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School shootings dropped in 2025 - but schools are still focusing too much on safety technology instead of prevention

  • Written by James Densley, Professor of Criminal Justice, Metropolitan State University
School shootings dropped in 2025 - but schools are still focusing too much on safety technology instead of preventionA 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

Active shootings represent a very small percentage of on-campus university violence.

But among those that do happen, there are patterns. And as law...

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