Earlier today, U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, released a statement on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a political rally on Saturday, July 13.
Scott McHugh, retired CSO at LyondellBasell Chemical Company and Faculty at Rice University, discusses the challenges security leaders face when navigating political polarization in the workplace.
The threats of violence and violence against political candidates, elected officials, election workers and voters is harmful to the democratic process and to election security.
Terrorism has emerged in the last decade as one of the most critical issues with which governments must contend, topping most Western nations’ agendas in terms of resource allocation. For example, some reports indicate the United States has spent more than one trillion dollars waging the “War on Terror” – money and resources that may have been allocated very differently in the absence of such threats.