Babin Introduces the Threat Assessment Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act

Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Today Congressman Brian Babin (TX-36) introduced the Threat Assessment Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act (H.R. 6664). The TAPS Act goes beyond political rhetoric to provide a national strategy to keep communities safe from targeted violence.

Whether its a shooting stabbing bombing or other example of predatory violence mass causality events are occurring too often. These horrific tragedies are impacting our nation indiscriminately. Americans want solutions and I believe we found one" said Babin. Threat assessment and management is the process of identifying investigating assessing and mitigating threats and has been used successfully to protect our president and other prominent figures for decades. Unfortunately its not well known or utilized on a state and local level. The TAPS Act aims to bridge the gap and train local law enforcement and others on how to use this process. This is about connecting the dots before an attack occurs because once the first shot is fired its too late we have failed."

The TAPS Act creates a task force of experts in this field who will assist in the creation of a national strategy to prevent targeted violence through threat assessment and management. This will provide resources training and assistance in establishing and operating locally driven threat assessment and management units. Preventing these tragic events is a matter of national security and with the TAPS Act federal state and local law enforcement will be able to act quickly and work together to help save lives.   To view the full bill language click here.