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
Dr. Anne Nassauer explains that 98% of school shooters had easy access to guns and their family culture valued firearms as a primary leisure and bonding activity.| 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
Pediatrics: This study explored changes in general handgun carrying, in-school carrying, favorable attitudes toward handgun carrying in school, and ease of handgun access among Florida adolescents.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
While prepping for the new school year, are substitute teachers getting the same training as full-time teachers on emergency procedures?| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Office Seth Capps from Mineola ISD discusses responding to the historic floods in Kerr County and updates on implementing the state-mandated armed school guardian programs in Texas.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Panic buttons, emergency notification apps, VOIP radios, CCTV cameras, attack drones, and all types of school security systems depend on having a wifi signal to operate.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Dr. Dewey Cornell, a forensic clinical psychologist, explains how the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines started and evolved over the last 25 years.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
There is no profile for a mass shooter. Some are loners, some are very socially connected. Some fail out of school, others are straight A students. Some are tiny, others are athletes.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
345 Park Ave is a high-end commercial high-rise with CCTV, lobby security, and access cards. But layered security (Swiss Cheese Model) only reduces risk if each layer is effective.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
New sortable spreadsheet makes it easy to search for specific experts and topics on the 'Back to School Shootings' podcast.| School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports
Robert Chappell from Madison 365 was the first reporter at his kid's school when an 'active shooter' was killed by police. Six months later, he was at the Abundant Life school shooting in Madison.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos using data analysis to understand and prevent gun violence at schools. This research uses the K-12 School Shooting Database, the most comprehensive and widely cited source of information on this topic. Click to read School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports, by David Riedman, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| k12ssdb.substack.com
Discussed how this attack follows the same pattern as hundreds of other school shootings since the 1960s and public policy solutions for preventing the next one.| 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