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Month: November 2019

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School Safety: The Violence Project Speaks

November 25, 2019

Since the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999, education and public safety policy has emphasized situational crime prevention and law enforcement response in an effort to prevent shooting casualties. School security is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet, many of the alleged solutions to school shootings are expensive, dangerous, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General Tagged With: School shootings, school shooting, school shooter, school safety, crisis intervention, Lockdown drills, Threat Assessment

Our co-founder Jill Peterson appeared on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom

November 22, 2019

Watch her full interview with Bill Hemmer HERE. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Mass shootings

Minnesota Violence Project aims to understand mass shootings

November 20, 2019

Minnesota researchers have created a new database that seeks to help understand circumstances that contribute to mass shootings in the United States. Source: Associated Press Author: Associated Press Reprinted: New York Times, Washington Post, US News and World Report and others. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Mass shootings

St. Paul profs compiled database of U.S. mass shooters … and corresponded with six of them

November 19, 2019

A pair of St. Paul criminology professors, with the help of a federal grant, have compiled a database on “mass shooters” in America — which they believe to be the most comprehensive in academia to date. Source: Pioneer Press Author: Tad Vezner … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: mass shooters

Minnesota-made tool tracks the how and why behind mass shootings

November 19, 2019

A new database launched by Twin Cities researchers aims to help policymakers and the public understand the conditions that contribute to mass shooting incidents in the United States. Researchers with the nonpartisan Violence Project documented characteristics associated with 171 people who committed mass shootings, which was defined as shooting and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Mass shootings

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Disclaimer: This project was supported by Award No. 2018-75-CX-0023, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice.

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