US EditionSchool shootings dropped in 2025 - but schools are still focusing too much on safety technology instead of prevention
In 2025, U.S. schools saw 230 shooting incidents, a decline from previous years, despite increased spending on unproven safety technologies over behavioral threat prevention.
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School shootings dropped in 2025 - but schools are still focusing too much on technology instead of prevention
School shootings dropped in 2025 – but schools are still focusing too much on safety technology instead of prevention A person mourns at a makeshift memorial outside the Barus and Holley engineering building on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Dec. 14, 2025. Bing Guan/AFP via Getty Images James Densley, Metropolitan State University Active shootings represent a very small percentage of on-campus university violence. But am…
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School shootings dropped in 2025 - but schools are still focusing too much on safety technology instead of prevention
A person mourns at a makeshift memorial outside the Barus and Holley engineering building on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I., on Dec. 14, 2025. Bing Guan/AFP via Getty ImagesActive shootings represent a very small percentage of on-campus university violence. But among those that do happen, there are patterns. And as law enforcement officials continue to investigate the Dec. 13, 2025, Brown University shooting, similarities can…
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