Why It Matters
Active shooter incidents by location category, 2025
Houses of worship saw the fewest incidents of any category and by far the most casualties in each one. Low chance, high cost, which is the definition of what insurance is for. Source: FBI, Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2025.
67%
of house of worship attacks in 2025 were interrupted by people already on site, the highest of any location type.
FBI, Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2025
2:59
average police response, dispatch to arrival. The attack at Annunciation church lasted about two minutes.
FBI, Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2025
0
active shooter incidents in New Jersey between 2021 and 2025. This is insurance, not alarm.
FBI, Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2025
Who This Is For
A congregation cannot screen everyone who walks in, and should not want to. The work is staying open and being ready at the same time.
Coverage for regular services and for the days when attendance doubles without warning.
Congregations carrying a heightened threat level, and often already working through federal security grant paperwork.
You already have members watching the doors. We train them, and we cover the parts no volunteer should be asked to handle.
High holy days, holiday services, funerals, and weddings, when the building is fullest and least familiar.
What We Cover
We walk your building during an actual service, because a sanctuary at 10am on a Sunday is a different building than an empty one on a Tuesday.
Which doors stay open, who is watching them once the service starts, and where an unfamiliar face goes unnoticed.
What the members you have can reasonably do, what they should never be asked to do, and where the gap between those two sits.
Holidays, funerals, and weddings, when attendance, parking, and the crowd itself all stop matching a normal week.
Process
Call or request a consultation. You speak with us directly, and the conversation stays confidential.
We come during a real service and watch how the building actually works when it is full.
You get what we found and what we recommend on paper, in a form you can take to your board or committee.
Officers arrive briefed on your congregation and your team, present without changing how the room feels.
Questions
The questions people actually search before they bring security to a board meeting.
There is no single requirement that covers every congregation. What matters in practice is that the people doing it are trained for what they will actually face, that everyone knows who does what, and that your insurance carrier and leadership have signed off on the arrangement. We will tell you where your current setup sits and what is missing.
Many do, and many also fund part of it through federal nonprofit security grants intended for faith communities at risk. Those programs run on their own application cycles and change year to year, so confirm the current round before you plan around it. We can tell you what we see other congregations doing.
Some does and some does not. Plenty of congregations start with unarmed, trained presence and never go further. Others want an armed officer for specific services. It is a decision for your leadership, and we will give you an honest recommendation rather than pushing you toward the larger contract.
That is the real concern behind most of these conversations, and it is a fair one. A detail that makes your members feel watched has failed at the job. Our officers are briefed to be present and unobtrusive, and for many congregations the right answer is coverage that most members never consciously notice.
Yes, and it is usually the better starting point. Your volunteers know the congregation and recognize who belongs, which no outside officer can do on day one. We train them, define what they handle and what they hand off, and cover the rest.
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