WORCESTER, Mass. - The director of the criminal justice department at Anna Maria College, John Colautti, joined Spectrum News 1 to share some insight on the response from federal agencies following the attempted assassination of former President Trump.

Colautti is a local professor 30 years of law enforcement and private security experience, including playing an instrumental role in the federal management of the case involving the Boston Marathon bombing.

John, thanks for joining us today. As we continue to learn about the 20-year-old shooter and Saturday’s events, what does the investigation look like?

“Well, when you look at the incident in general, they're going to do a complete case overview of both the pre-incident planning of what occurred prior to the event, what resources were in place, what resources did they have, the deployment of those resources," Colautti said. "And then they'll actually look at the actions of that day. And when we talk about the actions of that day, we're talking both from the macro level, where the resources were deployed and what did they have as far as assets on the ground, as well as the micro level to the individual officers at specific posts.”

When events like this happen, does the investigation become the top priority for the agencies involved?

“Well, absolutely. When you have a national incident such as this, we could look back even locally for the marathon case, it rises immediately to the top," Colautti said. "It's the top tier of the cake that they'll be focusing a lot of their assets and attention to. And because of that, they will do a thorough job in order to alleviate any aspect of speculation. So, with that, simple questions that may be easily answered, they will go painstakingly through to verify the accuracy of information. Even though it may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, it may play an important role. So, these things take a considerable amount of time.”

There continues to be a lot of discussion over the political tensions in the U.S. As we move toward the election, does the aftermath of this weekend become part of the investigation; or moving forward, is the work of these agencies to keep a finger on the pulse of what’s going on?

“It's really the work moving forward. You know, the attempt on President Trump is over from that. It becomes, you know, a post-incident review and that is one aspect of it," Colautti said. "But from law enforcement, the other concern is, well, we're three and a half months away from an election process. There's going to be a lot of political campaigning events. How is this being interpreted by people who are willing to use violence that have an extremist view on either side of the political party? Is this going to be a triggering event for other groups out there, far-right groups or other extremist groups out there to kind of see this as a call to action? And I think that is something, you know, that law enforcement really needs to be attentive to nowadays. That is the problem that's before them and it's going to remain before them for the next three and a half months. And depending on how the election is interpreted by the masses thereafter, and I think monitoring social media is becoming - it’s always been a priority - but I think it becomes more of a heightened priority because that's something the necessary to kind of be ahead of the game.”

John, thank you for your insight and once again thank you for joining us today.