There are many people in today’s society who undergo many horrible experiences and are able to overcome the hard trials that are placed in front of them and there are those who collapse and make irrational decisions. Over the past couple of decades there has been a number of incidents where individuals decide to seek justice and take it into their own hands by taking both random people and significant others hostage. While some people argue that no sympathy should be given to people who take innocent civilians hostage, there are also those who disagree. Regardless of one’s point of view, it is very clear that people are being held captive against their own will.
There are two types of ways that individuals can be held against their own will, hostage and non-hostage. A hostage incident is one of the more common ways that people in today’s society may know. A hostage incident can be defined as someone who holds others in order to gain something that will provide the hostage taker leverage (McMains, 2010). The second type of incident known as a non-hostage incident is when an individual acts out of emotions, takes someone hostage, does not want authorities involved, and usually makes irregular demands that only the hostage taker would understand. Although both of these incidents happen quite often, I will be giving an example of a non- hostage incident and breaking it down as if I were the negotiator.
I have been called onto a scene regarding a hostage taker, Bradley, who is holding a professor and nine students captive along with his wife, Susan, who Bradley suspects of having an affair with the college professor. After several of attempts to connect to someone in the classroom where the crisis is taking place a student answers the ...
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...ess and effectiveness in the plan that they have drawn up. It can also allow them to make modifications if necessary.
In conclusion, there are many ways that a crisis can be handled and ways that it can go depending on the negotiators responses to the demands that are made or if the hostage taker becomes agitated or frustrated. As I have shown in some of the examples above on what effects allowing the consumption of alcohol can have on the crisis. So perhaps future generations will look back and not so much focus how to quickly resolve a crisis incident but rather give the negotiator time to reach a peaceful resolution.
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