School Shootings have become epidemic in America today. The recent shootings in Parkland, Florida have brought up the topic to the public again about how to provide safety to kids in schools today. As the on-going debate will continue on what the government is going to do about gun laws and the topic in general.

The Out-of-Home Networks is creating an alliance of industry manufacturers and other groups to promote the creation of Police Substations to be strategically placed on school campuses nationwide. With an obvious police presence on a campus the chances of a school shooting on campus diminishes quite a bit as well these substations will help with other school needs as well.

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• More than a quarter of schools today have a daily police presence (roughly 13,000 today)
• The politics of current policing efforts in schools needs to be addressed (low-income areas, concentration on petty crimes, etc)
• Community policing policies that make new police substations welcomed by all parties
• The school based police substations will also be a key factor in other school related issues such as sex crimes against children and increasing assaults on campuses
• The police substations will be very important relating to gang recruitment and criminal activities on campuses

School violence has dramatically increased overtime to be epidemic. With statistics since the early 1940’s school violence has been limited to a few reported situations each year but growing dramatically since the 1960’s. More recently there has been more reports in the last two decades where school violence is almost a daily news story.
1940’s: With 8 reports (11 deaths and 2 injuries) in school shootings in America total – Worst case being a school employee killed 5 employees and injured 2 others in a school in Pasadena, CA
1950’s: With 17 reports (13 deaths and 8 injuries) in school shootings in America total – There was not one mass killing situtation in the 50’s.
1960’s: With 18 reports (42 deaths and 65 injuries) in school shootings in America total – The list of mass killings include 17 killed at University of Texas, 5 killed in a school in Mesa, AZ and a police shooting of protesters (3 killed/27 injured) at South Carolina State University)
1970’s: With 30 reports (35 deaths and 65 injuries) in school shootings in America total – The list of mass killings include 3 killed in Olean, NY, and the infamous killing of 7 at Cal St Fullerton
1980’s: With 40 reports (51 deaths and 162 injuries) in school shootings in America total – The list of mass killings include multiple deaths in cities as varied as Stockton, CA; Ann Arbor, MI; Portland, OR; Jackson, MS; Los Angeles, CA; Spanaway, WA; Cokeville, WY; Northridge, CA; DeKalb, MI; Chicago, IL and Greenwood, SC
1990’s: With 67 reports (91 deaths and 152 injuries) in school shootings in America total – The list of mass killings include 6 killed at University of Iowa, 3 killed in a school in Olivehurst, CA, 3 killed in schools each in San Diego, CA; Moses Lake, WA; West Paducah, KY; Pearl, MS’ 4 killed in Springfield, OR; 5 killed in Craighead County, AR and the infamous Columbine school shooting with 15 death and 21 injured

2000 to Today…
A 2015 investigation by CNN identified “more than 40 people…charged with Columbine-style plots” since the 1999 Columbine High School massacre and found that almost all were white male teenagers and almost all had studied the Columbine attack or cited the Columbine perpetrators Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as inspiration
Source: Wikipedia
2000’s: With 63 reports (107 deaths and 137 injuries) in school shootings in America total – With mass killings in cities such as Conway, AR; DeKalb, IL; Baton Rouge, LA; Nickel Mines, PA; Bailey, CO; Essex Junction, VT; Red Lake, MN; Cold Spring, MN; Red Lion, PA; Tucson, AZ; Conception, MO; Grundy, VA; Parkland, WA; Santee, CA and Fayetteville, AR and the mass killing of 33 and with 23 injured at Virginia Tech.
2010’s: With 142 reports (107 deaths and 127 injuries as of Feb 2018) in school shootings in America total – There were mass killings in Parkland FL (17 killed/14 injured); Marshall County, KY (2 killed/18 injured); Aztec, NM (3 killed); Rancho Tehama, CA (6 killed/18 injured); Irving, TX (2 killed); San Bernardino, CA (3 killed/1 injured); Townville, SC (2 killed/2 injured); Los Angeles, CA (2 killed); Glendale, AZ (2 killed); Roseburg, OR (10 killed/9 injured); Cleveland, MS (2 killed); Marysville, WA (5 killed/1 injured) and Troutdale, OR (2 killed/1 injured).

On a recent specific day in 2018 the following happened…

Feb 21st 2018

School threats on the rise nationwide since the Florida shooting include dozens on social media, about 10 incidents where a gun was brought to school and 22 bomb threats, said Amy Klinger, director of programs for the Ohio-based Educators School Safety Network.
* An alert security guard overheard a student threatening to open fire at his Southern California high school days after a massacre in Florida, and a swift investigation uncovered two assault rifles and nearly 100 high-capacity magazines at his home, authorities said Wednesday.
School security officer Marino Chavez heard the teen say Friday at El Camino High School near the city of Whittier that he was “going to shoot up the school sometime in the next three weeks” and reported the comment to authorities, McDonnell said.
* An Oregon high school student was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of disorderly conduct after police say he sent a social media message to a girl at another high school reading, “I am the shooter!” The 15-year-old boy said the message was a joke.
* A Montana high school student was charged Tuesday with intimidation and assault with a weapon over numerous threats to “shoot up the school.” Court records say the 18-year-old told investigators he was joking and regretted frightening students.
* A Vermont teenager pleaded not guilty Friday to attempted aggravated murder and other offenses after writing in a diary that he had “big plans” to kill as many as he could at his former high school.
* In Northern California, police said they recovered a firearm from the home of an 11-year-old boy who had barricaded himself in a Santa Cruz classroom Tuesday and planned to harm specific students.