Perspectives on threat management.

This article describes Calhoun and Weston’s blue-collar approach to threat management. It defines seven concepts for an effective threat management program, including identifying hunters versus howlers, situation need to knows, situation dynamics and intervention synergy, and ways to avoid bunkers, silos, and myopic management strategies. The article also details 10 guidelines drawn from the authors’ experiences managing both hunters and howlers. It looks back over the last 25 years to offer advice to the next generation about the profession’s future after achieving professionalization.