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Field briefings and practitioner guides from Eight Point Solutions: use of force, workplace violence prevention, insider threat, and physical security.

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Who Gets Paid First

The email I sent my team at 3:31 this morning, and the order the money goes out. Keep your Marines informed applies to payroll: operating costs first, the team second, the late fee last.

Kawika Rogers·Sep 8

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The Ants and the Rock: Notes From the Slowest News Week of the Year

The news is selling you ants walking toward a rock. This is the honest report instead.

Kawika Rogers·Jul 6

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Use of Force in 2026: What the Numbers Actually Show

After a record-setting 2024, the latest data points to the first nationwide drop in police killings in six years. But experts warn the picture is messier than a single headline number, and the gaps in what America counts may matter more than the count itself.

Kawika Rogers·Jun 18

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EPS Daily Brief, Saturday June 6: Decision season at SCOTUS, deadline season for regulators

Three stories for EPS subscribers: the Supreme Court's pending Wolford v. Lopez carry decision, Cal/OSHA's workplace violence rule nearing a final vote, and ATF's 34-rule reform package open for comment.

Kawika Rogers·Jun 6

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EPS Daily Brief, June 1, 2026: ATF Training Rounds, DHS PSO Awards, Tennessee Guard Rules

Three items for the week's open: ATF moves to formally clarify that training rounds aren't "ammunition," DHS awards 13 small businesses on a new armed PSO services vehicle, and Tennessee's enhanced armed guard rifle/shotgun endorsement is now in force.

Kawika Rogers·Jun 1

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Veteran-Owned and Mission-Ready: SDVOSBs in the Federal Marketplace

The federal government built deliberate pathways to direct contracting dollars to service disabled veteran owned small businesses. SDVOSB certification opens set aside and sole source opportunities, and veteran firms fit security work, but the designation gets you considered while execution gets you hired.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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Walking the Perimeter: A Practical Approach to Physical Security Assessment

A physical security assessment is not a sales tour or a checklist. It is seeing a facility the way an adversary would, through deter, detect, delay, respond, layered defense, and CPTED, matched to the real threat and budget. Most losses exploit ordinary lapses hiding in plain sight.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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The Insider Threat: Risk That Already Has a Badge

Organizations spend heavily to keep threats outside the perimeter, then hand keys and logins to thousands. The insider threat is already credentialed. Malicious, negligent, or compromised, it is countered by blending technical controls with a fair, human reporting culture, especially at departure.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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Bleeding Control Belongs in Every Security Plan

A serious bleed can turn fatal before an ambulance arrives, and the officer on scene is often the only person who can close that gap. Bleeding control, CPR, and AED skills are learnable fast and belong in every security plan as a standard, not an option.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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Fifty States, Fifty Rulebooks: Security Officer Licensing in America

There is no national security officer license, only fifty state rulebooks with different training hours, background standards, and armed carry rules, and almost no reciprocity. For multistate operators, compliance is not friction. It is a core competency that keeps officers and employers lawful.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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Your Data Is a Door: Why Digital Privacy Is Physical Security

Security teams harden fences and cameras while the most useful map to a principal’s life sits in the open: addresses, family, routines, all for sale through data brokers and open source intelligence. Digital privacy is not a separate discipline. It is the first layer of physical security.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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Workplace Violence Prevention Is a Program, Not a Poster

A policy in the handbook and a sign by the break room is not prevention. Real workplace violence prevention is a living program: understanding the four types, building a threat assessment team, creating a reporting culture, training response, and planning for the aftermath.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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Less-Lethal Tools: What They Do, What They Don't

Less lethal is not nonlethal. Chemical agents, batons, conducted energy devices, and projectile systems each stop a threat without killing, and each can kill under the wrong conditions. The professional standard is policy, training, and sober respect for what every tool does in both directions.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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Use of Force: The Legal Architecture Behind Every Decision

A force decision is made in under two seconds and then examined for two years. Knowing the legal framework, Graham, Garner, the force continuum, and the report that defends the action, before the encounter is what separates a defensible choice from a career ending one.

Kawika Rogers·May 30

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EPS Dispatch // April 14, 2026 // Hormuz Blockade Day 2

Day 46 of Operation Epic Fury: ceasefire is fraying after Islamabad talks collapsed. President Trump has ordered a US Navy blockade of Iranian ports while Tehran mines the Strait of Hormuz. DHS remains at heightened posture as soft-target risk climbs at home.

Kawika Rogers·Apr 14

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EPS Dispatch // March 30, 2026 // Operation Epic Fury Day 30

Operation Epic Fury hits Day 30 with no end state. The US has fired 850+ Tomahawks against ~90/year production. Houthis open new front against Israel as Hormuz stays closed and US gas hits $3.98/gal.

Kawika Rogers·Mar 30