The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/school-shootings/)
A sheriff’s sergeant fired for sitting in his car and failing to react while a gunman slaughtered students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School should be reinstated, an arbitrator ruled. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office contends that the ruling was erroneous.
Police in Los Angeles arrested a 13-year-old boy who allegedly threatened to shoot students at his middle school and seized an assault-style rifle with a high-capacity magazine during a search of his house. Other teens have been arrested since a California school shooting Nov. 14.
The 16-year-old student who shot five fellow high school students before shooting himself used a .45-caliber pistol that he was too young to have bought legally.
A Secret Service examination of gun and knife attacks in schools from 2008 to 2017 found that most schools had security measures in place, but that those alone could not stop the violence. Nearly all attackers had signaled their intent in advance without triggering reports to authorities.
Traumatized students are more anxious, depressed, and they avoid going to school, according to documents obtained by Politico following shootings in Florida and Texas last year. The phenomenon is confirmed by experts who study the aftermath of mass shootings.
Since the Parkland school massacre, Florida allows teachers to be armed, but only seven of 67 county school districts, most in rural areas, have endorsed the idea.
Gov. John Bel Edwards created the Blue Ribbon School Safety Commission, which suggested implementing the technology. Edwards says the goal is to increase response time in the event of a shooting, fire, or other health or safety emergency.
The Say Something anonymous reporting system, created by national violence prevention program Sandy Hook Promise, works with local law enforcement agencies to allow students to send anonymous and confidential tips via email, phone or app.
Legislation signed July 31 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo limits educational authorities from authorizing anyone “not primarily employed as a school resource officer, law enforcement officer or security guard” from carrying firearms on school grounds.
Unlike schools in Connecticut and Florida, officials at the Colorado site of an earlier and most notorious school shooting decided not to demolish the building that last year attracted about 2,400 gawkers to its grounds.