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The K-12 charter school held approximately 1,850 students. [5] At the time of the shooting, it had no police officer assigned to it and used private security instead. [6]In December 2018, an anonymous parent reportedly called the Douglas County School Board of Education's director to express concerns regarding bullying and violence at the school. [7]
Arming teachers is equipping teachers in preschool through secondary school with firearms with the intent to prevent casualties from school shootings. Such proposals have engendered public debate regarding with whom the responsibility for providing a safe environment lies, and whether it would reduce or escalate the risk of shootings.
95–96% of perpetrators of school firearm violence have been male. [19] [17] The median age of a perpetrator of a school shooting is 16. [2] People of all races commit gun violence in schools, however the nature of these incidents differ by race. White perpetrators commit disproportionately deadly assaults, these are often mass, indiscriminate ...
Officers in Schools: The number of officers in schools rose sharply in the 90s and then held steady until 2014. Weapons Officers Carry Between 2006 and 2010, schools that employed officers saw an 8-point rise in tasers and an 8-point drop in firearms. COPS Funding Most federal grants to hire SROs came in the 90s and early 2000s.
Colorado's Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was ...
According to California lawmakers, preventing school-based gun violence starts in the home. While it is a crime for families with youth to improperly store firearms, parents and guardians aren’t ...
Most modern firearms are designed to not be capable of firing when significantly out-of-battery. As such, a firearm that is out-of-battery typically cannot be fired, which is why this is a type of firearm malfunction. A dangerous situation can occur when a chambered round fires when the firearm is out-of-battery (called an out-of-battery ...
The board extended the voting deadline by 30 minutes at Wilson County's Gardners Elementary School and the Pilot Mountain polling place in Burke County. These locations will now close at 8 p.m.