On March 8th, 2019, Director Straub will be speaking at a Congressional Staff Briefing entitled “Keeping Students Safe: Proven Programs to Prevent School Violence” hosted by Reps. Deutch (D-FL), Rutherford…
COPS Office and Police Foundation Release Reports on Averted School Violence
After years of listening to warnings that school shootings can happen anywhere, there’s some newly released research to back them up. With funding from the Office of Community Oriented Policing…
Just Published: A Comparison of Averted and Completed School Attacks from the ASV Database
IN 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provided funding to the Police Foundation to initiate…
Just Published: Preliminary Report on the ASV Database
In 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) provided funding to the Police Foundation to initiate…
20 Years after Columbine: Have We Learned Our Lesson?
It’s been twenty years since the April 20 shootings at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado. Since then, many changes have been made, but mass shootings, both in and out…
The MEADOW Effect
Meadow, just 18 years young, was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas February 14th massacre. Following the attack, Meadow’s father, Andy Pollack, was frequently in the news as an emotional and…
Lessons Learned from Averted Acts of School Violence
Every year across the nation, acts of violence are prevented on school and college campuses by students, parents, teachers, staff, administrators, school resource officers, campus police and security officers. What…
How Schools Have Successfully Prevented Violence
After every school shooting, we ask how the horrific tragedy happened and whether anything could have been done to prevent it. In the aftermath of the Parkland, Fla., shooting, it…