Category Archive: School/Campus Violence

Apr 09 2013

Most Schools Are Ill-Prepared for an Active Shooter Scenario

By Jim McKay It will take an all-hazards tactic, additional campus safety personnel and a new approach to building design for schools to become more hardened against the threat of an active shooter on campus. But before all of that happens, we will undoubtedly see more events like the one that shook the country on …

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Mar 27 2013

Violence in schools top list of workplace incidents

By Kathy Jefcoats More workplace violence happens in schools than in churches, malls, restaurants, hospitals and other public places, an instructor on active shooter incidents told a class Monday night. About 30 people attended a workplace violence class at Clayton County Fire Station No. 13. Instructor Sgt. Ryan Morrison gave daunting statistics. “Experts have determined …

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Apr 17 2012

VT shooting brought changes to UWG campus

By Winston Jones The Virginia Tech shooting massacre, which occurred five years ago yesterday, brought many security changes to college campuses across the country, including University of West Georgia. On April 16, 2007, a Virginia Tech student, Seung-Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 25 others on the Blacksburg, Va., campus before taking …

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Apr 04 2012

Oakland school shooting: Is there a lesson to be learned from the tragedy?

By Daniel B. Wood Would a school counselor have detected the shooter’s mounting frustrations before he attacked? Should students have reacted more forcefully in their own defense? As more details trickle out about the shooting rampage Monday morning that claimed the lives of six students and a receptionist at Oikos University in Oakland, criminologists, behavioral …

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Feb 13 2012

Farmington emergency responders train at schools

By Ryan Boetel, Farmington Daily Times Farmington is training to be ready for one of the scariest violent crimes. In recent weeks, all Farmington police officers and firefighters, and San Juan Regional Medical Center’s ambulance drivers and paramedics simulated a response to a school shooting. It’s the first time the city emergency response agencies have …

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Nov 21 2011

Videos teach faculty, students how to react in campus shooting

By Shawn Raymundo, Statepress.com In an effort to further protect University staff and students from potential harm, ASU Police has posted safety-training videos through Blackboard, providing instructions on what to do during various emergency situations, including encountering a shooter on campus. “(The videos are) helpful and we just wanted to make them available to the …

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May 19 2011

Illinois police officers train for dangerous scenarios

By Mary Schenk, The Carmi Times There’s only about one kind of call that scares a police officer more than a shooting at a shopping mall. “Our nightmare scenario would be a school shooting, followed by a shooting at the mall,” said Champaign police Sgt. Bob Rea, commander of the department’s SWAT team. That’s why …

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