Schools are using unregulated AI software to monitor CCTV for guns. When the software makes mistakes, the consequences can be deadly for students. This is the AI hype cycle and bubble at schools.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Roblox is an online playground where kids can create virtual worlds...but adults are also making content and grooming pre-teens into school shooters inside a virtual Columbine High.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
A bag of chips presents zero risk of a student being shot. Police officers pointing guns at students when AI thinks a bag of chips is a firearm creates a very real risk of a kid getting shot.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Since 1975, there have been 3 k-12 school shootings in Canada with 4+ victims compared to 111 in the United States during the same time period.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Guest host Dr. Chris Bellavita (the godfather of studying homeland security as an academic discipline) asks me the tough questions about data, policy, and research.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Eddie Aikau was the first lifeguard at Waimea Bay---one of the most dangerous beaches in Hawaii (and the entire world)---where he saved over 500 people by swimming into 40-foot waves to rescue them.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
The last 7 school shooters were all connected with the same online group that shares violent gore content, fan art idolizing prior school shooters, and encourages members to commit real-world violence| k12ssdb.substack.com
What can Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle from particle physics teach us about predicting violence at schools?| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
A police officer accidentally fired his AR-15 rifle during a school cookout. This is a predictable risk that can be eliminated with basic safety procedures, training, and policies.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Daniel Kahneman's book 'Noise' explained why human experts make different decisions with the same info. I measured this phenomenon when schools are assessing threats...and ChatGPT can help solve it.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
There have been 49 shootings (two planned attacks and two near misses) at k-12 schools since the 2025-26 school year started.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Over the weekend, a man on a boat fired at the crowd outside a dock bar and another man drove his pickup truck through the doors of a church, started shooting, and then lit the building on fire.| k12ssdb.substack.com
The FBI is being ordered to look for "trans terrorists" instead of the evidence-based warning signs of a teen in crisis based on false claims by the authors of Project 2025.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Simon Osamoh, former British police detective, counterterrorism expert, and security director at Mall of America, explains practical tips about how to survive when someone opens fire in public.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Does the threat assessment team at your school district understand the difference between groypers, furries, incels, femcels, and the deeper message behind an ironic meme?| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Allizandra Herberhold, LMSW, is a deradicalization coach and explains how online communities are grooming teens and young adults to commit real world violence.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Why are teens posting frog memes, wearing nazi patches, and using codewords like "1488" or "TJD" before they commit a school shooting?| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Why are teens posting frog memes, wearing nazi patches, and using codewords like "1488" or "TJD" before they commit a school shooting?| k12ssdb.substack.com
The 16-year-old who opened fire inside Evergreen High (CO) joined the same online group as the Abundant Life Christian and Antioch High school shooters during December (time between their attacks).| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Motivations and goals of a school shooter, an individual political assassin, and an ideologically motivated terrorist group are completely different.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
A student opened fire in the cafeteria during lunch at a mountain town high school located 30 miles outside of downtown Denver.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Connor Simpkins (class of 2025) was in kindergarten when the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting happened. He has no memory of that day but grew up in the aftermath.| k12ssdb.substack.com
90% of tech startups go bankrupt so who is responsible for services when schools have multi-year contracts for threat reporting apps, panic buttons, visitor management, or CCTV monitoring?| k12ssdb.substack.com
When the 'Friday night lights' turn on this fall, a sad reality is there will be gunfire on the gridiron at 30-40 high schools across the country. Few (if any) of these schools will have a plan.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Our findings are deafening as the data shows a huge amount of noise (variation) in how police officers assess the severity of school shooting threats.| k12ssdb.substack.com
School lockdown procedures are not based on evidence and may be more harmful than helpful during both drills and actual attacks.| k12ssdb.substack.com
We have a $176 billion federal agency dedicated to detecting and preventing terrorism in the homeland. Why aren't they being used to stop school shootings?| k12ssdb.substack.com
A 15-year-old girl opened fire inside a classroom on Monday morning in Madison, WI. This shooting follows the same patterns as hundreds of other attacks at schools.| k12ssdb.substack.com
The T word--terrorism--is rarely used following a school shooting, even when there are political motives that clearly fit the definition.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Making just one right decisions can break the chain and prevent a school shooting from happening.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Newly released information shows the Michigan State school shooter watched MSU campus tours, murder documentaries, school shooting videos…| k12ssdb.substack.com
Missing warning signs, breakdowns in communication, flawed incident command system, and not imagining multiple threat scenarios is combined with the "it will never happen here" mentality.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Missing the signals before 9/11 attacks was a "failure of imagination". Schools faces the same shortfalls when planning hasn't evolved since Columbine 25 years ago.| k12ssdb.substack.com
The 48 'active shooters' the FBI analyzed include a man who fired shots that missed cars on a highway, a shooting in the front yard of a house, and 3 people shot inside a Circle K at 3:30am.| k12ssdb.substack.com
This document is disturbing so take a second before deciding to read this. I've carefully studied a school shooter's writings because it connects with so many other issues that I research.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Groups of people make better predictions that individuals. Using the wisdom of crowds can reduce variability (noise) in decision-making.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Overview of survey questions, fictional scenarios, and methods used to measure the 'noise'--or undesirable variability in decision making--when police officers assess threats.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Part 1 of my unpublished academic journal article based on Kahneman's theory of noise and the undesirable variability in expert decision making.| k12ssdb.substack.com
