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Government Report Inflates Number of School Shootings in the US

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 29 2018, @01:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the Gun-manipulation dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:46PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @04:46PM (#727897)

    Maybe that society should grow up? Hysteria doesn't make for a good basis for societal decisions.

    You didn't vote for Trump, by chance? Just asking.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:41AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 30 2018, @03:41AM (#728150) Journal

    You didn't vote for Trump, by chance? Just asking.

    I didn't vote for Trump by chance or on purpose. Nor am I going to.