“Disinformation vulnerability,” i.e., vulnerability to inaccurate, misleading or incomplete information is oftentimes a byproduct of asymmetric information. Such inaccurate, misleading or incomplete information may be disseminated innocently or by design. The “degree” of vulnerability is a function of: the perceived or real expertise of the information provider; the importance to the recipient of the subject matter to which the information relates; and ready access to alternative sources of reliable information. Information disseminated by a perceived […]
The Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association recently released a report concerning active shooter drills in the school setting. A copy of the report, The Impact of School Safety Drills for Active Shootings, can be found at: https://everytownresearch.org/school-safety-drills/. The report is a follow-up to a comprehensive safety plan the three organizations previously released. A copy of that plan, Keeping Our Schools Safe: A Plan to […]
The National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) recently released: Protecting America’s Schools – A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence. The report builds on 20 years of NTAC research and guidance in the field of threat assessment by offering an in-depth analysis of the motives, behaviors and situational factors of the attackers, as well as the tactics, resolutions and other operationally-relevant details of the attacks. In compiling the report, the NTAC studied 41 incidents […]
Dr. Gerald Rosen has completed the NFPA 3000 (PS): Active Shooter/Hostile Event Response; Plan, Respond, Recover Program Specialist training offered by the National Fire Protection Association. The training prepares students to implement NFPA 3000 (PS) the world’s first active shooter/hostile event response (ASHER) standard. This consensus-based standard provides holistic guidance on community planning as well as active shooter/hostile event response and event recovery. Dr. Rosen’s Certificate of Completion can be found here.
On October 12, 2018, This American Life aired Episode 659 entitled Before the Next One. Act One of the episode, Ready as You’ll Never Be, is a candid interview of two teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that were at the school during the February 2018 shooting that claimed seventeen lives. The interview addresses the emergency planning revisions at the school that took place just a month prior to the shooting, […]
On August 24 2018, a report compiled by the Clark County Fire Department and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) Agency National Exercise Division was released to the public. A copy of the report can be found here. The purpose of the report is twofold: First, to analyze the emergency response to the Route 91 Harvest Festival Mass Shooting. Second, to present observations and recommendations with the […]
In January 2018, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released a preliminary report on the Octobers 1st 2017 mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. A copy of the preliminary report as well as an analysis can be found in an earlier post on this site dated March 7, 2018. On August 3, 2018 the final report was released. A copy of the final report can be found here.
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) recently released the world’s first active shooter/hostile event response (ASHER) standard. This consensus-based standard provides holistic guidance on community planning as well as active shooter/hostile event response and event recovery. NFPA 3000™ (PS) is multi-dimensional and addresses topics such as: identifying hazards and assessing vulnerabilities; resource management; command level incident management; competencies for first responders; and post-incident recovery. The scope of the standard is as follows: The scope of this standard […]
On May 18th of 2018, seventeen year old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a student at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, opened fire in an art classroom at the high school killing 10 and wounding 13. The firearms used in the shooting, a shotgun and .38-caliber revolver, were both legally owned by Pagourtzis’ father. Although Pagourtzis’ choice of firearms is somewhat atypical for mass school shootings, the source is not. As it turns out, it […]
After the mass shooting on October 1, 2017 at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) undertook a reexamination of its prior determinations on the classification of bump-fire-stocks and similar devices (bump-stock-type devices). As a result, ATF has proposed a new rule reclassifying such devices as machineguns. Notice of the proposed rulemaking was published in the March 29th Federal Register and can be found […]
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