 Assignment
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The case of Bradley has a background which is getting more and more common in this day and age. The country as a whole created a major stigma for service members seeking help in the years that followed the Vietnam conflict and it has taken until the last decade or so to begin to turn that around. When considering options for how to treat this scenario, it must remain present in your mind that Bradley and his wife should have been involved in counseling for a long time now, but they haven't been. So there will be issues that need to be worked out but cannot be done right now. With that in mind, it's important to focus on what can be accomplished. Namely, disarming Bradley,
It will evolve and turn one way or the other depending on the actions of the negotiator and assault team. I think that the nine other students are not being held for any sort of leverage by Bradley, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. As for the Professor and Bradley's wife, I believe he is holding them there because he's upset and feels that they need to explain to him what is going on. With proper counseling, the Professor doesn't need to be there either, but Bradley isn't a proper counselor and so does not realize that yet. Bradley is right in the middle of the Crisis stage. Maybe this morning he was still in Pre-Crisis, but now he has stepped through that threshold and created a situation he can't hope to get out of on his own. At this point he needs to be escorted to the Negotiation/Stabilization phase to calm him down and get a peaceful resolution to this
Bradley is at a very dangerous place right now, if he feels like he is being betrayed again, he could regress to the Crisis stage, by leaving the two people he was upset with in there, it would allow him to feel like he is still running a portion of the show. The other nine students had nothing to do with any of it, he doesn't need them. I think that whoever made the call to assault a barricaded suspect who has only been speaking with the negotiator for about three hours has seen too many movies and needs to calm down. That's a terrible idea. At this point, the negotiator has some rapport with the suspect, things are calm, no one has been hurt and Bradley has even said he doesn't want to hurt anyone. I think with a little more time, he could be talked into surrendering peacefully. He has already exhibited a desire to do so, we just need to find the common ground to meet him on to make it