20 Active Shooter and Active Killer Prevention Strategies

6. Effective use of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) concepts

The proper utilization of CPTED can help improve the connectivity between people, the ability for building occupants to see a potential threat in time to react to it, can improve access control and can help to make more overt physical security measures less intimidating. The greater the need for physical security measures, the greater the impact CPTED can have.