138 Larry Forletta - An Amazing Insight Into School Shootings

Transcript:                    David Brower:  Thanks Allan. This is David Brower with Your 20 Minute Podcast. Our special guest today is Larry Forletta, investigative security consultant. Larry's comprised a team of experts with over 100 years of combined investigative experience and many of their team members have been trained entire law enforcement agencies, government officials, members of the U.S. military, on and on and on. Quite an operation you have there sir. How are you Larry? Larry Forletta:              Thanks David, and thanks for inviting me to your show today. David Brower:              You bet. Good to have you here. Some of the things that you ... First of all, you provide a private investigator service and I assume you have clients all over the country, all over the world? How's your business spread out? Larry Forletta:              Yeah. Well most of our business is literally throughout the United States and we have some overseas components that we've been involved with. A lot of it comes back through my background. As you know, I'm a former DEA agent, Drug Enforcement Administration. My law enforcement background was as a DEA agent and of course my experience training the Maryland State Police, with a combined total time of close to 30 years of training and experience. David Brower:              Fantastic. How long has your business been rolling? Larry Forletta:              Now my business is about 12 years old now. We started in October of 2006 when I retired from DEA, and we've been going pretty steady ever since. David Brower:              Good for you. Good for you. Folks, there's a lot of things here and you can look on the website. It's fcisllc.com. Everything from due diligence and surveillance, handwriting analysis, intellectual property protection, workplace investigations, drug investigations, polygraph exams, background checks, skip tracing, holy buckets, document analysis, law enforcement administrative procedures, and child custody. I mean you got a lot of bases covered here for people's needs. Larry Forletta:              Yeah, we purposely did that because we wanted to become like a one stop shop where we could offer a variety of services through a collective team effort. Obviously nobody can ever be successful without the group that you work with, and that's been my motto since I started my law enforcement career, working with others. Once you've worked with others, then you become successful. That's how a lot of our investigations become successful because of working with others. David Brower:              Well and I would think the other people that you are teamed with, first and foremost, have to be on the same page with you as far as how things are conducted and operated and all that, but it has to be like the highest integrity possible for this kind of work. Larry Forletta:              Oh, there's no question. The group that I associate myself with are all former professionals, whether they were in law enforcement, or the military, or government. So yeah, we strive on integrity. That's the key to our success because without integrity you have no investigation. David Brower:              Absolutely right. Yeah, and to have this going for 12 years just in and of itself speaks highly of your integrity and your ability to help folks out. One of the things that we hear about way too much is security in schools, and school shootings, and those kinds of things, risk assessment. You get involved in those kinds of conversations? Larry Forletta:              Yes I have. I've actually done some risk assessments for some local school districts some time ago as well as some other areas where we have come in and placed our recommendations on the security measures that should be in place. So yeah, we do that. David Brower:              Nice. You're able to do that anywhere in the country really? Larry Forletta:              Yeah. I mean basically we can go anywhere where the client has a need. ...