Posts Tagged ‘Active Shooter’
SDP_052 Rhetoric Wins as School Trip to DC Canceled over Fears of Attack
PODCAST – “An eighth-grade class trip to Washington, D.C., can often be the highlight of grade school – see the White House, meet your member of Congress. But students from North Ridgeville City School District outside of Cleveland, Ohio were notified recently their D.C. trip was canceled. Administrators called it off because of fears of…
Read MoreSDP_047 “Projected Benchmarking” – Garbage Media Ploys Following A Mass Shooting
Podcast-Dr. Perrodin explains how mass media irresponsibly portrayed the October 1, 2017, Las Vegas massacre as an act of evil that any of us could encounter, in any location, at any moment. In addition, false articles defeated algorithm “truth” filters, journalism was sacrificed for short-term ratings, the collective public anxiety rocketed with no efforts to…
Read MoreBack to School Safety Special – Time to be Terrified!! – SDP#39
High-drama multi-agency intruder response simulations transpire daily in schools across America. This hyper-realistic approach to school safety has produced a flurry of litigation centering psychological trauma for adults and children. Furthermore, theatrical drills are not supported by empirical research and differ greatly from other preparedness practices.
Read MoreCo-writing/directing a School Intruder Film with an Iconic Pulitzer Prize Winner – SDP#24
In the summer of 2016, David Perrodin “The Safety Doc” and Pulitzer-Prize winning author/producer David Obst toppled the established rhetoric narrative of school intruder cinema by writing a school intruder film based upon how most school intruder situations empirically complete – without harm to self or others.
Read MoreCAPTURED! A Look Back At The Bizarre Unraveling Of the Wisconsin Manhunt – SDP#23
One of the Midwest’s largest manhunts ended peacefully at a makeshift campsite in a remote area of Wisconsin farmland. Joseph Jakubowski, a Janesville, Wisconsin man accused of sending President Donald Trump a 161-page anti-government and anti-religious manifesto was uneventfully captured by law enforcement on the morning of April 14, 2017.
Read MoreMy Life in the Midst of a Manhunt – Navigating Armageddon – SDP#22
[podcast] David gives a vibrant inside-perspective of how he was literally at the center of what has unfolded into one of the largest manhunts in the Midwest. Working in a mile-long educational facility a mile from the fugitive’s home, Dr. Perrodin notes that the very first step is to consider the campus unsecure until facility…
Read MoreTRAP-18 will present serious issues when schools begin to implement it for early identification of the “lone wolf” terrorist (AKA – student active shooter)
Commonalities of school shooter narratives… Bullied Told others prior to event Male While those points are typically accurate, the development of a profile rapidly fades following the “given” characteristics mentioned above. For example, many shooters had good grades, many had a clean discipline record and many regularly interacted with a peer group. There is no…
Read MoreWhy “Boatlift” Exposes Drastic Flaws in Traditional School Safety Planning
500,000 people were rescued from Lower Manhattan on 9/11. Did you know that? I didn’t – not until well down the path of my doctoral research. It was an incredible in-the-moment coordination of countless variables by largely “untrained” sailors that had not previously worked together. The context was precarious as another plane could be inbound…
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