Commentary: Safety and Security Awareness and Readiness In Today's Education Environment

Since Columbine, the FBI has ide_168.tified 220 active shooting incidents between 2000 and 2016 - 48 occurring in educational settings like Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, West Nickel Mines Amish Schoolhouse in Pennsylvania and a playground at Townville Elementary School in South Carolina. [...]the Colorado General Assembly found that it is "now foreseeable that violence in schools can occur," and that schools have a responsibility to keep their students, faculty, staff and others safe within school facilities and during school sponsored events from reasonably foreseeable acts of actual or attempted violence. Effective safety training should be based on empirical research and conducted by security professionals with appropriate credentials and real-world experience.