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Sep 11, 2024 · Armed officers on campus could speed police response to gun violence. But there is scant research to support this strategy, and studies about racial bias raise other concerns about police in...
Mar 23, 2024 · The strategy has focused on (1) stopping people in crisis and juveniles from accessing firearms, (2) implementing evidence-based school-based preventative solutions, and (3) addressing the mental...
Apr 22, 2020 · It is unclear how policies increasing the number of authorized guns in schools would affect the gun industry. Jackson et al. (2023), using results from a 2022 survey, estimated that 550,000 of the 3 million K–12 teachers in the United States would carry firearms at school if allowed.
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Table 1 presents the descriptive data for both the dependent and independent measures. The majority of respondents (92%) were male and identified as White (82%). Although demographically similar, both groups were slightly overrepresented compared to LEOs nationally (88% male, 73% White; see Hyland and Davis 2019). The mean age of respondents was 42...
The primary dependent variable, favorability scale, is a six-item composite measure of LEOs’ support for arming teachers. Respondents were asked to rate their agreement for each item on a scale of 0 (Completely Disagree) to 10 (Completely Agree). All six item were correlated with each other (r > 0.4). A subsequent principal components analysis with...
For each item included in the analysis, data first were screened for out-of-range values (e.g., skewness, kurtosis). Missing data in the present study ranged from 0 to 5.1%. Little’s Test of Missing Completely at Random (MCAR) was used to assess patterns of missing data (Little and Rubin 2002; Rubin 1976). The results indicated that the data were m...
TAPS Academy provides training for law enforcement officers and youth throughout the United States. Here are the cities across the nation that we are currently in: Greater Houston Area
Feb 8, 2024 · After a teenage gunman killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School in 2018, Texas lawmakers mandated that all school police officers receive training to better prepare them for the possibility...
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Jun 6, 2023 · This fact sheet lays out research-backed approaches for creating safer schools and ending gun violence that combine school-based interventions with strong gun safety laws. These actions work to intervene before shootings happen.
