How school shootings catch on.
One of the better articles I have read since the latest shooting and the author is Malcolm Gladwell; he does not refer to the latest shooting.
He ends with:
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The problem is not that there is an endless supply of deeply disturbed young men who are willing to contemplate horrific acts. It’s worse. It’s that young men no longer need to be deeply disturbed to contemplate horrific acts.
Link:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...s-of-violence?
Seconds mattered: How BSO's response at Parkland went wrong in 11 minutes
A detailed report from the Miami Herald on the shooting and what went wrong. It is not an easy read and the blame does not rest with the Schools Officer present.
Link:http://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article209887469.html?
FBI Releases Study of Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters
Captured via Twitter this 28 page report, mainly from their Behavioural Analysis Unit (BAU) and sub-titled:
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This report, covering active shooter incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013, examines specific behaviors that may precede an attack and that might be useful in identifying, assessing, and managing those who may be on a pathway to violence.
Link:https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/...-2013.pdf/view
It is the second part of a research programme, Part One was published in 2014, which had a different focus.
National security in a nation of mass shootings
From The Soufan Group and more direct than normal. BLUF:
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- On November 7, a man with a handgun murdered 11 people inside a bar in Thousand Oaks, California.
- The Thousand Oaks shooting was the fourth such case in the U.S., with ten or more killed, since the start of 2018.
- The rate of these high-fatality attacks has increased, while overall crime trends remain low throughout most of the country.
- The U.S. is the only developed nation that produces and experiences this level of mass shootings as well as overall gun deaths.
Link:http://thesoufancenter.org/intelbrie...ass-shootings/
The School Shooter –A Quick Reference Guide from the FBI
This is a one page summary of the work by the Behavioral Analysis Unit, dated March 2018. More of a starting point, even a poster / aide memoir for LE and others: https://info.publicintelligence.net/...renceGuide.pdf
Las Vegas police release 158-page report detailing deadly 2017 concert shooting
Two years after the Las Vegas mass shooting, via ABC, the official Las Vegas Police report and the story starts with:
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A new report detailing the handling of
the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history found a number of ways in which fellow law enforcement agencies may be able to improve upon their own future responses to their own active shooter and mass casualty incidents.
(Closes with and my bold)
provide insight and drive positive change for first-responder agencies across the world.
This 2020 Link is to a news website and has a Scribd version of the report:https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/...ct-1-shooting/