Violent-Offenders: Be Leaders and Take Them to Court to Save Lives and Expense

Based on 95 years of data involving 320,051 patients, prisoners, students

decision makers using conventional approaches to continue, when the math and science can not only predict but arguably prevent violence? We then ask why trial lawyers and liability contract attorneys cannot help to lower this violence with increased settlements and changes in personal-general liability via yearly contracts for persons and private and public businesses. Steinlage (2020) discusses the liability for mass shootings in the American Bar Association periodical, namely the medical, funeral, mental health, property damage, cleanup, security, security upgrades and crisis management. Those liable include owners and operators of businesses and facilities where the shootings occur, event promoters, security firms, local, state, and federal law enforcement, parents, relatives and extended family of the shooter(s), employers, mental health providers, physicians, clinics, hospitals, child advocacy units, children-family services, elementary, high school special education staff, college personnel, retailers, or gun shops where the shooter acquired a weapon(s). If acquired illegally, straw purchasers, organizations that fail to report disqualifying information to authorities, anyone in a position to know of, and or intervene in the shooters plan, including friends, neighbors, partners, wives, and others, can be liable. The first, second, and third-party losses, personal injury and workers compensation elements of such events are significant. Insurers are trying to be more responsive to these risks that besiege private and public businesses where these events occur.

Foreseeability, Duty to Warn with Decades of Federal & State Appellate Cases
The courts have previously noted that mass murders may not be foreseeable. Also, courts do not impose a special duty on an employer to protect an employee. Moreover, the courts have not shown that there is a duty to warn or protect another from criminal acts. However, mass shootings are now a daily occurrence, and they are predictable. Garbarino, Zagar, et al., 2022;and Zagar, et al., 2022a;2022b; and 2022c have shown that there are 16 questions to identify spree shooters, whether in schools or in the workplace.
There are 25 federal and 59 state case law decisions affirming trial lawyers' expansion of payouts for high-risk, violent prone persons as discussed in Pope, Butcher and Seelan's 2006 publication, The MMPI, MMPI-2/A in Court regarding computer tests and machine learning equations. The MMPI is valuable in affirming homicide and mass murder conviction and violence deception. It is helpful in assessing deception, mental illness, antisocial behavior, addiction, and alcoholism. The MMPI is objective. It can show whether there is or is not a sex offender, or if that individual has characteristics of a sex offender. The MMPI is used with individuals associated with military, nuclear power, and pilots, police, disability, personal injury, and workers compensation victims. Table 1 below lists the federal and state appellate court cases in these areas: (a) affirming the use of computer tests with regard to homicidal and mass murderers; (b) validating computer tests with deception, mental illness and antisocial behavior, addiction-alcoholism, and violence; (c) demonstrating that computer tests are objective with little subjectivity; and (d) proving computer tests can disallow a sex offender accusation; (e) showing that computer tests can be used with affirming computer test use for disability, personal injury, workers compensation, and criminal cases.  Monahan (1996) showed that psychiatrists and psychologists are 30% accurate in predictions of violence among hospital patients. Clinicians are 39% precise in rating pretrial violent defendants (Sepejak, 1983). Lidz (1993) proved that clinicians correctly predicted post discharge violence among 53% of violent and 64% of the "safe" patients. In contrast, the better option, machine learning equations combine the risk scores and provide better results which yield an objective estimate of potential violence, and improve these percentages to 97% (Meehl, 1954;Underwood, 1979

A Third of a Million Persons over 95 Years Have the "7-Point Violence Profile"
There is an objective, reliable, sensitive, specific and valid "7-point violence profile" identified among a sample of 320,051 persons tested over 95 years, across 212 studies (Zagar, Varela, Busch, Garbarino, Zagar, Kovach, et al., 2019). This "7-point violence profile" includes measures of (1) violence potential, (2) deception (infrequency or lie), (3) depression, (4) psychopathic-deviance, (5) paranoid and, (6) schizophrenic thinking, and (7) alcoholism-addiction. In order to discover whether a person is in a violence-prone, one must use a machine learning equation such as the Standard Predictor of Violence Potential with 11 items for adults and 14 items for youth. This should be followed up with a computer test, the MMPI-2 with 567 items for adults, or the MMPI-A with 468 items for teens to measure deception, antisocial behavior, addiction-alcoholism, and psychopathic deviance. With a machine learning equation and the computer test, one will know whether a person has the "7-point violence profile." The computer-based assessment generates a one-page report with a clearly identified probability of violence potential. Moreover, the computer produces a ten-to-thirty-page report of detailed, information about the person's probability outcome, namely symptomatic patterns, interpersonal relations, diagnoses, and treatment considerations. With a "7-point violence profile" the individual is at high risk for homicide, domestic-terrorism-mass-murder-spree-shooting, overdosing-substance-abuse, sex-offending, and/or suicide-completion (

7a. Cases: Versace Serial Killer
The Versace killer was a businessman with an I.Q. of 147, who memorized the encyclopedia and who was a prolific liar in elementary and high school consistent with "deception." He was an individual who used many aliases and would change is appearance to be more attractive. He had a mother who suffered from chronic depression due to his father's verbal abuse, and he was rejected by his mother, father, and various rich men resulting in his withdrawal, his feelings of helplessness and hopelessness, and being traumatized by rejection, consonant with "depression." He constantly failed, dropping out of school, were unemployable, and financially poor, consistent with "depression, paranoid and schizophrenic thinking." He argued with his mother, acted in violent pornographic films, and tied his Chicago victims' hand and feet, stabbing him 20 times with a screwdriver, slitting his throat with a saw, consonant with "violence." He killed a Minnesota businessman with a hammer. He murdered two other Minnesota business persons with a gun in messy careless homicides, which is consistent with confused, disorganized, "schizophrenic thinking." He copied his father who embezzled $106,000 escaping to the Philippine Islands where his father began selling illicit drugs. He sold amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana, while also using illegal drugs consonant with "addiction-alcoholism." He had an insatiable need for drugs, kinky sex, and wealth. He stole victim's vehicles, consistent with "antisocial behavior and alcoholism-addiction." He slammed his mother against a wall dislocating her shoulder when she disowned him for being a "high-class male prostitute," consistent with "violence." He enjoyed masochistic, sadistic acts . He hammered a man to death, shot three men, slit the throat of one, and enjoyed the sheer thrill, power seeking of murder. He met Versace and was obsessed with mentioning this often to friends in eroto-mania for the man he

7b. Chicago Nurse Mass Murderer
The Chicago Nurse Mass Murderer lived with an alcoholic, criminal father (i.e., driving under the influence, forgery) learning deception and antisocial behavior. His father was often drunk, physically abusing him into depression, paranoia, and schizophrenic thinking that resulted in him repeating the eighth grade and dropping out of freshman year high school. At 12, he drank (i.e., alcoholism) and at age 13 was arrested for trespassing (i.e., antisocial behavior). After marrying, he changed his name from Lindberg, his father's name, to Speck, his mother's name, signaling deception. At age 21, he was arrested for disturbing the peace in a drunken melee (i.e., alcoholism, violence, antisocial behavior). He then raped one nurse and killed eight, serving time in prison until he died of heart disease like his biological father. This behavior pattern of the 7-point violence profile was predictable and preventable with special training, intervention, psychiatric medication, and hospitalization (Wikipedia, 2023).

7c. Chicago St. Agatha Parish Pedophile Priest
The Chicago Saint Agatha Parish pedophile priest had many Mundelein Roman Catholic Seminary sexual misconduct incidents before he was ordained and taught at St. Joseph's Niles Seminary (i.e., deception, antisocial behavior) and he had a flat affect (i.e., depression), persisting in dozens of pedophile acts as a pastor (i.e., schizophrenic thinking, violence) with young boys and males with the knowledge of the bishops and the cardinal who knowingly left him in his position until arrested, convicted, and jailed. He exhibited five of the violence profile positives. Given the 20-30% diversion rate or the 70-80% twenty-two-year failure rate of sex offender therapy, persons with this kind of profile should not have jobs in contact with youth or adult persons . Regarding seminarian and clergy screening, the senior author and Loyola and Northwestern University Neurology and Psychiatry Professor Jack Arbit, PhD have a paper trail going back to 1992 including the Chicago Archdiocese chief executive, three popes, many archbishops, bishops, and cardinals demanding computer tests-equations without success. In the past 5 years, Pope Francis has begun to change policy and canonical law but little has changed at the level of the seminaries and human resources offices within local dioceses. When trial lawyers begin to extract tens to hundreds of billions in payouts, there will be movement to computer tests and machine learning equations.

7d. Columbine School Spree Shooting Domestic Terrorists
On April 20, 1999, two teens killed 12 students and wounded 23 pupils at Columbine High located in Littleton, Colorado. The two teens had been convicted of mischief, breaking and entering, trespassing and theft for stealing several hundred dollars' worth of electronics, a felony (i.e., the antisocial behavior in the "7-point violence profile.") They were released after anger management training and community service. Both male teens dressed in black clothing and considered themselves as "outsiders". This could be interpreted as deception in the "7-point violence profile". Both teens threatened to kill another student before the school massacre and both had violent fantasies about the murder that they enacted in a video during December 1998 called "Hitmen for Hire." This is noted as violence in the "7-point violence profile". Both adolescent boys had disturbed thought processes and misused language in their journals and planned to bomb and kill people for eleven months starting in May, 1998. This is the paranoia and schizophrenic thinking in the "7-point violence profile." One of the boys staged a fake suicide after his homecoming date refused to socialize with him. Another boy described his depression and suicidal thoughts in his journals and was taking fluvoxamine, an SSRI antidepressant that was present during the autopsy. This is the depression in the "7-point violence profile." To summarize, both boys had six of the seven attributes of the "7-point violence profile." What is apparent from these cases is that each of them was predictable and preventable by utilizing computer tests and machine learning equations, and the use of empirical interventions like medications, hospitalization, anger management, mentoring, jobs, and other diversions. Only trial lawyers and liability contract professors can change this daily occurrence of mass shootings and other violence with the support of insurance brokers to ensure that computer tests and machine learning equations help find high risk, violence-prone individuals before costly massacres.
To summarize, regardless of whether it is the Versace serial killer, the Chicago nurse mass murderer, the priest pedophile, or the Columbine High domestic terrorists, school spree shooters, each exhibited early warning signs of a high risk, violence-prone person with signs of deception, mental illness, depression, paranoia, schizophrenic thinking, antisocial behavior, addiction-alcoholism and violence. In each case, interventions with medication, special education, hospitalization, and other diversions could have prevented tremendous death and expense. Furthermore, in each case, many of those with knowledge and comprehension of such warning signs, who did not act, should be held liable and justly compensate the victims' families.

Dean Strategy: Chicago Area Insurance Broker Endowed Law Professorships
Liability contract changes along with larger civil case settlements will drive the needed change so that insurance brokers need a mechanism to affect this. Endowing law professorships in trial law and liability contract law at Northwestern