I incorporated the business and changed the name to Advantage Source, Inc.

I had a police sergeant tell me a story about a drunk driver who had run over a five year old child. With tears in his eyes even 20 years later he told me how this drunk was beating the dead child's mangled remains for ruining his life. I heard that story many years ago and even though I didn't see it for myself the memory is as if I had seen it myself.

In 1996 I produced a film called Community Policing the Citizen’s Role.  It is about how to report suspicious activity and why.  It is a big seller and has been used by thousands of law enforcement agencies around the world to teach people the proper way to report crimes.

This film was another big success with law enforcement. I guess it was because I always tried to make law enforcement look good. I discovered that most people felt the same way. Much like we feel about our military and how necessary they are. As a people, I think we don't really like the concept of war and killing but realize that it is part of life and as I always said, we really need someone who is willing to kick in a door not knowing what is on the other side.

In 1996 I also produced Community Policing the Block Captain’s Role.  It taught people how manage a block watch group. This is really popular with community watch programs because all you have to do is loan it out to someone, give them a Block Captain’s Handbook and bam you have a block captain who knows how to set up a program and keep a neighborhood or small community safe and crime resistant.

In 1996 I also produced a small series called Zero Tolerance which deals with workplace violence prevention and then I produced Workplace Violence, Dealing with a National Epidemic. These three films really give people a reason to do something about workplace violence and shows them how they can do something about it. To make it, I flew in a group of experts who had all the answers. Bill Farber from Alaska, Branch Walton from the Secret Service, Al Ward from Washington, Paula Baron, Esquire from Portland and several others who all participated in the development of this important film. These people were experts in the field and all offered solutions to violence in the workplace. These films are all strongly indorsed by workplace violence experts from all parts of the US .

The films found their way to Jurg W. Mattman, CPP the Cofounder and Executive Director of the Workplace Violence Research Institute. They reviewed the films and found them to be excellent and highly recommended them.

This series was so successful that the Centers of Disease, Control and Prevention invited me to teach a track at National Violence Prevention Conference in Des Moines , IA. Of course I went and taught. It was there that I met a very nice man from Brown County Wisconsin named Don Chalmers who is an Oneida American Indian. He told me about his tribe and how they cherish their youth. It gave me an idea for another film and/or book. More on that later.

I was also invited to present Community Watch to a joint crime prevention Officer’s conference for the states or Oregon , Washington , Idaho and Montana . There were several hundred officers there. (I had established a good working relationship with Bill Farber. He asked me to teach Community Watch with him to law enforcement agencies. I agreed thinking it would be interesting and a good way to promote Community Watch.). We had an hour to present the Community Watch workshop we had designed. We divided up the time equally and he spoke first.

He did a wonderful job. He was smooth and confident with his presentation. When my turn came, my heart was in my throat. I was terrified and felt totally intimidated but had no place to go so I said I may as well get it done so I could get the heck out of there. I began a little shaky - as I was talking, I was screaming in my head for help - but I persisted. There was a time when I totally forgot what I was supposed to say next. I froze for at least ten seconds but finally decided to finish with a story of the Poly Klaas presentation. When the presentation was finally over, I left the podium and went off stage and met Bill at the base of the stage. I told him what a great job he did and I told him how scared I was. He told me that he thought he had done poor job and that I was the one who seemed so comfortable. Then one of the officers walked up to Bill and me and said that we gave one of the best presentation he had seen and he especially liked the pause I inserted in the speech at the exact spot to made much more dramatic. This became a very valuable lesson for me.

Bill and I went on to teach classes across the western half of the US . The three day class taught people how to set up a Community Watch program. We had a lot of fun, always got rave reviews and we made many friends. Those were some more good old days.

In the summer of 1996, I also produced a little film about bicycle safety for kids. It was called Andy’s Bicycle Safety Video. It was a simple strategy of having a kid who was a little older teach the younger ones about bicycle safety. Not brain surgery just a simple film teaching the basics. We all know that as children we don't really look to, nor can we relate to adults. But we look up to the kids that are a couple of years ahead of us. This was a really big hit and we got orders from Canada and Singapore and other places. We received a couple of awards for the film.

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