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Aug 6, 2019
4 min

Domestic Abuse: Protecting Yourself in the Workplace

We had the opportunity to sit down with Gene Rugala last month to talk about school shootings, workplace violence, intimate partner violence, stalking and much more. Gene is a former FBI “Profiler” and, yes, he is just as interesting as you’d imagine a retired FBI agent to be! Here’s part two of our conversation with Gene. Let’s talk a little about domestic violence and workplace violence and what that intersection looks like. Gene: When you look at this whole issue of violence and violent crimes, reality is that violent crime in the U.S. is down in all categories on average and homicides in the workplace are down 50 percent over lasts 10 to 12 years. Most workplace homicides are related to