FBI Study: 4 - 5 Warning Behaviors Before Active Shooter Incident

[Selfpreservation]

"An FBI study shows active shooters exhibit an average of four to five warning behaviors to those they know before they attack."

Violence is rarely random. Pay attention to the signs. More importantly, believe them!

https://www.fbi.gov/audio-repository/ftw-podcast-active-shooter-study-062118.mp3/view

 

[Ark]

Yup. The difficulty is getting everything to come together in an actual response. Noticing warning signs and reporting them means nothing if the police or FBI direct your report straight into the circular filing cabinet. And when they do care enough to actually investigate, they need something tangible to justify an actual intervention, and can't simply run around stealing everyone's guns based on the word of random people.

But my take-away from the FBI report last year was that the vast majority of these incidents were horribly avoidable. There was almost always somebody who was too lazy to do their job, or somebody who was in a position to do something and chose to remain silent instead. Most of the time these a-holes explicitly tell someone, with their words, what they're planning.

 

[bwframe]

Does it not seem like some sort of crazy irony that this FBI study came out less than a year after the FBI ignored direct warnings about the Parkland school shooter?

 

[Selfpreservation]

Yup. The difficulty is getting everything to come together in an actual response. Noticing warning signs and reporting them means nothing if the police or FBI direct your report straight into the circular filing cabinet. And when they do care enough to actually investigate, they need something tangible to justify an actual intervention, and can't simply run around stealing everyone's guns based on the word of random people.

But my take-away from the FBI report last year was that the vast majority of these incidents were horribly avoidable. There was almost always somebody who was too lazy to do their job, or somebody who was in a position to do something and chose to remain silent instead. Most of the time these a-holes explicitly tell someone, with their words, what they're planning.

That my friend is the issue!

 

[Selfpreservation]

Does it not seem like some sort of crazy irony that this FBI study came out less than a year after the FBI ignored direct warnings about the Parkland school shooter?

Honestly, I don't have much respect for the FBI and I sure as hell have zero respect for the the Broward County Sheriff at the time and his worthless deputies.