1 in 4 Campuses Not Prepared to Respond to Active Shooters
Results from Campus Safety‘s opinion survey also show that 83% of respondents believe their institution has appropriate emergency/crisis plans that are up to date.
Roughly 64% of respondents of the Campus Safety Opinion Survey believe their campuses are prepared to respond to an active shooter incident. Photo via Flickr (CherryPoint)
This week, Campus Safety is featuring your opinions on how campuses prepare for emergencies. Outliers are explained in the captions below the charts. Charts without captions mean that the results are the same or similar in all three sectors. To see the survey results related to staffing, pay and morale, click here. To see the survey results related to weapons, click here. To see the survey results related to policies and issues, click here.
View PDF version of “2012 Opinion Survey Results: Emergency Management”
These and other charts can be viewed in the 2013 Campus Safety Yearbook. To download a pdf, click here.
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Robin Hattersley, Editor-in-Chief
Robin has been covering the security and campus law enforcement industries since 1998 and is a specialist in school, university and hospital security, public safety and emergency management, as well as emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorial on campus law enforcement and security funding, officer recruitment and retention, access control, IP video, network integration, event management, crime trends, the Clery Act, Title IX compliance, sexual assault, dating abuse, emergency communications, incident management software and more. Robin has been featured on national and local media outlets and was formerly associate editor for the trade publication Security Sales & Integration. She obtained her undergraduate degree in history from California State University, Long Beach.
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