Peace Point™ System
Pending Trademark of Carl “Wes” Carico

Peace Point™
System

The only objectively scorable breach-of-peace framework in the vehicle recovery industry — operationalizing UCC §9-609 for field use, expert analysis, and litigation.

The Framework

Observable Conditions.
Numeric Scores.
Defined Protocols.

The Peace Point™ System converts the abstract legal requirement of “without breach of the peace” into observable conditions with defined point values and mandatory thresholds. It moves the industry from “I know it when I see it” to “here is the score.”

That shift — from intuition to measurement — is the central contribution of this work. And because the system is grounded in a commercially published work, it carries evidentiary weight that an internal policy cannot match. Courts, counsel, and regulators can access and evaluate the standard independently of any engagement or testimony with Wes.

The complete scoring model and methodology are published in Peace Under Pressure: Operationalizing UCC §9-609 with the Peace Point™ System, and in the Peace Point Field Agent Guide.

Peace Under Pressure on Amazon ↗
The Scoring Model
+1
Entry

Agent crosses onto private property to access the vehicle. Entire parcel counts. Public street = 0 pts.

+1
Obj-Entry / Obj-Recovery

Objection to the agent's presence on the property, or objection to the vehicle being taken. Two distinct categories; both score +1.

+1
Spotlight Condition (each)

Environmental risk flag: Authority Presence, Physical Barrier, Elevated-Risk Environment, or Emotionally Charged Location.

+2
Crowd Formation

Multiple individuals gathering with loss of environmental control mid-encounter. Separate tier from Spotlight Conditions. One event = +2.

+4
Automatic Stop

Violence, verbal threat, weapon visible or referenced (verbal reference sufficient), entrapment, intentional property damage, LEO order to stop, consumer medical emergency.

2 Points = Mandatory Stop. No exceptions, no judgment calls, no overrides. Cool-off: points × 30 min, company-wide. Automatic Stop: 24 hrs minimum + written clearance.

For Attorneys & Courts

The Evidentiary
Weight of a
Published Standard

When a breach-of-peace claim is filed and the question becomes “what standard was the organization applying?” — the answer isn't “we have a policy.” The answer is: “We train to the Peace Point™ System as published in Peace Under Pressure. Here is the book. Here is the training record. Here is the SOR from the recovery in question.”

A commercially published standard establishes several things an internal policy cannot: independent existence (it existed before the case), public accountability (it can be evaluated by any party), intellectual rigor (it was formally published), and citeability (courts, regulators, and opposing counsel can reference it directly).

Wes is the architect of this system and the expert who testifies about breach-of-peace conduct in court — which means the framework was built to the evidentiary standard it will eventually be measured against.

Expert Witness Services
Completion Standard & Documentation
Completion Standard

A repossession is complete when all wheels of the collateral have left the property that was entered for recovery. Not hooked, not lifted — all wheels off the property entered. This property-rights-centric standard defines when the breach-of-peace evaluation window closes.

Write Like a Camera

Every SOR entry must describe what a camera would have captured — bservable facts, neutral language, exact quotes. No opinions or character assessments. Documentation is contemporaneous — created at the scene or immediately upon departure, establishing evidentiary weight that reconstructed records cannot.

Peace Point Full System: The complete scoring model, spotlight conditions, automatic stop triggers, cool-off protocols, documentation standards, and certification framework are detailed at ucc9609.com and in the published books. Full System Reference — ucc9609.com →
Published Foundation

Formalized in
Two Books

The Peace Point™ System is published in two books available directly on Amazon — independently accessible to courts, counsel, regulators, and any party evaluating the standard.

Peace Point™ and Peace Point System™ are pending trademarks of Carl “Wes” Carico.

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