SDSU’S HOMELAND SECURITY PROGRAM DEVELOPS PROGRAM TO STOP ACTIVE SHOOTERS

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Source:  Press release, SDSU Homeland Security graduate program

September 24, 2016 (San Diego) -- What can be done to stop active shooter incidents such as the one at the Washington Mall this week?  Two San Diegans who recently graduated from San Diego State University’s Homeland Security Program, have developed an innovative mobile app solution for preventing, mitigating and responding to active shooter situations. The Active Shooter Identification (ASI) application has the ability to detect a gunshot that supersedes 125 decibels.

Once ASI has detected a gunshot it relays the user’s and assailant’s geo-spatial information to law enforcement personnel. The application also has a feature called “See Something, Say Something”, which allows users to report suspicious behavior or events to members of the ASI team as well as law enforcement.

The creators of the app, Michael Owen and Casey Eaton, are on a mission to quickly put an end to active shooter events.

 “Our app has the ability to detect active shooter events from millions of smartphones anywhere in the world in real-time, and also provides comprehensive training to students, teachers, and staff,” said Owen. The ASI app provides lifesaving mitigation techniques and immediate contact with law enforcement that could save lives during an active shooter event.”

Michael and Casey recently graduated from SDSU where they both received their Masters degrees in Homeland Security.

“During horrifying active shooter incidents like the ones we have recently seen happening around the country - seconds count to save lives, while a law enforcement response may be minutes away,” said Dr. Lance Larson, Assistant Director of San Diego State University’s Graduate Program in Homeland Security.

Owen and Eaton pursued their passion for stifling active-shooter events by creating a student thesis project at SDSU that directly analyzes, as well as deconstructs active-shooter events. The pair utilized the Proactive Response Against Youth-violence (P.R.A.Y) counter-active shooter model as the primary driving force for what is now the ASI app.

During their thesis project, Owen and Eaton collaborated with Dan Gatti, Managing Partner of Innovative Capital Ventures and Director of the start-up company SnappThings in an effort to formulate a product that directly targets the dynamic active shooter situations of today. The ASI app is now available for Android and IPhone.

About the developers

Michael Owen is the co-founder of Fidelity Security Solutions, LLC. and VETality Corp. His team of combat Veterans, with a combined 25 years of military experience, created a comprehensive curricula called P.R.A.Y or (Proactive Response Against Youth-violence), referred to now as ASI (Active Shooter Identification).  This course was designed to prevent, mitigate and respond to the overwhelming amount of active shooter events occurring in society today. (michael.owen@vetalitycorp.com, (727) 771-5182)

Casey Eaton, Is the Director of Funding Acquisitions for the VETality Corporation, as well as the CTO for Fidelity Security Solutions.  Casey is also the Co-Founder of the ASI (Active-Shooter Identification System).  

Dan Gatti is Managing Partner of Innovative Capital Ventures and Director of SnappThings. Dan has been involved in technology for over 40 years as CEO of several Silicon Valley companies and also serves as Executive Director of both the Big Data IoT Forum and Health Cloud Solutions.

Isaac Eteminan is CEO and Founder of Snapp Things. Isaac is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience as a proven technology executive. Prior to Snapp Things, Isaac was a Vice President at Qualcomm, Chipset Division. Before Qualcomm, Isaac was founder, CEO of Qualphone, a Technology Company providing Core Embedded IP Multimedia System and related media systems. Qualphone was eventually acquired by Qualcomm.

About the SDSU graduate program in Homeland Security

The Graduate Program in Homeland Security (http://hsec.sdsu.edu) at San Diego State University’s mission is to produce leaders from a variety of educational and professional backgrounds, who can effectively and efficiently identify, design, and mobilize the appropriate community resources to prevent, deter, preempt, defend against, and respond to terrorist attacks and/or other critical incidents and emergencies on the local, regional, national and international levels.  The first of its kind in the United States, the program has graduated over 800 Masters recipients into professions as diverse as federal law enforcement, the intelligence community, emergency management, humanitarian response, and cyber security. (Lance Larson, llarson@mail.sdsu.edu, 949-682-8804).


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Comments

But, of course...

...not a peep about "shall issue" Conceal Carry Licenses so that a good person with a gun can stop a bad person with a gun. The ironic thing in this article is that it admits "seconds" count and law enforcement may be "minutes" away. It's abundantly clear that liberals simply do NOT want us to protect ourselves.