The Center is pleased to announce Dr. Mahshid Abir recently joined the Board of Advisors. Dr. Abir is an emergency physician and health services researcher with a joint appointment at…
Averted School Violence “Near Miss” Initiative Featured in Congressional Briefing
March 8, 2019 — Dr. Frank Straub, Director of Strategic Studies and the Center for Mass Violence Response Studies at the National Police Foundation, participated in the Sandy Hook Promise and AASA (The School Superintendents Association)…
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…
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…