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Ep 13. How to prevent school shootings with Stephen Dubner
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Ep 13. How to prevent school shootings with Stephen Dubner

First half of my uncut conversation with Stephen Dubner on Freakonomics Radio+ about school shootings, lessons from 9/11, and preventing more failures like Apalachee High.
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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.

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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.

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