Delaware officials have vowed to review security for all state courthouses in the wake of the February 11 shooting at the New Castle County Courthouse in Wilmington, Del. Although it is too soon to know if the shooting will result in any concrete changes, one security analyst says the best way to keep courts safe is to identify and manage violent individuals before they reach the courthouse.
"I don’t know if there is a solution to preventing violent incidents in courthouses," said Steve Swensen, director of the Center for Judicial and Executive Security, or CJES, a St. Paul, Minn., organization that specializes in courthouse security. "We don’t want to secure our courthouses like Fort Knox, so that means incidents can happen. We need to adopt effective response strategies so that when it happens we can minimize the impact."
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