I'm former FBI Assistant Director, Frank Figuzy.

Join me on a journey deep inside the world's premier law enforcement agency

to decode the mysteries and challenges of today's FBI.

The threats facing America are as real as the men and women who battle to protect us.

In this first-of-a-kind podcast, we sit down with active-duty FBI personnel who reveal their mission,

their cases, and their lives. Let's go inside

the Bureau with Frank Figuzy.

Parkland, El Paso, Vegas. Listening right now, someone may have some deep concerns about a coworker, a neighbor, even a family member.

These offenders, as they plan, prepare, and consider for their attack, don't do that in a vacuum.

What makes violent people tick?

A sense of growing desperation or hopelessness.

And you feel certain that something bad would have happened but for that intervention.

If they've never done an attack before, they're going to have to learn how to do it.

To get inside the heads of those who do this.

What's driving this particular person down that pathway?

Our guest today is John Wyman, chief of the FBI's Behavioral Assessment Center.

He'll take us behind the scenes into the research and the lessons learned from studying some of the most tragic acts of mass violence in America.

From school shootings and loan offenders to international and domestic terrorists,

the FBI's threat assessment experts work to assess the violence that's already happened

so they can stop the violence that may lie ahead.

John, thanks for joining us.

Thank you, Frank. Thanks for having me.

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