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.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Thoma Bravo (private equity firm with $130B in managed assets) is planning to divest Raptor Technologies, its Houston-based school safety software platform, for $2 billion.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
School principals George Roberts and Andy McGill share their experiences and best practices for recovering from shootings on campus.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
For three years, the Texas Department of Public Safety has pushed a false narrative blaming a teacher for leaving a door open that allowed the Uvalde school shooter to enter the building.| k12ssdb.substack.com
When are 'red flags' actual warnings that someone is going to commit a mass shooting? Astrophysics explains why this answer is impossible to know.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
In cybersecurity, an attack surface is the total set of points (hardware, software, and human) that an attacker can use to try to gain unauthorized access to a system.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
The school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota is another act of violence connected to TCC (true crime community), online hate groups, and idolization of prior mass shooters.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Live interview on The News Junkie daily radio show about the school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Three professors explain their paper 'The New Social Roots of School Shootings: A Refined Constellation Theory of Rampage Attacks'.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Josh Novick, a licensed professional counselor and trauma specialist, explains how parents can (and should) have conversations with their children about the school shooting in Minnesota today.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Two students were killed and 17 students were wounded when a man with a rifle, shotgun, and handgun opened fire during morning mass at a suburban k-8 school in the Twin Cities.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Fake 911 calls intended cause a police response for a school shooting are called "swatting". The best way to stop this problem is for the police to get smart and stop responding to obvious hoaxes.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
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
