https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, "nearly 240 schools ... reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting." The number is far higher than most other estimates.
But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government's Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.
In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn't meet the government's parameters for a shooting. About a quarter of schools didn't respond to our inquiries.
More details in article.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday August 29 2018, @11:42AM (1 child)
-l.
Armijo High just off of downtown Fairfield, California.
While one of the suspects was an Armijo student, the incident took place on campus and in my reading of The Daily Republic's article most likely an attempted gangland murder rather than being what anyone would regard as a School Shooting.
That student attempted to evade capture by blending in with five hundred students who were herded into what I expect is a now very-secure campus, but The Long Arm Of The Law eventually turned him up.
I'd like nothing more than to visit my Alma Mater but I'm reluctant to submit to a Body Cavity Search.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday August 30 2018, @12:21AM
That Body Cavity Search has the same acronym as British Computer Society?