Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Dr. Albert Spiegel is the Assistant Principal for a regional Catholic high school in New Jersey. His dissertation focused on secondary Catholic school teachers’ sources of self-efficacy regarding active shooter incidents. Dr. Spiegel has been an emergency medical technician (EMT) for over 20 years and is an adjunct professor at Saint Peter’s University teaching courses in school administration and teacher preparation.Dissertation: A Qualitative Study to Determine Teacher Self-Efficacy in Active Shooter Incidents in One Catholic Secondary SchoolDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Josh Novick is a licensed professional counselor, trauma specialist, founder of Trust and Grow Consulting and volunteer for Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence.Josh’s journey began as a social studies educator at an alternative high school operating within Malcolm X College in Chicago. There, he witnessed firsthand the profound impact of trauma, particularly gun violence, on BIPOC teenagers. This experience sparked his commitment to understanding and mitigating the effects of trauma on young people.In July 2022, following the Highland Park Fourth of July Parade shooting, Josh co-led the emergency response center at Highland Park High School. He recruited and organized over 600 volunteer therapists, providing orientation and therapeutic guidance during a five-day operation. As part of the Recovery Team, he collaborated with stakeholders to support the community’s healing and to develop long-term resiliency programming.Other Episode Referenced: Ep 29. Gun violence exposure on walkable routes to and from school on the south side of Chicago where students are heavily dependent on public transit and walking.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Ben Kovacs, BJJ black belt and founder of Guardian.Website: Guardian, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is committed to providing free jiu jitsu scholarships to underserved kids around the world including Ethiopia, Peru, Mexico, Mongolia, and in US cities like Baltimore, Oakland, and LA. David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Active Shooter: When you can’t run, can’t hide, and can’t fight (November 6, 2017 on Medium before I started this Substack)David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Matthew Kraft, Associate Prof. of Education & Economics, Brown University* Website: www.matthewakraft.com* Twitter: @MatthewAKraft * BlueSky: @matthewakraft.bsky.socialReport: The Cumulative Costs of Gun Violence on Students and Schools (January 15, 2025 - The White House archive)David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

The Off the Mats Podcast is hosted by Jake Dante, a jiu jitsu practitioner in Maryland and all around regular guy. On the show, various topics are discussed ranging from training to dealing with injury and mental health as it relates to martial arts.Episode 246: School Safety and Self-Defense (uncut 90 minute interview)This week on the podcast, I welcome David Riedman, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt and the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, a critical tool in understanding and addressing school gun violence in the United States. David shares his journey in BJJ and how the discipline has shaped his approach to defensive training for educators. We dive into what measures should be taken to protect students in school and whether or not to arm teachers, practical applications of BJJ in real-world situations, and the invaluable lessons martial arts bring to high-stakes environments. This episode offers a unique blend of martial arts philosophy and actionable insights into pressing societal issues.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Beth J Sanborn, President of the Pennsylvania School Resource Officers AssociationWebsite: bethjsanborn.comBook: The Missing PieceReport: Measuring the Strategic Fit of the School Resource Officer with Law Enforcement (Leaders), the Education System, the Community and Other Interested PartiesDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Children heading to and from school in Englewood, on the south side of Chicago, are heavily dependent on public transit and walking, because about half of residents live in households without vehicular access. Those walking routes are through violence-prone areas.The study was published in November in SSM - Population Health, the online, peer-reviewed journal. Researcher Gia Barboza-Salerno led the study, working alongside Sharefa Duhaney and Hexin Yang, all from the College of Public Health at Ohio State University in Columbus.Paper: Spatial accessibility to gun violence exposure on walkable routes to and from school* Analyzed exposure to gun violence on walkable street networks near schools using computational spatial methods.* Gun violence clusters along streets near schools, including designated "safe passage" routes.* During the afternoon commute, an average of 18.06 gunshots are within reach of a 15-min walk.* About 40% and 62% of schools had at least one gunshot within 400 meters during the morning and afternoon commute.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Monic Behnken, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Iowa State UniversityArticle: Why School Police May Not Be the Most Effective Way to Prevent ViolenceDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Dr. Marc Gorelick, Pediatrician & President and CEO at Children's Minnesota.Book: Saving our Kids: An ER Doc’s Common-Sense Solution to the Gun Crisis.Blog: Progressive Pediatrics.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

School shooting researcher: Women shooters are 'rare’David Riedman joins Megan Lynch on KMOX News Radio following the school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Dr. Tahir Rahman, associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.Reference:* Prior podcast: Ep 16. Can psychologists treat school shootings the same way as eating disorders? Dr. Tahir Rahman M.D. explains why extreme overvalued beliefs--not severe mental illness--drive school shooters to commit violence.* Psychology Today: Shifting the American Relationship With Firearms* Book: Extreme Overvalued Beliefs: Clinical and Forensic Psychiatric Dimensions* Forensic Psychology: School Shooters: Recognizing Extreme Overvalued Beliefs* Psychology Today: A Warning Lesson From Lee Harvey Oswald’s Wedding RingGuns with inscriptions are symbols of violent ideology rather than tools for utility. School shooters and mass shooters frequently write messages on their weapons. A fixation on guns as a symbol of identity and power is a red flag for mass violence.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Dr. Daniel Semenza is an Associate Professor at Rutgers University and the Director of Interpersonal Violence Research at the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers on issues of gun violence, victimization, and health disparities and his research has been featured in the New York Times, LA Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Scientific American, The Trace, Prevention Magazine, PBS, and NPR. Links to topics in the show:* CBS News: Inside the $3 billion school security industry as deadly shootings continue* What is school security?* Abundant Life Christian School Shooting: Interview on WORT in Madison, WI* Six common factors in the school shooting at Abundant Life Christian* I study school shootings. Here’s what AI can — and can’t — do to stop themDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database, joins WORT 89.9fm (Madison, WI) afternoon radio show A Public Affair hosted by Sara Gabler.This interviews follows the December 16th school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. Riedman joins Gabler to discuss this shooting in context of the 323 school shootings that have happened so far this year. They unpack what the data tells us about these tragedies, the importance of recognizing warning signs, and policies needed to prevent future school shootings.Image posted by the shooter’s father that was discussed during the interview:David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Daniel Hamlin is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on the effects of education policies related to student health and safety, parental involvement, school climate, and school choice. Papers:* Understanding Different Forms of Gun Violence in American Schools: An Analysis from 1980 to 2019* Are gun ownership rates and regulations associated with firearm incidents in American schools? A forty-year analysis (1980–2019)David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Shannon Woods, Ph.D. Candidate, Performance as Public Practice, University of Texas at AustinPapers:* The Threat Is Now: Choreography, Temporality, and the Active Shooter Drill* Drilled Choreographies: Interventions on Preparing for the Active ShooterDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

GoogleLM summary of shootings on campus in November 2024.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Jack Anderson, expert in insurance, risk, catastrophe, and securityPeer-reviewed paper: The Fortress ProblemWhen they rely on robustness or complication, positions of strength are only tolerant of stress up to a defined point or of a certain character. For a fortification that fails to adapt, centralization—even of strength—presents a surprising liability. Fortresses concentrate risk.A grand design for security will not produce grand security. Security requires fewer scripted plans and more improvisation, more diversity, less uniformity, less training with partners, and more learning to work with strangers.Articles mentioned in the show:* My article about The Fortress Problem: Using data to design safer schools* My article on security screening concentrating risk: Why TSA-style security doesn't work for schools* Attack Trees and Threat Modeling* The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons* The Taming of ChanceDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Algernon Austin, Director for Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy ResearchNew research paper: Gun Violence Lowers Academic Achievement Especially for Black ChildrenArticle referenced: The Other School Shootings: Gun Violence at America’s Poorest SchoolsPeer-reviewed research on economic impact of school shootings:* The Impacts of Shootings on Students' Human Capital and Economic Outcomes* Effects of School Shootings on Risky Behavior, Health and Human Capital* Do school shootings erode property values?* Impacts on the mental health, education, and earnings of American youthDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Recorded on November 1, 2024 at the Hamline University Violence Prevention Project Research Center in St. Paul, MN. Note: This was the first panel of the event and there are a couple glitches in the audio that get fixed as the discussion goes on.David Riedman – Founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database. David's pioneering work tracks and analyzes school shooting incidents across the U.S., offering crucial data that informs violence prevention strategies. He also serves on the advisory board for the Violence Prevention Project Research Center (VPPRC) and is an assistant professor at Idaho State University.Shannon Hill – Violence Prevention Specialist at Saint Paul Public Schools. Shannon leads the implementation of the CARE team model, a collaborative approach developed with the VPPRC to prevent and address violence in schools. Her extensive background working with at-risk students makes her an invaluable advocate for safer learning environments.Rudy Perez – Assistant Chief of Police, Golden Valley Police Department & President of the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO). Rudy has spent over 23 years enhancing school safety through law enforcement strategies, including training school resource officers and improving community collaboration. His leadership at NASRO continues to shape how we keep students safe.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Shea Swauger is a PhD student in Education and Critical Studies at the University of Colorado Denver. He researches social factors that influence school shootings and gun policy.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

This is not a “real” podcast in the traditional sense of the word. Google has a new AI tool called Notebook LM creates podcasts from text articles. I didn’t write the script. The voices you hear are completely generated by Google’s language models.The botcast is based on my article: School Shootings: Issue Attention Cycle & Law of Unintended ConsequencesMy article argues that the public's attention to school shootings is a cyclical pattern: intense focus in the immediate aftermath of an event, followed by a decline in interest. This cycle often leads to hastily implemented policies that fail to address the issue effectively and can even have unintended negative consequences.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Brian Williams, author of “The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal”As a Harvard-trained physician, Williams learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow the rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, Williams tried to save the lives of police officers shot in Dallas in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves feel-good stories about heroism more than hard truths about racism, Williams came to rethink everything he thought he knew about medicine, injustice, and what true healing looks like.During this episode we discussed:* Preventing gun violence at every level (home, community, local government, state government, and federal policy).* Progress already made to reduce gun injuries and deaths including targeted violence, indiscriminate shootings, domestic violence, suicides, and accidents.* What Dr. Williams would do if/when he is appointed Surgeon General of the United States.* Importance of voting in state and local elections because laws requiring safe storage of firearms, gun permits and safety training, background checks, waiting periods, and allowing/prohibiting people from carrying guns in public places or having loaded guns inside vehicles have profound impacts on the rate of gun violence in a community.* A true American patriot who wants to protect their family and community should be storing every gun they own inside a locked safe at all times.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: Mother of It All parenting podcast (Miranda Rake and Sarah Wheeler)Guest: Me (David Riedman)No one wants to think about school shootings. But nearly every day in our country, a gun is fired on a campus. Often, when that happens, entire student bodies are then traumatized by spending hours in lockdown. David Riedman of the K-12 school shooting database — an unparalleled collection of data about school shootings that has been used as a resource by publications like The Economist and New York Times, as well as organizations like the FBI— joins Sarah and Miranda to talk about the thing none of us want to talk about but that we absolutely must: American school’s gun violence problem.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

This is not a “real” podcast in the traditional sense of the word. Google has a new Artificial Intelligence tool called Notebook LM that allows users to feed it written data, which it will then turn into a podcast. The voices you hear are completely generated by Google’s language models.I created the content that went into this ‘podcast’ (see: School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports), but I didn’t decide what the key points or topics would be. This is worth listening to because the AI hosts do a good job of summarizing ~25,000 words from a dozen different articles. It’s also mind blowing how natural most of the conversation sounds. There aren’t any hallucinations where the AI makes up info because everything comes from my writing.Please leave comments and let me know what you think.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

By several measures, 2024 is on course to be one of the worst ever in terms of gun violence on school campuses. My guest this episode to discuss these tragic incidents is David Riedman. David is the founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database, arguably the most complete accounting of school shootings in the United States. As you will hear, David's own analysis of the data has revealed some chilling findings that suggest that many schools’ prevention efforts and active shooter plans are, at best, inadequate and ill-informed, and, at worst, making students more vulnerable.Talking About Kids is a weekly podcast for parents, educators, and direct service providers that explores the latest information on issues impacting children and adolescents, from preventing bullying to unlocking creativity. Hosted by me - R. Bradley Snyder, author of The 5 Simple Truths of Raising Kids - each episode presents a new topic and introduces listeners to authors, academics, and visionaries from around the globe.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Tahir Rahman, Forensic Psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University in St. Louis.Book: Extreme Overvalued Beliefs: Clinical and Forensic Psychiatric DimensionsArticle: School Shooters: Recognizing Extreme Overvalued Beliefs (Forensic Psychology). Non-delusional, rigidly held beliefs motivate most school shooters.Key points:* School shooters are driven by ideology not severe mental illness.* Lockdown drills are ‘dress rehearsals’ where a vulnerable student with extreme overvalued beliefs gets to experience what committing a school shooting would be like.* School shootings are rooted in ideologies—extreme overvalued beliefs—that promote hate and violence. Children need to be taught about radicalization to avoid it and the Body Project for eating disorder education is a model.* Peer education and student involvement in interventions is essential to identify a student who is becoming radicalized and fixating on extreme overvalued beliefs.* Policymakers and federal officials need to identify and eliminate the online communities that allow children and teens to engage with violent, fringe sub-cultures (e.g., private Discord groups dedicated to school shootings).David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

This episode was recorded with Devin and Caitlin from GVPedia. The recording is also available as GVPediaExplains Episode 26: Interview with David Riedman of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseYouTube version:GVPedia arms policymakers, advocates, and the public with facts and data to create evidence-based policy to reduce gun violence. GVPedia started as a project to provide ready access to academic research and high quality data on gun violence.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

The 14-year-old kid was not a monster until the second that he pulled the trigger inside Apalachee High killing 2 classmates, 2 teachers, and wounding at least 9 others. For at least a year prior to the attack, this kid cried for help and was ignored by police, teachers, school administrators, community members, and his own family. Committing a school shooting is a final act of violent public suicide when a kid feels like society has forgotten him (or her) and there is no other option.These are not excuses that justify a school shooting. To prevent the next attack, we need to understand why they happen and take meaningful action to stop them.Host: David RiedmanGuest: Aaron Stark, father, mental wellness advocate, and someone who wants to show love to the kids who are dirty, homeless, abused, alone, and forgotten by societyTED Talk (41 million views): I Was Almost A School Shooter | Aaron StarkDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Every school shooting—the latest at Apalachee High in Georgia—is the culmination of a long chain of failures as parents, police, and school officials all missed their chances to act on overt warnings. Could analyzing and studying the information within the K-12 School Shooting Database be the key to stopping them?From Freakonomics Radio+ episode: The Only Person That Tracks Every U.S. School Shooting This was only the first half of my interview. If you want to listen to this entire bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio, it’s available through the SiriusXM Podcasts+ subscription offering on Apple Podcasts. To get Plus episodes, you can sign up for SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts here.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my recent interviews on New England Journal of Medicine and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Matt Nobles, Criminologist and Methodologist, University of Central Florida* All research projects start with finding data or evidence, and then applying a research methodology to answer the question.* Federal crime data is incomplete, published ~2 years after crimes occur, and doesn’t add up when multiple sources are cross-referenced.* Before 2000, there wasn’t a federal mandate for colleges and universities to report crimes on campus. Dr. Nobles’ first major research project was analyzing unreported sexual assaults on campus.* There is not a Higher Education School Shooting Database because it’s very hard to define the boundaries of a university campus (e.g., is a shooting during college night—specifically targeting college students—at a bar next to campus a higher ed school shooting?)* Without standardization of crime data, we don’t know the characteristics of crimes, we can’t measure the impacts, we don’t know if rates are going up/down, and we can’t develop useful public policy.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Jason Koele, Missouri middle school principalDissertation: Differences Between Missouri K-12 Educator Perceptions of Safety on Campuses that Allow Teachers Concealed Carry and Those That Do NotDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. David Perrodin, Professor at Viterbo University and author of School of Errors & Velocity of InformationSchool of Errors establishes another voice in the discussion of how to promote safe schools. It challenges the unchecked expansion of school fortification and questions the realized benefit of inter-agency collaboration during a sentinel event. This book offers an alternative to traumatizing simulations by providing clear options for improving school safety by the empirically-proven effective measures of leakage detection (preventive) and sensemaking (reactive). School of Errors restores the scientific method to school safety and clears a path through the media rhetoric fogging this vital topic.Purchase School of Errors: Rethinking School Safety in America (2019) for special price of $5.99 this month for listeners of this podcast.* Digital book on Spotify* Barnes & NobleDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of K-12 School Shooting Database Guest: Dr. Ken Trump is the President of National School Safety and Security Services, a Cleveland-based national consulting firm specializing in school security and emergency preparedness trainingIn this episode we discussed:* Evolution of school security during the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s—all time periods that Dr. Trump has been working inside k-12 schools.* Landscape of school safety is not just deliberate school shootings. School safety includes fires, natural disasters, riots, fights, gangs, drugs, weapons, rapes, sexual assaults, and kidnappings.* The 1989 attack at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, CA was the most legislatively impactful school shooting in history because it drove California’s state assault weapons ban, the federal assault weapons ban, Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990, Safe School Act of 1994, and the COPS program to use federal funding to pay for local police officers in schools.* Deliberate pre-planned school shootings primarily happen in small, rural communities where the schools have the least resources to prevent, respond, and recover from these attacks.* School safety can’t depend on federal grant funding because the grants eventually dry up and local school budgets don’t have enough money to sustain police officers, guards, maintain equipment, and subscriptions for security tech.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David RiedmanGuest: Jon Romano, convicted school shooter and mental health advocate on TikTokThe purpose of the corrections system is to:* Confine and separate a dangerous threat from society.* Punish an offender for their wrong.* Rehabilitate a person so they can re-enter society as a pro-social contributor.It’s the department of corrections not the department of confinement. In most states a young teenager cannot be sentenced to life in prison which means that even a convicted school shooter will return to free society.Jon Romano was confined, punished, and rehabilitated in adult prison from age 16 to 31. He now works as an advocate for helping other depressed and suicidal teens before they go down a violent path of self-destruction.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David RiedmanGuest: Sonali Rajan, Ed.D., M.S., Associate Professor, Department of Health Studies & Applied Educational Psychology at Columbia University & President of the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related HarmsResearch Paper: Protocol for a nationwide case-control study of firearm violence prevention tactics and policies in K-12 schoolsResearch Methods: Authors created a nationally representative dataset of schools that experienced intentional gunfire on the campus during school hours since 2015 using the K-12 School Shooting Database. Matched control schools will be randomly selected from the US Department of Education's national database of all public schools. The following study will analyze 27 school safety strategies organized into seven key exposure groupings.Conclusion: As the first national, controlled study, its results will provide novel and needed data on the effectiveness of school safety tactics and policies in preventing intentional shootings at K-12 public schools.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Dr. Benjamin P. Comer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Texas Christian University.Paper: Definitional Discrepancies: Defining “School Shootings” and Other Incidents of Gunfire Affecting SchoolsWe discussed:* How the K-12 School Shooting Databased started.* Landscape of ~30 different info sources about school shootings from the “Columbine’s Angels” blog in the 1990s to anonymized government reports that omit school names.* Definitions run amuck when the US Secret Service excludes a sniper firing 240 rounds at a school because the shooter was not on school property when the shots were fired.* Broad data collection creates the foundation for many different projects and types of research.* Five recommendations for reconciling the differences and using a standardized methodology for research going forward.* If we misunderstand the baseline—99% of shootings at schools are not mass shootings—we create policies designed for 1% of gun violence which are misaligned with the most common circumstances on campus.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database.Guest: Dr. Jillian Peterson, forensic psychologist, professor, and executive director of The Violence Prevention Project Research Center. I obtained exclusive access to the CVPA High School shooter’s manifesto from KMOV’s investigative reporting team. Last year, I narrated the documentary KMOV produced about this attack. Parts of the images are redacted because they name specific school staff members who are not aware they were targets during this school shooting. Dr. Jillian Peterson and I discuss:* Details of the manifesto.* How this document is the same and different than other writings from mass shooters and school shooters.* Reframing school shootings as ‘deaths of despair’ because the perpetrators commonly exhibit severe depression, attempted suicides prior, and a desire to die during these attacks.* Suicide prevention programs may be more effective at preventing school shootings than security and fortification.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, founder of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Justin Seals, school security director, school police officer, and military veteran.We discussed:* Justin’s career as a Navy Corpsman, Army Chaplain, patrol officer, school police officer, SRO unit supervisor, and school security director.* How school policing has changed and evolved post-Columbine, post-Sandy Hook, post-Parkland, and post-Uvalde.* Differences in safety and security at public schools compared to private schools.* Systemic gun violence, gang violence, and teens who habitually carry guns every day on campus.* Dealing with students who are armed with knives and guns in ways that doesn’t risk escalating a police intervention into a shooting on campus.* Being a role model for students, creating relationships, and being proactive in defusing conflicts.* Mentality that a successful school police officer needs to have each day is completely different from a patrol officer working on the street.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting DatabaseGuest: Dr. Rodrigo Nieto Gómez, professor at the US Naval Postgraduate School and expert in criminal innovation, AI, and national security.Articles referenced:* How does OpenAI's ChatGPT-4o assess school shooting threats compared to human police officers?* Did OpenAI create the best weapon detection software available with ChatGPT-4o?During this episode we discussed:* Rodrigo’s unique background being born in Mexico and educated in Paris, yet he is an expert in US national security and defense policy.* Criminal innovation moves faster than the systems designed to stop crime.* ChatGPT-4o turned everything upside down with an omni-model that can analyze text, audio, and images. This is 10 years ahead of where experts thought AI would be today.* Standalone machine learning classification models (flagging guns on CCTV, hearing gunshots) are irrelevant now in the same way that paying for a voice transcription service is no longer needed.* ChatGPT is different from any existing single-purpose software model because it has been trained with 13 trillion pieces of data. The first generation of AI school security companies are now like Kodak when affordable digital cameras hit the market.* Unlike image classification models, ChatGPT can identify a toy gun being used in a squirt gun fight because it knows what water, toy, playing, smiling, grass, and kids all are. ChatGPT understands the entire context of the situation instead of searching for specific objects that might match training data.* Without any special training ChatGPT analyzed school shooting threats and gave scores comparable to the aggregate scores of 240 human experts. ChatGPT performed significantly better than most of the individual police officers!* Without being prompted, ChatGPT created a threat assessment model based on multiple factors including time, location, and specificity of the threat. ChatGPT also suggested emergency actions to take.* When humans hallucinate (give the wrong answer), we can’t really tell what happened or easily fix it. If ChatGPT gets something wrong, we can see where it went wrong and create a better prompt for the next response.My biggest takeaway from talking to Rodrigo is that things that we thought were impossible for computers to understand are now possible, and this changes everything for the future of school security.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio and New England Journal of Medicine.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Host: David RiedmanGuest: Robin Cogan, National Association of School Nurses and Relentless School Nurse BlogOn the show we talked about:* Robin’s career in occupational health and deciding to work inside Camden City, NJ schools for the last two decades.* Role of a school nurse as the Chief Wellness Officer and being the frontline emergency medical responder for hundreds—or thousands—of students each day.* Investing in a Student Wellness Team with school nurses, psychologists, and social workers can identify at-risk students and provide a wide array of assistance to prevent situations for escalating into violence.* Nobody wants to call a child a “threat” like a terrorist or criminal. Instead of “threat assessment”, school nurses and trained healthcare professionals can use positive language to promote wellness. * School nurses are trained to treat problems caused by trauma rather than a law enforcement focus of taking criminal action against children.* Healing centered engagements—suicide prevention, crisis intervention, and wellness checks—can stop almost any student who is experiencing severe trauma from escalating to the point of committing a planned attack.* Educating parents about the extreme risks of having unsecured guns at home or inside vehicles, and the life-saving potential of locking up unloaded firearms.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and Wisconsin Public Radio after the Mount Horeb Middle school shooting.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Guest: Dr. James Densley (Criminal Justice Dept Chair at Metropolitan State University and Co-founder of The Violence Prevention Project).Nobel prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman passed away in March. I started the research for this paper when I read his final book, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement, back in 2021.Noise is the unwanted variability in decisions made by experts who are looking at exactly the same information. We measured the amount of variability in threat assessments. This study is the first time noise was measured in this context!We talk about methods for this study, challenges with the peer review process, results from a survey for 245 police officers, and implications for dramatically changing how schools and police think about assessing threats. Our findings show the need to rethink the current “threat assessment team” model.* Part 1: Impact of 'noise' on assessing school shooting threats* Part 2: Measuring 'noise' when assessing school shooting threats* Part 3: Results from 'noise audit' when assessing school shooting threats* Part 4: Ways to reduce noise when assessing school shooting threatsDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and Wisconsin Public Radio after the Mount Horeb Middle school shooting.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

On May 1, police were called for an active shooter at Mount Horeb Middle in rural Wisconsin. Officers spotted a teen outside of the school with a long black rifle and killed him when he didn’t comply with commands. Four days later, police provided an update that the rifle was a $100 pellet gun available at Walmart and Amazon.Robert Chappell, the executive editor of Madison 365 News, has two kids at Mount Horeb Middle and High schools. He arrived at the school at the same time as the first two police officers.On WORT 88.9 A Public Affair, we talked about:* Missed warning signs to prevent the attack before a 14-year-old student brought a gun to school.* Many of the highest casualty school shootings happen in small communities where “it could never happen here”.* Confusion with messaging, delays in reunification, and prolonged lockdowns with students being separated from their siblings and families.* Lack of standardized system to report red flags.I wrote this article about the missed warning signs at Mount Horeb Middle and also spoke with Wisconsin Watch about school shootings in small communities.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and an internationally recognized expert. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio and New England Journal of Medicine. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

On the latest episode of The Room Where It Happen with Baer Halvorson, we talked about a path forward 25 years after Columbine as school shootings are more frequent and more deadly. The status quo isn’t working. Is this because using the wrong planning assumptions two decades ago made school security more complicated than it needs to be?We also discussed school security issues including:* Failures at Uvalde are the same systemic problems that never got fixed after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.* How kids get access to firearms and new trend of teens habitually carrying guns at school all day.* Most common profile of a school shooter.* Using the same resources to prevent both community gun violence and planned attacks.* Types of attacks a school needs to be prepared for ranging from snipers to hostage standoffs.* Predictions for 5-10 years from now based on data analysis.* What’s the one thing I would change in the design of every school building? Two exits from every classroom so kids can get out quickly during an emergency.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and a national expert on school shootings. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and Iowa Public Radio the day after the Perry High shooting.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Every parent wants to know any time a gun is fired at their kid’s school. I was a guest on the “Talking About Kids” podcast with R. Bradley Snyder to discuss the importance of collecting data on gun violence at schools.We talked about:* Government definitions of “school shooting” exclude domestic violence and gun violence in marginalized communities * Difference between “active shooter” versus “school shooting”* Failure of one-size-fits-all approach to school security by locking down for every scenario* Problems with using exclusionary discipline to punish a student who is identified as a threat (an expelled student can come back to the school with a gun)* Looking at planned attacks from the 1970s and 1980s to remove the noise (e.g., social media, video games, current culture war issues) and identify the root causes* Shootings are most common during transition periods (arrival, lunch, dismissal, after school) and this is a time period that is rarely in school security plansSubscribe to Bradley’s show for new episodes each week focused on parenting and education. You can listen to the full episode with my interview on any podcast app.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and a national expert on school shootings. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and Iowa Public Radio the day after the Perry High shooting.Thank you for reading School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports. This post is public so feel free to share it. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Twenty-five years after Columbine, school shootings have become more frequent and more deadly. An entire generation of students have either been traumatized—or worse, taught how to be a school shooter—during lockdown drills. The status quo is not working.On the EM Weekly podcast, Zack Borst and I discussed how schools are missing decades of best practices from overlooking the emergency management cycle (prepare, respond, recovery, mitigate) for school security planning. Effectively evacuating a school during an emergency requires planning and help from the ‘whole community’ just like a flood, tornado, or earthquake.We also covered:* Benefits of collecting widely inclusive data* Planning for shootings at sporting events* Role of emergency managers in school safety planning and training* Persistent dangers from swatting and threats* Confusion during the response at Michigan StateZack covers a wide variety of emergency management issues. Checkout his show.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and a national expert on school shootings. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and Iowa Public Radio the day after the Perry High shooting.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

On the Digital Politics weekly podcast, I was interviewed by Deepak Puri, CEO of The Democracy Labs. We talked about:* Differences between mass shootings in public places and school shootings* Capturing data to show a holistic picture of gun violence on school property * Understanding the drivers that lead to school shootings* Danger of swatting hoaxes that falsely report a school shooting in progress* How school shootings are different from terrorismDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and a national expert on school shootings. Listen to my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and Iowa Public Radio the day after the Perry High shooting.School Shooting Data Analysis and Reports is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Clip from my interview on the New England Journal of Medicine Intention to Treat podcast.I’m on the show with Dr. Cornelia Griggs, a pediatric trauma surgeon and education director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention at Massachusetts General Hospital.David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and a national expert on school shootings. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

Clips from my interview with Stephen Dubner on Freakonomics Radio Episode 561.* How and why the K-12 School Shooting Database was created* Identifying someone in crisis before it escalates to violent public suicide* Need public education, playbook for school officials, and standardized reporting systems* National Poison Control Center is an example of an accessible system that can help anyone during an emergency, this does not exist for stopping mass shootings* My personal experience as a high school student during the DC Sniper AttacksDavid Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database and a national expert on school shootings. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe

I was interviewed on Iowa Public Radio to analyze the Perry High school shooting on January 4, 2024. One student was killed, four students were wounded, three staff members including the principal were wounded, and the teenage shooter commit suicide in a school hallway.During the interview we discussed:* School shootings are deliberately planned for weeks, months, or even years* Plots often involve bombs but are different from terrorism* Most school shooters are not mentally ill* Need for crisis intervention programs in every school* Must enable students and community members to report potential violence* Ineffectiveness of fortifying school buildings* Common misconceptions about school shootingsHere is the full episode of the River to River podcast produced by Iowa Public Radio. Get full access to Riedman Report: Risk, AI, Education, & Security at riedmanreport.substack.com/subscribe