"The Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice (NIJ) today published an article discussing the NIJ-supported and publicly available Violence Project Database that identifies common traits of persons who engaged in mass shootings between 1966 and 2019..." In this article, the United States Justice Department discusses the process … [Read more...]
National Institute of Justice Funded Research Amasses Details of a Half Century of United States Mass Shootings
ALICE, America’s Most Controversial Active-Shooter Training that Teaches Kids to Fight Back, Saved Dozens of Lives in Oxford HS Attack, CEO Claims
"If it’s an insider going through all of that with everybody else, with all of that information, then that approach just stops making a lot of sense,” Peterson said. “But that also opens up all of these new avenues where you can say, ‘Hey, it’s a kid in this school who is going to do this. How do we make sure, as a school, that none of these kids … [Read more...]
CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown
In light of the Oxford High School mass shooting, Dr. Jillian Peterson discusses how active shooting drills within schools are not working and can potentially provide a "blueprint" for perpetrators for more attacks. Watch here Source: CNN … [Read more...]
Training, ubiquitous in era of school shootings, appears to have saved lives in Oxford
"... The most effective approach might not feel like security at all, Densley said. He suggests schools hire more counselors, reduce class sizes and otherwise work to connect to students who may be emotionally troubled. “Those things don’t feel like school safety but actually they are,” he said. “It’s a hard sell..." The following article … [Read more...]
What This Week’s Mass Shooting Can Teach Us About School Safety
“We have really failed this generation of kids. Basically we’ve put this problem on their backs. We’ve said you need to go through active shooter drills and metal detectors and have police in your schools in order to feel safe, because we’ve failed to act on other things that would keep guns out of schools in the first place,” said James Densley, a … [Read more...]