Ep 25. Would more security stop the school shooting at Abundant Life Christian in Madison, WI?

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 them

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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 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.