Rape, robbery, burglary, thefts, and safety concerns are addressed in the risk analysis and security audit. The audit gives the owner direction of what are the challenges that need addressing and what it a reasonable standard of care. The risk analysis also serves to put the owner on notice as to defects in the building or staff. However, if the owner can show that reasonable steps were made to correct defects, they have greatly enhanced the defensibility in a case. If several tenants have been robbed or attacked in a parking lot or building lobby, further criminal incidents can be considered foreseeable, and thus preventable.
Legal liability increases dramatically if no action is made to correct the defect.
The expert in security and safety can provide a risk analysis or security threat analysis to assess the vulnerability, foreseeability, and precedent of crime or accident incidents. In reviewing cases from around the United States the courts have examined many different facts and issues. Items might include the working order of lights, doors, locks, fences, closed circuit television, and intercoms. The adequacy of the security delivery system to detect, delay, or deter criminals. Foreseeability and adequacy are the overall measure by which security legal cases are usually judged.