04-19-2009, 03:58 PM
From: Gazette.com Colorado Springs, CO, April 17, 2009 - 1:54PM
WHAT WE'VE LEARNED
The Safe School Initiative had 10 key findings for use in developing strategies to prevent targeted school violence. They are:
• Incidents are rarely sudden or impulsive.
• Others often had prior knowledge of an attacker's idea and or plan.
• Most attackers did not threaten their targets directly before the attack.
• There is no accurate or useful profile of students who engaged in targeted school violence.
• Most attackers engaged in some prior behavior that caused others concern or indicated a need for help.
• Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures; many had considered or attempted suicide.
• Many attackers felt they had been bullied, persecuted or injured by others.
• Most attackers had access to and had used weapons.
• In many cases, other students were involved in some capacity.
• Despite prompt law enforcement responses, most shooting incidents were stopped by other means.
Source: The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States; May 2002, U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Dept. of Education.
http://www.secretservice.gov/ntac/ssi_final_report.pdf
SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE STUDY
A Safe School Initiative study of 37 incidents of targeted school violence between January 1974 and May 2000 found:
• 93 percent of the perpetrators of targeted school violence exhibited concerning behavior prior to an attack.
• At least one other person had some knowledge of an attacker's plans in 81 percent of the incidents, and more than one person had knowledge in 59 percent of the incidents.
• Of those with prior knowledge of school attacks, 93 percent were peers of the perpetrator - friends, schoolmates or siblings.
BY THE NUMBERS
• About 50 million children in the U.S. go to school every school day.
• School-related violent deaths account for less than 1 percent of homicides among school-aged youth.
• 5.9 percent of students reported they carried a weapon on school property in 2007. The number has been decreasing since 1993.
Source: Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado, Boulder.
wm25burke wrote:
Observe one word that is conspicuously absent from this article - "Parent".
Appears to me a significant thing that's been "learned", by the "researchers" at CU in the People's Republic of Boulder, is how to capitalize on tragedy to reinforce the idea that the nanny state will save us all.
Your papers please, comrades.
WHAT WE'VE LEARNED
The Safe School Initiative had 10 key findings for use in developing strategies to prevent targeted school violence. They are:
• Incidents are rarely sudden or impulsive.
• Others often had prior knowledge of an attacker's idea and or plan.
• Most attackers did not threaten their targets directly before the attack.
• There is no accurate or useful profile of students who engaged in targeted school violence.
• Most attackers engaged in some prior behavior that caused others concern or indicated a need for help.
• Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures; many had considered or attempted suicide.
• Many attackers felt they had been bullied, persecuted or injured by others.
• Most attackers had access to and had used weapons.
• In many cases, other students were involved in some capacity.
• Despite prompt law enforcement responses, most shooting incidents were stopped by other means.
Source: The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States; May 2002, U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Dept. of Education.
http://www.secretservice.gov/ntac/ssi_final_report.pdf
SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE STUDY
A Safe School Initiative study of 37 incidents of targeted school violence between January 1974 and May 2000 found:
• 93 percent of the perpetrators of targeted school violence exhibited concerning behavior prior to an attack.
• At least one other person had some knowledge of an attacker's plans in 81 percent of the incidents, and more than one person had knowledge in 59 percent of the incidents.
• Of those with prior knowledge of school attacks, 93 percent were peers of the perpetrator - friends, schoolmates or siblings.
BY THE NUMBERS
• About 50 million children in the U.S. go to school every school day.
• School-related violent deaths account for less than 1 percent of homicides among school-aged youth.
• 5.9 percent of students reported they carried a weapon on school property in 2007. The number has been decreasing since 1993.
Source: Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, University of Colorado, Boulder.
wm25burke wrote:
Observe one word that is conspicuously absent from this article - "Parent".
Appears to me a significant thing that's been "learned", by the "researchers" at CU in the People's Republic of Boulder, is how to capitalize on tragedy to reinforce the idea that the nanny state will save us all.
Your papers please, comrades.