K-12 School Shooting Database (SSDB)
The SSDB is tracking recent summer and fall spikes in incidents. The SSDB is a database which contains each and every instance a gun is brandished, is fired, or a bullet hits school property...
Tagged: School violence
Episode 011: Early Intervention and Mental Health for School Shootings
Listen to audio: This is the third episode in our 3-part series looking into school shootings. In Part 1, we looked at the data collection platform – K-12 School Shooting Database. In the following...
Episode 010: The Complexity of School Shooting Preparedness
Listen to audio: In this show, we talk with Lt. Steve Simonds, Jim Morrissey, and Dr. Carol Cunningham about the school shooting, the tragedy, that occurred at Great Mills High School in Saint Mary’s...
Episode 009: Facts, Emotions, and the K-12 School Shooting Database
Listen to audio: This Podcast kicks off our 3-part series focused on school shootings. In this episode, we speak with Desmond O’Neill and David Riedman who walk us through the origins of the K-12...
Preventing Violent Extremism with Targeted Intervention
In this Viewpoints, Mourad Mourad, Sergeant of Detective Squad with the NYPD, talks about his Master’s research on countering violent extremism (CVE). He asks what law enforcement can do to get involved earlier and...
Armed to Learn: Aiming at California K-12 School Gun Policy
Video – 2016 CHDS Thesis Series. Catherine Jones. Although the idea of a school shooting strikes fear in the hearts of school administrators, school employees, and parents, there is no agreement on whether arming...
Thesis Series: Preventing School Shootings: a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence
Interview — video. Ed Welch. Gun violence in America must be addressed at the highest levels of society. Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech were attacks on the very fabric of America. School shootings represent...