Iowa State University police credit training and cameras to debunk false active shooter reports

Iowa State University police credit training and cameras to debunk false active shooter reports

By KCCI News Staff Click here for updates on this story     AMES, Iowa (KCCI) — Iowa State University police quickly identified false reports of an active shooter on campus on Monday, but the investigation into the source of the calls is expected to be more complex. The campus police chief, Michael Newton, said Ames police

‘Cascading harms’: Wave of campus active-shooter hoaxes linked to Purgatory group

False reports of active shooters that put Villanova University in Philadelphia and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on lockdown and saw law enforcement swarming over campuses last week were likely perpetrated by an online swatting group called “Purgatory,” extremism researchers say.Five Purgatory members hosted a voice call on Discord, a platform popular with gamers, on Aug. 21 to an audience of 41 people, livestreaming the bogus calls…