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Adopting the following recommended practices will help schools address the threat of active shooters as well as other K-12 security concerns.
Adopting the following recommended practices will help schools address the threat of active shooters as well as other K-12 security concerns.
Visible safety upgrades should work in concert with less obvious but equally impactful education, collaboration and communication efforts.
Threat assessment training should be provided to anyone in any community, not just to campus behavioral intervention team members.
The mass campus shooting happened at Perm State University, and the suspected shooter has been identified as a student at the school.
Active shooters are challenging for the CRT model, so these teams must be provided with clear, pragmatic and obtainable objectives.
It is essential to take any and all threats seriously that intimate violence, and to implement the necessary resources and intervention.
More than 540 locks were installed in 48 OSU academic buildings. The installation cost about $1 million.
“One’s survival strategy must reflect that person’s physical and psychological characteristics, location, and the nature of the threat itself.”
Officers conducting the training at an Indiana elementary school made teachers kneel down and face a wall before shooting them in their backs with pellets.
Some K-12 schools and colleges have chosen to “arm” students and teachers with items that can be used as weapons against an active shooter.