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Do Police Prevent Mass Shootings?

Presence of Armed School Officials and Fatal and Nonfatal Gunshot Injuries During Mass School Shootings, United States, 1980-2019, JAMA Network Open. 2021
Do School Resource Officers Prevent School Shootings?, WFPL, 2019

A Former School-Based Police Officer Was Charged With Negligence in Connection With the Parkland Massacre. Experts Call the Move Extremely Rare. But What Are the Broader Implications for School Safety?, The 74 Million, 2019
Study: There’s No Evidence That Hardening Schools to Make Kids Safer from Gun Violence Actually Works, Washington Post, 2019
Police in Schools are Not the Answer School Shootings: An Issue Brief, 2018
Arming Teachers and Putting More Armed Cops on Campus Jeopardizes Safety, ACLU, 2018

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How Common are School Shootings?

School Shootings in America, The Washington Post
The School Shootings of 2019: What's Behind the Numbers, Education Week, 2019
School Shooters: What's Their Path To Violence? NPR, 2019
Lessons From Our Year Tracking School Shootings: Students More Likely to Be Hit by Lightning Than Shot in Class, Yet Fear of Mass Violence Is Driving Policy, The74Million, 2018
Why There’s So Much Inconsistency in School Shooting Data, The Conversation, 2018
The School Shootings That Weren't, National Public Radio, 2018
What Counts as a School Shooting? The Answer to That Question Shapes Safety Debates, Education Week, 2018
Scarred by School Shootings, The Washington Post, 2018
Schools Are Safer than They Were in the 90s, and School Shootings Are Not More Common than They Used To Be, Researchers Say, News@Northeastern University, 2018
No, There Haven't Been 18 School Shootings in 2018, The Washington Post, 2018
School Shootings This Year: How Many and Where, Education Week, 2018

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